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Airbnb employee here. (Software engineer; I don't speak for the company.) Personally, I like staying in listings that are owned and operated by the resident. It's more personal and it lets me connect more with some locals. One of my favorite nights at an Airbnb was a dinner with the delightful couple who rented out a room in their Paris apartment. Much less enjoyable was a night in a Seattle room--it was very clean and a five-star room, but it felt like a hotel in that I was lonely.

Both of those were business trips. My vacation travel is different: I have a wife and 3 kids, so it's almost impossible for the five of us to stay in someone's private residence. For those trips, I look for places where the owner only has one property, which to my mind indicates they give it--and my family--a high level of personal attention. Sometimes it's a cottage in their backyard, like the ones I've stayed in at Tahoe and Pescadero. Those a nice because I can meet the owner and they're just 20 feet away when I need help. I am also an Airbnb host of a cottage in my own backyard. It's booked about 90% of the time but the neighbors on my street tell me they usually forget I'm even hosting because they don't even notice.

But there are hosts who manage many properties and there are guests who stay in them. I personally don't like the feeling of being tricked into thinking a place is owner-occupied and then finding out it's managed by a property manager, and I will say so in a review. (We have rules for employees; I won't look at our internal systems when booking to try to see more than the usual customer would see.)

The managed properties are more common in some large urban cities. That is why last year Airbnb banned owners of multiple properties in some large cities around the world. I honestly don't know the specifics of any one city such as Cologne, which is mentioned in the article.
This is spot on. Also having a hotel next door is easy to spot when you are looking for a new place.

I think Airbnb is a good idea with regulation that limits the number of weeks you can rent out your place.
Here [1] is an article on how cultural gender inequality leads to poorer maths results for women, and fixing that cultural inequality fixes the maths results.

That is an interesting study which demonstrates the opposite of what you seem to think it does. Here's the PDF: https://www.kellogg.northwestern.edu/faculty/sapienza/htm/sc.... It shows that the as cultural inequality decreases, the relative performance of girls rises in both math where they end up about equal to boys, and reading where they end up even further ahead. Take the sum of the gap values in the first chart; they're all between 40 and 60 except for Iceland which is over 70. (Edit: no, I'm bad at math. Iceland's relative gap is about 50 as well).

So if you point to the more equal math scores as proof that there are no innate differences between boys and girls, you now have to explain why the reading scores become even more unequal with increased gender equality. Is it just that Norway and Sweden are hotbeds of discrimination against boys?
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> This is a non-statement. Replace 'engineering' with science, medicine, finance, customer service, politics, retail, programming etc., and it will sound as correct.

That's the entire point. That you don't get that is telling. Engineering is not some magic meritocratic endeavour where we all succeed by writing the very best code we can. It's messy, and it involves working with people just as much as it does a text editor. Hence this whole assertion of women being ill suited for the job is complete nonsense according to the logic presented in the manifesto itself.
I have no evidence, only speculation, but it could be because boys do not receive the same type of nurture and care growing up compared to girls. As well as, anecdotally, being more likely to engage in dangerous (for the brain) activities and take less care of themselves. The last point manifests itself in many ways, but the most important one I can think of is diet.

Again, this is all conjecture and I don't know how I would go about finding the studies to link it together.
All the sibling comments as of this writing are about the effects on long term rent prices. But I think the bigger issue is the effect on neighbors, especially but not exclusively, in-building neighbors.

Being in a rental building that's all people with at least one year leases is different from being in a building where a third of units are hotel rooms. It'd be one thing if the landlord had chosen to have that kind of mixed building and let renters know up front. But in a lot cases it is being done without the permission of the landlord and in every case it is being done without disclosure.

At the block level, living on a block with residential housing is different from living on a block with four hotels. I'm in favor of loosening zoning rules, but as long as they exist we shouldn't reward people for breaking them. Not only does that encourage other anti-social behavior it also reduces the pressure to reform the laws.
Soylent being tongue in cheek with their name is one thing. But Airmule? Why would they want to associate themselves with the most common border crossing association with mules - drug mules? Besides the whole arrangement seeming bad, the name choice is horrible.
Google engineer wrote a manifesto against diversity and employees are furious
We're saying the same thing with different words. Here's the article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14935079
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These apps and startups and technology in general can certainly accelerate the shift from one status quo to a new one; AirBNB and Uber have disrupted hotel and taxi industries, certainly.

The question we should be asking, as a society, is the new status quo one we want? Is it making life better overall? Or is it one that only a few of us want, because they're getting rich while the rest of us are getting more hard done by?

If tech is pushing us to a new status quo, and it's one we want (like a lot of medical technology), then that's great, the societal conversation will be short: yes, we like it, let's go.

