skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let us try to look at the matter in another way.

Take a city/place.

Calculate how many people visited it before AirBNB.

Let's say 1,000,000 stays per year, with an average expense of US$ 180 each, including night at US$ 120 at the hotel and some drinks/meals/souvenirs/whatever another 60 US$ .

The city/place (globally) has had an "income" of 180,000,000.

How many more people visited the city place after AirBNB became popular?

Let's say 1,200,000, i.e. a 20% increase, and let's say that not only these 200,000 more stays are at AirBNB's (i.e. people that wouldn't have come if AirBNB's were not available), but that also a part of the same people that would have take a hotel room passed to AirBNB's, let's say 100,000.

Now, the hotels will have lowered their prices because of the competition, and - more generally - an AirBNB user (with of course the usual exceptions) is probably less prone to spend money.

So we have 900,000 nights at a "discounted" price of (say) 110 US$ i.e. 99,000,000 plus 900,000 at the same US$ 60 54,000,000 and some 300,000 AirBNB's at (say) 60 US$ , i.e. 18,000,000, plus 300,000 at a lower US$ 40, that is 12,000,000.

From the 18,000,000 you have to subtract the commission AirBNB takes, which should be on average (both guest and host commission) around 15% that "goes elsewhere", i.e. 2,700,000.

The city/place received (globally) 99+54+18+12-2.7=180,3 millions, i.e. roughly the same as before, while having (still globally), the increases of traffic, garbage, noise, etc. due to the 200,000 more visits.

In the meantime, hotels and other trades had a roughly 10% decrease of income, apartments/flats were not available to local population at "fair" long term rent prices, the increased income from the rentals of the AirBNB's and connected services very likely went in a lower tax bracket.

I would say that it is not a particularly good deal for the city and for the locals.
I wonder if it has anything to do with the fact that WWII had ended only a few years earlier.

But, reading other articles about people back then, it does seem they were less inclined to panic than those today. IMHO today's mass hysteria over terrorism is playing directly into what the terrorists want, so perhaps there's a valid point to be made for "keep calm and carry on" as much as possible.
Gradient methods have certainly gotten most of the attention, but there is the field of neuroevolution[1] and OpenAI recently released a paper covering evolutionary strategies for neural networks: https://blog.openai.com/evolution-strategies/

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuroevolution
Sure. There is a plausible change that would remove the impetus to do so. I don't think anyone is suggesting that zoning should endorse Airbnb-style "hotels," but that maybe it should fix the underlying problems instead of just patching the loophole.
I'm glad that the author of this travel blog is warning people against using Airmule. Someone is going to get in a heckuva lot of trouble.

First: I can only imagine, when checking my bags, getting the question, "Did anyone give you anything to bring on the flight?" and answering, "Yes, my entire 2nd bag belongs to someone else who is paying for half of my ticket."

That alone would be enough to give you extra-special scrutiny when checking in.

But let's assume that you get through security, go on your flight, and arrive. I've traveled to China many times, and have thus put my bag through the customs/airport scanner many times. If they find anything illegal -- and in China, that can mean all sorts of stuff -- you are in Big Trouble. I haven't ever seen anyone pulled aside when going through customs in China, but I don't envy them.

And sure, Airmule can say that they've inspected things, and that this is safe and fun, etc. Just try telling the Chinese customs officials that the drugs don't belong to you, but rather to a startup in Silicon Valley. I'm sure they'll be very attentive.

Airmule's site attempts to calm potential couriers' nerves by saying, "Read this Wikitravel article." (Reference: http://wikitravel.org/en/Air_courier) However, the article says, very clearly:

> You need to be very careful about the legitimacy of the jobs you take. The last thing you want is to be caught
> transporting contraband (or worse) on a plane. A good way to avoid this is to use an agent (usually a
> representative of the service you are working for), who will take you through customs and clear the contents.
> Always check the reputation of the courier company before booking. None which are reliable and legitimate
> would ever try to ship anything illegal.

Airmule doesn't promise to have an agent on the arrival side. They do promise that they'll "walk you through" things, but that's very different from physically being there in China and claiming the luggage and any responsibility for it.

The idea is a good one in theory, but as executed, it's half baked -- and might lead to executions of a more literal sort, if people aren't careful.
What makes you think you can socially engineer people to appreciate sensitive men? The root of sensitivity is not a respect producing trait for men is because women do not find that sexually desirable on average. Properties that make men respected are the properties that women like: men compete physically (sports or physique), on social status, and on financial success. There is a reason why parents traditionally toughen up boys.

