skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've lived in Airbnbs full-time for about 18 months while traveling, and Airbnb has lost my trust repeatedly in terms of reliability, safety, and user-friendliness.

- Host listing quality has gone consistently downhill. Now, it's many slumlords just trying to make a quick buck rather than support the original community idea or provide a great stay.

- Airbnb support response times are horribly slow. They hide their phone number, then force you to go through a ticketing system for urgent issues. Then, they start assigning you a new "case manager" every few hours as their shifts change, which means the rep never is caught up on the issue. Sometimes, they forget to transfer you to a new rep before ending their shift, which could result in zero responses for days until the rep works again.

- When there is a problem, Airbnb supports the host and makes little to no effort to relocate users. For example, when our unit flooded, among other problems, the feedback was basically "well we can book you into another available unit". The problem was that it was peak Summer in Barcelona, we were there for a long period of time, and the only available units were minimum 5x the price.

- We had an Airbnb burglarized. Again, we waited hours for a response, as a police forensics unit was dusting the unit for fingerprints. We suspect that the host was complicit after realizing that previous tenants were also burglarized. Airbnb's insurance policy covered none of our losses ($10K+ in electronics, jewelry, watches, clothing, etc). We ended up feeling unsafe and canceling the reservation with 3 weeks remaining. As a "courtesy", Airbnb support credited our account for less than the cost of one night at a local replacement unit. Because we accepted the credit, they considered the matter "resolved" and did nothing else.

I've spent $30K+ on Airbnb. It started as a great alternative to hotels. Now, I can no longer recommend it, and I prefer a hotel.
Shkreli was trying to to good, and it was a personal issue, and it was kind of the right thing to do.
Scott Hanselman
I would imagine feature tests for a self-driving car would be everything from testing functionality of the radio to having the car parallel park or back into a parking spot while towing a trailer.
China accounted for nearly half of app downloads in 2018, 40% of consumer spend
Reading through Spotify's docs, I really don't want to put control of my music life in the hands of Spotify's tenuous relationship with the music industry.
Actually... That one works, if certain conditions are met.

They also don't update that fast.

You looked at a hotel in London and a certain hotel is the best revenue generator in the area - for a little bit you're going to see that ad... or maybe you're going to see that ad for a long time, if there are no better options to advertise.
The entire industry seems to prey on the old and weak.
BUT Electron make creating easy for many people and there are some great, yes I said GREAT Electron apps:

Visual Studio Code is amazing. I started using VIM on my Amiga 500. I use VS Code 90% of the time now.

RStudio is and was life changing for programming R

I use Discord everyday and use it as a real time Reddit for many non-gaming communities.
I don't think we'll get a Python 4 in the foreseeable future ([1] goes into more detail, from a core CPython developer's perspective). But that doesn't mean it can't advance, just that everything will be forwards compatible. Think C and C++, or even ECMAScript, for that matter.

[1]: https://opensource.com/life/14/9/why-python-4-wont-be-python...
Intuit (and others, I assume) lobbies strongly against this, and spends a lot of money to prevent this happening.
I agree. Also I wish QML+Python shared some of the hype
Global decline of extreme poverty – was it only China?
don't understand why they would pay $100/hour to have floors cleaned when restaurants pay employees $15/hour or close to minimum wage for low-skilled work. is cleaning floors so difficult that it necessitates a specialist who charges $100/hour?
North Korean Hackers Gain Access to Chilean ATMs Through Skype
Good move on their part, but the whole saga is a reminder of the risks of using non-free software, especially if it's a subscription. At any point the developers can pull the rug out from under you.
I found the same thing with farming. During my first few University years, I financed myself working on a dairy. A couple of four day weekends each month I would drive around 150km to the job and also the same work for three months solid over the summer holidays.

While I wasn't crazy about the 05:00 starts and shifting hundreds irrigation pipes twice a day isn't a whole lot of fun (but great fitness training), I did find tractor work to have a zen of its own. Around and round and round a paddock ploughing, sewing or mowing was pretty therapeutic and allowed my mind to think on all sorts of things.

At one point I seriously considered following a more agricultural focused career. Ultimately I didn't go this route, but still often wonder about my life if I had of made that choice.
A hotel can be 90% empty and Booking could have only 1 left in their inventory to sell.
There's some special exemptions for US citizens who are getting social security from what I remember, but it's also really really hard to legally live there if you're from a different country. I knew a Canadian woman who had lived there for over 10 years, married a Tico, and owned a successful business for 5+, and she was still on her third lawyer trying to become a citizen. First one took the money and ran, second one actually died before the process was finished, and who knows how the third lawyer worked out.
Yeah but he would have no skin in the game. Or much less than ordinary person. You need to be in a position where if your bet goes awry you’ll end up in some sort of worse state (not having few less zeros in the bank account but your actual lifestyle and quality of life affected in a meaningful way).
I think it also depends on the quality of the targeting.

