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My beef is that it’s yet another case of outsiders pressuring local politics.

The McDonaldization of our neighborhoods continues.

Outsiders feeling owed a “piece of the action” makes it harder for people to live and work in these communities.

They demand more and more concessions to keep their profits going up, sapping attention and resources, and most importantly, time for discussing the needs of the locals.
> Did the people looking for long-term rental housing who found it difficult to find long-term rentals love it?

This is just passing the buck. If AirBnB is driving up rents you have a supply problem, not an AirBnB problem.
I've been using Go modules for a bit and I really like it. I can easily set up local dependencies using the `replace` keyword as well. For instance, all of the apps in `cmd` which need access to common packages are their own modules, and then I just add:

replace pkg => ../../pkg

And I can refer to everything inside of `pkg` (`pkg` is its own module as well).
They should first make AirPods that can connect reliably to BlueTooth. Half the time I need to connect mine to my MacBook Pro I need to massage the BT and Speaker icons for 20 seconds.
Commercialise a shiny black box that plugs into the power (like a Wifi Extender), that:

1. Connects to the internet

2. uPnPs silently port 80 to itself

3. Registers a name with a dynamic DNS service (remember those?)

4. Has ~4GB local storage

5. Runs a 'newsfeed' type web portal or API.

6. Has a Phone app for easy sharing/creation of content.

Make this 100% turnkey for non-technical people and you MAY have a chance at getting people to stop storing personal stuff 'in the cloud'. I don't hold out much hope though.
Biology (i.e. XX or XY or other less common variants) doesn't care about what someone thinks they are.
> Home/End keys

On MacOS it's good to get used with unixy/emacsy shortcuts like Ctr-a/e for Home/End. Fn+Left/Right works too (and Fn+Left has a slightly different behaviour). Basically if you love Linux and unixy tools you can get productive on a Mac in no time...

The developers who love Macs are the ones who love the "unix spirit" but for whatever particular reasons can't do all their work on a Linux desktop, if you're not into that then stick to Windows :P
>There was no feedback, and the controls deferred to his inputs when the pilot was trying the opposite command (which would have saved the flight).

I've never seen a reliable source for the claim that the two pilots at the controls were pushing the stick in opposite directions for any extended period of time. What's the primary source for this info?
This is for people who would prefer to teach themselves.
If when I was 13, I discovered that my parents had erected billboards within sight of all of my fellow students with pictures and text describing all of the childish things I had done in the previous 12 years, I would have been mortified.

This is essentially what posting things to a public facebook profile is, and while I find it understandable that parents would do it without thinking, I find it horrifying that someone would defend it as "not wrong" with the benefit of hindsight.
I think the "corporate-owned" piece is a misnomer. I think what they mean to say is that they are commercial operations, rather than individuals making use of extra space that they already had in their homes.

If someone buys or rents a property that is bigger than they need, for the sole purpose of AirBnB-ing the extra space, that is a commercial mini-hotel.

In some jurisdictions this is probably a good thing, where you don't have the tourism volume to warrant building a proper hotel but where there is demand for tourism accomodations; in other jurisdictions it represents a wantonly inefficient use of real estate resources.
Considering that most of a city bus's use is at low speed, constantly braking and accelerating from stops, the hybrid should be a huge improvement environmentally; it's the perfect use-case for a hybrid powertrain (where the ICE just runs at constant speed and charges the batteries, known as a serial hybrid vehicle).
I'm really curious to see how their pharmaceutical/medical bets play out.

This is a space that's very competitive with low R&D returns that seems outside YC's previous domains.
I think it will be rougher than they thought breaking into it, but if they can prove out a better funding model for pharmaceutical development that could have a huge impact.
New York had a big scandal related to "swill milk" in the late 19th - early 20th centuries. Distillery waste was fed to sick and dying cows kept in overcrowded, filthy lots. The milk and whatever dirty, contaminated water that got mixed in was adulterated with various substances to help mask the low quality. Many children died from consuming it. A very dark chapter of human history.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swill_milk_scandal
Many web servers will serve file.ext.(gz|br) as a pre-compressed option. In order for brotli to beat gzip on size, you need more CPU time, so it's best if precompressed. This also means it's not really an option for dynamic content.
> If you pay someone a $2,000 a month salary for 21 weeks, that's already $42,000

It's $2,000 a month for 5 months, so $10,000 total.
There are a few mini-hotels

More than a few. Check out AirBnB listing in Miami Beach, for example.
Check the Kernel Security Protection Project sponsored by Google, they are the ones driving the removal of all VLA uses on the kernel.
Also worth noting that the reason we don't simply scale the forces down to the point a pilot could easily handle them is that above manouvering speed an aircraft can be damaged by full control deflection.
is it worth using?
The idea that evangelical Christians are about as dangerous as the "followers of Eris" seems like quite a stretch. I don't see Discordians bombing abortion clinics.

