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With Airbnb Plus, you can always check in effortlessly. Every home is equipped with a lockbox, keypad, or a host who is on-call to greet you.

Love the implication that the check in process for their regular listings is unreliable :^)

Otherwise, as others are pointing out, interesting to see where their priorities lie - certainly these high touch experiences are bringing them more money than people renting out a spare bedroom.

I do wonder how much of a pain this must all be for hosts - anyone who’s ever been in a slightly expensive place knows how entitled people spending money can get, and that must be a huge pain to deal with when it’s someone staying in your house making a fuss because you didn’t offer them organic orange juice in the morning. This happened to a friend of mine who hosted someone for a few nights, on regular Airbnb, with no promise of breakfast whatsoever in the first place. Again, people can get really entitled when they’re spending money. She stopped hosting as the result of that experience (they complained about more than the breakfast, but that’s one thing they were weirdly pushy about).
The ones I've used have gone limp after a few minutes. They're also less resilient to bending / pressure than the plastic ones.
As I recall from my childhood, they get mushy if you dawdle too long with your drink. They also are more prone to collapse if drinking a milkshake and you deform a spot on the side mid-suck.
I can certainly name a number of investments with less risk than cryptocurrencies. Namely, basically every traditional investment: stocks, bonds, gold, real estate, ...

I don't quite understand why saying that cryptocurrency investment is highly speculative requires me to offer "zero-risk" investments. You know as well as I that none exist.
Go has superb support for cross-compilation too.
My teeth hurt just from reading your comment.
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Disclaimer: I have not used gemini.

On first glance, it seems to fall into the category of "not-intimidating" along with the previously mentioned markets. The point i was trying to illustrate was that there are many laces on the web that skew much more towards LocalBitcoins or the like*.

A lot of these kind of sketchy sites have been stomped out in the frenzy that was the Bitcoin Bubble, being replaced by these more legitimate - at least at first glance - sites.

As more scandals like Mt. Gox etc arise, however, trust in the currency - and random places on the internet to buy and sell said currency - will drop, leaving only those more "reputable" and known brands like Coinbase and Robinhood behind.
Aside from actual first sale doctrine and the like, morally, I am curious what doesn't seem fair about not discriminating against how the purchaser uses what they bought? What doesn't seem fair is you getting to say what your product was meant for and keeping others with other potential uses from purchasing/using.
If they did that, then all websites with ads will be deprioritized, and it would be obvious (if it weren't already) that ads create a shitty experience. Google probably doesn't want to highlight that.
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Google is monetizing on the huge effort and improvements of their search machines. Gmail, Google docs, are just more paths to learn information about their users (investment)

The money comes in from promising to the real customers that they will deliver the right ad to the right eyes.
It seems analogous to a forest canopy...initially the soil is rich and opportunity seems boundless. But over time old-growth trees grow and spread until they absorb most of the available sunlight, making it difficult or impossible for saplings to get started below.
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So they are basically a fancy hotel that skirts regulations?
http://archive.is/dHNbR
I think he's just implying that there isn't any reason to remove the undergrads from the dating pool.
If you're throwing it in the dishwasher with an otherwise already full load, you're not using any more energy to clean the straw than you would be to wash the rest of the dishes anyway.
Yes indeed! (to this stuff being around a while) And then what it can do is a subset of the interval toolkit (also around a while). Somehow I get the idea that interval methods are underappreciated and thus lesser known - it seems anecdotally that people hear of the outward rounding bounds growth problem and go no further. (maybe evaluation efficiency compared to floats is the other gripe)

About Lipschitz interval methods, as stated here (first googled example, this from 2001):
https://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007%2F0-306...

"Interval algorithms for constrained and unconstrained optimization are based on adaptive, exhaustive search of the domain. Their overall structure is virtually identical to Lipschitz optimization as in [4], since interval evaluations of an objective function ϕ over an interval vector x correspond to estimation of the range of ϕ over x with Lipschitz constants. However, there are additional opportunities for acceleration of the process with interval algorithms, and use of outwardly rounded interval arithmetic gives the computations the rigor of a mathematical proof."
> I left Facebook on September 23, 2017, and not a single day has gone by when I don’t get at least a couple of emails or some SMS messages trying to get me back

Deleting your account outright seems keep it away forever. There won’t be any going back but I don’t see any way around it. Otherwise they’ll always have something to nab you by.
So you're ok with it, if the money just goes to the shop, but they are obligated to ask that minimum price?
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If you have reason to believe people that know about anthennas are after you, why have you not rig a Faraday cage in your home frame already???
By 2030 wow. Great. Flying cars and disposable utensils coming in the same year.
> More people should view ML/AI as "a complex process minimizing an multivariable error function over a multivariable input field"

I don't know where you're from, but a statement like that here in the United States would surely get you an ass-kicking.

