skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What about the following scenario?

An associate (personal, professional, business, etc.) of yours knows your HN handle and has read your post, above.

At some point, that associate is with you when you are using your computer. You briefly leave your machine unattended and unlocked for whatever reason (e.g. restroom).

Your associate now may be able to compromise your security.

Extending the above scenario: what happens when the above post draws the attention of people who decide to become an associate of yours after the fact (aka "spearphishing")?
Not only professional landlords but professional managers too. In LA I met with a woman who told me she manages 4 condo units in one complex and many others. Meets with people like me to give me keys, parking passes and checks on the unit when I leave.

Second AirBnB, same thing but he manages houses instead of condos.
Definitely the best article title relative to the content, well done! Happy memories, too.
Also preference falsification.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preference_falsification
> I try to avoid "I" to start a sentence; but that's because I was taught it was bad grammar.

Huh?
TL;DR:

Only in part 3 it does multiple dispatch the comfortable way: by using a language that supports multiple dispatch, Common Lisp

Julia also supports multiple dispatch.
> the model of the system sits in your head, and the interface simply gives cues.

This is a huge part of any interface that's heavily used. Once you're used to it, the interface is invisible; information is automatically parsed into a mental model, and commands are issued with minimal conscious awareness of actual keys pressed and clicks made. This is also why Emacs and vim users regard their editor as intuitive or good UI:)
Lol, your comment makes it seem like it wasn't a hyperbole.
Is this surprising at all? Most "sharing" apps are now overrun by professionals in their field. The apps help the professional (or company) achieve zero cost customer acquisition cost.
In case the apps do catch up, these guys end up being "promoted" because they are a good fit. The pros make for much better "sales target" for these sharing apps.
I ate at La Casita Blanca earlier this week and was blown away by pretty much anything I tried, as well as the friendliness of the owner and the beauty of the herb garden. First time in PR; the restaurant was a highlight in a week filled with great food, striking architecture, and lovely people. I can definitely see why people would move there outside of tax considerations.
Do you know of any startups or tech companies in the USVI? I'm located in St. Thomas and there are financial companies that take advantage of edc I haven't heard of any startups or techs.

Tech scene seems kind of dead here.
Since the time Vedic seers, I suppose...

BTW, prolonged solitude has been considered by most major Eastern schools (both Hindu and Buddhist) as necessarily precursor for spiritual transformations.
> Tell me about it. Reading that made me sick. I don't necessarily agree with the original manifesto, but the idea that "a good number of the people you might have to work with may simply punch you in the face" is an acceptable thing to say is ridiculous.

Agreed. Yonatan Zunger holds some very disturbing views. Google is better off being rid of him.
Hey this is excellent! I just finished a survey philosophy course which started off with the Gita and continually returned to it, I was super disappointed when I found most online editions plastered with ads and barely readable (by modern standards).

I agree with the other commenter, I expected clicking on a verse would jump me that position in the whole body of text, but I'm sure this is just your starting point. Well done OP
You don't have to. I sometimes feel similarly to you. I dropped out of college and am so happy I did. In high school my parents pushed me so hard. In college I was doing honors going for a 4.0. But now I just do freelance coding and live on very little. Sometimes I do coding for other people, but I have a lot of free time to code my own projects. I keep it that way on purpose

If your gonna live in society, you are completely dependent on other people. Without them giving you food, a place to live you would die. So just do some freelancing to get some money and then you can do what you want in the rest of the time.

You probably don't hate interacting with people that much. It's probably just that your interactions are out of control and on overload in the office. You'd probably be happier freelancing so your interactions would be far fewer and more structured.
This is not a problem. In my experience, professional landlords & managers offer clean, updated apartments that are a joy to check into and are a way better place to stay than hotels. I love using Airbnb for specifically this reason.

It seems like in Europe, professional short-term apartment rental is a common thing anyway -- Airbnb just serves as a centralized listing platform. This is less common in the US.
Thats fast. Can you comment on the architecture?
Was inevitable, what I would like to know from airbnb data is what % of properties are owned by or managed by the same accounts in a given area. "Show me all the properties owned/managed by user X"

How many properties are owned by actual airbnb employees?

Also, wouldn't this basically result in some sort of price fixing at least among the properties under a single owner/manager?
Besides, Quirk's Exception and all that...
No. All of human moral progress can be briefly summarized as "not hurting other people". Solving disagreements through discussion is better than solving them through violence, but you don't solve disagreements via discussion if you attack them verbally.
> Are you seriously stating that insulting/offending people is equal in moral gravity to punching them?

Am I seriously stating that abusing people verbally and emotionally is equal in moral gravity to abusing them verbally? Yes.
You posed a question without a question mark which makes me wonder presently, and sometimes, why?
PDF warning, but thanks; that looks useful.
You forgot to sum over N
We currently have dozens of high-valuated tech companies that make losses, surpassed their growth phase and have no hope of ever turning a profit (e.g. Dropbox, Twitter).

