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There's a lot of emphasis on bad behavior from Airbnb guests, but I think that's only part of it. Another big issue is that formerly residential communities often resist the conversion of housing that used to host neighbors (and especially kids) into short term tourist rentals. The pressure, and controversy, is especially intense in areas that are largely residential but immensely popular with tourists. The French quarter of New Orleans, the left bank of Paris, many neighborhoods in San Francisco and New York, places like that.

The problem is that "spare" bedrooms (as Airbnb likes to call them) are far more lucrative used as short term tourist rentals than as a living space for kids, who cost a bundle and don't generally pay much in rent. The pitch Airbnb makes is that people have a spare bedroom lying' around and why not rent it out? But the thing is, people start to acquire properties with spare bedrooms for the purpose of having one to rent out - or entire housing units. When this proceeds apace, former communities - which in places like the French quarter are already primed to protect themselves from too much conversion into tourism stock - come to see Airbnb as an existential threat.

Even if the Airbnb guests are well behaved, this fundamental difference won't go away. Think of it this way: some people would like to trade their right to run a hotel out of their house in exchange for a legally enforced expectation that their neighbors won't either. That means severely restricting Airbnb.
> It's a misleading, but technically accurate marketing point for breeders

That's the point, it's not technically accurate. A breeder makes more fissile material than it consumes. Fissile material is the fuel in light water reactors, but breeders use a different, more abundant fuel. I know that, you know that, and we both know that we both know that. But inaccuracies like this lead to the likes of Helen Caldicott dismissing the whole technology with a sneer such as "a breeder that magically makes more fuel than it consumes".

> trace amounts of uranium, it's nowhere near 13 ppm

It's about 13ppm uranium and thorium, in fact about 10ppm thorium and 2-4ppm uranium. And while energyfromthorium doesn't state these numbers explicitly, it clearly uses them in the energy density calculations.

> does not mean each every and every chunk of earth contains exactly that distribution

So "burning the rocks" will never work, because there are a few rocks that don't burn? It works even better, because some rocks burn better, e.g. Conway Granites at 56ppm thorium.
I think everyone has called their bank or cable company at least once or twice and found themselves lost in a Kafkaesque loop of not being able to get done what they needed and have subconsciously written 'bots' off as incapable of helping them perform a task, and/or an executive excuse to put tens of thousands of call center employees out of work. Just because it's on a website and the dialpad is replaced with words doesn't mean it's different.

Whether or not anyone wants to admit it, the whole "talking to robots" thing... I mean, the world is already empty and lonely enough without adding another layer of "inexorability" to the processes we engage in, in order to accomplish pretty basic tasks.
Were they ever hosted on GitHub?
But some (like Gitea) are working on it to start hosting it on their own. Gitea will also get federation features to make contributions between independent Gitea instances possible.

But even when it starts to host, it will get GitHub OAuth2, just to keep the barrier small to receive contributions.
This happens way too often. I wish I knew why systems ended up like this. Seems to be a business opportunity to fix them once and for all. This is 2018, we can do better
... and most make decisions in a space where (local) zero-sum games mean there is no option available that uniformly helps or harms.
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>So does contraception, yet we don't consider people using it mentally ill.

I don't think contraception and suicide are in any way comparable. Taking a contraceptive enables to continue having sex, which is perfectly natural, without becoming pregnant. Yes, the fact that you won't become pregnant is "unnatural", but it is used so you can continue to experience a natural part of life with less risk. Suicide, on the other hand, does not have a similar risk/reward, response, or permanence. I could take a birth control pill knowing that I would still be able have a child in the future, and without an extreme response mentally or physically. However, if you point a loaded gun at yourself most people will automatically have an intense response that may include anxiety, fight or flight, fear, and self preservation. I understand the point you're trying to make, and I agree to some extent, but I disagree with that example as a counterpoint to protonimitate's comment
> start of pre-clinical trials.

Means it's still at 10 years away from commercialization, if everything goes fine. in pre-clinical they may find adverse events that kill the drug early. Like most experimental drugs.
> Uber, Lyft and co. would never have grown globally at such an astronomical rate (and eaten the taxi branch its lunch) if there wasn't a large demand for a 'clean' taxi experience

In my country the main selling points of the pirate-taxis (and they have been judged that by the courts) was a fare half the price.

They do that by skimping on things that real taxis need (by law), for example customer insurance (private insurances don't cover passengers, if they paid anything to drive with you), professional level drivers licenses, multiple yearly DMV checkups, sick pay to the drivers, maximum daily driving hours, taxes etc.. ...

