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Not only that, but it appears AirBNB doesn't discourage this practice and there have been some articles claiming they actively encourage people who turn rentals into AirBNBs.

AirBNB doesn't seem as bad as Uber, but there have been many questionable decisions .. and cases like the London guy whose guests threw a massive party and caused like 3k GBP in damages:

http://observer.com/2017/03/airbnb-nda-damage-in-london-afte...

No where in this letters were the words, "We've made some mistakes" or "we need to get better" ... unless I missed it? It's like they're not even addressing serious customer issues.
JavaScript: The Bad Parts [slides]
I haven't been able to figure out anything quantitative for this, but I can look at my recent pictures and see that they're better than my old ones. That's a start, at least.
Code is not that important (most of the time), but documentation is always important (if all else fails, you can always rewrite). So, if it's not documented: write some use cases and draw some UML).
The key feature of pass-by-reference is whether the callee can replace the value bound to the caller's argument (not mutate it).

In other words, pseudocoded:

x=1
changeMe(x)
write(x) // 2

With that in mind, it's clearer that JS is pass-by-value with object reference values (or pass-by-sharing, though I never hear that in practice) as the caller remains bound to the passed object, but a C++ reference argument is an actual pass-by-reference of the original binding. So's an argument passed to a Pascal/Delphi out or variable parameter, and I'm sure other examples exist as well.

So I guess it depends on what you mean by "nowadays" but I'd still consider C++ a modern language within "everything".
I agree with you. They should have been doing Vice-level output to keep and grow and audience.
You hit on a lot of important points. The key here is that they are making a claim about memory, a psychological construct, that is being represented by some of their measures (batteries). But their batteries also purport to measure other psychological constructs, too.

To connect this with the slot machine analogy, it might be like if groups of slot machines had different colors, and they chose the color that yielded the best results.

> but would coming back and saying "these five designs have a higher than chance level of winning!" be an incorrect conclusion?

It would be if you didn't take into account that you analyzed 20 machines in your analysis .
Definitely an interesting take on the "coding" of DNA.

Something that has always interested me is similarities in natural and unnatural mechanisms, like how modern cameras mimic eyes right down to the tiny motors that drive the auto-focus mechanisms.

The long sequence of nucleotides reminds me of a strange sort of Turing machine capable of building humans.
Why not ask Mentifex?
> The simple fact is people primarily like being near people like themselves, culturally or otherwise.

Unless, of course, they don't. :) I can't stand talking shop outside of work. Silicon valley and San Francisco are so full of technologists and associated ancillary professions it's a pretty miserable place to live--they've displaced all the people I'd normally want to be around.

Not that I have much choice on where to work or live! I work in technology, so why would I want to live anywhere else? Just shut up and move to SF already, you'll love it!
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> The pass-reference-by-value behavior is shared by a lot of languages, I'm not sure why you want to avoid comparison with them.

That's a fair point. I just think a lot of JavaScript programmers are confused about this, and end up thinking that primitives and objects are passed in two different ways. Even MDN makes this mistake:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Guid...

My use of "things" and "names" is just an attempt to get away from this confusion.
I'd like a cheap room that doesn't cut into people being able to get affordable apartments. They need to address the issues around people leaving flats empty after people leave and turning them into permanent AirBNBs instead of renting out room to people who actually live there.

If you really want to build community and meet people, you should try Couch Surfers. It's part of the real sharing economy, not the bullshit sharing economy.
> People say "past is not a predictor/indicator of the present", yet they love to say "stocks return 7-8% annually, and you should just invest in an index to enjoy such returns". Why? That's such as a huge assumption that everyone takes for granted.

Well, you're leaving out something something about the company putting your money to use to increase efficiency or output something something and something something about dividends from the proceeds, none of which you have with cryptocurrencies. (Though it may be disputable whether those are truly the reasons behind the historical returns of stocks and thus good reasons to expect it to continue, even if you wouldn't guarantee the exact numbers, or if those are simply motivated reasons that may or may not be reliable future indicators...)
> One precludes the other...

That's quite insulting.

Personally, I'm getting a bit tired of hearing "lol nerd harder! It's impossible!" from people who can't even spell IND-CPA. (Not saying that you are one of those. Just that there are a lot of them around.)

If it's really impossible, then somebody needs to show up with a proof of impossibility.
This seems really inspired by finite/infinite game talk by Simon Sinek:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bFs6ZiynSU
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It just depends on your definition of not being a jerk. I've been attending concerts since 1980mumble. Trust me, it's a big difference having absolutely zero devices in the air versus a sea of bright screens and waving arms obscuring everyone's view. That might be the norm for some people but to me everyone's being inconsiderate. And really to what end? Those tinny, wobbly videos will never garner more than a few random views on youtube and quickly be forgotten.