Even as recently as the 80s, when The Last Tempation of Jesus Christ was released, it was banned in several countries (and is still banned in several) for its "blasphemous" content. The producers were worried that people would bomb theaters. The idea that Islam is uniquely censorious or intolerant of "blasphemy" is ahistorical, in my opinion.
There are many cities in Europe where AirBnB and similar services are a plague for locals. I'm sure it's great for tourists though.

First we couldn't buy and we were forced to rent because wealthy folks would buy the real estate in bulk to rent it and/or use it as a speculative investment, driving prices up and making it unafordable. Now they don't even bother to rent it long-term to locals, they're better off putting it on AirBnB for tourists at a much higher rate. Try renting a flat long-term in Lisbon these days and tell me how it goes.

I obviously don't know your situation and maybe there was some overreach in your case but in some cities government meddling is absolutely necessary lest the place turns into a Disneyland resort for wealthy tourists.
> Why? Because if you make $200k a year, a $50 fine isn't a big deal, at all, but if you barely scrape by, $50 could break your budget for the month.

That makes no sense. If you're stealing $50 then a $150 fine is a deterrent even if you're a billionaire, because the expected value if you're caught is -$100, which has nothing at all to do with how much money you have.

And if that caused the billionaire to not care, that's great. If I got $150 every time someone stole $50 from me and that didn't deter them, I'd start researching how to get them to steal more money from me because it's so profitable to me. If they're willing to pay that much more than something costs, at that point you're just selling it to them and deterrence is not desired because the transaction is apparently net positive to both parties.

Moreover, it seems that you're suggesting that someone with $0 income and $0 assets then should have a <=$50 fine because it's all they can afford? That's the thing that really wouldn't serve as a deterrent, in a problematic, net negative consequences sort of way.
Making sure I understand this: I’m some independent developer working in many languages. I like every project I work on to be inside ~/work/ within a subdir I name based on the project.

I used to be annoyed that I had to put every go project into a dir 7-8 layers below that e.g ~/work/go/src/github.com/joshklein/project/cmd/hello_world.go, but now I can have ~/work/go_hello/src/main.go. Right?

I understand this isn’t the main point, but frankly it’s the thing I care the most about.
That's really interesting.

All of these years I've been beating up on Java for lack of something akin to LINQ. I guess I'll have to find something else to complain about.....
Legit question: what headphones are you talking about?

Requirement: in-ear and no wires or over ear hook thing.
AirBnB hosts in many cities are buying up apartments (or landlords who used to rent long-term are switching units to short-term rentals), reducing the supply and thus driving up prices for the remaining units.
You should probably get out more. Viva la difference!
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That's true, but it is a separate (and valid) issue.

The distinction between sharing specific photos and hacked baby monitor, as pointed out by ianlevesque, is still important and it's wrong to casually dismiss it.
Sales taxes are collected by the business conducting the transaction. AirBnB is that business. I see nothing unreasonable about requiring them to collect said taxes.

If they were Craigslist, where they were actually just a passthrough for transactions conducted entirely outside their platform, then asking them to collect sales taxes would be unreasonable.
It'll just be a point/minor release. WWDC is where major releases are usually announced (iOS 13 and macOS 10.15 for the coming 2019 WWDC).
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> I don't see how it drives rent up.

If entire apartments are made into AirBnbs, there's less apartments in the market which turns the prices up, what's so hard to grasp ?
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Raspberry Pi 3 B+ vs. Raspberry Pi 3 A+ vs. Raspberry Pi Zero
Facebook's official policy is to only allow one authentic account per person.
Streaming race heats up: Contenders to loot Netflix space
Same here. At first it seems a little clunky, but then I realized that was actually a feature.
Depends on how you "feed" the cells.
Additional context: on March 23, 2018, a Tesla Model X, while using autopilot, drove into a barrier and killed the driver. This was fixed in a software update, but the issue seems to have resurfaced.

NTSB analysis of the March 23 2018 collision: https://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/AccidentReports/Pages/HW...

Tesla's statement of the March 23 2018 collision: https://www.tesla.com/blog/update-last-week%E2%80%99s-accide...
> really struck me as strained was the "We are also the next generation of engineers and innovators," bit.

People have been saying this to kids non-stop, so it's not a stretch to think that they would parrot it as well. I think both explanations are plausible.
Not necessarily, it might just corrupt neighbouring data, changing the behaviour of the exploited function.
> If financial reward is what you most care about, write proprietary software. If FOSS is what you care most about, then the AGPL is probably a good fit for you. It won't force anyone to pay you for using your work, but it would force them to give back to the community.

This is a false dichotomy. You don't need to "care most about financial reward" to recognize that FOSS is simply not sustainable.