The same applies with the genders reversed.
I dunno why you got down voted, your point seems valid to me. Tcl thrived under John, after him it was ok when Hobbs was the de facto leader, it's sort of gone flat since he moved on. In my opinion.
Had the same issue when I bought an umbrella recently. My Amazon homepage is nothing but umbrellas now. I know I live in the UK but come on, this is overkill, I don't need that many umbrellas.
I believe you are underestimating the capability of subversive diplomacy and corruptibility of bureaucracy :-)
You'd be interested in "Information-Dashboard-Design-At-Glance" https://www.amazon.com/Information-Dashboard-Design-At-Glanc...
It's the addiction of the victim mentality. It's the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cycle_of_abuse
So, are you saying the manifesto writer should be censored, shunned, fired? Should Gizmodo and Google censor all such similar writings and videos from internal and external applications?

Is this article violence?

Is this article publishing hate speech?

Should the manifesto writer be locked up?

Do you see what I'm asking here?
> but not having backward compatibility is what really scares me.

Go has a compatibility promise [1], and they have delivered updates for years without breaking existing code.
As comparison, since Rust 1.0, there have been several breaking changes [2].

1: https://golang.org/doc/go1compat
2: https://killercup.github.io/bitrust/
That's a false dilemma. The problem we're discussing here is easily fixed by making short-term rentals in apartment and condo buildings unlawful, which is probably what will end up happening. There's nothing that says that can't happen independent of any other regulatory changes.
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Practice generosity. Giving with no thought of getting back.
Gah! That should come with a flashback warning.

Or at least report linker errors... #BorlandTurboC++
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>"The real problem here is not Airbnb, which is a symptom; it's zoning, which forbids market-clearing prices and a sufficient number of units to satisfy demand for living in and visiting the city."

Maybe you haven't been to NYC in a while? This is not the case at all. New York City has undergone a hotel boom over the last 7-8 years, so much so that it has actually driven down the price of hotels:

See:
https://ny.curbed.com/2016/4/20/11471644/new-york-city-hotel...

and

http://www.wnyc.org/story/new-york-citys-hotel-boom-keeping-...

Zoning a problems in NYC? The amount of condos and pace of real-estate development in NYC is head spinning. I can't think of another city that is more developer friendly. In fact developers have even been entitled to tax subsidies for their efforts. See:

https://ny.curbed.com/2016/1/15/10846176/everything-you-need...
Going to chime in with a nitpicky female voice here: abortion isn't really a reoccurring long-term form of birth control that should be lumped in with the pill or IUDs.

It's kind of like calling a fighter jet's eject sequence a landing option.

Not picking on you specifically, I just know a lot of men who toss around abortion pretty lightly. Even if you're pro-choice it can often weigh on you.
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It seems like you should take into account the cut that a hotel chain extracts from each franchise to make a fair comparison.

I don't have a good sense of how much that is.
Yes, and you can see the "pleading" get more and more "special" as people, confronted with the numerical evidence, make more and more elaborate excuses for how software is different from other sciences. "It's like Lego", they'll say, "and boys play with Lego more than girls". Well, isn't that Just So?
I don't mind at all. ;-)

That sounds like it would be helpful to a lot of people. I'll pass that suggestion to the right team. You can also suggest it yourself since suggestions directly from customers mean a lot. Go to https://www.airbnb.com/help/feedback and choose "Traveling / Finding a place" as your feedback category.
Not to mention, gender parity in willingness to immigrate or move across the country.
Efficiency is a problem in it's own right. It drives down cost. Which means that surveillance will be used more often and for less important reasons. It's not uncommon for people to need to skirt the law from time to time. This is particularly true of people in the lower classes of society. Is it fair to ding a retail worker whose car registration just expired but needs a few days to get it all straightened out? That's something modern surveillance could easily handle nearly perfectly.
Ah, but then you commit and someone else pulls the source code down and their carefully crafted N space per tab setting is now worthless since you decided how long tabs should be for them.

Then they post an angry rant on some mailing list about how forcing tabs to spaces forces people with various reading disabilities into a tabstop setting that makes it hard to read.

And before too long it's devolved into the same old Tabs vs Spaces debate.
I posted this a few weeks ago and have made some changes based on the feedback. The UI is improved, comments are threaded instead of being flat.

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Sublime is beautiful. I'm sure you can make Notepad++ look the same with tweaking, but Sublime is beautiful by default (and extra color schemes are one click away on Package Control). Also, it's cross-platform which is important given that I'm on a Mac.
So... In this article we have a person talking about the positive discrimination in a company and how it can harm the company. This topic can harm some people even when the author doesn't want to. You can think he is saying terrible things (like some people thinks indeed), so you are not open to discuss with him about the topic?