We tend to think that these companies know us very well, but (anecdotally) that's not my experience on Facebook.

There is a page where you can see a list of things Facebook thinks you like. In my case, it's full of things I don't care about and I would never buy. They are there because, according to that page, I clicked on some ad at some point.

Which I don't remember, so it might well be five years ago. So I get targeted by ads I am not interested in at all. A random ad has more chances to capture my attention than something targeted on a non-interest.
Me too, dedicated Telecaster player. Incredibly flexible despite having so few apparent options.
>I'm one of the few in the industry who actually spent time and money on regulation. I've met with Senators and major CMOs to make it happen. It's not that simple. GDPR has good intent but is poorly executed and has no measurable effect on privacy because those politicians fail to understand the market they're regulating. This is now playing out again in the recent copyright directives.

I'm reading that you are a member of industry Lobbying to get influence on regulation of your industry. And that is somehow supposed to make me trust you more. GDPR is exactly as far reaching as it should be. The only problem with it is that people aren't following it yet to the letter, and I hope there will be some heavy fines for those breaking the law.

>Targeted advertising definitely needs fixing, but that's separate from privacy

Privacy is inherently incompatible with targeted advertising, and the industry will have to die for us to get our rights.

>"Evil, harmful, just dies" are useless for discussion. I suggest dropping the immature rhetoric if you actually want to have a productive conversation and perhaps create the change you want to see.

I'm not interested in having a "productive discussion" with you and find a compromise if you represent the targeted advertising industry. The targeted advertising industry is the political enemy. And I want it to die.
I can't speak for any projects related to software, but I am a hobbyist musician and have just last year started writing songs, I've joined bands for open mic nights, etc... I have a strong perfectionist streak and used to become very frustrated when I could hear small mistakes or if any facet of a project wasn't shaping up in real life as well as it had in my head.

To fix my frustration and increase my output, I focused on:

1) Changing my anticipation of a reward from the perfection of the project to the completion of the project. This required me to actively tell myself "this isn't that good, put I'm executing regardless". Being able to tell my friends "hey, I wrote this song" is better than being able to say "hey, I've got this great idea for a song", but it didn't more satisfying until I had written a bunch of songs (quite a few of which weren't good).

2) Anticipating the reaction to the project from people who don't know the details rather than the reaction to the project from the experts. An amateur barbershop quartet may sound medium-talent in the eyes of a vocal professional (who I was initially working to impress), but it's fun and sounds great to the average person at an open mic (who I started working to impress).

Other tips:

- Rather than trying to implement perfectionist ideas in the moment, note them down and continue making an imperfect project. Once you've got something done, you can look at your perfectionist notes and decide whether or not to go back and fix/rewrite. This is how I finish scripts for plays and new compositions.

- Adopt the mindset intended by this reddit anecdote I'm paraphrasing: "You're 30 and you can't play guitar. Yeah, you missed the window of time where you could have been a great professional guitarist at a young age, but ten years from now you're going to be 40, and you can either have spent 10 years practicing guitar, or you can have spent 10 years regretting how you didn't become the best guitarist it was possible to be and imagining how it could have been different". Apply to coding as necessary.
It's not quiet, there's a notice of an update and the release notes mention that it was for a security fix. You have the option of ignoring it if you want.
I agree this sounds pretty damning for the company. But life has taught me to always get both sides of a story before reaching any conclusions.
Lets hope its not going to be E60 M5 reliable.
TxtSync Launches New Cloud-Based SMS Platform to Enhance Customer Communication
> Yeah but exaggerated rhetoric has existed for millenniums and is an inherent part of how human societies work.

Sure. There was always a single village moron (in German: Dorftrottel, no idea how to translate it) but he was ignored by society. Now, however, all the village morons worldwide are connected - and can claim massive followings and reach capability on social media. This is the key difference.

> but there are always some basis behind it, e.g. job loss and wage stagnation due to globalization etc.

Back in ye olde times, people went off, went on strikes and went after the employers to gain their rights and higher wages. Thanks to the propaganda, now they go after migrants, Muslims, Jews, PoC, whatever - but the capitalist elites get left alone. Which coincides with the funding for many right-wing organizations coming from very wealthy individuals (e.g. Koch, Mercer, or in Germany August von Finck).

> And the US do much direct and violent interventions in lots of foreign countries.

