skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I run a vacation rental in a small town in the mountains of Colorado. I'm quite happy to pay the taxes the town demands. Our place is busy, and our guests make a significant impact on the town, spending a lot of money in local shops and restaurants. On the other hand, there is increased wear on city and county roads (many of which are gravel), and increased load on water, sewer, and sanitation services.

Cities and counties need money to provide us with the services we depend on to run our little business. Reasonable taxes and fees are a fair, expected, and necessary price. The little town we're in has struck a decent balance price-wise, and they also have a decent regulatory system set up that's designed to ensure that neighbors' complaints about parking, noise, and trash are addressed.

We're very by-the-book operators. I want the city to see money from me because I want them to have an interest in protecting my business.

There are a couple of hotels under construction in town, which makes me nervous. Hotels hate vacation rentals. I'm not fond of AirBNB as a corporate citizen, but the Hoteliers cartel is dirtier. I wouldn't be surprised if the new hotels lobby the town to ban vacation rentals outright, or craft lethal regulations like those in Tennessee recently that require all vacation rentals to install fire-suppression sprinklers [https://www.memphisdailynews.com/news/2015/jan/3/cities-acro...].
When a state enforces a law like this, forcing all traffic through routers they control, presumably it makes it easier to detect traffic using VPNs/Tor? I'm guessing this would have to be done through some kind of heuristics based mechanism?
> Just as the daughter has the right to not share herself or her life on social media, I don't believe she has the right to demand approval of her mother's or sister's posts.

A legal right? Absolutely not. A moral right? Absolutely.

Knowingly disclosing information about someone that that person has expressly confirmed they would like to remain private is certainly not a friendly act. When the parties involved are in a close relationship, this can feel like (and in my view is) a serious betrayal. Such a betrayal can permanently damage that relationship.

The daughter's feelings in this situation are entirely valid, and she is entirely within her moral rights to demand her mother not violate her privacy.
Dasha.ai Demonstrates “Google Duplex for Business” at GTC 2019
Eventually we need the NTSB to certify updates before they are pushed out over the air. Similar to what the FAA does.

These OTA updates are not ok for large machinery and endagers not only the Tesla driver but all others on the road.
Is it 15% of everything above $40k or does it include the $40k as well?
Their Launch HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19227441
YC has funded scummy companies before. InstallMonetizer comes to mind.

In their defense, I don't think YC claims to not find scummy shit. To me it seems that they have a moral compass comparable most financial institutions, i.e. none.
I feel sad that making friends online has turned into "contacting strangers".
I'm not sure where you see the big difference. Dutch unions negotiate employment contracts, so it's easy to see how unions end up 'in charge of hiring, promotion and the content of your work'. Union power is ultimately rooted in the threat of striking to bring down the firm: there's no particular area of company policy such an organisation can't take control of.

Thus the powers unions obtain not only in the US but also for instance the UK, is entirely predictable - nothing stops them taking over the firm and unions are very frequently run by open communists who see it as a moral imperative to do so.

A good example is Unite in the UK, run by Len McCluskey:

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

In a speech at the 2010 Durham Miners' Gala he said political developments in Cuba and Venezuela should be better known, and suggested the reason they were not was because of "the fear of the good example".

Not surprisingly when major unions are led by people who think Venezuela is a "good example", people learn that unions are bad news!
Ugh... there are companies that did this sort of stuff for Outlook users, and it's a royal pain in the ass.

It's not searchable, it can't be archived for legal purposes this way, this is a nightmare for anyone that does business with you.
You can continue to use NAT with IPv6. If/when I have to run IPv6 on my LAN, I plan on doing exactly that. I explicitly don't want outside connections to be made directly to arbitrary machines inside my LAN. I have a DMZ for a solid reason.
> property taxes, sales and use taxes, special fees and assessments

These are not "income taxes".
Holding down on the word in the auto compete will allow you to delete it from your dictionary.
> On some level people have the right to do whatever they please with their property. That's kind of the point of ownership to begin with.

And on some level they don't (or, perhaps more precisely, on some level it's never entirely their property if they aren't the sovereign—even if they are a member of a group which collectively constitutes the sovereign), that's kind of the point of sovereignty.
Unauthorized use of any digital platform is explicitly within the realm of cybersecurity.

That fact notwithstanding, the hacking of Podesta's emails is absolutely a cybersecurity issue.
This should only happen for user requested auto-completion. For example typing "g" <tab> "g" <tab> would result in Google in the provided example.

This is very beneficial in code completion or navigating file directories. It is horrible when typing an email (though maybe when searching email contact). Definitely needs to be context aware.
The hotels usually remain full. There's a huge pent-up demand for tourism.
It sounds like they're pushing back because if there's a list of taxes paid (with specific addresses), then municipalities may harass owners, even if they're complying with local laws[1].

