skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think what he was saying is that past successes are not necessarily indicative of future successes. I do think this simple observation can be used to derive understanding.

I'd like to increase the volume of my balloon as much as possible. I blow it up a little bit. It increases a little bit. I blow into it hard. It substantially increases. I keep blowing and it invariably keeps getting larger and larger. There is an absolutely perfect and undeniable correlation between how much I blow into that balloon and the measured volume. In fact it's not even a correlation, it is a clear causal relationship. This leads to an empirical conclusion that is completely wrong.

In our society those that say to keep blowing are going to end up succeeding. Not only do their predictions work out, and quite profitably so, but they're also optimistic and promise untold volumes to come. The understanding would be to consider that in fields where meaningful tests cannot be readily performed, empiricism should never replace logic. And illogical but empirically supported concepts should be treated with extreme skepticism. Logic can be flawed and proven to be wrong. Empiricism can be equally flawed, yet the danger is that it can also be impossible to prove wrong until you're left picking up pieces of rubber.
On the description it appears that he and his partners (a) broke the law (b) broke his contracts with AirBnB and (c) took extraordinary measures to conceal (a) and (b) from legal scrutiny.

Those are all, by and large, "bad things".
Eliminating all listings without a host present would solve 99% of these problems. That's what the site sells itself as, anyway. Problem is there isn't much money to be made there.

Or just do a tiny bit of host/property verification. Again, too much money to be made from illegal/unzoned hotels.
It was no doubt a good thing for Airbnb users. It is much less likely a good thing for the building and other people who live there. I actually live a block away from the building in the article that was described as the #1 moneymaker and opted not to move to that building partially because it was obvious many apartments were being rented on Airbnb.

In other words not only was the neighborhood losing access to housing inventory, but other landlords were losing access to qualified tenants who didn’t want to live in a building with a bunch of Airbnb rentals in it.
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This has happened at my apartment complex when my neighbors invited some friends over.

The residents have something even better: they can complain to the landlord.
I guess, because often you're not arguing in order to convince your opponent, you're arguing to sway the crowd (and sometimes, decide yourself).

And I don't think they're idiots, I just think that they're wrong. Not many people have read Djikstra and (?) and have deep faith in mathematical beauty, or have even thought about this much, doesn't make them idiots.
If that's the case, the apparent correlation probably has more to do with hiring practices than ethical differences between the groups.
No, this is not typically American.
The why comes a bit later, around 4. Is it still ok to link to Louie CK?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8idwyuVJ4ug
Yeah, not an easy task - some of them have job boards or you can do the usual digging keyword search on LinkedIn. I dislike LinkedIn, but everyone is on there and being solicited about job opportunities is pretty much the norm.
Python also doesn’t have interfaces or access modifiers. Would you consider Python to have bad support for OOP by those criteria?
I want to see the employees' perceptions of these values so that I know if these are actually the values.
I feel like they were taking themselves too seriously. The company is named after a spelling mistake. I don't think "Bird Mode" would have been too silly.
As the name suggests, that lets you write functions in a single-dispatch manner. That is different from multiple-dispatch.
If Hitler was in front of you, would you kill him with your bare hands?
Quietly hoping you’re about 64 years old.
> Most of R's quirks stem from the authors' desire to keep it as compatible with S as possible.

On the other hand, if it was not for that compatibility with S we would not be having this conversation: R would be just a footnote in the history of statistical computing like Lisp-Stat.
This is absolutely not true. JK and Kim Schienberg are personal friends and can attest to the veracity of this story through other channels. https://qr.ae/TUfeNI
Wouldn't mind using Bulma if mixins were available for basic stuff like grid components.
I don’t know. I remember reading a thought experiment years ago which I believe was presented by and to libertarians. If you were a German who found yourself conscripted into the Nazi military during World War 2 and assigned to an extermination camp, should you aspire to kill as few people as possible without getting fired? The supposed reasoning being that you are “saving” lives, since if you were fired and replaced, your replacement would likely kill even more people.