Ok - a bit of hyperbole there, but not far from it; most people would simply hear "wah-wah-wah-wah" and have no clue what you were talking about; others would fall asleep.

Could you teach high schoolers what "minimization" is, and what it means to "minimize" a "multivariable error function over a multivariable input field"? Maybe some of them, but even there I'd bet the majority won't get it, and those that do will only have it for the time it takes to pass a test, then promptly forget about it.

Honestly, there are plenty of other subjects I'd rather see taught in high school (and earlier) to kids, the greatest being critical thinking methods and how to question how you know what you know. Perhaps along with philosophy (general and "of mind"), and a few other similar subjects.

I doubt we'll ever see this any time soon, though, as such knowledge would undermine much of the status-quo, particularly religion.
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Why don’t you just walk into your next best DMV and get an ID? Doesn’t need to be a driving license...they can easily also just issue a ID.
Yep, I load an enormous list of lexemes (including multiword expressions) into a bloom filter and use it for text segmentation.
In Microsoft's case, my guess is that it was just a research experiment. It worked pretty well on a few family photos I threw at it.

I think that the site is not even working anymore. Anyways, they said they were not keeping the images, and I have no reason to doubt it.

It's a pity that Microsoft is going only after the corporate market, Oracle style, and not trying to make money from consumers any more. That leaves Apple as about the only big independent player in that field. We could have benefited from the competition.
But this shouldn’t be true for a superpipelined processor, right?

Or put it another way, let’s say phase 3 contains several important instructions that cannot be reduced to a length of less than 1.7 clock ticks. If the pipeline stalls you have other pipelines that won’t.

Or you get crazy and put in 2 copies of the slow paths of phase 3 and one takes the even ticks and the other the odd ones.
Right. From what I remember the language on most foods says "This item is not labeled for individual sale," or words to that effect.
If you have a medical disease, you talk about finding a cure... For aids, cancer, diabetes... The research is headed towards cures.

Funny enough that all the PR and talk from Pharma companies on these psychiatric drugs is all about treatment, and "living"and "coping"with symptoms... No cures, just selling you pills that don't actually work to cure your problem, just masks the symptoms or distracts you with side effects that are worse than your original issue (like obesity, loss of sexual function, etc...)
> At lower levels or carbon footprint, it's better to worry more about how waste is handled.

No it isn't. Most countries have plenty of land available for storing waste. So long as its stored properly the environmental impact is negligible. Carbon footprint is far more important.
Ive seen a lot of talk of ethics here, just not politics. Thank goodness.

Whatever your view of tech discussion, this is a tech site.
Their advertising is pretty appalling, and I say that as a crypto fan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3NL2w4dyJY

I'm near-term bullish, but mass marketing a crypto brokerage using imagery of astronauts and moons is really irresponsible and will most likely end terribly for many customers.
Germany’s Post Office built and used ~2,000 custom-built electric delivery trucks in 2016 and deployed ~10.000 per year since 2017.

UPS’s 50 seems very low for 2018 in comparison.

One article about them: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-03-24/even-germ... They are called StreetScooter https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StreetScooter
I tried using Kraken a few months ago and their website was down frequently and the crypto withdrawal functionality was also frequently not working/unavailable.

Coinbase/GDAX has been gone down a few times but not at the frequency/duration I experienced with Kraken, YMMV.
Why do we care what the exact date is?
*> headaches involved in keeping the documentation for a C corp

Are there SaaS providers to streamline the compliance process?
Ahhh the warm embrace of the orange band on top.
That’s what I am doing. I have an appointment booked. I don’t own a car so I had let my old ID expire.
"every single possible component of every product ever sold available indefinitely after the warranty period" is a vast overexageration, the limit is generally 10 years for stuff like cars, and it encourages parts to be interchangable to cut down on inventory costs ( and incidentally waste too..)
I imagine one can print out a label with required info and stick it on similar to imported food.
Regeneration makes sense for frequent starts and stops, though delivery drivers often drive pretty aggressively, so I wonder if they will really get 100 miles range with inefficient driving?
Wow. First I was confused and then on reading closer I can only say - what a load of bs. So, they take the same experience and re-package it to charge more money. And here I thought Uber's packaging on some of their ride categories was bs.
I always thought the little [-] button downvoted!
I take it you are part of the ones behind the article? Did you ever see the papers about a conservative variant of immix, which would be both compacting and conservative?
That opinion is typical of the overoptimistic tech guy that drinks the Silicon Valley Koolaid.

