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The biggest difficulty here is enforcement. You can create laws based around how frequently a residence is rented or whether it's the full residence rented or merely part of the residence but then you need to actually enforce those laws. Is enforcement based around income taxes from the renter? Or reporting from Airbnb itself of what's available on the site? Do local governments have to setup a small team or even an entire agency to watch this stuff? Cities need to budget for this enforcement. This stuff is hard.

Even if every popular tourist city immediately passed legislation to limit Airbnb practices it could be years or decades before they figure out the details of making that policy into reality.
Wait, how would this solve ANY of the problems mentioned in the article? Most of the issues they talked about were simply caused by having a bunch of tourists living with the people (in fact, 'over tourism' was one of the mentioned problems, along with harassment and loudness from guests).

Building more places for these tourists to stay isn't going to solve the problem of having too many tourists in a city.
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I'll preface this by saying that I don't have that much C or C++ experience. Now on to the topic of debugging em:

I'd suggest trying out lldb [0] as an alternative to gdb. In general it has more sensible commands [1] and it can be scripted with python.

If you're willing to pay, CLion [2] is amazing and it includes an interactive debugger [3] which, IMO, completely blows away these CLI tools.

[0] https://lldb.llvm.org/index.html

[1] https://lldb.llvm.org/lldb-gdb.html

[2] https://www.jetbrains.com/clion/

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wUZyoAnPdCY
> We would not need affirmative action if every school district in America recieved proper funding to support teachers and enable smaller class sizes, test prep for students to take specialized exams, and after school extracurriculars, both academic and non-academic to prepare them for college.

That doesn't change the economic conditions of the student's home life.
I'm with you. It's awesome that we're doing this and I think it will be good for future generations.

Long term infrastructure investments take a long time, and it's weird to me to think that we might not even be around to enjoy the benefit, but needing to be done is needing to be done. I think this is exactly the kind of change in thinking we need, that we should take on such efforts, even if they take a long time, now.

However, I also concur, I wish we could be even more aggressive. It would be interesting to know if there is a staggered approach and if those dates are sooner (didn't RTFA... to be honest, maybe it was in there). Maybe we'll be 65% electric by 2035 or something, that would still be pretty great, right?
I think we should bypass the solution of Affirmative Action and really work on the fundamental issues of America which lead to solutions like Affirmative Action. In my ideal world AA would not exist because it would not be necessary. So by principle you can call me anti-Affirmative Action.

I do think however it would be interesting for elite colleges to allocate a percentage of freshman / graduate admissions to "experiment" on bringing in students who may fall outside the criteria they use to evaluate most candidates. I think you could learn a lot from that kind of experimentation.
"Disruptive" - It's a term that used to describe an annoying school child, but now all of the startup junkies use it to push their grandiose ideas that they claim will upend major industries.
> and have changed my mind.

> I hope not.

Care to explain why you have changed your mind?
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Kids and languages aren't a reasonable comparison. None of us are born with children, but we are all born with language (of a sort, and yes I understand that opens the door to debate). On the topic of kids, going from 2 to 3 is significantly harder than going from 0-1 or 1-2, so much so that I'd say it was an unspoken factor in my divorce.

Without providing any hard research to back my thoughts, I'd also surmise that it is difficult to transfer this onto the difficulty of learning a language. My thinking on this is that if for example you are learning another language within the same family, that is a different level of difficulty than learning a language in a new-to-you language family. As a German speaker, there are other Germanic languages that look very familiar to me, where I could take a reasonable guess at the meaning. On the other hand if I were to learn Mandarin or Russian, it would be a significantly larger task.
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That isn't unheard-of. Tort law, for instance, has something of that flavor. You might respond that we're talking about different time periods. However, that ignores present reality. Right now, minorities face systematized injustice in numerous important ways.
Yeah, you showed us yesterday already:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17863814
Just having a meal in Norway blew up my travel budget ;)
Put together by a wonderful former co-worker of mine and absolutely priceless.
Residents get preferential price treatment to visitors because they provide societal stability. It's the same reason why state residents get preferential tuition pricing to out of state residents.

You give discounted state tuition because you don't want a state full of low-skilled dummies. You give residents an edge over tourists so you don't have a shortage of people to put out fires, cook food and remove garbage.

It's not hard.
I wouldn't go that far. There is really nothing wrong with offering fulfillment services.