This very much sounds like a bubble that will burst to me.
When you have the option, sure! Not all problems are so tractable.
Wikipedia says Selly Oak "had a below-average percentage of ethnic minorities with only 15.9% of the population consisting of ethnic minorities compared with 29.6% for Birmingham in general."

What British culture did you expect to find, beyond the concert hall? I assume there are pubs, sports teams, museums and so on.

In any case, the south Asian culture in Britain is also British culture. Example: Balti.
I agree that I don't really see what the problem is. Curious that AirBnB would deny it though. Does it hurt their brand?
Lol my favorite part was the fire in the text box when there's an error
My point rather is, can you image an audience continuing as if nothing much have happened after even an ad-hoc indoor firework was blasted, much less an actual pipe bomb injuring 4-5 people.
Sorry I can add more text.

You can go from LLC Name (Foo, LLC) to Registered Agent Name in 30 seconds. You cannot do the same with Company Name to Bank Account (or from Bank Account to Owner Name).

I also use a registered agent for all my LLCs, but you don't have to. You can totally put your own address down when doing paperwork, and then your home address is open to the world.
Isn’t that what a family owned hotel/inn is?
Exactly, a bank protects your information by default.

A state business registry does not. Which is why you use / might want a registered agent for your business. But you don't need to do the same thing at the bank (and in fact, I don't think most banks will allow an account without a name and a SSN to tie it back to)
One presumes he's just coming at the question from his niche. I understood his rant to mean essentially that EQ has no validity as a psychological metric used to predict real-world measures of success, and that IQ is the king of the same.

Within which terms, AFAIK he's correct on both counts. But that doesn't mean he's claiming IQ is the most important thing about a person, he's just saying it's the only psychological metric that's a really strong predictor of certain future events.

(Of course, the questioner probably didn't care about any of this, so I agree that the answer is weirdly off-putting in that sense.)
Any pointers you could give for those of us looking to learn such things?
It's always been fashionable for VCs to give large amounts of other people's money to these 'bropreneurs' because they think that some of the hip may rub off on them, or perhaps that a cool image is a sufficient business plan. The one startup every 6-7 years where someone parlays being a massive tool into a huge valuation (Uber the most recent poster child) is enough to keep this model going in perpetuity.
I don't carry checked bags for the specific reason that I don't want to deal with checked bags. I guess this is for people who want to be as cheap as possible, while simultaneously being as inconvenienced as possible.
It's not zero cost it's fixed cost as they pay airbnb for it. But that's still a good deal as customer acquisition is tricky.
"That's only a problem if there's a shortage of people with applicable skills"

No, it's a problem to the discarded person, too, and potentially any future colleagues they might have worked with (or even hired/fired). Hiring and firing are not zero-sum games, they impact more than the just immediate individuals concerned.

"If monoculture improves team effectiveness"

This is a big "IF" in my eyes. Everyone going to the same bar to have a good time may be great fun, but isn't it nice to have some people who prefer other work hours who can start or finish something up for a team member in odd hours? Conversely isn't it nice for the odd-hour or solitary team member to have a more group-oriented colleague who can bring things to/from the solitary person to the group session? Etc... to other specifics.
There's another company that lets travelers subsidize their flight ticket / earn money for delivering US products to their destination:

https://grabr.io/travel

Key difference is:

You buy the products locals ordered (locals pay for item + delivery fee upfront into escrow) so there's no risk of a third party hiding drugs or illegal materials.
I'm reminded of an article in Foreign Affairs arguing that our our data privacy laws need to be based on use rather than collection, e.g. even if you know someone goes to the bar every week, it's illegal to predicate a credit or insurance decision on that knowledge.

Might be worth considering.
There's no oddity in being able to extend an array in several ways (.extend, += other array, etc)
No, Airbnb typically lists actual, real everyday apartments, so you feel like you're living in the city like a local, not in a hotel. If you haven't tried it, it's a great feeling.
In an AirBnb we stayed at in Nashville, the house was built in the last 3 years solely to be purposed as an AirBnb unit (spacious and many social/convenient amenities)
The idiom is definitely "bread and butter", perhaps madeofpalk was making a joke about his accent?
It is a problem because it abuses/avoids zoning laws and is generally disingenuous, making it hard to conduct public policy and regulate markets.
And now it's just as annoying to find a place to stay as it was dealing with conglomerate hotel chains owned by Patel's.
It's a problem for people looking for long term rentals as landlords can make more profit by listing a unit on AirBnB.
This is a bit like saying there's no such thing as the color red, it's just an arbitrary label for certain wavelengths of light. Why claim "there's no such thing as" something just because it's a human construct?
and 99% of garage door owners probably don't realize there's a counter-balancing spring "right there!" making it easy
Is what the singularity feels like? Everything getting faster and faster, shorter and shorter term...
One cop on a street corner observing the public is one thing.