There is a whole level of freedoms one can grant (or not) to users of their software. FOSS is one extreme. Proprietary software is another. I don't think we need to tolerate black boxes, just because we want functioning software.
Fair enough! That's why I limited my comment to US telecoms -- they're the only ones I have any experience with.
If Airbnb doesn't like it -- they don't need to go into the hospitality business in these places.

That's a dangerous precedent there. Any company that acts as online information/marketplace/intermediation is automatically "in the business?" That's a dangerous precedent to set. Does that mean that reddit is the defacto author & publisher of everything on reddit? Amazon is culpable as the manufacturer of everything it sells? (Not just Amazon Basics.) Something about that strikes me as not quite right and very dangerous.
Honestly? This is one of the most reactive discussions of an article i have seen on this site. I assume that suggests something about the concept of asperger's as it exists in the here and now. I haven't read the whole article, and obviously it has a slant, but i don't think it is underhanded writing. If anything of postmodernism or death of the author or critical theory has any merit at all, I don't think it's necessarily a propaganda hit piece to examine the context the diagnosis came from. Psychiatric sorts of labels are still fundamentally pretty nebulous post hoc categories to dump people in and not tests for the presence of a pathogen etc.

I have my own slant, so sure, i am agreeing with points that articulate my own feelings better than I have. But even if you disagree there has to be some mechanism for elevating a dialogue, and i think that's one.

In my own personal experience, people who had or fit the diagnostic model were socially isolated, basically unfulfilled and uncomfortable in some way, and i could see that by the way they engaged verbally and i was happy to engage back wherever i could. Sure; i don't actually want to talk about star wars novels or what snack foods someone ate 20 years ago at summer camp for two hours. But sometimes if you are socially isolated too, it can feel good just to know you gave someone else the chance to open up and be animated. That requires an investment though, and i can understand how tired a "normal" person would get of doing that essentially as charity.

But you guys sure could have been more charitable in the discussion here, and not so deeply polarized. My experience with mental health issues is that they polarize people kind of abusively. You guys are generally the smartest and most mature place i can go to lurk a discussion. I'm sad to see that personal stake being used against that comity and intellectual atmosphere.
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Yeah, this is a little weird. I have a 5-year-old and she knows we post pictures and videos of her on Facebook and Instagram for her family to see. Heck, she even asks us to take a video of her when she’s doing something silly or ridiculous. Not once have we ever lied to her about posting or hid it from her.

Then again, I think I’m a more permissive parent than most and I don’t really shelter her from anything.
Where tourism is, economic activity thrives.
Local population grows.
=> there's a shortage of housing, especially in city center, where people want to live, and want to go.
=> there's a competition to own the land/housing between: people who want to live there, and people who want to rent it to tourists (lower investment than if you lived there and high+frequent demand).
=> there's also a shortage of hotels AND a temporary shortage of convenience (precisely where AirBnB thrives with VC money, in order to break and change the market - that's very intentional).
> keep them empty to make tax-free money through air-bnb.

You don't make a lot of money through AirBnB if you are keeping the place empty.
Sounds like an easy solution. Raze all the vacant hotels that surely have been put under by the lack of demand as it shifts to Airbnb and make those apartments you can buy instead.
So then what DO you mean? Which nutrients are you concerned about?
>In the end it was just a horrible situation to open up what was a hotel, right in the middle of our association / neighborhood.

By joining a HOA, you've delegated away to the collective the right to dictate to your neighbors what they can and can't do with their own property. In your case, the system worked - because you are in a HOA. If people want to exert that kind of collectivist control over their neighbors, that's the kind of organization they should be buying homes in.

But outside of that structure, what gives someone the right to dictate to their neighbors what they can and can't do with their own property? All kinds of small businesses are routinely run out of residential zoned properties. "Renting a room" seems like the kind of small business that's ideal for this situation - it takes no more infrastructure to house a vacation rental than it does to house a longer-term resident. "Hotels" require employees and elevators and truckloads of supplies delivered weekly; vacation rentals have none of that, and so the comparison makes little sense beyond "they are noisy". Leaseholders can also throw parties and be disruptive; there is an existing legal process to deal with noise complaints.

This category of complaint seems like a thin veneer around the core of truth that people who sink a colossal chunk of their nest egg and future earnings into one asset are knee-jerk averse to anything perceived as a threat to it.
This just made me think of shopping centres (malls), you have a pedestrianised area surrounded by roads (and car parking).

I'm not suggesting that they're the solution, but a symptom, and evidence of demand for shopping without having to dodge cars.
I spend a lot of time on conference calls and AirPods really change everything. Sometimes I will be on a call and only get pulled in once or twice. It's kind of a waste to not be doing other stuff during that time and they definitely make that easier.
Why should zoning laws be fought tooth-and-nail? If I buy a house in a neighbourhood full of single-family dwellings that are all one and two storeys high, should I be able to build a condo building on my land?

