skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is an interesting comment and it makes me wonder if you just misread the articles on this situation or if there's some other agenda.

> The host was triggered into a racist tirade after being informed the renter was bringing 2 extra people and 2 extra dogs. The guest informed her hosts while on route in a snowstorm. It's well within the hosts rights to declare the contractual reservation null and void at this point.

Actually, the renter asked the host if she could add 2 extra people and pay more. The host agreed.

It was only after they were arriving that the host cancelled.

So now that you know this, I'm wondering if you are willing to change your mind?
> The notion that they're dinosaurs and they're ten years late, is laughable.

Maybe I wasn't clear. They are ten years late because they missed the 100,000% return on investment. I promise you, before they sell their board members on the idea of "getting involved" with BTC, they will present a figure called "opportunity cost", which represents the gains they have not realized by not participating. That figure is incredibly high, hence they are ten years late.

Also, I don't believe they can dictate terms with BTC's existance at all. They can depress or inflate the market, but since there is no central authority - all they can do to influence prices is determined by their market participation. An example of a real market that they can dictate terms with would be US debt(treasury bond futures). By participating in the bond auctions with the fed: they get to set the rate. There is no equivalent process by which they can influence BTC, much less dictate it's existence.
Message transcript and full story here: https://www.everipedia.com/tami-barker-airbnb-host/

I agree with OP. The woman was stupid enough to use racist remarks but the reasons she cancelled the reservation was definitely not racist.
Nuclear war remains an existential threat to our species.

There are ~15,000 nuclear weapons deployed right now by 9 nation states. That's enough to wipe out almost all of the world population, and I'm not convinced the few that remain would survive in the food scarce, irradiated lands for long.
And the Java GC is NUMA aware. The C compiler is not.
Metaquestion -- I'm interested in how the poster came across this this? I've been seeing things like this pop up in my google news feed for the past month or so -- including this specific article more than once.
This could be a big deal. Fantastic concept and great implementation.
She didn't object to the proposal before the trip, in another chat conversation (weeks before?).
seems disingenuous to suggest race had no part in her decision. it's not a coincidence she started getting racist in defense.

if someone is spouting off the N word while beating up a black dude i seriously doubt you'd demonstrate the ignorance or audacity required to call it irrelevant. so what's the difference?
As Kevin mentioned we can extend support to frictionless (and are acceptign PRs on GitHub :). The thing we didn't love about frictionless is that it requires the user to fully specify the schema. We take a slightly more automated approach: https://docs.quiltdata.com/make-a-package.html
https://docs.quiltdata.com/buildyml.html

I think we could generate a frictionless schema pretty easily...
JetBrains?
Google AI Learns Subjective Task of Editing Professional Level Photography
Watching AvE's teardown, it seems to me that the team behind the external industrial design was highly experienced. Very big, nice injection molded parts and over molding. Would not surprise me to see it was, e.g. ideo behind that.

By contrast, the mechanical internals and motor controller are simultaneously over engineered, and in some places poorly engineered. It feels like a young team trying hard.

BTW, not throwing rocks. I'm sure I would have done many of the same mistakes years ago.

Also, AvE is great.
Can you explain why considering the dollar amounts that would earn interest equal to subscription costs has any relevancy into how much these services cost?

Or put another way -- what?
Why are all your comments dead?
> the vibrant art and propaganda narratives of Soviet children's books

The media children consumed in the Soviet Union was a propaganda narrative.

Luckily for us in the land of freedom, the media children consume on television in the USA is not a propaganda narrative.
I wonder if this whole thing really happened or was completely made up.

If you check out her FB profile, you can see that she is supporting many violent terrorist/anarchist movements such as anti-capitalism, BLM etc.

Not saying it could not have happened, but what a funny coincidence...
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The only place that map showed with no traffic was sound of the horn of Africa, and the arctic. Between those latitudes there is traffic everywhere even if some is more sparse. You don't need to deviate far, increasing a long route by 5 percent can give a large lateral displacement. Remember, I said to pay them to do this too. Timely shipments are nice, but not always a priority.
Yes, support team has responded with this:

Description:
We are investigating reports of elevated errors for the Google Cloud HTTP(S) load balancer that occurred on 2017-07-14 between 10:20 and 10:40 US/Pacific

How to diagnose:
Applications behind the Google Cloud HTTP(S) load balancer may have experienced errors on 2017-07-14 between 10:20 and 10:40 US/Pacific
What's the other side here, that the guests are to blame for the cancellation? I would say Tami Barker's behavior makes it seem that the only thing her guests did wrong was show let their ethnicity show before they got the keys.
I mean, if pressed juice actually lived up to its health claims I might consider Juicero more seriously.
I don't have a WSJ subscription, so I didn't RTFA, but IMO Amazon's biggest "special" service is Sunday delivery. This is not available to anyone else.
> But it's not necessarily true that all the regulations are fine because banks had bailouts.