If the tech is pushing us to a new status quo that we don't want, that's when we need to reevaluate, and maybe regulate it.
I'm not sure what language has to do with it. Also, many/most states have a constitution as well.
This appears to no longer be the case in Python 3:

$ python2
Python 2.7.13 (default, Jul 21 2017, 03:24:34)
>>> () = []
File "<stdin>", line 1
SyntaxError: can't assign to ()
>>>

$ python3
Python 3.6.2 (default, Jul 20 2017, 03:52:27)
>>> () = []
>>>
I can't tell if this is real or not. I guess the joke is on me for not knowing if you're satirizing with bitter and liquor or not.
This reads like a broadcast from Night Vale.
The article gives an example of why that wouldn't work either: Certain items (e.g. alcohol) would not be legal for a common carrier to import, but you can take small amounts with you for your own consumption.
Granted on the upstream point! Especially with how quick transformative technology goes through its various phases, it may be essential (/Strangelove emphasis) to make the harder choice now so that you're not behind your competitors in the near future.
Yep, for example they continuously scan license plates with police/parking enforcement vehicle-mounted cameras.

Just do a data dump at the end of shift (saves on those pesky mobile data usage fees) for later processing and aggregation into a stored location history.
I think another reason we want to hire B is because if we have only As we are more susceptible to group think. It is good to have people of many different types to prevent that.
Hah. The name being a bad choice no matter how tongue in cheek it is, is the first thing that came up for me too. I hastily wrote a comment before seeing your top comment brings this up too.

There is no way your company name should be this tongue in cheek about something that can be as serious as international drug smuggling.

At worst they should've got the domain name and made it a marketing landing page for their actual company. Not use Airmule as their actual company name.
That's true, but -- especially if you read the 12 principles as well -- it's very clear that the intention is team-based software development with a lot of fine grained interaction (and an explicit rejection of remote work). Stuff like daily stand ups definitely go with the grain.

It would be interested to see how a variant that truly focussed on individuals rather than interaction could work.
Hah this would make for a great satire site with that domain name. Or maybe not. Clearly it wouldn't have gone far enough since this seems real.
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"For men, no one ever expects those differences to limit what they can do"

Actually there are plenty of fields and jobs that are considered feminine. And where men are underrepresented and underpaid.

A study has shown that with the same qualifications, a woman is twice as likely to be picked for the same job than a man. And the longer we keep it politically incorrect to criticize feminism and the left, the larger that gap will become. Am not saying those aren't needed. But I also think it is time we have an opposing voice (like this article) to keep both in balance.
Thank you, somebody who gets it. "But my neighbors are complaining!" has somehow trumped "It's my property." in the modern age.

If neighbors don't like what their neighborhood is becoming, they should move. Aside from homeowners group contracts, a person should be able to do as they wish with what they own.

I'd bet that's the feeling of a good majority of people on this site regarding computer equipment and personal electronics. Strange they don't feel the same for real estate.
Beside Python, Tcl remains my language of choice when it comes to text mining and ML/AI data engineering proof of concepts.
Because, like Uber, for customers it is a massive improvement over the alternative.

I am taking my family to Atlanta next week for my son's birthday. Using AirBNB (or equivalent service) saved me well over $1500 for the trip - we would have needed three hotel rooms but rented a house instead. As an added bonus, instead of all that money going to a large corporation, it will go to an individual.

The level of myopia here is staggering. The sharing economy is a tidal wave of economic change - mostly for good. You'd throw pebbles at it trying to stop it. It's both wrongheaded and comically pointless.
> We tolerate groups like the KKK or Black Panthers or Westboro Baptist because even if they are vehemently WRONG, they have a right to speak freely.

We also don't hire the KKK. Those of us who run companies or manage people respect our employees more than to have a gay employee pair program with a member of the Westboro Baptist Church. Free speech does not mean immunity from the consequences of your actions.
> they don't deserve the level of scattergun disrespect that you're displaying here.

You really consider their feelings more important than protecting actual scientific facts from something akin to trademark infringement?

The public perception right now is that IQ and EQ are similar in the level of scientific backing. In world where people stop vaccinating their kids, ignore global warming, etc. i really don't consider the feelings of any particular group of people in any field important enough to not, every chance i get, fight for clarity on just what are reliable scientific facts and what are not, because it is scientific method itself that is under attack.

And if these 'serious people working on areas such as this' are not full of shit, working in service of science, i expect them to have the exact same priority as me.
Now I'm imagining Nature as a single mom who likes to decorate her apartment with hexagons, never vacuums, and occasionally invites Nurture to sleep over.
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There should be one _obvious_ way to do it. The obvious way is using +, and is sufficient for 90% of programs.
cpython oddity: The following program (call it "20.py") takes a minute to run, but the reported time for the "x=..." line is a few microseconds.

import time
if 1:
t1 = time.time()
x = ((((((((0,)*20,)*20,)*20,)*20,)*20,)*20,)*20,)*20
t2 = time.time()
print(t2-t1)

% /usr/bin/time python 20.py
3.09944152832e-06
70.91 real 70.91 user 0.24 sys
there is frequently an on-board announcement near TOD that some states prohibit bringing in fruit

Yup, was about to mention this. I did Sydney to Perth a couple of weeks ago & Qantas made that announcement close to landing. In particular, they mention not to bring honey into Western Australia, and to talk to a flight attendant if you were carrying honey.