We know for a fact (due to the court ordering Uber to give the data to them) that the biggest Uber earner in in Denmark took home just shy of 590 thousand dkk (93k USD) in a year. A real taxi needs to have revenue like that in a quarter to have any chance to survive...

I drive 50+ trips per year (mostly in Copenhagen, but also a few in other european cities) and sans 1 (one) slightly bad experience in the 5+ years, I don't see how the Ubers are better (other than cheaper). I took around 20 uber-rides until I went back to the taxis...

I do welcome the kick in the butt, that Uber gave the taxis, as multiple new taxi concepts have risen (all real, legal taxis btw).
They still do! Probably wouldn't work as well for classified Gov info but it still happens.

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/03/insider/the-time-i-found-...
If you're about to argue that there wouldn't be business cycles or depressions if we managed to overthrow capitalism, I don't think people are going to disagree with you lol
The GC code isn't _that_ big. It's because AOT compilers tend to turn each assembly/package into a single code object for linking, instead of a library of objects that can be filtered to just the code needed.
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Tcl has so many amazing ideas. I just wish it had higher adoption and everything about it wouldn't feel so... old. Look at the wiki for example. It should really be an actual wiki à la Wikipedia not some sort of strange Wikipedia discussion page masquerading as documentation.
Not harder, smarter.
Any site that cares about SEO should definitely use one.
I confirm your suspicions.

People have been appending ZIP archives to executables, in order to hold non-code resources, for time out of mind. The appendvfs extension makes the same thing possible for SQLite databases. An SQLite database has advantages over a ZIP archive in that SQLite supports a far richer data model, is far faster for random access, and has a query language. Both ZIP and SQLite are well-defined and very widely deployed formats. Many developers are more familiar with ZIP, but there are more than 1 trillion SQLite database files in circulation, and SQLite is a recommended storage format according to the US Library of Congress (https://www.sqlite.org/locrsf.html) so SQLite should not be dismissed as being too unfamiliar.

Example use cases:

(1) We have experimented with (but not published) putting all the SQLite documentation into an SQLite database and appending it to a special webserver app. Download the "EXE" and double-click on it and the SQLite docs automatically pop up in your web browser. This is better than a pile-of-HTML-files in that it can use server-side computing for things like the "Search".

(2) Not yet published or documented, but you can do "make sqltclsh" from the SQLite source tarball and generate a TCL interpreter with SQLite built in. If you also append an SQLite database to this interpreter, it reads its scripts from the database. Use this to build stand-alone Tcl/Tk/SQLite applications.

(3) By 3rd-party user request: the Fossil version control system allows a Fossil repository (which is just an SQLite database) to the end of the "fossil.exe" binary. This is being used (I am told) to provide a rich package of read-only but versioned content to non-technical users. The non-techies just put the "document.exe" file on there windows desktop and double-click, and a webserver pops up showing the reports they need, with complete historical versioning provided by Fossil.
Remember that economists have predicted 15 of the last 7 recessions. Hold on to your hats.
No. I was referring to the difference between China and the U.S. WW2 is a good point to look at how the two world powers grew to be very different(I intrepid what you were saying was that they are the same) you know the whole 1949 communist thing, cold war into the Korean war, the U.S. having nukes and having just dropped then five years before could do it again but did not. I think that shows something not to negate some of the very horrible things that were done. If we move forward we get to 1989, Tiananmen Square. I'm just saying the two are different and enjoy a mostly open and free internet.
Strategic government investment in industry is not “socialism”, even by the warped standards of modern American political discourse.
And the US government cut funding--which of course made the numbers make even less sense.
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CDN's also ruin HTTPS security.

As a domain owner, you have to give your HTTPS private keys, and all your users private data (authentication cookies, passwords, etc.) to your CDN, or you have to do a lot of careful dividing up the "static" resources from the dynamic stuff on different domains, serving them with different certs.

As a web user, some CDN's like cloudflare offer 'HTTPS', but with plain HTTP as the backhaul to the origin server. That tricks the user into thinking their connection is secure, which is, IMO, immoral.
In other words: they were never a thing. They were a media-driven and fad-investor-driven hype wave. They never should have been a thing. Good riddance.
I am no expert, but I would avoid super hot water onto your head and try not to wear hats, tug on your hair, or otherwise encourage the hairs to fall out. Also, stay fit and potentially cultivate facial hair: both of these will help balance out the receding hairline.
The Fed has been used as a stop gap to fix incompetent/malicious policies driven by political actors. The reality is that central banks can only do so much, and Congress and others are leading the nation off a cliff to pursue short term political goals.

Beating the other team in the short term is seen as more important than the long term health of the nation. You can see this play out in the tax cut, deficit spending and many other examples.