Of course all regulations aren't fine. The problem is they are a necessary evil. Individuals don't always act with integrity; it's important that we restrict them by some mechanism to attempt to have them do so. On top of that, individuals can lose perspective easily when working in large corporations, where they focus on the bottom line of the Company and not the larger impact of their actions. This is why regulations/laws are necessary.

In some cases regulations create defacto monopolies, because the regulations themselves act as a barrier to entry for new players. In these cases, regulations are horrible. They skew the market place, and have all sorts of other negative effects on competition (the healthcare industry is a good example of this). So there needs to be restraint when putting regulations in place.

There is a balance, not all regulations are good, but neither are they all bad. Our government should be acting in our best interests to find a good balance there, and I agree with the article that because of the grid-lock it's not capable of doing that. Our political system has become entrenched on both sides, with little middle ground, for this we can blame gerry-mandered districts.

To stay on topic though; The banks came out generally far ahead of where the American people did after the recession, which given the shenanigans they used doesn't seem fair (to me at least).
Dat is a distributed transport layer for raw data. Quilt is a centralized (your infrastructure or ours) transport and consumption layer for virtualized data. As such we'll be able to, for example, run efficient queries across all of Quilt, allow users to import data the same way (no data prep scripts) across a variety of platforms, etc.
Assuming that this is true, it still wouldn't help the host's case one bit. I don't think the host's right to cancel is in question - hosts are well within their rights to cancel when they see a breach of contract or even for no reason whatsoever. The problem is the host brining race into it.

Deciding to bring friends and pets to a weekend stay is normal human behaviour, and if this was an entire cabin, as described, the maximum allowed guests was quite likely more than one. There's also nothing to say that pets weren't allowed on the property.

And I don't get out that much, but being snowed in with two friends and their dogs doesn't sound like a "giant weekend party". Were they big dogs :-P ?
Awesome! I'm very excited about this...

As the primary developer of a large sophisticated Javascript app (https://shaxpir.com), working with Javascript is an ongoing nuisance, and I'd love to switch the majority of my development to a type-safe language.

I've been considering a switch to TypeScript, but with 17 years of experience as a back-end Java developer, my natural first-choice of language is Java.

But this is a modern webapp, so I'm not really interested in seeing Console/Swing/AWT demos. I'm much more interested in seeing demos that integrate Java code with native Javascript dependencies, especially around DOM manipulation and browser event handling.

I want to rewrite all my own business logic in Java, while continuing to integrate with my existing dependencies in the browser (JQuery, Bootstrap, Quill, etc).

A demo like that would be very compelling to me!
Wow - this looks like it would be really useful for us, and fits perfectly with our existing processes. I am building out the data analytics function on the Internal Audit team at Uber, and one of our challenges is that we have to pull and manage data from different business systems, and be able to track which version of a data set a report/analysis was run against.

It would be really cool if quilt could generate documentation for datasets, even if it was just column names/types. One of the issues we have is keeping track of all of the data "assets" people have pulled or created.
Personally, I think genuine beliefs correlate pretty strongly with action. But I see your point.
Where did you get it from? The comment on the video they have in the article says:

> "if you think 4 people and 2 dogs are getting a room for $50 a night on big bear mountain during the busiest weekend of the year...you are insanely high".
> USPS has weight limits, their carriers are trained to deliver anything within those weight limits

I know multiple people in different cities who have been told that their particular USPS mail carrier couldn't carry some reasonably-sized packages, so they wouldnt deliver them to the home.