Sure, but that's a bit of whataboutism. I don't really like many of the things that the US have done (especially historically), but that does not excuse the stuff that China and Russia do.
There is a difference between legitimate grievances and highly polarized opinions. One can find Electron bloated and inefficient but acknowledge that there are advantages to the platform, and respect that for some people the tradeoffs are worthwhile.
It would be "Advisory".
Samsung Galaxy S8 and Galaxy S8+ One UI Beta (Android Pie) Sign-Ups Now Open
The real creepy behavior is that companies can openly pay to manipulate you for most of your waking life, and people are fine with it.
Is there anything preventing other cities (or at the county level) in Illinois from banning it?
Show HN: Ki – Expressive modal macOS automation, inspired by vi(m)
The existing Social Security program costs nearly $1 trillion dollars per year already (okay $900 billion ish) [1].

Sure, Social Security is not like a perfect, shining example, but it can be fixed/improved, and scaling it up by 10x (which is a gross overestimate, as other commenters have pointed out), is nothing to sneeze at. But at the same time, it's not really as ridiculous as your comments wants to paint it (i.e. "omg this is clearly patently absurd, why even entertain this nonsense?").

You've completely glossed over the fact that people generally don't hoard money, especially not those living on $15/hr. People will spend that money, and it could even grow the economy (by GDP). Your little mind experiment is not nearly rigorous enough nor realistic to justify dismissing UBI out of hand.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Security_(United_States...
>Bigsby guitars are a historical curiosity. Rickenbackers are still made, but are a rare exotic most guitarists will never play. Les Pauls are a pricey luxury item.

And yet tons of guitarists use one or more of those 3 brands. E.g:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Rickenbacker_players

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Gibson_players

Bigsby less mainstream, but they're hot in rockabilly circles, jazzers use them, etc.
> How incredibly arrogant.

It's not. People who have grievances about specific platforms and frameworks should complain (or, in the case of Electron, submit patches) to the actual project than whine about it on the issue tracker of every project that uses it.
> The problem was that it was peak Summer in Barcelona, we were there for a long period of time, and the only available units were minimum 5x the price.

I've never got this at all. Why should you pay 5x price for AirBnb's risk?
Honestly, by pointing to your comments from previous discussions, you look like you have an ax to grind rather than being helpful.

The truth is that we don't know what causes Alzheimer's. Amyloids may or may not play as much of a role as some people think. But without a better hypothesis to test and get funding for, this is what they can do.
I'm not sure if the OP is advocating to abolish money. The supply of money is in some broad sense irrelevant unless there is not enough bills to pass around or we have to carry suitcases of money to purchase toothpicks. What matters is whether there is sufficient goods and services to support the population. Of course, you have to account for changes in behavior in consumption because of inflation and deflation.
Not sure about that. He maintains very luxurious lifestyle. His continuous investment in Tesla could be seen more as an effort to maintain full / majority shareholder control of the company. I don’t think he would sell his house and invest the money in Tesla. He would still be rich even if Tesla goes bankrupt. Plus he has billionaire family members as a fallback.
tl;dr

the author of this "random meta-political noodling" (his words) has re-invented some of the old arguments for direct democracy that have been perpetuated from all fringe parties in all countries since democracy exists.

Remember the German Green Party's "rotation principle". It was based on the same arguments, to prevent "professional politicians" and keep politics close to the basis. They gave it up soon once they realized that it's not working. It turned out that politicians need some political competence that is acquired through parliamentary work, and they need to have media presence to be re-elected.

Everything in this blog posts could have been written in the 70s when these arguments and radical "basic democratic" desires had already been discussed ad nauseum by the less radical revolutionaries.

Personally, I believe that when a representational democracy is turned into a basic democracy with amateur politicians, then it will succumb to populism and become a dictatorship in no time.
The author’s thesis, to my understanding, is that because big tech isn’t trading at a huge premium that it was before, it is now dead. This is a huge stretch and clickbait garbage if I can be honest.

I mostly buy index funds but do have positions in Microsoft, Amazon, Apple, and Facebook. I’m net positive on all of them. I think Apple and FB are the only ones I’m in red on, and only for what I bought in them last year.

Big tech is far from dead. I’m by no means an expert, but Microsoft is solid all the way around. On paper at least, FB is actually very strong, despite the negative press (which they deserve IMO), Amazon has been becoming more and more profitable, etc.
Creating your own Wallhack
Will MacAskill[1] for his contributions to launching the effective altruism movement, which has gone on to inspire many other people to take a much more rigorous and active perspective on doing good.

[1] - Many others were involved, but I know the most about his contributions.
That depends on where you see that ad. If you search for that particular hotel on Google, it's going to have an ad from N online travel agencies(OTA).

If you do a broad search on OTA website, then you're likely to book the same hotel that you stayed last time... Thus pushing it up is a great way of getting you to book... But that depends on how much the hotel is contributing in marketing
Yeah, the utilitarian look is a real selling point for me, too. Weirdly, I also like the "uncomfortable" chunky body, more than the smooth ergonomic curves of a Strat. With that hard edge digging into my torso and forearm, I know exactly where my arm is relative to the strings. I have to attend to other, more distracting cues to understand my position on a Strat.
Creating your own Wallhack – How to use DirectX11 to reveal models
> The UK survived by huge logistical effort and food rationing.