Can I open a nightclub in my house?

What about parking? Can I pave my front lawn and rent the space out as parking spots? Or maybe put a dumpster there for local businesses to put their trash in?

There's a tree on my boulevard. Can I cut the tree down and park a truck on the boulevard?

I decided to run a grow-op in my house. When I turn the electricity on, the lights fade in my neighbours houses because the load on my grow-up is so much bigger than the equipment is designed to support.

Tough luck for my neighbours, correct?
I want to believe that Bernie Sanders uses LISP.
No, Apple had a vision for perfect usability. It had no wires for the ear pods so no need for a standard jack.
In some cases, yes, in some, no. It really depends on your situation, including what your opportunity cost for the marginal time commitment of doing it yourself is and if your transaction is special in a way which changes the expected value of an agent and/or the expected cost of doing it yourself, and if you've found solutions that put you in a better than average position with either of the two opposing challenges.
Are they bothering you more than non-registered cars in people's yards bothers the HOA type of people?

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.
Hrm ... ok here's a specific change I'd like to see they have a "neighbors" portal. But if you try to input a complaint it's hard to find a listing nearby and they say

"If you can’t find the listing’s web address, enter the street address and we’ll try to locate the listing. In order to protect our hosts’ privacy, we won’t be able to confirm the existence of any Airbnb listings or follow up with you."

This supports your point and should be changed.
Dozens or even hundreds of cheaply outfited cooky cutter apartments run by a management company.

I'd wager that's 80% of their business, nowadays.
Very cool as an alternative... the link at the top though, I thought it was like 1997 all over again.

I'm glad to see alternatives... Though, I kind of miss when newsgroups and BBSes were more popular.
I find it really unfortunate that the airbnb debate is always so polarized.

AirBNB has often provided me a better alternative to a largely terrible hotel market that often takes racket prices and makes me pay for services I don't need. On the other hand I completely understand when people are annoyed about party folk living in the flat above them or when they lack safety regulations or don't pay the same taxes hotels do.

But none of that justifies an outright ban, there should be solutions to regulate the bad while allowing the good. Make them pay hefty fees that they may pass on to their customers if they violate night rest times. Make them follow safety regulations and pay takes. (Yeah, that will make it more expensive, but I can still avoid paying for daily room service I want to opt out and sometimes even can't and 24/7 reception staff I don't need.)
I'd never considered the school clocks would be a centralized system, but it makes sense. Interesting
Matches should monotonically disappear and not get reordered as you enter more letters.

This is trivial to do on exact contexts (like start menus - why none gets this?). It's ok to wait until the user enters some letters to start showing options, it's also ok to limit the number of results as long as you say there are more somewhere. What is not ok is to show a single match, and then after the user press another key show two matches, with the first one gone.

Distance based matching can't strictly follow this rule, but if you are optimizing one, it is a good goal to get approximately right.
The main thing that annoys me about Go modules is that it broke so much tooling. I still can't get GoCode to work properly, and there are 4 or 5 different forks of the repo all trying to add module support, its a mess.
> If it were easy to report abuses to Airbnb directly, or if local police were instructed to contact them, the platform could better regulate itself.

And the fact that they don't have a feature for this shows that they don't care. They just think that a few lawsuits here and there are cheaper than adequately dealing with community complaints.
> But outside of that structure, what gives someone the right to dictate to their neighbors what they can and can't do with their own property?

Ha. Don't come in Europe cities. There _are_ regulations in cities about that. And rightly so.
"Runaway" in the sense of "its moving in a undesired and unexpected direction and continues to do so despite attempts to stop it".
I would say that one should look at the hovoc that reigns in neighborhoods with draconian zoning that prevents sufficient supply from coming online to meet demand for housing and hotels. We have the technologies necessary to build housing demanded by humans; we just make deploying that tech illegal.
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It doesn't matter much when you build only once, but more people need to be aware of Ninja for builds. Both cmake and meson can target it, and it is much faster for incremental builds.
Suing every city trying to regulate your service that’s harming city residents is just lovely to you?
> Qwest: Lets people pay money to skip lines at venues like clubs and bars. They’re currently at 10 venues in 2 cities, and say they should be at 100 venues in 6 cities this year. They aim to expand to events like music festivals and sporting events.

Aren't most lines created deliberately for security reasons? Like: crowd control, maximum number of visitors, metal detectors, luggage checks, etc.

I can imagine that some clubs deliberately create lines outside to give the impression of popularity and exclusivity. But for any other situation it is of economic interest to the owner to keep lines as short as possible (visitors can't spend money while in the line).

What I'm trying to get to is: I don't get why any event organiser or bar owner would want this.