The comingling of products in the binning process isn't good, though.
I think the problem lies with SATs/GREs/GMATs. The tests (especially SAT, GRE) are ludicrously simple. I'm your run of the mill IIT-an and placed 98th and 99th percentile without breaking a sweat in the GRE when it came time for grad school. I think I maxed 2 of the 3 sections and was 98th percentile in both. What's the point of a test like that? Thousands of people max/get to the highest percentile and it becomes useless as a variable.
Why not follow the model of the JEE exam instead of the SAT (a different variant of the exam for each specialization). If the exam is harder, the distribution of students is more spread out. You can rank them nationwide.
Not being a jerk, I'm honestly curious why people like middle school math problems in a grad school exam?
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Windows is a platform I very seldom use. I had a few hour debugging job, so not worth installing the dev tools. I could just use the tools I always do.
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Levy taxes on the rentals.
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I believe ever since we had the rolling blackouts in the early 2000's we've been purchasing more and more energy from power plants in Utah, as regulation in the state makes it difficult to build new ones.
Which isn't related to cancer death rates, which is the proportion of people who die from cancer out of the population of people that have cancer.
Do you know what is Ad Hominem argument?

For the record I don't manage people, that was a parable.
Yeah, I'm an AirBnB customer as well and I use it mostly for business travel because affordable hotels are usually located in the crappy parts of town, have nothing around them, and are generally not comfortable. In contrast I can book an AirBnB at 1 to 2 star rates and get a place that's within walking distance of coffee shops and running trails and stuff to do when I'm not working.

I generally don't stumble home drunk at 3 AM, but I sympathize with the neighbors of people who do.
Its just the discriminate is a loaded word now, but it just means to differentiate, which is perfectly ok to do.

Like by IQ, achievements, attitude, etc.
With tools like these or ripgrep it is useful to know whether the authors try to replace the old tool or not. This is usually stated somewhere in their readme or faq.

If they choose to approach some problems with different semantics, I would not recommend to alias the new tool over the old one. Just treat it as a like a separate tool and in most cases their new names are as comfortable to type as the 'legacy' tool's. The one exception that comes to my mind is 'exa' vs. 'ls'. Typing 'ls' is a single action for both hands while 'exa' has to be typed with the left hand alone (on QWERTY/Z layouts).
Can anyone comment on their "zero touch is safe" claim (https://krypt.co/faq/)? As far as I understand, tokens like YubiKeys require a touch as an explicit action by the user to prevent authentication without their knowledge. Doesn't a zero touch approach remove a security feature?
Google should not have tried to screw Sun, they still had the option to buy Sun and choose not to.
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It's true that there's a difference between discrimination and racism. Racism is under the surface and hard to quantify, but it's a real thing that affects people. Discrimination is more obvious and in your face.
Being fully conscious of privilege issues here... your comment sounds like Outrage Addiction to me.

Yes, aware of problems with vote access. But those problems are fundamentally legislative, and won't be solved by treating the symptoms. Go to a state with sensible voting laws (my beloved Minnesota), and the system is immune, thanks to same day registration and provisional ballots. Even a concerted purge effort would crash against the well-designed system. These short-term election issues are a product of fundamentally bad design. Focus on fixing the design, not "protest".

Moreover - and speaking of privileged perspective - there is nothing that says you can't pay attention to the news and read novels, memoirs, self-help books, and of course the classics. There is no plausible political situation where you can't squeeze an hour a day off your Twitter feed in order to spend it reading, say, American Nations, or The Cooking Gene, and learn some of the historical roots behind the news that's ruining your blood pressure today.

There's a real distinction between urgent and important. I can recommend multiple good books on exactly that.
Especially since the alumni interviewers who actually meet the candidates give Asian candidates basically the same marks for personality as White candidates.
It's more about the memory layout than where the objects live. For example, consider a Point class with (x, y) members.

If you have an array of these, each element in the array will be a reference/pointer to a separately allocated Point instance which can be anywhere in the heap. Accessing the array is expensive due to lack of locality (arbitrary memory access). Additionally, each instance has substantial object overhead (typically 8 or 16 bytes).

There are various ways to deal with this. One way is to have separate arrays for x and y. Another way is to use a byte array and use Unsafe to read/write the integers. This is terrible from a developer standpoint and is only acceptable if it is a small part of your application.