I do remember seeing signage (somewhere) in Perth on arrival, but I don't remember seeing any disposal bins.
And bitcoin is dominated by professional miners.

Open source and the Web is dominated by large corporations like Google and Facebook.

And sports tickets and restaurant reservations are scalped.

I wonder if all these peer to peer marketplaces tend to become dominated by professionals and even the original industry they are supposed to disrupt.

Wikipedia seems to have prevented this, as has HN.

Any solutions?
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"A color CRT had no native resolution"

That is patently untrue, otherwise we'd have had 8K CRTs long ago. Maximum for CRTs that I've ever had was 2048x1536.

"Obviously the phosphor dots didn't move around when you did this."

No but when you suddenly move to a hexagonal configuration, you've just wrecked color gamut because you've now got groupings with a missing phosphor (ideally in the center) adding a black tone overall.

I used to work as a TV repairman, and I've worked in TV manufacturing plants as a design engineer. To address your next point "Whatever problems might have stood in the way of using a hexagonal pixel layout on a color CRT, the phosphor dot or stripe layout wasn't among them." That's how we discovered 30-ish years ago that a hexagonal layout was a BAD IDEA because it wrecked color gamut AND increased X-ray radiation emitted because of lower rates of absorption due to large holes in phosphor arrangements (that was back then, again, nanotech now days might alleviate that using much smaler phosphors.)

"Even on a Trinitron display there was no connection between logical pixels and the aperture grill spacing."

It was there for the purpose of beam convergence, which would make a 'sharp' pixel or 'blurry' pixel no matter your chosen resolution. So yes, it's most certainly connected.

"So if my complaint bothers you, here's my offer: downvote this comment and upvote lightedman's parent comment, which received some downvotes that I think were undeserved. Fair deal?"

No, let them downvote me. It adds to my friend's psychology paper on how people are too lazy to speak up and instead talk with a simple mouse click (Highlighted/targeted websites - Reddit, HackerNews, and Slashdot.)
It's a pretty standard term, and is generally in place to avoid them being accused of copyright infringement for giving access to your messages to other people in your organisation.
> the SEC would have them arrested

No they wouldn't. I worked as an equities trader for years. Saying something is illegal is meaningless if people do it anyway and the enforcement body has little to no power to stop it. Spoofing is rampant in the equities market regardless of its legality. Watching GDAX for the last week, there is definitively less spoofing in the ETH/USD market than in the equities markets as a whole.
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Airbnb is one of those rare products that cracked open an entire world of possibilities for me. For the first time, I've gotten the chance to live as a local all around the world, for even less money than at a hotel or sometimes even a hostel. Ordinary folks just didn't travel like this in the past, getting to know distant cities right from the ground floor. Adjustments should be made on a city-to-city basis, but you can't put the genie back in the bottle. The rewards are just too sweet!

(For the record, I've mostly stayed in shared accommodations, since entire apartment rentals are very expensive for prolonged travel. It seems people are mostly OK with this side of Airbnb.)
I skimmed it and noticed this: Pentachlorophenol contains dioxins, which are used in making chemical weapons, like Agent Orange

Agent Orange is not a chemical weapon, it is a defoliant. Dioxin contamination was a result of improper manufacture, not a deliberate ingredient. Read the wikipedia page, FFS.

I hate it when this happens. Do I now have to question the rest of the article?
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I think you may have read more into my comment than what was meant.
>> The manifesto clearly lays out the fact that women are genetically inferior and that most women developers shouldn't have their job.

This could be very easily misread by someone not paying close attention. Consider "argues that" instead of "clearly lays out the fact that."
Besides Python

So, when & why do you use Tcl over Python?
Sometimes we forget the entrepreneurs behind these services can be technologically illiterate. When they realize they have a problem they don't understand, they get scared, and can easily get confrontational and try to dodge any liability (e.g. by getting the police involved).

How can we teach these entrepreneurs to act? Perhaps by creating an accessible and gently worded guide on how to act; an FAQ from a reputable organization that you can link to every time you disclose a vulnerability? IEEE, EFF I'm looking at both of you.
There is also this kind of amazing book

https://www.amazon.com/Days-Rage-Underground-Forgotten-Revol...

about the time in the early 1970s "when bombings by domestic underground groups were a daily occurrence".
I think you're arguing past the point a little. From what I've read, what got him booted out was Apple hemorrhaging money and the board wanting to keep the Apple II gravy train going and Jobs disagreeing.