A group of people with a warrant gathering detailed routines of a suspect is one thing.

An apparatus that can observe the detailed activities and whereabouts (location AND behavior) of all people in a metro area is a completely different thing, and one our courts and Constitution have not yet handled.
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No heavy JS framework sucking the battery dry, no full screen ads, no annoying popovers, no scrolljacking, no requests for notification, no newsletter subscription.

A collection of the worst of the current web would be much worse.
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On the other hand, if you're in the same building as an AirBnB rental, it may feel like a hotel.

So, from me: please don't try it.
Vast majority of these are not actually oddities. A few stuck out at me, though:

- since True/False are aliased to 1/0, you cannot have both 1 and True as dictionary keys. This could plausibly happen in real code.

- there's no distinction between args/kwargs, at least when it comes to a function's __defaults__ attr. An arg can be turned into a kwarg by messing with the __defaults__ attr.

- you cannot have a nested tuple/dict/list with more than sys.MAX_RECURSION levels, because each list access apparently counts as a new call frame? (This could plausibly happen when generating a dict from json or html or xml)
That's very common, though, both in the US and elsewhere. The vacuum system is what makes the NY setup unique.
Although not a problem for people staying overnight, it is a problem for the people that live in the community, as it dilutes their community by taking housing units out of the rental market. The cities are popular for overnight stays because their communities made the cities attractive places. It is a negative feedback loop.
Put me in the camp that's very anti-AirBnB as a resident who doesn't want where I lived turned into a hotel. I live in NYC. It's a problem.

None of this is a surprise, so much so that AirBnB seems to be aware of this and is acting in a way that's, at best, ethically challenged and, at worst, illegal eg deleting listings before giving data to the state of NY that "shows"
most hosts only have one unit [1].

If people want to run a hotel, there's a legal structure for this. And zoning. Go do that. I personally applaud efforts to shut down illegal hotels.

[1] https://ny.curbed.com/2016/2/25/11110594/airbnb-letter-state...
On that basic point, I agree -- although there are advantages to swimming upstream sometimes. Otherwise, given the landscape of 10-15 years ago, we'd be having this discussion about Windows servers instead of Linux!

Besides, probably the best way to find out if it's a "big deal" is to ask your sysadmins. Or, generally, the people who are going to be stuck running it.
Are you trying to imply people shouldn't react to a bomb and stay near the site of an explosion? You evacuate because you don't know if there are more or if there is structural damage.
Here's one from https://stackoverflow.com/questions/15171695/whats-with-the-...:

In [1]: a = 1

In [2]: b = 1

In [3]: a is b
Out[3]: True

In [4]: a = 257

In [5]: b = 257

In [6]: a is b
Out[6]: False
They've said a Linux version is coming.

Aaaand chill your entitlement, they don't owe you jack, no matter how simple you think it is.
Ah, ok, so it's a problem for some people.

It's a problem for me that regulation and zoning increases the cost of living.

Now we're even. :-)
Yeah, okay, I messed up. Let's argue in a different way: there are approximately sqrt(N) squares between 1 and N, so let's call sqrt(N)/N = 1/sqrt(N) the "probability" that N itself is square. That also goes to zero as N goes to infinity. If we pick higher powers of N, it goes to zero much quicker.
Needs more Metallica midi auto-playing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WL9qdhRkcbk
Gun control is not a magic solution for firearm killings (after all it only affects law-abiding citizens who, by definition, are not murderers).

E.g.: here in Brazil it is almost impossible to legally own a firearm but we had 212 firearm-murders per million people in 2014 (Source: http://brasileiros.com.br/2016/08/o-brasil-e-o-pais-que-mais... ).
According to Wikipedia, Puerto Rico is an unincorporated territory of the United States.

Also, it does not appear on Wikipedia's list of sovereign states.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states
Books chapter three
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Germans love to order espressos. If they say espressi it always sounds pretentious. Sometimes it's espressis. Then everyone who speaks Italian winces (especially the Italians).

Then again, when I'm ordering an espresso in Italy, my results with just "caffé" are also mixed because it turns into the poison scene from The Princess Bride:

- is the guy speaking Italian?
- is the guy just asking for a regular coffee because he doesn't speak Italian?
- do they maybe call it different in different parts of the country?

I will never solve this mystery, I guess.
The last Airbnb I rented was from a dude managing 28 other properties, all listed on Airbnb.
A lot of occasional hosts underestimate the risks of subletting through Airbnb.

If a guest starts a fire or a flood unless you have a professional insurance you're fucked for instance, and lying to your insurance will make things worse if you get caught. If the neighbors file a complain about your guests you can get evicted, if you sublet behind your landlord's back as well. So it was just a question of time before most offers in the west get fulfilled by professionals, especially when Airbnb is starting to cooperate actively with local authorities when it comes to things such as the legal status of the host and taxes.