Value types solve this by giving you an efficient memory layout while still allowing you to code against them as normal. The slogan is "codes like a class, works like an int".
You don't think tourists pay a ton in taxes? I live in one of these cities and there are a ton of taxes that are geared towards tourists. In many way locals benefit with lower taxes because of all of the tourist income.
On their FAQ page they state that their app is 'public source'. I assume that is so you (or presumably your organization) can audit (rather than debug) it if necessary.

I've not tried it, but they also suggest you can compile your own binaries from that source to get around the untrusted binary problem.
$200K for a gym teacher? Can you share the county/state? I'm amazed at that.
> "Two thousand years ago, Marcus Aurelius wrote in his Meditations, 'Are you distracted by breaking news? Then take some leisure time to learn something good, and stop bouncing around.'"

Probably a minor quibble, as I do agree with the thesis to some degree, but the quote from Marcus Aurelius is utterly false. There is no such quote in Meditations at all[0], though Aurelius is a huge proponent of moving away from external distractions to concentrate on building yourself up.

Indeed, he would probably agree with the article ("make time for yourself to learn something worthwhile; stop letting yourself be pulled in all directions" (Book 2:7)), but would rail against putting in a false statement ("The human soul degrades itself... when it puts on a mask and does or says something artificial or false." (Book 2:16)

[0] http://seinfeld.co/library/meditations.pdf
> We would not need affirmative action if every school district in America recieved proper funding

In the US overall, school funding is negatively correlated with student achievement.

This does not suggest that lack of funding is an obstacle to achievement.
It's unfortunate the US response to climate change is completely localized and basically dependent on blue states. Not saying this is a bad thing but climate change is a huge global issue and requires at least a coordinated national response.
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They can be assumed in high IQ native speakers, though.

These hyperpolyglots are supposed to be high IQ.

If you have a high IQ, but look like a low IQ illiterate in a dozen additional languages, then I'm afraid you're a phonyglot. This is because there are ideas that you can think but cannot say in those non-native languages; and if someone else were to say those things for you, you wouldn't understand what they are saying.
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I am interested in doing a code camp to potentially transition careers.

I live in Boston and work full time here, and I do not plan to quit my job.

What are some good options and do you think this will help me accomplish what I’m hoping to?

I’m hesitant because coding boot camp feels like the new mid-20s crisis thing to do. I don’t want to be in the company of 20+ ppl who are like “I hear engineers make $xyz, I just need to learn how to do it so I can get a job at xyzStartUp”, or essentially believe $10k-$20k on a code camp will buy them a new career.

BACKGROUND:

Visual art major at top lib arts school (grad. 2014) working in content strategy at a marketing technology company. I’ve also been doing design work for ~10 years, mostly print/identity, but no UI experience.

I have completed around 300 freeCodeCamp modules (Basic HTML and CSS, Basic JavaScript) and have familiarity with python as well. I’m fairly comfortable with basic concepts and do a lot of googling to solve specific problems.

GOAL:

I’m interested in a camp because I would like some structure, project based learning, more advanced, career applicable teaching, and most importantly mentorship from someone with professional experience (I don’t always feel I’m learning principles/concepts when I solve a problem with an hour of google searching).

I don’t know for sure that I want to be “a developer”, but I do know that technology will likely be part of my career, and can bring ideas to life.

I’m hoping to come out of a program with the confidence to apply to product positions (PM, UI/UX, Visual Designer) without saying “yeah I have no portfolio of digital projects.”
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> It seems like it's far easier with early exposure to languages. I speak six languages, and don't find languages too difficult, which I attribute largely to having grown up speaking two languages from two different language families, and being exposed to a third one fairly early.

I think it's more along the lines of: Your first/native language isn't a problem, your second language is difficult, and with each beyond that it becomes easier to change how you think to fit the next language. It's just, being exposed young breaks that second-language hurdle early enough you don't really remember it being extra difficult.

I'm not fluent in anything besides English (though know a small bit of Spanish and Japanese), so take that above with a grain of salt. But the difficulty curve seems similar to programing languages, where the more you learn, the more you recognize underlying concepts across languages, making further ones easier to understand.
What's with the standard of doing a full day interview? Who does this work for other than fresh graduates? I don't want to spend a whole day (which I have to request off from my current employer) answering probably-silly technical puzzles as the first round interview (the 25 minute phone call doesn't really count since it sounds like just a pitch).

Does a full day of whiteboarding really get you better candidates than say, a single hour technical interview or 1 or 2 hour homework? I'd rather do half a dozen video chat interviews spread out over a month than give a whole day just for the possibility of a new job. I'd prefer a single technical interview or homework over that by a mile.