My point is that questionable behavior didn't oust him initially compared to it being a fundamental disagreement over the direction of the company.

I'm sure the behavior didn't help, but if they were still making money hand over fist, the board wasn't going to turn around and say "you're too much of a dick so we're ousting you".
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Yeah I don't think it's going to down like that. It's still your baggage in a way. You announcing it's not yours before it possibly having illegal things in them isn't likely to magically make security be cool with you and let you off the hook. Chances are pretty good for the opposite.
Speaking as someone who is experiencing the implications of a super low rental vacancy rate, I think most people in my situation are with me when we say shut it down, entirely, in any city with a low tenancy vacancy rate. It's hurting society at large to the benefit of a precious few.
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There's a great GDC talk about level design for this game by its creator https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ed2zmmcEryw
Fair. Edited. Thanks!
Owning seven rental properties puts you squarely in the "small business" category by any definition. Big companies like Marriott have well over a million hotel rooms spread over thousands of properties.
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unikernels; single purpose operating systems for anything you want.
IMHO the lack of an official OO system has been one of the main drawback to the language when at the same time python were rising.
> Using AirBNB (or equivalent service) saved me well over $1500 for the trip - we would have needed three hotel rooms but rented a house instead.

Travel and entertainment is not one of life's necessities. It doesn't outweigh the negative impact of airbnb.

> As an added bonus, instead of all that money going to a large corporation, it will go to an individual.

Why in the world does that matter at all? Are you saying that you have not received any upside from interacting over the years with 'a large corporation'? And that they have no value? Or that you think it just makes you a better person because your money went to an individual as if you have just donated to a person or charity in need?
Why does it have to be a DoD/CIA mission? It's quite possible it is Homeland Security gathering information on illegal immigrants, or possibly the FBI conducting surveillance.

I've seen these sorts of overflights regularly in the Baltimore/DC area. Most of the time it is Cessnas over a specific area (usually the FBI, judging from the shell company associated with the aircraft no.), but recently there was an umarked/blocked info aircraft canvasing Baltimore for a couple hours -- just the city, a very specific grid flight pattern. It was flying out of a commercial facility in Delaware.

My money is on surveillance targeted at locating illegal immigrants, using ELINT and photographic evidence together.
Only losing user-uploaded data seems pretty mild, in this case. Meraki sells cloud-managed network hardware, so you don't interact with it that often. Network configurations, logs, traffic data -- any of those would've been much worse to lose. The custom bits like voicemail greetings and IVR will likely be the hardest to replace.
A whole apartment/house does have some amenities that aren't in a decent hotel, though. Like a kitchen. Or enough beds for a group of 5. I appreciate those when traveling on a budget and/or with my family. - Airbnb employee.
I remember NY housing prices were not so friendly way before Airbnb. In fact, a number of sitcoms set in New York feature the topic prominently. Is there any data that Airbnb made the problem substantially worse?
I thought the same thing. A) The dude clearly had some loose screws. B) He was convinced his actions were just. After crossing that line, you can justify plenty of stuff to yourself.
Buying farmland and working in your fields 12 hours a day, is still an option :)

As someone who's looking in that kind of direction at least semi-seriously, don't underestimate the cost of farmland, especially if you're hoping for land that's reasonably flat and fertile. There probably are places in the world where it remains a cheap option -- but few that are an easy move from the UK. Also, however close to self-sufficiency you come in terms of food, fuel, potentially clothing, there remain expenses that need to be paid in cash.

I'm somewhat hoping that one day I might find a balance between some paid work and some time in my own fields -- but don't expect it to be easy. In the mean time, I get a certain amount from the garden.
That doesn't mean they are more lucrative.

Property can be empty half the time and Airbnb takes a massive commission on the earnings.
True - however, I think he specifically targets older, tech-illiterate owners of properties who wouldn't otherwise be on Airbnb, or less so. At least that's what I've gathered from my nosey observations.
Right, and because it's hard to have discussions that may not be easy to resolve, it far easier to re-label those disagreements as "attack them verbally." Hence, the new thoughtcrime.
That's not what ykler meant. 1/sqrt(N) is the "probability" that N itself is square. We don't care about that, we want the probability that there is any solution to x^2 = N, which is sum{N=0..∞} (1/sqrt(N)). That does not go to zero.

ETA: Well, actually the above is the expected number of solutions, so naturally it diverges because there are (infinite) solutions. A more proper way would be to calculate the probability that there are no solutions, which indeed goes to zero. But the probability of there being a solution, and the expected number of solutions, are the same if it is << 1.
Thanks to a3n and dllthomas for your attempts to explain this. I realized that my question is better suited for SE than for HN:

https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/q/355203/69228
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