I'm not in the "lock away phones" camp because they're an essential part of everyday life now. But I'm saddened by the social norm of them being in the air obscuring views now. Harumph.
>I understand cryptography

Perhaps its logic that's your weak suit, then.

>Both can coexist despite their competing incentives.

You either have secure cryptography, or you don't. There is no middle ground.
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Then effectively your insert rate is between 16 and 60 per second, sure, you don't really need a sophisticated partitioning or log structured DB. Native static partitioning would give you a decent speedup without much thought.

It's intro computer science, if you have a tree structure and fill it up, you spend a lot of time in the corners of theta notation. Timescale uses tightly integrated partitioning on the time axis to deal with write performance and aging data out. Other popular TSDBs are plays on log structured merge trees etc
My folks used the payphones at most venues to call our landline and speak to the babysitter.
I'm not a recorder (in general, not just in concerts), but I'm pretty sure I can hold my phone up while I pay attention to the concert. The dichotomy you're painting rings false to me.
Perhaps? I’ve never seen autocorrect suggest lead when I’m typing led, but maybe it happens to others for sure. On the other hand, I see it not only far more frequently in online usage, but far more consistently, as if people think lead is a homonym of the same-spelling sort, not the same-sounding sort.
I think whatever "effect" is - it is already priced in.

However presence of futures for underlying security in general adds to volatility where little news story causes many traders on a wrong side of the trade to forcefully throw in the towel by their brokerages.
Most users, yes. But even those who do care, and know a little about it, don't necessarily have any obvious path to verify which apps do/don't encrypt their traffic.

I'm a mobile app developer, and if I were downloading Tinder I am actually naïve enough that I would have presumed its network traffic would be. It just seems so matter of course to me that network requests written into any app being developed would just use HTTPS.
objects? I don't care about low level engine implementation details. I'm saying from the dev's perspective, it's effectively pass by reference.
That entirely misses the point. The whole idea behind the existence of a "key" means that the key can either be mishandled, stolen, or independently discovered, rendering cryptography inherently insecure.
Which part of the comment is incorrect?
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Dude, you missed the point. OP is scared of terrorists.
>but seriously, musical artists (especially the ones who don't lipsync their concerts) feed off the audience's vibe. Its a two-way, not a one-way.

Which is why Janis Joplin would famously yell at the audience that they better get up and dance in the aisles, or so I've been told by people old enough to be there.
>This only works if EVs can be charged easily, everywhere.

They can be. Electricity is omnipresent. It is available literally anywhere in the industrialized world. Compare this to gasoline, which must be shipped across the country/world, refined, and stored in highly specialized containers which take years of permitting and construction to build. All of that can be replaced with 220v electrical outlets. It's not a technical or financial challenge, but a cultural one. People have to get over the idea of going to a central point where they "fill up" their EV like a gas station. You will simply charge everywhere you go. Work, school, malls, etc. It will become expected in short order that all parking spaces include some type of charging, and once you get used to it it's not a big deal at all.
> no intention of solving the problem.

I was starting to grow pretty concerned but clearly segwit and LN have made enough progress that fees have dropped to ~10sat/byte. [1] That is dirt cheap.

[1] https://bitcoinfees.earn.com
As national political news to a cynical, disinterested audience, fine.

But that's thinking too small: what happens when every recording of corporate misdeeds, every photo of a cheating spouse, even a child's baby pictures, lose their solidity as evidence? What happens to anonymous online conversations when "pics or it didn't happen" becomes "it didn't happen"?
Acousterr's Tab Maker – A Digital Audio Workstation
Acousterr's tab maker is a sort of digital audio workstation which allows anyone to create tablature for all stringed instruments and produces realistic sounds for notes and effects like vibrato, hammer on-pull offs, muted-play etc.

Every sound effect is mathematically modelled allowing it to easily scale up to produce any combination of notes/chords/effects during runtime. The UX of creating tabs is so intuitive that it is a no-brainer solution for anyone wanting to create tabs online.

Check out the tab maker at :
https://www.acousterr.com/tabmaker

Check this youtube video to see it in action :
https://youtu.be/PFxe6V5MQBU
> "Let's imagine that my child is at a party or other social engagement and they want deniable reason to escape. [0] There may be excessive peer pressure, illegal activity, or any other pre-arranged reason they may need to bail on something without incurring the loss of face that could be socially devastating."

In that case, I would imagine the child's parents failed in teaching the values of both honesty and courage. Lying is often easier in the short term, but it leads to worse outcomes over time in all but the rarest of situations (e.g. you're hiding Anne Frank and soldiers knock at the door).