This is not a case of "these packages are above the limits we allow for home delivery" - it was very clearly a matter of the carrier for that particular route not wanting or being able to carry those packages.
Yes, they do pretend. Sea levels have been rising for 10000 years and they act like that trend stopped and the rise from here on out is all caused by human activity.
To start with, we can add stars (pay with prestige). Getting more into science fiction--but very possible science fiction--we can put data on the blockchain and let people transact. The data owner would get the lion's share of the transaction.
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Juno Delivers Stunning New Views of Great Red Spot
I actually think that pressures from customers increases somewhat when they are dealing with an ongoing fee which they see hitting their accounts on a monthly basis. Every time I see it there is a question of, "how is this software working for me? Do I still need it?" ... Not so much the case with perpetual licensing until it is time to (potentially) upgrade.
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Hi! I'm one of the instructors at Bradfield: https://bradfieldcs.com . We teach computer science to strong programmers, typically those who were self taught, attended bootcamps or weren't quite satisfied with their conventional CS experience.

We teach in small classes, strictly in person in SF. I know this sucks for folk (like OP) who are outside SF, but honestly you can't teach this stuff to a high enough standard remotely. We do get plenty of interstate and international students who visit for a course or two.

We also maintain a self-teaching guide https://teachyourselfcs.com for those who don't need the full classroom experience.

Happy to answer any questions in person: oz@bradfieldcs.com
Jimmy Iovine and Dr. Dre.
Travel maybe a vaccine, but I doubt education cures much. People need personal experiences and a truly racist person forced into a classroom is just going to count the hours till she's out of there.
In the video she says that she asked if it was okay to bring the extra 2 people before hand. They don't mention the dogs.

> This law student seems like a complete entitled idiot that had her reservation cancelled because she tried to impose her own rules on the airbnb owner.

Citation needed. What evidence do you have that she was doing anything other than trying to offer her extra money to house her and her friends dogs during a snowstorm?

> As a law student, she knew how to milk public sympathy and the law system to her benefit. I doubt this will be the last time we hear of this woman.

This, combined with your choice to focus on them being a law student and calling them an "entitled idiot" when I don't really see an evidence of that... your bias is showing.

> All users must commit to treating others “regardless of race, religion, national origin, disability, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation or age, with respect, and without judgment or bias."

http://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-airbnb-disc...

> The host was triggered into a racist tirade
> The host screwed up and injected race into the equation, and that is why she is being punished.

Someone this racist isn't INJECTING race, it's their worldview. Do you seriously think someone who is this close to going on a racist tirade is behaving in an unbiased manner when dealing with possible clients? "One word says it all: Asian."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nuZn8iVQbSc
I kind of disagree about Sketch having a customer-friendly model, because files produced by a newer version can't be opened by an older version - regardless of whether any new features have been used in that file.

So you pay for a year of updates, but if anyone you collaborate with updates their software, you have to as well, because you can't open the files they produce or even edit and save.

Most of the time you're paying for updates so that you can open collaborator files, not because you want new features. It's effectively a subscription paid annually.
From a company's perspective here, they need to target the most common denominator. This means looking at various cohorts of users and determining a pricing model for the average duration those cohorts continue to pay for the service.

However, coming up with some number X prices for various cohorts is not particularly useful, since simply introducing choice confuses some users and causes drop-off, let alone optimizing those choices and explaining them.
> There isn't an all encompassing 'generics'. Generics is a broad category of different ways to achieve reusable statements across varying types, in a type-safe manner. To try and draw an analogy, it is kind of like functional and imperative programming. Both achieve the function of providing a way to write programs, but the paradigms differ greatly. Each with their own pros and cons.

Yes, thank you. Everybody in this thread already knows that. PICK ONE.

(EDIT: I should also add: Since Go is structually typed and has mutable variables, that should be a good indication of what to do and what not to do. See e.g. Java arrays, variance and covarince.)

> If imperative programming is the best choice for Google, that doesn't mean the community wouldn't be better served by functional programming, so to speak. And when it comes to generics, there are quite a few different paradigms that can be used, and not easily mixed-and-matched. They are asking for use-cases to determine which generics paradigm fits not only the needs at Google, but the needs everywhere.

And now you're trying to bring imperative vs. functional into this?

I think IHBT... and this really is my last comment in this thread. Have a good $WHATEVER.
Thanks. Where do you see it going in 2-5 years? Sometimes outsiders see things about the future that we haven't thought about :)
Worth noting the pricing [0]

[0]: https://zeit.co/pricing
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> "When Suh later asked if it was OK to bring two friends and two dogs along, Barker said it was fine but the group would need to pay an additional $50 a night, according to screenshots of their text messages." https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/jul/13/airbnb-ca...

They didn't put all the text messages in the video.
Funny, I've always thought the hardest thing about being an engineering manager is that by default all software engineers think they automatically know way more about everything than their management.
It is exactly this which makes interviewing so flawed in the field.