The ONLY incentive for Google is amount of revenue, and that means ads.

They are very good to market themselves as a friendly company that cares about engineering more than advertising, but that's Branding and Marketing! And you fell for it.
> Both are very responsive when contacted at hn@ycombinator.com

True in my experience when I asked for my comment to be deleted.

> Complaining about being downvoted is discouraged and usually results in even more downvotes.

It works sometimes however. My comment [1] was controversial and was moving up and down between negative and +4 votes for the first two hours of its life. After I made the edit complaining about the downvotes, it started rising rapidly and is now resting at +22.

> Hacker News encourages a single discussion on a given story. All others are marked as a [dupe] and will be killed without the ability to vouch.

An addendum is that from my experience, it is unclear which story the mods will consider the dupe, sometimes the earlier posted story will be called the dupe.

> Relatedly, moderators can also invite users via email to resubmit a post which didn't get much traction.

This happened to my "All the goodness gone from tea (1688)" [2] submission. I am amazed that a moderator read a submission that was only +2 in its original form and also had difficult ergonomics because it was on google books.

> One popular "trick" for obfuscating voting manipulation ... This trick doesn't actually work.

So, undetectable vote manipulation hasn't been detected and there fore doesn't exist? I have trouble believing this. This seems more like a call to not even try claiming that it won't work, because it just might work. I wish some charitable soul with gray morals would step up with their story of voter manipulation that wasn't detected. Tooling could be developed to curb its use by other individuals. They can do this privately to the mods.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15994458

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15324547
In short: "Facebook Revenue per Monthly Active User (USD)"

As long as Facebook keeps and increased the eyeballs (aka €$£¥), nothing will change.

If tomorrow 200 milion users stop using FB due to privacy concerns, then the very next day I promise you FB will change. But not a moment before that!
I think hotel booking sites are already moving into that market. Agoda has listings for whole property rental that previously would've only been found on Airbnb.
> Accepted ID types: For our US customers, you must submit one state-issued driver's license or ID card.

Not sure about GC, but it's quite common to have either a driver license or a non-driver license state ID. It might even accept Real ID which is something you can get through DMV. If you live in the U.S. I highly recommend have a state-issued ID (Real ID would be a wise one at this point for future domestic traveling).
If either intended or not intended, talking about the downvoting system seems unnecessarily taboo(gets downvoted). Which is a shame because there is an interesting effect that it has on the community which would be worth looking into.

One of the biggest questions I have: are downvotes an accurate way to moderate low-quality comments? I'm not sure how that can be proved by data but it would be interesting to see someone prove it.
Actually, it will throw an error - on which the higher-level (libapt) tools above dpkg will abort, and going directly to dpkg with a --force-whatever is not quite as easy as clicking "yeah, just do it already". Not to mention that I have needed that twice in a decade, in rather obscure cases.

But yeah, containerizing the apps is probably a way forward, which sidesteps whole classes of issues.
The correct way is to use `npm install -g --prefix` to install it into a directory on your path which is writeable by your current user.

I don't think I've ever seen the install instructions for a npm-packaged tool actually say to do this.
The OP article explains that vouch only works once, and if there are more flags it stays dead.
Why would reporter run sudo npm???
There is no method that is objectively best. Every single current method has tradeoffs. Being cumbersome to setup/use/recover is a big tradeoff of PW Managers.
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Slightly off-topic but The Verge hasn't been thorough for years.. Unfortunate since at the very beginning I thought they knew what they were doing.

Thanks for linking that, comex.
Joe Nacchio [0] is a better example than Shkreli. Convicted of insider trading, allegedly in retaliation for his refusal to give customer data to the NSA.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Nacchio
> You don't need a map for that, just a sense of direction and distance.