I suppose it’s supposed to be a challenge to consequentialism or the claim that the ends justify the means. Personally I think it’s a bit silly, and you just shouldn’t murder people.
He violated new york regulations and an end user agreement. Nobody was hurt and from the sounds of it, he worked very hard to please his customers.

There will be fines involved, because NYC wants their cut of the profits.

I still don't consider what they did as 'bad things'.
Hey, folks thought Echelon was a joke in the 90's until Snowden showed that Echelon is child's play.

The Big Hack might be true or not, but it's not far fetched. There might be more at play here. Watch this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqQhWitJ1As&feature=youtu.be
Breaking the law because you find it morally repugnant is one thing.

Breaking the law for a buck is a very different thing.
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I mean declaring a property to be short term rentable is much harder than it ought to be. This is what the hotel association NYC has spent years lobbying for. So something new like AirBnB cannot harm their market.

AirBnb definitely solves a problem and generally at a much cheaper price. We need to update our laws to let it do that in a sustainable manner.

Edit: Corrected rentable to short-term rentable
I'm not a Julia developer, but the great thing with Julia is that the libraries are exceptionally easy to read and extend, because the core developers make a strong effort to write clean code. Just look at ImageMagick.jl and you'll see, but I have the same experience with other libraries as well.

Also the language itself supports extending code (multiple dispatch really helps it to stay clean).
How does the NSA, CIA, etc. sign? Does Mozilla also block them or is the blocking only against those who might "cross the red line" and spy on Americans?
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My 2.5-year-old asks why after every sentence, including the answer to the last time she asked why.
Is your argument that tall buildings are not built in NYC?
I love this Wikipedia article. I have always gotten a kick out of the “Cognitive abilities” section title. It’s almost like they used a Wikipedia template intended for comic book superheroes.
Dense, multi-use blocks are part of the magic of New York. And there are hotels comingled with residential buildings all over the city. I'm not saying tenants should be free to violate their agreements with landlords, but these uses of Airbnb are solving a problem that city laws have created (an extreme lack of housing and hotel supply). I blame those city laws as a root cause. Putting supply on Airbnb is just water moving around obstacles the laws have created.
These are flow batteries. The limitation is the limited solubility of the charged ions in the carrying fluid. The charged fluid is pumped in - discharged - and then pumped out.
Well suited to stationary systems where huge tanks on the land are used. You could do it now with 2 50 gallon tanks. Fill tank 1 with charged fluid and discharge it into tank 2. AFter 80-100 miles, stop and pump new fluid into tank1 and put the discharged fluid into the roadside charge station.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow_battery
One day while working on the Xbox 360 Fall 2010 and Spring 2011 updates to redesign the UI for Kinect, we ran into an error “out of memory”. Everyone ran around like chickens with their heads cut off trying to figure out the problem. Turns out, we were just straight up out of memory! Thus began a “fun” 48 hours of converting all PNG assets into vectors, and png crushing what we could.

Not to say that was the sole solution - OS UI assets were eating up a ton of resources, but there was a bunch of longer term work around OS memory optimization.

I tell that sorry, just because it’s an amusing illustration to me of the twists and turns a project takes from inception to maturity
It's simple, he broke the law/city regulations that are there for a reason. I'll quote the relevant bit from the article:

> New York regulations are supposed to keep apartments from being pulled out of an already-tight rental market to cater to the tourist trade. They specify that it is illegal to rent an entire apartment in most buildings for fewer than 30 days unless the permanent tenant is present while the renter is there.

For one guy to make millions there are many city inhabitants that have to face ever increasing rents. And this harms the city because it increases unrest and puts off people from moving in.

And the issue is also on a more "micro" scale. Imagine living in a building where several apartments are dedicated to Airbnb style renting full time. You would probably not enjoy renting or owning the other apartments there.
> We spend the next few days freaking out. We knew the feature was going to be huge, and now it had this name that everyone on both sides of the Satellite-vs-Aerial-Photography war agreed was silly and horrible. But it was decided.