If you tell me your interview process is a 25 minute call followed by a whole day of technical interviews, I'll tell you to take a hike.
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the most important thing I've found is the marketing/press around raising itself. particularly if the VC in question is seen as selective and top tier.

that has some nice benefits around getting decent legal counsel, banking, recruiting, etc. everyone treats 'foo ventures' backed companies with more consideration by default.

otherwise..meh..most of the people they are really excited for you to meet (i.e. bring on as VP whatever), aren't that interesting. and while yes, you may get a few forced sales because you share a VC with someone, in some sense thats strictly less valuable than organic growth.

the VC is always going on about how valuable they are going to be to you...the reality is that if you aren't going to fulfill _their_ vision for your company soon enough, they will do everything they can to restructure the company so that someone else can.
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Moreover, they can be used in composite objects without pointer chasing. Suppose class A is a 32-byte value type. Then

class B {
A a1;
A a2;
}

is one continuous 64-byte block of memory. Without value types, each A will be allocated separately on the heap, and B will be a pair of pointers.

Lack of value types makes it hard to get cache efficient memory layouts in Java.
> Consider foveation as well — only a small part of that is truly in “focus”.

Here's an optical illusion which illustrates how surprisingly tiny your fovea's FOV is: https://www.shadertoy.com/view/4dsXzM .
You expect people to give email address and share about the website on linkedn / twitter and facebook without even looking at the product once ?
It would be cool if I could enable js on a per site basis
"Smart people will always pick up what they need in order to succeed university, with or without a previous academic background." is just a reframing of "pull yourself up by your bootstraps" and ignores the entire history of inequality in the US.
I would only count the families. A hyperpolyglot in twelve languages that are from three families only knows three languages with minor variations; it's not the same as a hyperpolyglot who knows twelve deeply unrelated languages.
The SAT, which is the more relevant test for this discussion, was intentionally made easier years ago, so that it would be better suited to measuring the vast majority of USA college applicants. That made it less suited to Harvard's needs, but not as much as one might think. Plenty of Harvard students had less than the maximum SAT scores. Some might prefer that admission be based solely on test scores, but that is not Harvard's preference.
I'd guess Jersey or SoCal.
Sounds like preserving character is the real zero sum problem then.
Why do people think affirmative action is a good idea?

It's not meritocratic. People should be judged based on their skill, not based on their gender, race, or ethnicity. We should be striving for a fair society, not equality of outcome

It's insulting to those minorities, it implies that they can't be smart enough to make it without this kind of leg up, and they will never know the extent to which this played a role in their success even if they're absolutely solid at what they do. And I think there's definitely a negative psychological effect to minorities by doing these kinds of things

If a student gets into a school which is above their skill level or general academic interest, they could burn out and loose interest in a profession that otherwise would've been a good fit for them. A similar lack of motivation can also happen for someone who can only get into a school that's below their true skill level because they don't feel that their being valued fairly

It isn't all encompassing -- it's not just gender and race, there are ethnicities that are widely discriminated against and they don't get a similar leg up. I don't think AA should be applied at all, just pointing this out

There are problems in some minority communities struggle with for sure, but this isn't the right way to solve it at all

One of big reasons why asian and jewish communities do better here is just culture -- their cultures highly value intellectual pursuits. I knew an asian guy that went to Harvard and they were so poor they lived in the ghetto, which should've messed up his chances because the public school sucked, but he was raised to highly value academic pursuits. And an asian girl I knew that went to Columbia, her mother told her that if she doesn't achieve academically she won't love her anymore. While harsh, they punish their kids for an A- the way other cultures would view an F. But it's a big reason for their academic success

I also knew a girl that was very rich, but she basically didn't have to pay tuition because of her minority. I'm sorry but that's really annoying for someone that had to take out insane amounts of student debt. There were times when I thought I had to drop out because I couldn't even get approved for a loan, and the interest rates were insanely high

The better solution is to find out why some minorities aren't doing well academically in proportion to others in the first place and change that. If it's financial or cultural or whatever else, the underlying cause should be addressed, not this BS

Relevant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVvnTByzTmA
...only if you can prove that the source code you show them builds the binary that you install, every single time.
> The Economist's weekly brief

Where do I find this? Googling doesn't lead me to what I expect when I hear "weekly brief", so I suspect I'm looking at the wrong thing, which is http://economist.com/briefings.