There's also the meta level issue that holding site operators responsible for the actions of their users is a very slippery slope. Anything that chips away at the communications decency act could have terrible effects for the internet as we know it[2]. For example, as it currently stands if I were to libelously claim that Paul Graham has a meth lab in his basement[3], I could be charged with a crime, but not HN. If the CDA were weakened, blog operators could be liable for comments posted on them. I don't think anyone reasonable wants that.

I think SF's law did a good job balancing things - hosts need to be licensed by the city (the app lists their license #) and can IIRC only lease 90 days out of the year. I looked at a recent receipt for a stay, and they even collected taxes.

[1] https://www.eff.org/mention/making-civil-liberties-case-airb...

[2] https://www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/Airbnb-HomeAway...

[3] To be clear this is a hyperbolic example, and I have no reason to think PaulG has anything illegal in his basement :)
That's what I meant, pkg is definitely in GOPATH. It's annoying because I can't put my code in src anymore, which is where I've been organizing it for years, but I still have to keep GOPATH around for bin and pkg.
Of which "real" bacon only has trace amounts (or none at all, depending on the vitamin/mineral).
> Bicyclists prefer riding on major streets as well, which is why Copenhagen prioritizes bike infrastructure on major streets rather than on side streets – on side streets car traffic is so light and slow that mixed traffic is not so bad, but the desirable through-routes remain the major streets.

I've never really understood the appeal of major roads for bicyclsts. I much prefer sidestreets when bicycling and don't mind cutting over a block to have to deal with less traffic. I think this demand along with a general blowback against cars due to American culture treating non-vehicle traffic as second class leads to bad outcomes.

In my town, a six-lane arterial connects neighborhoods with a major N-S arterial, downtown, and past downtown is a US highway. The town has taken that six lane road and turned it into a two lane road with center turn lane, bicycle lanes, and parking. What should be a 40+ mph speed limit is now a 25 mph speed limit.

This has bad outcomes for drivers and bicyclists.

Effectively, from the perspective of a driver, this road is now equivalent to any of a dozen parallel roads: single lane in each direction and 25 mph. This disincentivizes drivers from cutting over to the arterial, effectively spreading out the traffic onto parallel roads (many of which lack traffic lights when they hit the major N-S artery). However, it remains the busiest road for vehicle traffic, and because it is so wide, speed significantly faster than 25 mph feel safe, so speed variance can be higher, with traffic typically traveling between 20-40 mph. It's particularly sketchy for traffic turning on from side streets. Drivers expect traffic to be going the posted 25 mph, but are sometimes surprised by the person going 40 mph. So, drivers generally get where they are going more slowly, but at increased danger due to increase in speed variance.

But it also increases danger for bicyclists in two ways. First, it encourages the bicyclists to use the still relatively busy arterial. It's not clear why anyone would want to incentivize this. For a bicyclist, any of the parallel streets were already attractive options and would get the bicyclist where he was going. Second, because of the changed incentives, those parallel roads are now busier than before (making the bicycle lane on the busier road more attractive). Whatever a bicyclist decides, there is an increase in vehicle/bicycle interactions.

A much better solution would have been to keep the arterial an arterial and make dedicated bicycle lanes on some of the parallel roads. This would encourage a separation of vehicle and bycicle traffic that wouldn't really inconvenience either one of them.
> Why should zoning laws be fought tooth-and-nail

Because it is mostly used by rich property owners to artificial prop up the value of their capital investment, to the detriment of renters and people who cannot afford to purchase properties.
It's worded very poorly, too, such as "The onus is on hosts, Airbnb argues", as if there's some debate over whether 1099 contractors are responsible for their own taxes.

I'm sure local governments would love to collect a big check from Airbnb instead of hunting down thousands of tax-dodgers; but doing local tax collection authorities' work for them isn't exactly Airbnb's responsibility.
We actually limited the % of units that could be rented out in our association as well for the same reason (we actually allowed exceptions based on need (have to move fast and can't sell and so forth), and actually approved those 100% of the time, it just rarely came up).

Long term rentals can have problem tenants too, but long term rental owners at least had way more leverage over their rentals than short term (who really in our case didn't give a damn).
Can't you just keep using GOPATH until they're fixed?
I'm calling the police well before I walk over to the Miami Beach apartment blasting music at 3AM, likely filled with coked up aggressive young men.

Simple conflict resolution works great with reasonable people, but those aren't the kinds of people blasting techno and screaming all through the night.
Right - it's the level dictated by the zoning laws we all agreed to when we built a governmental framework for property ownership and the management of it's externalities.