Or maybe Sergey did that on purpose to force the teams to make a decision, "don't make me pull this car over" like.
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Says a lot I had to wonder which required the court order and then remembered since I’m not a US citizen it’s a moot point.
It's a vue component that is part of the framework. In this case it renders an input field that is customizable by passing props into the component.
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“We’re not criminals,” he said at his lawyer’s office, while puffing from a Juul he kept in a black leather pouch fastened to a chain around his neck. He shrugged: “I don’t own a yacht or a big penthouse.”

So you’re only a criminal if the haul is large?
Upon further research I have changed my stance, I had never seen this WHO report before. It’s old but they recommend not drinking water less than 100 ppm.

https://www.who.int/water_sanitation_health/dwq/nutrientscha...
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It's not just a mask.

The phone number field tries a lot of clever stuff, and when I went back and inserted digits near the start of the number it wiped half the entered digits, presumably because the temporary state didn't fit its idea of a valid phone number, so it cut off everything that was "wrong"

Changing the year in the date field destroys the months and days in some cases. Editing the month left it happily in a state with a day number of 0.

Same issues with the time fields.

...
Godwin's law in 2 steps! I need to quit HN
I actually can't think of a single language that doesn't allow you to multiply an integer and a floating point value, yielding a floating point result.
What does reshape actually do? Create a 1-D array from a 2-D one or vice versa, or just make appear to be so?
Haha. I mean yes I kinda agree with what you said.
Or it could be that you work at a startup where the founders are playful, willing to experiment and don't take themselves too seriously. Google did a lot of things differently than other companies.

Larry and Sergey were extremely invested in Google. I don't think that at this point there was a single employee at Google whose work was not important for them. Larry personally signed off on every single hire. And as you can see in this story they got involved in details like what the text on a button is.
Out of curiosity, how do you deal with (the many) companies that say their values are A, B, C when they're actually X, Y, Z? (I don't want to name shame prior companies I've worked with but this mismatch struck me as a fairly common occurrence.)
1. I have to admit, if you are going to be so vehemently angry against anyone who even talks about Bitcoin as being potentially useful, I'd suggest you do at least 5 minutes of googling. Channel Factories -> https://www.tik.ee.ethz.ch/file/a20a865ce40d40c8f942cf206a7c... Cool stuff, I doubt you'll actually read it, but there's the link anyway.

2. Whoa look at that -> You can pay your taxes in Ohio in Bitcoin. So apparently "how on earth would they pay their tax bills" means send them BTC if they live in Ohio :). Suggesting that because you can't pay taxes or pay suppliers right now with Bitcoin, and therefore it will never be useful or capable of those things is such a silly argument. I certainly don't believe we live in a world where you can buy anything with BTC right now, but like I said my statement was about us trending in that way (Still waiting on all those graphs showing the opposite by the way).

3. Damn, I forgot I can't use anecdotes to influence my opinion. Thanks for reminding me.

4. Don't ask me -> ask the data. https://coin.dance/volume/localbitcoins/VES/BTC "35,000 Bitcoin (worth around $127 million at today's prices) was traded for bolívar on the LocalBitcoins crypto exchange over the entire course of last year." Maybe they would be better off with dollars, but Bitcoin is much easier to transfer across borders, and much easier to hold on your person without signaling that you are carrying thousands of dollars.

I'm happy to talk more about crypto with you, although I'm not sure you are open to actually talk honestly about it - seeing as how you took the time to negatively respond to every post I made on this subject. If there is something that has made you so angry about Bitcoin, I'd be happy to learn it to see if I'm supporting something that I shouldn't.