Without map you also need time. In some cases, a lot of it. Not all cities have perfect grid structure and there are one-way streets that can mess you up a lot. In the city where I live it would be really time consuming, because there's a huge pedestrian-only area in the center and many the streets around it are one way, or turning is prohibited at some crossroads so you cannot suddenly decide that you made a mistake and you want to make a U-turn and go back.

Without maps you need time or luck.
Doing dead reckoning "right" over an extended distance requires extremely expensive laser ring gyroscopes. It's going to be a long time before those (or something with similar accuracy) will be affordable for consumer use.
I get that any kind of writing can provoke strong reactions, as some people have strong preferences. And they have a right to those preferences. But I hope we can agree that being vocal about one's preferences is a different kind of activity? Everyday on Hacker News there are dozens of articles that don't interest me, but can you imagine what people would think about me if, in every one of those articles, I posted a note saying that I didn't like the article?

Most of us simply skip over the stuff that doesn't interest us. That is clearly the default behavior. Therefore it is interesting why, on certain articles, people do feel the need to comment on the style.

Personally, I've been lucky, because the most vocal people have been the people who like my writing. But not always. I wrote a book about startups, and some people loved that it had a lot of humor, whereas others really hated it. At least so far, the one's who hate it write to me privately, whereas the ones who love it have written the reviews on Amazon:

https://www.amazon.com/Destroy-Tech-Startup-Easy-Steps/dp/09...

I'm lucky, but I'm also curious why this is. As a purely sociological question, why is that sometimes people feel the need to be very vocal with their disapproval, whereas most of the time they keep such disapproval private?
There are alternatives to a five star rating system. The old Couchsurfing site did this nicely with open ended feedback and a vouching system.
This is not related to the article directly but it's fun.

A while ago I read a paper about how to handle networked physics with many users, and they suggested using time dilation (like Eve Online) but in one continuous space, so that crowded regions would slow down time in order to handle the load better. I was curious what time dilation would do to your physics engine -- because a 'body' could literally have two or more different tick rates at once -- so I rigged up two point masses connected by a spring-force and applied time dilation. What this ended up doing is modulating the spring-force in such a way that there was a net force on the point-masses that 'pulled' them to the time-dilation center. I thought it was pretty interesting that a mechanism used to handle the propagation of information could end up creating something that behaves like gravity.

Code and sim here: https://github.com/pfrazee/gsim
Do you ever notice that you'll lose two points on a comment at the same time, then later they'll come back? I see that relatively often (once every couple weeks), and on completely uncontroversial comments, which is how I started noticing it. I wondered if it was some vote manipulation detection, where they've linked two accounts voting similarly and nullified their upvotes, but later clear them so they votes are reapplied. In any case, it's always two together (which is why I don't think it's an accidental downvote), and seems to be close to the same time if not the exact same time.
I don't think we will see another Facebook-scale social media service until the shift to AR wearables. However, at that point I think Facebook's disruption will be almost inevitable.
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I'll get back to you on this, though the primary sources themselves are strongly recommended.
They rejected my GC and I came across another hn reader who had the same issue. I know this from first hand experience with gdax.

I’m renewing my drivers license next month so this problem will go away. Just letting others on hn know as you can be stuck in a verification queue for a long time.
I honestly always assumed these are verified celebrities with a million karma.
>But on the recycling side, they are spectacularly inefficient

All the more reason to ban them outright isn't it?
This sounds more like the patient had previously-undiagnosed heart failure, didn’t respond well to rehydration (since it’s easier to become volume-overloaded with heart failure), and required further work-up.
NPM 5.x in general hasn't been very stable.

Indeed. Another odd thing that it's been doing lately is when I run some NPM scripts on one of our machines, it starts shouting about some sort of update not working (why was it updating anything at all just because I ran `npm run something`?) and gives me instructions on how to fix it from the Linux shell (on a Windows box). The depth of failure implied by that message is disturbing on several levels.
yes i feel so sorry for those starving artists that are disney
Thought experiment: A Google team develops a search algorithm improvement that increases the quality of results by an order of magnitude, but reduces Adwords revenue by 50%. Would management allow that improvement to be deployed to production?

Wherever you make your money, that's your business. Google's customers are advertisers rather than users, a fact that becomes readily apparent if you ever need customer support. The PR department can spin it however they like, but the accounts department see the truth in red and black.
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You’re being needlessly narrow minded. Any improvement on that integration that doesn’t use an absolute source of position is still dead reckoning. Do you think ancient sailors used IMUs?