> then maybe take some time to think about the opinions you're so excited to share

I am not going to shut up if I think I am right and it is the best for everybody even if my opinion hurts some people. I shouldn't do it indeed.
Well, that's somewhat similar to what I am doing with my new startup - only that my mission is not to build resorts, but to build meaningful, resilient towns: https://www.gitbook.com/book/simonebrunozzi/how-to-build-a-c...
> I don't really see the appeal for something that just targets pregnancy. As a gay male, […]

Your words read almost as a joke :) But when an issue cannot affect one at all, I suppose one may find it difficult to empathize with those it does affect.
There is also the opportunity cost of the owner not living in the domicile and not paying those same taxes, at probably higher amounts than the squatter. The owner is probably wealthier than the squatter and thus will pay more taxes.
A town where you can be on vacation and consume drugs.

Is not that Las Vegas?
As a startup founder myself, I don't take writing a negative post about another startup lightly.

That being said, I always reserve the right to blog about anything I think is interesting or important to my readers, and this subject meets the bar given the seriousness of the potential consequences here. "Move fast and break things" is something you can do in a social app but lives are potentially at stake here.

It's also fair for me to move quickly. Airmule is out in public advertising $99 flights to Beijing right now. Why should I have to wait until Rory is back in the office on Monday to write about it?

It's fairly normal to write blog posts without interviewing anyone. If the facts are clear, why spend the time? There isn't a law that says that I have to schedule an interview with an airline before I blog about their economy class cabin, and there isn't a law that says I have to schedule an interview with a startup founder around his backyard tile laying project and Costco shopping trip.

Note that my readers are largely young backpackers - think the /r/shoestring and /r/solotravel crowd. I would have written an entirely different blog post--and one that the founder would have been completely happy with--if the answers had been different. It's unfortunate that they weren't.
> Also, doctors work with people, while engineers work with machines.

You won’t get very far in your engineering career if you think this way. Are you going to argue women don’t use computers next?
Statistically women appear to have less deviation physically, mentally or socially.

It could be a result of how primates have evolved. For males increasing standard deviation in traits makes it more likely that they are among the few top males that can mate with multiple females. For female being more robust ensures maximum number of children.

Women have both glass ceiling and glass floor. There are far less successful women, but there are also far less women living in the streets.
Tcl War previous discussion.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12025218
I did that a few years ago so I'm hoping you have better luck. ;)
Citations much needed for your first point, please. What I see is a list of male and female dominated fields which is a near perfect fit for what theory would predict.

I'm sorry you feel the need to trivialize my point about monkeys. Unfortunately, evidence is going to keep rubbing you the wrong way, you're going to love this new thread :

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14942022

“At the time, it seemed clear to me that any between-sex differences in thinking abilities were due to socialization practices, artifacts and mistakes in the research, and bias and prejudice. ... After reviewing a pile of journal articles that stood several feet high and numerous books and book chapters that dwarfed the stack of journal articles … I changed my mind.”

Why? There was too much data pointing to the biological basis of sex-based cognitive differences to ignore, Halpern says. For one thing, the animal-research findings resonated with sex-based differences ascribed to people. These findings continue to accrue. In a study of 34 rhesus monkeys, for example, males strongly preferred toys with wheels over plush toys, whereas females found plush toys likable. It would be tough to argue that the monkeys’ parents bought them sex-typed toys or that simian society encourages its male offspring to play more with trucks. A much more recent study established that boys and girls 9 to 17 months old — an age when children show few if any signs of recognizing either their own or other children’s sex — nonetheless show marked differences in their preference for stereotypically male versus stereotypically female toys.

Halpern and others have cataloged plenty of human behavioral differences. “These findings have all been replicated,” she says. "
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The "us" vs "them" conflict between men and women goes back thousands of years and was introduced with specific purposes. My personal research on this can be found at https://blog.kareldonk.com/sexual-suppression-and-repression...

We'll start perceiving everyone as "us" as soon as most people realize what I discuss there.
The set of possible counterexamples has Lebesgue measure zero.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lebesgue_measure
Does it actually matter if someone clicks on them? As long as the advertisers keep pouring money into getting those ads in front of your eyes, FB and Google make money. Whether you click or not is irrelevant.
lol tourists and rich investors/other rich undesirables are ALWAYS going to outprice the lower and middle tiers, you need massive amounts of regulation to prevent rich-people-only city areas.

Really? Was that true in the 1970s or 80s? https://jakeseliger.com/2015/12/27/why-did-cities-freeze-in-... If not, what might have changed between then and now?
This is a whole lot of words all of which are derived from monkey studies. I think it sounds like I'm being snarky when I say that, but, no, I'm not: literally, this is an attempt to reason the 82/18% CS split from the behaviors of monkeys.

You understand, right, that my side of this argument doesn't have to predict any part of human society from the behavior of monkeys? That all my argument requires me to be able to do is count?
Hi David, Thanks for your article. As you chime here, do you think the dev platform had also an impact on the language visibility (fossil vs github) ?
> one our courts and Constitution have not yet handled.