Having a great excuse is useful today, but having a spine is useful for all one's days.
While I'm definitely on Jack's side spiritually, Yondr is not an efficient solution. We need to consciously and intentionally establish a norm of 'no phones' in certain group situations, just like how many areas have established a norm of 'no smoking'.

And, yes, it's true that 'no smoking' often has local law to help drive the idea home, but it's not like there's a cop monitoring the smoking situation in every public venue. Shame, ridicule, side-eye and public opinion are really what keep behavior in line.

It's not hard to do. I remember long ago that the famous Alamo Drafthouse movie theater, which serves beer and booze, had problems with people talking. They started playing a stock reel of people getting their asses kicked overlaid with "if you talk we'll kick your ass out" before the movie started. Now it's just accepted fact that you keep quiet no matter how many Lone Star tallboys you've had.
she was having surgery. a bit of her tail died and was rotting away :(
Firefox has absolutely lost it's mind. This is EA-level corporate double-speak.
Afraid I'm going to be contrary and old-fashioned and say I prefer JSON.

Its never been problematic adding or extending JSON endpoints and its never been a problem using basic gzip compression on the fly either.

And JSON endpoints are a damn sight easier to debug and wireshark and all the rest.

I've spent a lot of time writing fast JSON serialization for various languages including Java etc; its staggering how inefficient most libraries are. But that's not really JSON's fault.
Everyone has better things to do. You are not addicted because you did not use them like they are supposed to.

Addiction is built-in in these apps from every possible way. There are lots of information on how they do that. Your comment is like saying, why don't people just stop taking narcotics, there are better things to do.
It was in San Jose last year sometime, don't remember the details, sorry :/
I'm not a native speaker, what does the K stand for? Potassium? (as in "Kalium-salt")

Another argument in favour of eating potassium and less sodium, which is pretty well established:

https://nutritionfacts.org/video/lowering-our-sodium-to-pota...
I too suspect that the FBI's antipathy to encryption is disproportionate to how much it actually hinders law enforcement. But if there were some real reason for the FBI to be this hostile to encryption, I don't think it can be about violent crimes. It has to be more subtle crimes that don't leave physical evidence.
Aww :( I thought that was normal for lizards though? Don't they just drop their tails or whatever?
Might want to change that to Volkswagen
Immutable objects aren't very useful if you can't create mutated copies...
Because if shit like this gets magically patched and no one gets hurt, most people will continue to not care and groups like Tindr can continue to be lazy and do shit like this.
Why the phone specifically? What if they prohibit air horns? Mine belongs to me as well!
I agree, but I wonder how much this matters? Are signatures still counted as a hard form of identity verification all that often?
A lot of techno clubs have been doing it for years – makes the whole scene feel much more human.
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It claims to have 65 mirrored faces ... which polyhedral solid has 65 faces?
That's true, "pass by reference" and "pass by value" are clearly defined terms in computer science. The problem is that legions of JavaScript programmers think that one or the other of those terms must apply to JavaScript, when neither one correctly describes the language's behavior.

This leads to the widespread misconception that objects and primitives are handled in two different ways, one passed by reference and the other by value.
Since this was written, we've discovered CRISPR, which started off as a bacterial analogue to antivirus software that works against actual physical viruses.
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Although I'm not involved in SEO or these landing pages, I deeply care about the Pinterest experience and believe in the open web. So I spent the last day in passionate discussions with the relevant teams and leaders about how we can fix/improve these issues. I'm confident changes will be rolling out very soon, although of course I cannot promise anything specific.

In the meantime, I might suggest to consider using Pinterest directly for image searching. No bias of course ;). Thank you so much for your feedback.
And if he were to wander out and catch an uber, he could probably escape and evade capture.
This is a fun parallel, but I feel like it fails to go the other direction.

How is DNA different from programming?

This is important to understand because those differences are the foundation of our intuition about how DNA operates. We can't let ourselves fall into the misunderstanding that cells are like computers. In particular, the ideas of random mutation and populations are inherently different from software.

Imagine a piece of code whose bits slowly decay over time. Where functions compete with functions in every other program on the filesystem to see who is most efficient. Where scripts need to constantly copy themselves to other folders simply to maintain their integrity.

Its this kind of stochastic and unreliable environment that I think a lot of people forget about when talking about DNA. Yes it is a consistent heritable genetic library, but it is also in a constant state of change. Genes are strange little islands in a sea of noise.
They also provide the most bang for the feature-complexity buck. (A DB is something you don't want to roll on your own, and you want to use the purpose-built one for your use case. A columnar store for time series, a scatter-gather SSD + random read optimized engine for hot OLTP, a fancy multi level cache/tier BLOB store for photos/files, CockroachDB for geo consistency, etcd for local consistent config, and so on.)
There's white collar crime. There's several non-violent variations on theft. Loan sharking isn't violent per se (though usually comes with an unhealthy side order of violent crime).
Owning bitcoins don't facilitate these transactions by third party's. The service can create value but don't let the name of the service be confused with the coins.