Ownership literally doesn't mean you can do whatever you please, that's the point of the top-level comment here.
… which got it, I think, from Milner's exposition; see, for example, p. 351 of https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0022000078... . This notation makes particular sense for function types, where a mathematician would write `f : A → B` even if not thinking type-theoretically.
Ask HN: Can I recruit for your startup for a flat $2k fee?
I.e. not contingent upon hiring, but just a flat fee for the time I invest into the search. As the title suggests, I'm a self-employed recruiter, mostly focusing on tech/IT/product but have knowledge of other domains. I'm not particularly wedded to the current recruiting model of high fee if I place someone, $0 if I don't. I primarily just work with startups & cool small companies.

I'd be most interested in seeing if I could apply this flat fee model to seed/angel-stage startups, that probably can't afford a traditional recruiter. Seems like classic disruption theory to me- a smaller, more agile new entrant offers cheaper services to a market segment previously underserved by high-profit incumbents. I read the big discussion yesterday about breaking up the real estate agent cartel with great interest- lots of great ideas for alternate business models in there, perhaps I can help contribute on the recruiting front. Yes we could probably work out a bulk deal for multiple jobs.

I was unsure if commercial content/advertising like this was prohibited by HN rules (I Googled around, and did read the Guidelines twice to be sure). If so, please feel free to delete/nuke from orbit, I won't be offended.

If you're interested, please let me know a good way to reach you (I was slightly concerned about putting my info out there in case the response was negative). Thanks,
Beyond the War on Invasive Species is a great book that explores the overuse of pesticides and why it is in fact dangerous.

For those that don't want to read the book, essentially there is alot of misinformation out there. When testing for human toxicity of pesticides, they only test the active ingredient in the chemical mixture. Not the other additives which could be up to ~70% of the overall mixture. The additives are very nasty and we most definitely don't want them on our food.

The main focus of this book is on invasive species. By looking at who is defining invasive species and providing a plethora of facts, this book essentially posits that the "invasives" myth is a way to sell more pesticide to governments. And offers a different perspective stating that many native plants actually benefit from invasive species - invasives often grow in disturbed soil, not the native habitats.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25782048-beyond-the-war-...
Do we want/need it to be? As long as it's "optimized" (for some definition of the word), that's good enough. Just like we optimize our salt, rice, eggs, ...
> What I feel like is missing is a communication path from the community to the platform.

Why? The issue is between the homeowner and the community. The fact that they're using AirBnB or anything else is irrelevant. The homeowner is responsible for what occurs on their property, and the community has a right to set standards via HOA's, city/local ordinances, etc.

The communication path should be between the property owner and AirBnB to discuss issues with their private contracts/arrangements/deals.
NB the school clocks were only "locally" centralized...
> End mandatory minimum parking requirements.

Including mandatory handicapped spaces?
Incorrect. Most of AirBnBs profit comes from units that do not have the owner present. Aka a hotel.
That's what this comment chain is about, the log book. Maintenance would have added comments after the previous pilot's above.
By definition of you calling main and core modules, yes, you would init both. They would both need to be available via git source control, but otherwise go mod is going to go get the virtualized path that's written into the mod file the same as if you had done it yourself with go get, so nothing has really changed.
> 100% remote - work from wherever you want

> $91,476 - The salary of an entry-level front-end developer

These two things should not be next to each other. It's exceptionally rare to get $90k a year remotely with no prior work experience.
People on HN ask this question every time that the subject comes up, and I'm a bit confused as to whether it's genuine curiosity, or whether it's meant to show that breaking up Google would be impractical.

I don't know much about the internal structure of Google, but my naïve intuition is that it could be broken up into several profitable companies relatively easily a whole a bunch of different ways, given how many different products there are.

It seems like the first thing would be to split off Youtube, which is apparently already independent enough that it has its own CEO. Actually, I'd be comfortable arguing that Youtube is big enough by itself that breaking it up somehow would benefit consumers, but at least in that case it does seem hard to imagine how it would be done.

Then, I would guess the next step would be to split Google Search from everything else. As far as I can tell, it's mostly stand-alone, and most integration with other products seemes more harmful to consumers than beneficial.

After that, it gets harder, but I feel like you could do something like this:

1. Adsense
2. Gmail, Calendar, Drive, Docs
3. Android, Pixel / whatever other hardware Google makes.
4. Everything else
Work is the one place this seems OK: if the company provides the email service, it can hide the forward button or whatever if it thinks that advances its interests.

Still think disclaimers about the limits (in the UI, not just the blog post) have to be be stronger. It could help avoid accidental leakage and communicate your intent to keep the contents confidential, but it's absolutely no use against someone hostile. I feel like the name should be more like "mark as confidential" or something, to clearly get across it's a strong suggestion but has no hard enforcement behind it.
Are hotels closing?

It seems very unlikely AirBnBs will "take less space" than a hotel. Hotels are quite space-efficient, given they're largely small, single rooms.
Airbnb has the ability to enforce these policies internally, which would come with the bonus of not needing to lose money to local governments.