Exactly. It's one thing to say our laws and Constitution should place strict limitations on this kind of surveillance. I agree with that.

But it's another thing to say they already do, when they don't.
So basically Yonatan Zunger is saying that the fact the women are underrepresented among Google engineers depends entirely from the misogynistic attitude of the company, and that its interviewers are maschilist assholes. So, he says, it took him "half of the past day" to try to fix the mess caused by a guy that dared to suggest that maybe the company and its employees are not such misogynistic assholes after all. Excellent job!
> condoms, which have a real-
> world failure rate of about
> 18 percent

That's odd, so I did some research and found:

> With consistent and correct
> use, condoms have a failure
> rate of 2 percent. The
> typical use effectiveness
> rate is about 18 percent

I ... don't understand. Are people putting them on their fingers? Can someone explain?
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Just switch to pytest + pytest-django. It can run Django tests.
AFAIK, uncontrolled AirBnB usage is directly contributing to rising rents in SF and Toronto. It cuts both ways.
Indeed interesting to think about the end game. Let's suppose the Airbnb's end game is desirable for the society. But the process of getting there means a lot of people who love their home have to move away because the location is highly desirable for tourists. Is that fair to these people? If not, maybe we should aim for a different end game.
The "bright line" here is "at the entrance to the home". But there is no indication in the article that the plane in question is seeing things inside people's homes, or imaging heat given off from inside the home (which was the issue in the Supreme Court case). It's just (the article speculates) observing activites outside people's homes, in public spaces. So I don't think the precedent you cite is relevant.
Similarly, some leftists claim that race is a social construct because there is more genetic variation within a race than across them. Except you have genetic tests that easily identify race: https://www.wired.com/2007/12/ps-dna/ and medical studies that indicate the race of patients studied, because it is a medically significant concept: http://news.softpedia.com/news/Different-Races-Are-Genetical....
I mean, we can go both directions. But realistically this is a large market; many dislike condoms for purely birth control purposes.
Housing is a disaster in every major city and price have been going up almost 10% a year for a while. AirBnb hardly has any influence on that.
What units are you using to measure "less scientific than a gossip magazine"?
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There's still a lot of fear with the federal government still seeing it as illegal. Jeff Sessions could destroy your investment overnight.
There are no carts in New York City. The trash is piled up in bags at the curb. It can be quite a sight.
Testosterone has a lot of other side effects.
> I ... don't understand. Are people putting them on their fingers? Can someone explain?

Abstinence has a "consistent and correct" usage rate of 100% (within rounding error). Of course, in the real world, abstinence has a pretty poor rate of preventing unintentional pregnancies, when not combined with other methods.

Real-world use encompasses everything from people keeping condoms in their wallet (exposing them to heat + friction) to people deciding not to use a condom (whether because they forget, because they believe the other person is on birth control, because they decide to just "take a risk this once", or anything else).
Ok I'm working on finding the right team to send this request to.
Ever since I saw the US remake of Dark Water I have said that if I ever lived in NYC I would live on Roosevelt Island.
I don't know that I know of "vitriol", but one common objection is that they will compromise Go's "one obvious way to express an idea" and "simple is better than complex" aspirations. And while I think Go will need to add generics in order to compete as other languages improve their concurrency and tooling stories, I also think these concerns are valid--Go is marvelously easy to learn and to read, and there are no languages with generics that can compete in this regard. The rebuttal is that there are many classes of problems for which this tradeoff is suboptimal (Go's type system shows its warts when you need to do any interesting data transformations at all).
Sometimes it is hard to say "goo bye". But we have to. Like growing kids, we should stock our kid's stuff in an old chest and forget about it. If someone really wants to reminisce or something like this, save your own local copy of flash and use it as u want. But in face of web community such things like flash really have to die. Thus how new directions of web will born.
The youngest of C, C++, Java, Python and Javascript is 21 years old. I bet these cover most new and old projects between them.
In what way is "there" even close to "entitled"?

Yes, the default should be not to show verses that don't contain the search word. At least to me the current implementation is not useful.
You wouldn't have to if zoning laws allowed people to build taller buildings.

Airbnb is a hack that exists because the current market is completely unsustainable.
Tell me more? Are you referring to specifically cannabis, or setting up corporate towns?
The problem we're discussing here is easily fixed by making short-term rentals in apartment and condo buildings unlawful

This is already the case in NYC. What's needed is enforcement.

Perhaps through the use of a RICO action with wire fraud predicates against Airbnb and its principals. Taking money in exchange for a room that the company knows or should know is not legally available may well constitute "obtaining money or property by means of false or fraudulent pretenses, representations, or promises, or omitted facts."