> Who cares if the world explodes in 6 years? I need to be reelected in 2.
> And you seem to be arguing that this is a good thing? Surely any company (filled with people) should be free to work on whatever technologies that those people feel is ethically right.

I'm arguing that it's not a cut-and-dry thing. Clearly it's susceptible to abuse, but on the other hand it is vital to the long-term security interests of the United States. In any case, there is more accountability than Google or Cisco 'self-regulating' themselves. These companies can't massively leverage military research and then turn back and say they have no obligation whatsoever. They can choose to do no business with the federal government, but that's clearly not the case. In fact, the opposite is true.
This is always annoying because the only reason I would ever call is if I've exhaustively tried every way to use the website and encountered some sort of roadblock/edge case where they tell you to call in.
Ask HN: Any creative technologists?
What does "creative technologist" mean to you? I think of it as creatively applying technology, in or out of a screen, to create delightful experiences for people.

What are your favorite creative technogist conferences/meetups? Are there any?

If you don't know of any, would you be interested in one? What would you want to learn and/or experience?
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Not only understood, but widely accepted as the grammatically correct general reference gender. English isn’t the only language to do this.
I have a hypothesis about this based on personal experience.

For creative people with an audience, there's this expectation from the audience that every thing you release to the world will be as good or better than what you did before, and that you will produce this brilliance on a reasonably consistent schedule. Any slip in quality (say, from experimenting with something new) or any delay in delivery, and the toxic parts of your audience will hurl their bile. You're labeled a burnout, or you're losing your edge. The people who didn't like your work in the first place openly relish your stumble.

Some creatives like to pretend that these critiques don't sting, and maybe some fortunate souls truly are immune. But it's human nature to build our self-image based on feedback from others, and a good self image can be essential for survival.

I feel like some creatives such as Bourdain try to meet the demands of the public, and keep upping their game and pushing, but that can't go on forever. Exhaustion, harsh self-criticism, and a sense of responsibility to one's audience combine into a caustic soup, and it shrivels the soul. One is expected to be increasingly brilliant even as one's energy diminishes to the effects of burnout. Quitting will just invite more cries of "failure!" It's unsustainable, and sometimes the part that breaks is the willingness to continue to bear it.

To any creative people suffering from this cycle, I think the best remedy is to make a "temporary" lateral move if you can. Move out of the spotlight and lend your skill to up-and-comers for a while. It's hard to get mad at that. And there's an odd comfort in knowing that you never have to go back, but the option is there when/if you're ready.
>Suicide is about giving up. There can be a number of reasons for throwing the towel in.

This is one of the most accurate depictions of suicide that I've heard:

“The so-called ‘psychotically depressed’ person who tries to kill herself doesn’t do so out of quote ‘hopelessness’ or any abstract conviction that life’s assets and debits do not square. And surely not because death seems suddenly appealing. The person in whom Its invisible agony reaches a certain unendurable level will kill herself the same way a trapped person will eventually jump from the window of a burning high-rise. Make no mistake about people who leap from burning windows. Their terror of falling from a great height is still just as great as it would be for you or me standing speculatively at the same window just checking out the view; i.e. the fear of falling remains a constant. The variable here is the other terror, the fire’s flames: when the flames get close enough, falling to death becomes the slightly less terrible of two terrors. It’s not desiring the fall; it’s terror of the flames. And yet nobody down on the sidewalk, looking up and yelling ‘Don’t!’ and ‘Hang on!’, can understand the jump. Not really. You’d have to have personally been trapped and felt flames to really understand a terror way beyond falling.”

-David Foster Wallace
>your sixteen year old self to write shitty JS code

Lol. JS didn't exist when I was 16, but way to miss the point! Ask your mom how many people knew anything about the computers in the 70s and 80s. It was a very small group of mainly ostracized kids. They certainly weren't doing it to get rich.
> For a lot of guys, the slow progression of baldness is a source of anxiety,

Bald is fine. Full head of hair is fine. IMO, the only problem comes in when people are hanging on to hair when they should really just let go.

I had really long hair in my late teens, early 20s. I noticed it start to go in my 30s and once it hit that point, I just started trimming it super short. Does anyone really care anymore or is this just some thing made up by the media now?

And a bit of tangent to your point, if someone is worried about attractiveness, hitting the gym will do way more for that than grasping on to hair.
I should hope so, since I'm one. We own two apartments which we rent out, one of them on AirBnB, and handling the reservations, receiving the guests, giving them tips on how to navigate the city, constantly cleaning and replacing linen, etc, is way more time consuming than the occasional maintenance we do on the other apt, which is rented long-term.