And by having the support of the largest empire the world has ever seen ...
Ask HN: Did you ever help your SO learn to code? How did you avoid frustration?
I am helping my SO learn how to code (JS).

She has started and stopped countless tutorials. She has taken part into a mini bootcamp to learn React but we both agree that it was mismatched to her abilities because it assumed more knowledge than she had.

After over a year, she still doesn't have the basics: there is confusion as to what is an object, the difference between a value and a function, how to access an object's values vs an array's, etc.

I am trying to help her with code exercises or interview questions when it includes a coding component but it feels like we're going nowhere: We spent hundreds of hours over time on these and because she doesn't have the basics down, she runs into the same issues over and over and over again.

I get frustrated and tend to be more curt than I'd like, this also makes her frustrated and hinders enthusiasm + progress.

Did you ever help your SO learn how to code? How did you go about it? How did you avoid the frustration and tension?
such salaries are exhibit #1 for why we need to equalize taxes between capital and labor (e.g., recognize capital gains as ordinary income)
Wow, that's super random. As an Australian, hope you enjoy Aussie Rules!
> weird indentation

This is regular BSD style, used in lots of places. Tabs for indentation, 4 spaces for wrapped lines.

> ternary operator

Totally fine here IMO. Would get really verbose without.

> without braces

Again, regular BSD style and a matter of taste.
Can confirm. I was a broke musician and was happily able to borrow a Rickenbacker 330 from the studio to record on, and rented a Les Paul for a week for $50 to also record on.
If build time is an issue (not sure if it is or not), you can have `tsc --watch` running for the `.ts -> .js`, then also have a separate watcher for `.js` and `.css` changes that builds your final bundle.
Same. I wonder why? I could feel it coming back as I was descending back to sea level.
> You attached that with a PR for said framework

Eck, please don't do this. Think of this with any other language/framework. "Your app was written in C++ but I rewrote it in Arc because the code is way nicer. You're welcome." or "You used Java but that is a pain because it has to be compiled, so I rewrote it in PHP and now it's possible to make changes live on production servers."

There are many reasons a maintainer may not want to do that (eg, not knowing or wanting to learn the language/framework, having an ecosystem of plugins/branches that would be negatively affected, different opinions on what the project objectives are and how best to achieve them, etc). It's very hard as a maintainer to have to close a massive PR that someone put a lot of time into, and it's obviously a waste of time for someone to work on something that is ultimately rejected.

What you can do instead is open an issue and say "This is very memory-intensive because of Electron, are you open to addressing this? I'm willing to rewrite using <framework/language>."

You can also fork (or effectively just start a competing project) and become the maintainer of the new project. If you're not willing to do that, it's really not fair to expect someone else to -- as effectively with a massive PR you're basically asking them to take on maintenance of your code.
If a shareholder doesn't want to invest in a company with multi-class shares or defense industry ties or tobacco or whatever, they can opt out.
The tag line was actually « Don’t be evil ». It was never an official motto afaik.
So I've seen other projects that use hjkl hotkeys or whatnot to mimic vim, but none that comes close to what vim offers in terms of productivity. My intent from the start has been to adapt what's so great about working in vim to the desktop environment, and attempt to replicate a similar modal language to increase productivity through reduced repetition.

I've been using this for about half a year now and use it as a daily driver in lieu of popular macOS app launchers or productivity apps like Spotlight/Quicksilver/Afred. Please give it a shot and lemme know what you think! :)
This could easily make national news. Name and Shame.
This industry does as much harm as it does good. It will be good for it if you can't make money anymore by getting people to look in your direction long enough to show people something they might actually want to spend money on.
I fully disagree. I view regulation like opioid painkillers. Sometimes they're necessary to solve a problem. Sometimes the problem is temporary. If a society gives them out at the drop of a hat there will be negative consequences far and wide. Regulation is dangerous and is very easy to abuse but it performs a necessary function in society. We need to be careful not to over-prescribe it though because every regulation is at its core a limitation on individual liberty and when we trade away individual liberty the utmost scrutiny should be applied to ensure we are getting a good deal.
Put it on Glassdoor. Let people learn more about this employer.
Why can't middlemen still exist, just without the individual targeting? Can't sites still self-report their categories (so that, say, a dog grooming site would say they should get dog ads)?
Turns out you can grease your numbers by manipulating user sentiment.

Who cares if you need to lie a little bit, right?
I’ve never experienced that. If you’re passionate, you can leave a poor environment like that behind and pick up new work easily.
A brief history of GnuPG: vital to online security but free and underfunded