skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Two problems mentioned in the rebuttal: the study counts every Airbnb unit as a rental taken permanently off the market, and the dataset counts every blocked-off calendar date as a night the unit was booked. Both of those are obvious over-counting. A study that doesn't even try to account for those is pretty obviously political.

Airbnb should have posted estimates of how much this over-counting could distort the data, because it sounds like a lot. $616M is one of those numbers that sounds high but in context probably isn't, so it wouldn't surprise me if those two distortions wiped out the number, or at least cut it to below headline worthy.
Because young people don't have the money, or if they do they don't have the risk tolerance with student loan debt.
Interviews, like exams, are painful when there's a big mismatch between what they should cover and what they actually cover.

If you want me to do the same sort of work as my last job, I'm naturally prepared - I've been doing it for years! But then if you interview me about unrelated garbage with no warning, I'm going to think less of your process and of your management skills.

I like good interviews for the same reason I liked most of my exams: it was a chance to show off what I've learned in a compressed format.
One problem with all these systems that claim to be “end-to-end” encrypted is that they don’t precisely define what “end” means. How do I know that my messages are not being transmitted to various undisclosed “ends”?
Why are they not disclosing assigned CVE numbers? Is there any risk in it?
> Maybe prices for short term stays went down

Sure, allowing residential property to be used for short-term rental drives regular residential rents up and short-term rents down (forcing, over time, more residential proerties to be used for short-term rental to the extent possible), narrowing the gap between short-term and long-term rentals. It makes things less expensive for travellers and more expensive for non-travellers.
The article links to a description, i did some hunting but was unable to find any hard number for a margin of error.

Electronic spin resonance: ESR, which measures trapped electrons using magnetic fields, is related to magnetic resonance imaging, the medical technique that allows doctors to look for tumors or peek inside your creaking knee. Because ESR essentially tracks the activity — the “spin” — of the electrons without freeing them, the sample can be subjected to repeated dating attempts. ESR also has a longer range — some researchers claim up to 1 million years — but it’s more complicated than other trapped charge methods, leaving it more susceptible to error.
Yup, is it better for society to have someone do a job that pays non living wages or being unemployed ?
Before I was using docs and sheets, it was a pain. From now on I'll be using Cudeda
Easy there with terms like “better real estate utilization”, which could be conflated with “more efficient rent seeking at the expense of housing consumers”.

The end goal is not always maximum profit extraction. NYC is served best by balancing the needs of both long term and short term renters, while ensuring investors reasonable compensation/rates of return on capital invested for services provided.
Improving the Advanced Protection Program for iOS Users
The guy is a small fry. If we're going to point fingers at someone, can we start all the way at the top with someone like Tai Lopez?
There are more than five senses.

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20141118-how-many-senses-do-...
Not at all. If people actually chose email over walking over to interrupt me, there wouldn't even be a problem.

Email doesn't help me queue up or schedule micro-meetings with people. Email doesn't do anything to work around scheduled meetings. Email is a black hole from the sender's point of view, they don't get any feedback other than a reply, and they don't know when to expect a reply. People who want immediate help will send email and then walk over and interrupt after a few minutes anyway.

Email is a communication channel. I'm not looking for a communication channel, I'm looking for a scheduler & queue for micro-meetings.

Email could work, of course, if the company sets up rules & expectation. If people knew they were required to send email before interrupting someone, and if people could count on a reply within an hour for anything, then email might be adequate, but as it stands, we already have email and we still have an interruption problem, so it's clearly not solving the problem.
Battery life's something that I only rarely have to think about. All of my development has always been somewhere with convenient power. It irks me when the CPU's churning along on a process that should be near-idle, though.

> I said "unintentionally" as a hedge for corner cases like VMs where you are likely aware of the limits.

I was aware of the limited memory of the VM, but almost everything I run there is a text-mode application, so it usually doesn't matter. Honestly, I thought that Slack would fit easily in the free memory, but I'm logged into 3 teams, so it ate more than I expected. And it's a spinning rust drive; swapping sucks, and it slows down the host OS at the same time.

It's an avoidable situation; just run Slack under the host's Windows, instead of in the Linux VM. But it remains the case, in my uses, that memory has caused more issues than CPU, and that CPU has caused more issues than battery drain. I don't know why everyone else focuses on memory so much...I perceive my own issues as kind of a corner case.
> "like a sphere without edges"

That's a strange analogy. I would think of an infinite cube but then I guess I'm thinking in cartesian space. :)
Daylight hours and first-vs-second language communication differences aren't going anywhere anytime soon. These things don't affect all types of work equally, which is something useful to think about when deciding what to focus on.
Also, using technologies I ended up hating and/or experiencing the limits/downsides of is what compelled me into new, wildly different ones.