The whole grass-root share economy thing is just a PR farce.
In NYC here as well; I think AirBNB is a pox.

It's a great and useful product, I can't dispute that. But the economic ramifications of it outweigh the benefits by a large margin. And when you add on the unregulated latent racism (multiple reports, too lazy to cite) and the fact that there's next to zero safety checks in place for things like smoke detectors and so on, it's really sort of surprising that so many people defend it.
I think it's stated quite clearly in the article, but although professional landlords might be fine for AirBnB tenants (and obviously good for the landlords themselves), they're bad for cities and their residents:

> Berlin, like most German cities, is experiencing an acute shortage of affordable homes. Rents are rising at a rate of nearly 10 percent a year, even though the city has a rent cap and has introduced one of the strictest bans on holiday apartments - many other European cities also have some kind of regulation.

The problem with housing is that the supply is very fixed. A unit that's taken off the market to become a full time AirBnB is one that's not available as a rental for a resident of the city anymore.

There's an argument to be made for private property rights, but the further trouble with real estate is that it's often made as an investment, and like other capital, it tends to be reallocated disproportionately over time.

While it might seem obvious for someone to be able to rent out their vacation home part time, it's much less so that an owner of 15 units in downtown San Francisco should be able to hire a property manager and rent them all on AirBnB full time — given a sufficiently enticing city for business/tourism, eventually there won't be enough stock for the locals anymore (or more accurately, the upwards pressure on price will make it unaffordable for nearly everyone).
No, the critiques (at least that I've seen here) are ridiculous; HN is generally conservative STEM majors who have never studied anything seriously outside their tiny box of CS/engineering and possibly math/physics and think everything they don't understand is beneath them. It shows in this thread, it's almost painfully cringe-inducing to read. In order to make a reasonable critique of a field, you must first understand it, something which nearly zero HNers even make an attempt to do. They dismiss it out of hand without argument because it is not STEM and therefore not "rigorous" enough to even be considered by their superior STEM brains.

Are there problems in these fields? Sure, there are problems in every field. But I haven't seen a single reasonable point here or otherwise that provides a good reason for mistrusting the vast consensus among a wide variety of very smart people who have spent their entire lives studying these issues and instead trusting JavaProgrammer37 who stomps his feet and insists women just aren't smart like him, smart enough to write SQL queries.
> Rents are rising at a rate of nearly 10 percent a year, even though the city has a rent cap.

Maybe that rent cap is why landlords prefer Airbnb. Rent caps are never a good idea, they have so many unforseen consequences.
And industrialization diluted the agricultural way of life. The market will steamroll you one way or another.
Because all physical activities I can think of (other than some complex team exercises) are really basic in the physical attributes they require.

Off the top of my head, spelunking would likely be a pretty diverse physical activity.

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/sep/10/homo-naledi-...
MB OMNI Entertainment System – The 1980s 8-Track Games Machine
Our world was shaken up when it became global as Marshall Mc Luhan predicted in 1962 [0].

But we did not invent a new social language that could deal with complexity. Sadly it is still "us" against "them", whoever "them" are.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_village
I haven't heard about air couriers for years, but I don't travel much. That said, I was under the impression that for basically all of them the package being couriered was never in the possession of the traveler but was instead packaged as freight and was delivered to the airline as such and handled as such at the receiving end. If the "courier" in question wanted to drop it off or pick it up themselves they'd still have to go to the appropriate air freight terminal.

If these folks are providing packages to travelers to be checked directly by the traveler then they're idiots and so is anyone who takes them up on the offer. If not for the defensive tweets, etc. I'd feel that (as someone else noted) this must be a satire of the 'gig' economy.
Programming is like mathematics and logic only when what you're programming is deterministic: repeatable results given repeated inputs, where run-time doesn't matter so much. There is other programming, like real-time shit. (There, other mathematics applies, not to mention statistics; but you're not programming directly in that mathematics.)

An operating scheduler can be regarded as a mathematical function, which chooses an element from a set. But then that choice has an impact on how the system performs under various conditions, which is pretty chaotic and doesn't follow in nice, obvious ways from that neat set-theoretic function.
AirBnB market the idea that someone rents out a spare room/apartment for a couple of while they're on vacation. In general, this isn't something people would complain about.

The reality, of professionals renting out multiple apartments for the whole year, is when the neighbours will complain: there's the noise of 50-100 people clunking their wheelie suitcases in and out, not knowing where to take their rubbish and leaving it in the stairwell, having a noisy party, etc. Plus, a feeling of reduced security when there are unfamiliar people in the building all the time.
Where did the author get the idea this was anonymous or posted as a meme?