Why? What am I missing?
Sure, by not accessing the members through the union type you lose the information the compiler needs to relax strict aliasing assumptions for union access. It's a potential footgun, but IMO only with careful aiming. It's also not strictly related to union member pointers but applies generally to aliased pointers.
Far superior in what way?
What's wrong with inflation?
It seems like it's a pattern to ensure security and discourage people from calling.
Here you go. It's in the label of the drugs these days.

https://www.aafp.org/news/health-of-the-public/20120418finas...
We did interview several strong female candidates. One we really wanted but she ended up taking a different job closer to her home. (We're in LA/OC and she would have been forced to take the 55. There is a "one does not simply 'take' the 55" meme about the 55.)

We did not seek any specific racial or gender outcome. We ended up with an all white male team by taking a small sample from a pool of ~75% white male candidates (with the remainder being largely asian males). The odds are strongly in favor of that outcome even if all else is equal.

The only point of me posting to this thread was to agree that this issue is not primarily the fault of hiring managers, or at least it isn't in most cases. Like most social issues I think this one is complex and has multiple causes. For blacks we have: multi-generational impoverishment due to past red-lining and similar policies sabotaging intergenerational wealth accumulation, poor schools in many black neighborhoods, and a culture in the black community that does not prize intellectualism. Obama helped the latter a bit by virtue of his mere existence in such a position.
Were they not all hype jumping before, as you say?
> It's baked into evolution and sexual selection.

Human attraction is way more complicated than this
I don't believe that you've had to argue this far to defend your point. Treating others as you would like to be treated is the golden rule of society.

When I play games like Rocket League, a game where you depend on your teammates, I rarely say anything if people play badly. Others will say things to me if I play badly and that sometimes makes me play even worse depending on my mood. Sometimes I play worse because they actually made me care less and sometimes I play worse on purpose because they were a real asshole and they deserve a loss.

It's pretty obvious that antagonizing and disparaging your teammates is generally a bad plan anywhere.
Has the team done much since they raised $250 million? I've only seen one or two releases since, and the commit graph looks very slow. It's been a while since I checked, though, I might be out of the loop.
You do realise they are talking about static sites with no user private data?
Robert Cialdini talks about this in his book "Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion."
I think its 20 on the way with some more options. regardless of the economics the a380 is best in class in economy for Joe public since the densification program of the 777 started some years ago - Qatar used to be great in 9 across - 10 sucks, and the change to 3/3/3 on 787 vs initial guidelines of 2/4/2 which only JAL stuck to. Unless invested, or a 26" waist, or flying biz, one should be wishing a future success of a380. Economy sucks but a380 makes it bearable
> If you want to make money, write PHP.

Eh, if we're strictly speaking about making money, then Java is the way to go. It'll open up your career opportunities much farther than PHP.
Absolutely, before you had to do some check like:

if(null === $data = json_decode($json)) throw new Exception();
> When you stop, things go back to normal

Not always. Constant loss of sex drive has been reported to occur even after stopping the treatment, and it's part of the drug label these days.
I agree but really only to a certain extent. Coaxing out of humans what thier actual issue is, is more of an art than a science. IMHO and from antecdotal experience this problem seems easier to automate than I think it really is which is why I don’t personally think anyone is crushing it in this space.
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Not really. Apple had no limit on the number of times that you could input a password incorrectly. They brute forced it. That's on Apple.
So why not call the police?
UCD vs. UX: What’s the difference?
The same reason that drug addicts who have been sober for long periods of time regularly relapse. Many people have more than one moment of weakness or crisis in their lives
This is true, but how could a CDN possibly cache a response without access to it? Unfortunately it seems to be a necessity.
We've had a better alternative to "chatbots" for a long time, it's called a command line.

All of this obsession over "natural language processing" is annoying to me.

I have a Google home, and it can't do even the most basic things and struggles to understand whenever I tell it to do something.

It would be nice if I could just talk to my Google home as if it was a command line, with very explicit and specific commands that do powerful things. "Google take a note. Do the laundry." "Google play spotify on the living room speaker" etc. Instead the interface is an unhelpful mess that doesn't know how to help me get it to do what I want.

I feel that it is the same with chatbots. Stop trying to process natural language, and give me a command prompt with good documentation and user on-boarding.
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You can tell people that their identity is killing them, and it might actually be true. But most people tend to think of losing their identity as functionally equivalent to not only their death, but also the deaths of everyone they hold dear.

It's not something you can prize people away from readily.
Good point. Is the target still 90 seconds to evacuate the entire aircraft?

I can see how with the central compartments it could be more difficult to meet that sort of time constraint. It'll be interesting to follow how the engineers seek to create a design for evacuating in time.