I'm certainly not arguing that Bitcoin is the perfect solution, nor that it's super helpful or accessible today. But, I don't think absolutely denying any use is a smart strategy, and I'd rather have you make legitimate counter arguments where you've actually spent the time to learn things rather than the lax effort you've put in so far.
These people didn't just "commingle" hotels alongside other buildings; they implanted hotels into apartment buildings. That is definitely not a norm in NYC.
Nice evasion tactic.

Also, indirection changes everything.

When a soldier fires a bullet, it's commanded by a chain of command that goes directly, in the case of the US, a leader elected by the people of the US.

It's not a question of "firing with a rifle vs using your bare hands".

Is "firing because you decided to kill that guy" vs "killing because the people of your nation decided that guy constitutes a threat".
> Nobody was hurt

First: You don't know that. In fact the neighbours would disagree.

Second: laws are intended to be preventative. Some of them are to prevent the bad outcome (manslaughter is illegal), some of them to prevent things that commonly lead to a bad outcome (campfires in my bedroom are illegal). If I build a campfire in my room and this time it doesn't destroy my building, that doesn't excuse me in law or ethics. I still did a dangerous thing, knowingly and recklessly.

> There will be fines involved, because NYC wants their cut of the profits.

There are fines involved because NYC operates, even its own gloriously half-arsed way, under the rule of law.
I am still confused what exactly you propose. Who gets to determine overall benefit? Don't we have communities for this exact reason to begin with?
Looks like the url isn't clickable (in similarly formatted previous posts, it has been...)

Clickable url: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2GT2PCUN3Q
Xenon was a lightweight POWER 6 which also didn't support out-of-order dispatch presumably to boost its clockspeeds to near 6Ghz.
Well renting, and a hotel type "renting" are way way different.

I'm not really sure there is a "problem" here. It's the locals who get to decide if their laws need updating or not. I'm willing to be a ton of Airbnb guests is not what the locals want.
I didn't know about the Unicode tab completion. I gave it a whirl on the cli and loved it. Then I tried it out in julia-mode in Emacs, and it works there too! What other editors support this?
Or "Remote" as a region.
Learn to manage your time, your energy & your emotions.
> All of the laws regarding noise, littering, loitering, smoking, etc. don't magically vanish.

The guests do, though, which means when you call the cops again next week, it's a new person getting their first noise warning.
I guess it is "housing" but I think you'd find a lot less housing as in traditional places you can rent or buy long term, I belive we're already seeing that with Airbnb.

Then you've got even more housing problems.
Agree. But only the OP could assess the risks.

But if it’s something that is controlled with the the right care and they’re a pretty good engineer, then the risk of moving here is much smaller than they realize.
It's odd how ancient the PowerMac G5 seems - even the early Intel Mac Pros feel like they're from another era - yet the Xbox 360 seems like it's barely aged at all.
it's no different than today, tons of jobs, money flowing, watching most people get far richer than me.
Yes, Python definitely has bad support for OOP.
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Are you saying Indians chose to be "customers" of the British? I've heard a lot of interesting characterizations of the colonization and subsequent exploitation that was the bedrock of British India, but this one's new.
Yep. Meetings are hard to get right. Experimentation with meeting formats can be very valuable.

We tend to try a new meeting format for retrospectives every few times, because different formats raise different sorts of issues, some go deep, some go wide, variety ensures that the meetings don’t get boring over time and that we cover as much as possible.

We do similar with brainstorming for new projects too. Some brainstorming methods are very design focused or tech focused or user focused, etc. Different types have different results.
> EFF advocates for civil liberties, not for Silicon Valley or the US.

Patents are business regulation. There is a civil liberties element to business regulation, but it’s well accepted that civil liberties concerns are attenuated when you’re talking about business conduct.

There are lots of regulations that hurt small businesses and have a civil liberties angle, such as overly burdensome occupational licensing. But you don’t see ACLU spending a lot of effort on those as a top priority. EFF spends time on patent far disproportionate to the civil liberties impact.