I think stagnating is the danger, not learning the "wrong" things. The latter is an important part of gaining perspective.
Funny this should come up today. Just last night I was wondering why we don't have better technology for learning how to turn heat into electricity.
I've never heard of Ejecta, thanks for the heads up. I wonder if an Android analog exists?
My little brother died of a GBM about 3 years ago. The research I did at the time indicated that there are essentially no known predictors of GBMs; there appears to be a very slight correlation with being white, male, and ~30-50, all which matched for him.
Yes, and I'm planning to take off for ~6 months next year to do just that. I should be able to set aside enough this year to fund that trip.
This also applies to almost every single gangster movie. "Scarface" being really the case study.

I believe it is mostly due to the last scene of these movies where the hero dies in some crazy action scene. Lot of adrenaline, and it looks so "cool" on screen that you can't help thinking "wow this guy was awesome!".

One movie that dealt with that really well was "Goodfellas". During the 2nd part of the movie, the downfall is filmed in a very slow, almost boring manner. And the end is boring as f*ck, specifically to avoid this pitfall of glorifying the "hero".
> Aerodynamics are aerodynamics

How is this at all true? So you're saying to reach,say, a certain coefficient of drag, there's only one design?
> Have you thought about just recording yourself talking with a few friends for hours and hours about it and uploading online (e.g. Youtube)?

Although the topic is very interesting, I fear that this might result in rambling, and a low density of information for the listener.
> According to Hawking's "no-boundary proposal," before the Big Bang, when the entire universe was compressed into a single, infinitely small point, there was no directional time as we experience it. Time was a closed, boundary-free thing, like a sphere without edges. ...

> Scientists later determined that this proposal implied something strange: that the multiverse is infinite, with endless, uncountable parallel universes existing alongside our own....

This is the first time I'd heard of that proposal. It rings true to me (I know—naturalness is another word for the truthiness fallacy) in the sense that the outer reality needs to transcend time and therefore—if our universe is time-bound—contain infinite time-bound sub-universes whose origination and final fate are not externally bound by time. Or perhaps the "no-boundary proposal" is just a succinct way of saying that!

> That wild situation presented a number of problems for science, most significantly that it rendered most basic scientific ideas about the multiverse impossible to test. ...

> "Hawking was not satisfied with this state of affairs," Hertog told Live Science in March. "'Let's try to tame the multiverse,' he told me a year ago. So, we set out to develop a method to transform the idea of a multiverse into a coherent, testable scientific framework."

This reminds me of Einstein's discomfort with true unpredictability—"God does not play dice"—how he helped lay the foundations for quantum mechanics but never fully accepted it himself because it was too weird (as I understand it—I'm a rather poor historian).

> Hawking's final paper suggests a framework for understanding the universe that would render the multiverse finite, countable and subject to meaningfully engagement via the tools of science.
> We can make that fast by letting the OS / libc batch write transactions.

That's not the problem. (OSes already do this.) The problem is one of locality. (Data writes are spread out among many parts of the disk, causing many writes to be issued for any given transaction.) You get around this by (1) logging to a journal, then (2) batching many seconds worth of writes in the hopes that they touch fewer blocks than the sum of their parts (or, in the case of rotary media, that they can be ordered efficiently). You can't just "wait" for this to happen before responding to the client unless you like 5+ second service times.

Which brings us back to the necessity of a journal, which, as I already stated, must be managed by the application because different applications require different features and control which the filesystem doesn't (and likely can't) expose.
I'm sure he's not exceptional at all ;)
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My student loans will be paid off within the next couple months. I have no other debt.
A majority of blacks in America can't swim suprisingly. There was a really great story on the BBC for it: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-11172054
Is there really much evidence that the majority of Airbnb properties would otherwise be traditional "12 month lease" rental apartments if it were not for Airbnb.

I mean, I'm sure there are a few, but if I'm a landlord, why would I give up having a stable tenant paying market rate rent for 12 months at a time for essentially managing a hotel room?

Sure, the 'rent per day' is going to be a lot better with the hotel room model, but it seems like an entirely different business to manage say 30-100 property rentals per year rather than 1.

People have always subletted their apartments when they are out of town -- I'm guessing a lot of the Airbnb rentals are just those traditional sublets showing up in an easy to quantify form.