You could speculate that the utility created will increase the value of the coins you hold. However, unlike mining there is no connection between buying a coin and enabling other people to do these transactions.
I don't know, how about we embrace mobile phones in gigs instead? Arcade Fire, for instance, asked the audience to turn their flash light on during their last song (don't remember which one it was) last time I saw them. It was beautiful from where I was standing at that moment.
And there's also a video of Win Butler taking a mobile phone from someone in the audience and recording himself for a few seconds (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wpgyv6naF3M).
I'm sure that someone with more creativity than I have could come up with an idea how to use mobile phones to enhance the experience to the audience and the performer, rather than just viewing them as an annoyance.
That's probably a fair consideration. I and others worked on an intermediate system called pump.io, and the ActivityPub interface is very similar to the pump.io client-to-server API and federation protocol.

The biggest advantages of ActivityPub over OStatus are: JSON instead of Atom XML; a defined client-to-server API; and private distribution, including to contact lists (like Diaspora's aspects).

As someone who has worked on this type of standard for over a decade, I can say that it's the best federation standard I've ever seen, and I've seen them all.
If the details in the post are correct, a tool like driftnet[0] should make abusing this pretty easy. Go forth and do bad things

[0] http://www.ex-parrot.com/~chris/driftnet/
I feel like I'm supposed to be somewhat embarrassed to admit, as someone working in tech, that I prefer hotels to Airbnb. Unless hotels are completely booked, overly expensive, or it's a location with few hotels to begin with, I highly value the consistency and reliability of being able to check-in at anytime, knowing there's a baseline of security that a hotel offers, having access to basic amenities like a gym, having access to generally English-speaking staff if it's international, and having flexible cancellation policies depending on the rate.

With Airbnb, you really have no idea what you're going to get until you get there. The platform skews heavily in favor of hosts, and most listings I see have stricter cancellation policies than your average hotel and zero recourse if the host decides they want to cancel on you last minute.
There's no mutually assured destruction between the US and NK. The US can destroy NK, but NK cannot annihilate the US, even if it can severely damage many of its urban centers.
> Perhaps there was more in the presentation

Yeah sorry, the TED-like format at Enigma makes the slides by themselves fairly useless.

OTOH, it also lends itself somewhat easily to posting the talk on Twitter, with text attached to each slide. So I did that. https://twitter.com/hackermath/status/956617943768481792
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Of course. The ones who didn't aren't able to comment here.
> This is good if your only concern was the collected private data leaking to third parties; it is less good if your concern is with the use of that private data in the first place.

Can you go into more detail on this?

Firefox uses private data locally every time you start typing in the address bar. What leads someone to object to this particular use (specifically for privacy reasons), but to leaving history on in the first place?
> for instance saying that workers should own the factories together, make their own decisions democratically, rather than take orders from a boss.

Which means of production will they own? The ones that previously belonged to their rightful owners? Who really owns the means of production if the only way to seize it is through the state? How can that process be anything except authoritarian? If I have a farm, and you intend give it to billy who usually only turns the manure, what non-authoritarian means will you use to enact that goal?

The USSR has everything to do with socialism, as does the Khmer Rouge, as does the Great Leap Forward, as does Venezuela's oil socialism. Noam Chomsky can write on Lymphoma vs. Melanoma all he wants, it doesn't make the United Soviet Socialist Republics have any less to do with socialism.

If you think socialism is something else, you are thinking about something that isn't socialism.

Democracy is the enemy of socialism. You and I both know that your socialist utopia requires killing or imprisoning me, so let's not be coy about it.
Shortening the work day seems like a great idea. Making everyone work the same hours seems like a terrible one. Especially the proposed 1-6. What if you have kids?
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This is addressed by pre-trial registration. You can't have publication bias (his argument) when you register the study and see that this is the only one.
>Although that presupposes that photosynthesis is inevitable, which also doesn't have to be true.

there are options. For example radiosynthesis like is done by these fungi discovered in Chernobyl https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiotrophic_fungus
the big difference between modern cameras and eyes is that a huge amount of neural processing is done in the retina of the eye. There aren't any cameras (that I know of) that compute such sophisticaed levels of processing (edge detecting, contrast detecting, motion detecting) within the sensor package.
>at least one person, myself, is unwilling to have his tools and life work taken from him, and given to a fool who will squander them just as that fool squandered the opportunity to attain them.

Unless, of course, if that person is named "Boss".