As to your second point. Copying is bad and destroys innovation. Look at what’s happened to PCs. The vast majority of PC makers, Lenovo, Asus, etc., produce no innovation. They release fungible machines at cut rate margins that leave no room for R&D. The only companies innovating are companies like Apple, who have huge IP moats. Copyright protecting iOS and MacOS. Patents protecting things like MacBook touch pads. Trademark protecting the brand. Trade secrets protecting their vertically integrated manufacturing process.
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Or price.
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Yep - and I'm entirely skeptical of people who singularly use a singular "A/B" study to back up any case when it comes to a real business' sales funnel. Simple input masking or not - it just wouldn't hold up in some of the board rooms I've had to stand in front of during my career... the phrase "not statistically significant" comes to mind.

And before you link that "A/B Testing is Still Needed" HBR article - know that I 100% agree with it but on the premise of testing MULTIPLE solutions under the traditional "A/B testing" model. As far as you've posited in this conversation - you guys only tried one thing. You're also admitting it's not a "scientific study" so I assume you did nothing to minimize other changing variables/conditions in regards to the input masking.

TLDR: Input masking CC fields is probably a bad idea beyond filtering non-numeric/non-slash characters. I will make that generalization. I'm not convinced you've got a valid argument against that with your "A/B test" experience.
They do whatever they set out to do for the weekend.

For some, that's clean the house, grocery runs, laundry, cook, date with their partner, play with the kids, read a book, video games, visit family & friends, sleep in, work on their hobby, whatever it is. if you planned for it and get it done, then you're productive.
Not sure where he lives, but in Russia this surgery is covered by mandatory medical insurance.
In qBitTorrent you can juct click "Open URL" and paste the hash itself without any magnet URI boilerplate and it will understand.
The Xenon didn't get anywhere near 6 GHz though, it was only 3.2 GHz.
> If you think they are overconfident, then say so.

I thought I literally did just that?

> If you think their analysis misses something, then say so.

I've done that in the past and it usually just descends into stupid augments where the ill-informed only dig their heals in deeper rather than acknowledging their mistake. I mean if they weren't someone who was over confident about their own opinion then they wouldn't be the sort to make those kind of remarks to begin with.

> But being against assessment in general is not a good approach.

I'm not against assessments in general. I'm against specific types of non-constructive assessments from people who are just blatant armchair critics.

If someone has a the experience to offer a constructive assessment then odds are they wouldn't delivery it as a passive-aggressive one liner.
It's not that those languages are "lisps", they just mostly use s-expressions. That's because the syntax isn't what they're trying to innovate on, or what they're trying to stand out with. And also because once you understand s-expressions, it becomes kind of hard to justify not using s-expressions. Honestly, why bother with novel syntax when your PL semantics can be expressed in terms of s-expressions?
Agreed. Even though a lot of what he describes is distasteful and some of the really gruesome stuff would probably be actual felonies in real life, he puts across the point repeatedly of how the world works for the lower classes, and their brief interaction with the upper class. Specifically, the dynamics of sexual attraction, which is a very complex topic in itself.

Its entirely possible that I found it revealing because before that all my reading/viewing had led me to believe a different reality of how Romance and Sexual Attraction work.
Can you ? USP is not a silver bullet and it is mediocre at best. I paid shitloads of money in austria for a mediocre healthcare. I pay far less for healthcare in Korea which is superior in every way.
Facebook is not doing this on purpose. Facebook is allowing communication about this, which of course provides a purpose and actually mostly helps prevent people from carrying this out.
Check out the boilerplate here for workers:

https://github.com/detroitenglish/cloudflare-worker-webpack-...

Then invoke lambda with this:

https://github.com/mhart/aws4fetch

Important to note that workers have a 15s timeout, so this is really only good for routing. You probably don’t want this to manage tasks that could potentially take longer.
financial illiteracy is a real problem in journalism. You can't really judge how egregious/successful these guys were without knowing the annualized NET revenue of this business.