I'm open minded to the possibility I'm wrong -- I don't have the data on the history of the properties showing up on Airbnb -- but it seems like the profile for the landlord/apartment that ends up on Airbnb is a bit different from the ones that show up on StreetEasy with 12 month leases.
You missed my point. It is trivial to find out what the magic number is. What is more important though: How exactly is the magic number matched? From what you have written, one might be tempted to simply check whether a file begins with this magic number. And this would be wrong. If you take a look at the matching in CPP/7zip/Archive/Rar/RarHandler.cpp:

Byte marker[NHeader::kMarkerSize];
RINOK(ReadStream_FALSE(stream, marker, NHeader::kMarkerSize));
if (memcmp(marker, kMarker, NHeader::kMarkerSize) == 0)
m_Position += NHeader::kMarkerSize;
else
{
if (searchHeaderSizeLimit && *searchHeaderSizeLimit == 0)
return S_FALSE;
RINOK(stream->Seek(m_StreamStartPosition, STREAM_SEEK_SET, NULL));
RINOK(FindSignatureInStream(stream, kMarker, NHeader::kMarkerSize,
searchHeaderSizeLimit, arcStartPos));
m_Position = arcStartPos + NHeader::kMarkerSize;
RINOK(stream->Seek(m_Position, STREAM_SEEK_SET, NULL));
}

7-Zip finds the magic number if it appears within some searchHeaderSizeLimit, i.e., the file does not need to start (at offset 0) with the magic number. For example, 7-Zip will extract a RAR file which begins with [00 52 61 72 21 1A 07 00] (instead of [52 61 72 21 1A 07 00]) just fine.
Smart cards are awesome, but you are really constrained by what the US DoD does, as they are the biggest market.

We chose to go another way because you still need another MFA for many use cases.
Just one Nvidia breakthrough? Just one algorithm? Capsule? No. GANs? No. Alphazero? No. What? Why no papers excepted at NIPS?

I doubt we will see deaths with Waymo any time soon. But yes with Tesla and the others. Google has 20k cars on order for 2020. Google does it without a safety driver and no one else close. Nvidia even gave up with the real road and now copying Google in creating a virtual world.

Does not seem like you even understand what TF is?

Ironically investor in Nvidia and Google. Google since their IPO. Well not in the IPO but open market at the time of the IPO. Google will do better than Nvidia long term but there will be scraps for Nvidia so wanted a position.

Plus you will get create price action with Nvidia because of hype but have to watch it and know when to get out. Think safe for a couple of years.

Problem is Nvidia does not do the entire stack. AI you MUST do the entire stack.

But the other problem is Google has a vision of creating the singularity. I do not think Nvidia has a similar vision.
That's true but I'm also curious about what we would wind-up with with in-memory processors.

Is it possible that the now-defunct Micron Automaton Processor would be an example of the kind of model one would wind-up with?

It is still supposedly being studies here:

https://engineering.virginia.edu/center-automata-processing-...
Who is going to fire Zuck, then?
No.

It's like handling mail to abuse@<domain>. You sort of have to do it, but noone forces you to have different employees handle mail to abuse@<each domain>, or to have people in different countries do it. The people who force you to handle abuse@<domain> may or may not have the power to make you do it, which is another similar aspect.

What you can not do is answer the phone and say "uh, I'm not sure who's in charge of that... let me put you on hold..."
$68 a month is easily 5% of income afters taxes for many people. In a country where we already spend an absurdly high percentage of our income on rent, this doesn't seem trivial.
Maybe, but the regression they use to argue this is pretty bonkers...they need to assume that once they control for income, population, education, and employment, the coefficient on the Airbnb share captures the causal effect of Airbnb on prices. But obviously AirBnB share will be correlated with many other things that make a neighborhood nice, which will also be correlated with prices. So this just says that desirable neighborhoods are desirable.
I was wondering how long it would take JS developers to rediscover UIViewControllers/UIViews
Violent crime is down in Chicago: predictive-policing software played a part
da fuck its about crazy consumerism and getting real, and real works. Its exagerated, but nothing of what u say.
How Spotted Helps Companies Make Better Celebrity Endorsement Decisions
Frankly, had I known I would be where I am today by my own whims, I would've majored in something like philosophy, not taken more compsci courses.
I'm in this situation myself and I'm quickly reaching my breaking point.

In one instance, I submitted an "exercise", which I spent ~six hours on, one week ago and haven't heard _anything_ back -- not even a confirmation that the submission was successful. I had been on the fence about following up, but fuck that, I'm going to do it right now. Thanks for the nudge. ;)
I suspect many of these people touting their nearly purchased Lamborghini and the like are actually just renting them.

There was a reddit post where a similar "influencer" described the process of faking the purchase. He would go to a showroom and ask to sit in the vehicle and film it. Most of the time, if the salesperson isn't busy they will let you do this. Sometimes even let you start it if they are nice. This influencer would just then record a conversation in another car about buying and taking delivery etc and dub over the video of him in a show room. Pretty straight forward.
It's because film is a visual medium, and in these movies the protagonist always looks cool. He may be doing terrible things, but he's wearing hip clothes and driving a gorgeous car while he does them. The visual language is all screaming "this guy's great!", and it ends up overwhelming the message the story is trying to tell.