It's simply that they don't.

In much the same way that Uber skirts the laws of background checks, Airbnb responds to complaints and attempts to introduce regulation with lawsuits. I wish the Hotel and Cab markets were disrupted by companies that wanted to optimize within the rules of the game, but they, either through lawsuits or just ignoring laws, don't play in an even setting, these traditional companies end up being burdened with more regulations than the "disrupters" adhere to.
> - Learning typos, or incorrect learning:

This is one that drives me crazy. Esp in the context of trying to be politically correct. No, Apple, I've never wanted to say "Duck" instead of "Fuck."
You can, go mod is completely opt in.
Same here. I immediately threw them in a bag of rice for a day or so and had no problems when using them after.
Correct, should have clarified.
Good job ads should list, in order:
A brief overview of the job (and the employer if not through a recruiter). Nothing too in-depth, just a top-line view, like so:
"Casual startup in [$LOCATION] looking for [$LANGUAGE] programmer. Must work weekends and crunch hours."

Then it should go into the list of BFOQs and job requirements. This should include education, experience (with years and/or other KPIs listed), transportation, relocation, etc. If the role is client-facing, it should include that here - specify that the client needs negotiation and communication skills.

After that it should list the basic job responsibilities. Again we're not going deep here, just a brief three or four lines. What will this person's everyday look like? Will they need to attend meetings? Will they need to turn out a specific number of lines of code daily? Etc. I'd also put in the management review cycle here, but some companies like to be cagey.

After that, list the 'nice-to-have' points. For instance, being bilingual, living in walking distance, etc. Just make sure they're quantifiable. We're not looking for wishy-washy 'cultural fit' here, but rather real success drivers that simply aren't part of the job's requirements.

Then, end with a CTA talking again about the company and how this person's growth opportunities would be. Might they be management in a year? 5? Etc.

Notice that I don't have much in the way of soft or flexible points, and I don't list the salary in the ad. Let the person come to you based on the job, but have a number in mind. Always set your anchor 5% below that when the person asks in the first call. Try to keep each section to either 3 or five one-sentence bullets. Make sure anyone involved with the recruiting cycle knows everything about that ad - even if they don't know the job's specifics.
Wow, this is significantly more than what I make in Eastern Europe. Sign me up!
I can't comment to their operational policies, but I have a coworker who owns a house they use for AirBnb, and they make quite a bit of money off of it. Enough to have a house dedicated to AirBnb, and so one of them doesn't need to work. They seem pleased with it, and they're not a corporation by any means.

But, again, I don't have a horse in this race.
> "Tiger Woods, a famous but controversial golfer, adopted a cat".

"Famous but controversial golfer Tiger Woods adopted a cat" might be awkward, but it's hard for me to buy an argument that it's either unnatural or even particularly hard to understand.
Someone posted further up that when you send a "secure" email to an outside the company email address, they get a link to ope the email and have to enter a one-time code that is emailed to them.

So even forwarding is broken, as is search for those of us that search our emails a lot.
Finally!!! I can learn to code!!!!
Correct. My first job as a junior full stack dev was $76K, and that was in NYC.
My takeaways from this article:
- Buy Organic Kale
- Buy Organic Strawberries
- Buy Organic Spinach

This is linked to in the article and is a good guide of what to buy organic and what you can buy conventional: https://www.ewg.org/foodnews/summary.php
US verdict on Roundup cancer case batters Bayer share price
You pay money to skip the line. So, the event organizer gets money, plus gets a pre-qualified lead. You know that someone who pays $20 to get into club is more likely to spend money on alcohol than someone who waits in line for an hour to get in for free.
How to build a Real-Time dashboard with free JavaScript libraries
What; you meaning zoning?
Marketing is not just psychological priming - it's also, first and foremost, dishonest communication. Given its prevalence today, it's getting difficult to expect adults to always make right decisions if most of their information sources are garbage.
What kind of argument is that though ? You should go to SF or NY and tell them it's just a supply problem, they probably haven't thought of it before.

Do you know the cost of destroying + rebuilding bigger buildings in a city center ? Much higher than closing a few semi legal "airbnb hotels". And that's if you can even build in the city at all.
> After the program graduates pay 15% of their income for 2 years if they are earning over $40,000, capped at $30,000 total paid back to Modern Labor.

Something about taking a cut of someone's salary doesn't feel right to me.

If you were to borrow the $10k that they give you, over a 2 year period at a 10% rate (maximum allowed by law in CA), you'd pay a little over $11k. Modern Labor will charge you up to $30k over that same 2 year period, for an interest rate north of 100%.

How is this initial $10k different from a loan? Just because it's coming out of your salary doesn't mean it's not usurious.
I'm really not counting on it coming out

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/09/reports-apple-airpow...