Solving well defined algorithm puzzles has zero bearing on the skills described by the author.
Not if you can't even tell the AI what you're looking for. We're a long way from "Computer, is there anything interesting about this data?"
There're many websites that offering video tutorials, most of them are paid but you can find them for free too, some of them are:

- https://pluralsight.com
- https://udemy.com
- https://www.packtpub.com (the best in my opinion)

I have watched more than 400 hours of content via those site's content and I learnt a lot as you can imagine, I totally recommend these three.
Your identification of this as trickle-down economics comes from WkndTriathlete's assumption that bringing the money back here will benefit the economy as a whole (as opposed to the few who obviously directly benefit). I think this idea has been mostly debunked but the topic is complex and there are probably details that reasonable people can disagree over.
it's an attempt to mock an old discussion about the use of "SLAVE" / "MASTER" terminology.

These threads fill with reactionaries who think marginalized people are just complaining about nothing or by reductionist leftists who think so-called "identity politics" detract from class struggle.

Edit: It's worth noting that antirez has, as is usual for him, dealt with this issue wonderfully by making a call without downplaying the importance of the problem.
Source? I could use a laugh right now
I know a real estate guy who hires drone pilots to shoot videos of McMansions.
Most of those drone guys are hobbyist and business is not scalable though. Could be fun way to checkout different neighborhoods and pay for expensive hobby.
Uber acqhires social app studio Swipe Labs
Not original poster, but for us is the lack of OpenCL2.0 on nVIDIA HW (mainly shared data structures)
Only OCL 1.2 on Linux from nVIDIA
I've always wondered about a place where time had > 1 dimensions, it would surely allow for some strange things to happen (e.g. something appearing out of nowhere when it's time "vector" crosses my time vector")?

How do we know that we only have one time dimension in our reality anyway?
Yeah if I'm going to get declined after going to the trouble of applying, or if I'm going to enter into a housing agreement with someone who hates me, I'd rather their advertisement be smothered in discriminatory epithets. Seriously.
The main thing is how you are able to offer unlimited disk, when anyone can start uploading data? Some users might upload very large amounts of innocent data, others might simply abuse it as a sort of data backup system. More nefarious users might even try to distribute malware.
> Consider the Mongol empire. While the Mongol empire had some things in common with a modern state, squeamishness about killing was not one of them.

The mongols were just as "squeamish" about killing as any other empire - british, spanish, american, etc. Hell, by any measure, the mongols were a far less "brutal" empire than the british, spanish, american.

> There are cases where they decided a city needed to be destroyed and they took great pains to make sure that destruction was total.

Yes. It's called "sacking" a city. It has happened throughout history. The mongols weren't special. You are just perpetuating stereotypes and myth. The US, british, soviets annihilated cities far worse than anything mongols ever did.

It's absurd that you have to resort to silly myths. If you want to see pure evil, go look at what the british empire did to the natives and aborigines. Go look at what we did in hiroshima or nagasaki. You don't have to push racist myth about the mongols.

> Ears were put into sacks and carted off in wagons to be counted

If you think that was horrific, go read about what we did to the japanese in ww2.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_mutilation_of_Japanes...

> Many states throughout history have committed genocide against enemies and many others have persecuted populations within their own borders.

No they didn't. Genocides, as we see define them, are relatively new european concept based on racist ideology.

You brought up the mongols. Try and find out anyone the mongols "exterminated". You won't find anything other than perhaps mongols tribes that they "merged" into larger mongol tribes.

> Modern human society is gentler now than at any point in our past

It really isn't. You misunderstood why concentration camps were created initially. They were created for slave labor. When the germans realized they were losing, they decided to exterminate the people in concentration camps.

You say modern society has gotten "gentler" but there hasn't been a more evil and callous action in human history than the dropping of nukes on cities.

Humans haven't "evolved". We are just more sated and nukes make it harder for serious war. That's it. But sooner or later, it's inevitable we will get a serious war. And then you'll see how much "gentler" we are.
a celebrity with very deep pockets.
Similar background here, but I found Go refreshingly liberating because everything in the language makes sense and there isn't a lot of magic going on. I might write a bit more code but its crystal clear how it works and more importantly I can come back in 6 months and grok the code. In face, this is the first language i've used in 25 years of coding where I can read anyones code and grok it. go fmt might be the best part of go.