If you want to know what most people will think of a character in a movie, watch the movie with the sound off.
NASA Tests New Nuclear Reactor for Future Space Travelers
Indeed. Both elephants and humpback whales have been proven to possess cultures that passes down the generations in certain populations. I wonder what cultures were lost, and what the social impacts of loosing these cultures are.
> What’s with this obsession of not working for someone else?

> someone selling a particular product.

You answered your own question.
I was hoping, based on the title, that this was going to address the exploding popularity of people starting IG accounts for their huskies and then claiming the animals are part-wolf. This is a real phenomenon with (albeit smaller) consequences.
No, the real reason for the "Hi Phil" and then a pause is much worse. You might sometime in the future have to contact Phil about some detail on the plan to fire "Joe". By sending "Hi Phil" and a pause you give Phil enough time to respond "I'm busy" before you give away to Joe that he is going to be out the door in a couple days after legal finishes the paperwork. Because "Hi Phil" and then a 5 minute pause is standard when this situation happens Joe doesn't think anything of it and so Phil can secretly transfer that least important bit of knowledge without giving anything away.
I wouldn’t be willing to pay even a 3% performance penalty for iproved security on my gaming machine. However, I would be ok with booting in a gaming mode where I might even gain performance because all unnecessary services are switched off (in an extreme version you could imagine some kind of OS hybrid with a windows kernel and a minimal OS layer baked directly onto the game). To avoid negative consequences of this OS being less secure one could ban it from seeing data other than on a special game drive.

I guess this kind of makes the machine start in an Xbox mode, which would make perfect sense.
Because excitement, notoriety, achieving exceptional status - regardless of the specific around it - is wildly different than the average, mediocre, mundane life (relatively speaking).
Could be sea food.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiocarbon_dating#Reservoir_e...
Hahaha. At 30-32 I felt I was getting old.

Looking back I believe the reason was there is a subtle physical slowdown between late 20's early 30's, you are indeed slightly past your physical prime.

Then I hit 40 and felt young again.

But really, one shouldn't feel they are mentally slowing down at 30 or even 39. If that's the case you might need to check environment or what you are doing or some external factors.
Why is data mostly referred to as singular although it is plural?
Volkswagen Cars Vulnerable to Flaws the Company Won't Patch
shlomi-noach linked to https://github.com/github/gh-ost/issues/331 in another comment. That goes into some of the reasons to avoid foreign keys.

At a past job where we had a complex MySQL setup, I set up a slack autoresponse to post "Just say no!" anytime someone mentioned foreign keys. :-)
Looks like we had it only showing to IPs in the Boulder/Denver area, but added HN referrals too. Thanks! https://www.photofeeler.com/jobs#engineer
I think they mean that a room that is unused and not on the market can help you get extra income
While there may be less calls made overall, one thing to consider is that more calls may be being made by mobile phones rather than by landlines, which are increasingly replaced by mobile phones.
Don't 'limit' tourism but yes, don't allow tourists to get price breaks at the expense of residents that rent in a city.

As it stands property owners and tourists are coming out on top. Property owners can now easily make more money renting short term than long term, this raises property prices (because, hey, i can buy that house and make a bunch of money renting it on AirBnB) while also reducing the rental housing stock (because houses that would have been rented to long term renters are now on AirBnB). So now, as a renter, I pay more for rent because I'm competing for fewer houses AND it's going to cost me more money to get into my first house. So I save less money per month because more goes to rent and I have to save up more money to put a down payment down on a house.

Now, sure, how big this effect is is up for debate but I think it's naive to assume it doesn't exist. I expect cities with housing crises that also don't rely too heavily on tourist revenue to start regulating short term rentals aggressively to combat this effect (this has already happened in many places).

Sure, if you're a tourist town and most properties are second/vacation homes then this is less of an issue but in growing cities where renters are already barely getting by this is going to continue coming to a head. Alas, homeowners are more likely to get out and vote and have more directly measurable skin in the game vs a renter who might be more transient and less aware of the effects that are conspiring to squeeze them out.
> Is proving the existence of the multiverse possible?

I remember reading somewhere an argument that universes could interact in a fashion not unlike bubbles in foam and perhaps we can measure the amount by which our particular universe is being "squished" by the surrounding universes.

But on another note, I would like to call Kant to the debate. Kant argued that humanity will never arrive at any useful understanding of universal origin (or even microscopic/macroscopic limits) because it is beyond our mental tools of comprehension. Science does attempt to bridge that gap, however how much can it help if our initial assertions require using subjective reason?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kant%27s_antinomies
Pascal's mugging is simple failure to recognize probabilities can be and grow arbitrarily small. If a mugger paying you 4,000 dollars is less than half as likely as them paying you 2,000 dollars and you repeat that as the numbers grow then there is no inflection point.