skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The article you linked mentioned the term was coined during the rise of the AIDS/HIV epidemic when we needed to statistically account for men who had sex with other men but whom did not feel comfortable identifying with the words "gay" or "bisexual".

I'm personally in the camp that if you have sex with genders outside the opposite of your own, then you're either gay or bisexual. I don't differentiate between whether you're attracted to the same sex or just seriously, uncontrollably horny and desperate to shag anything with an orifice.

I guess I still don't see the relevance of a distinction beyond that of psycho-semantics.
I hope so, but everyone I know who is under 40 and owns property also loves Prop 13.
This is one of the primary benefits of using Blockstack. The Blockstack naming system is used to associate an immutable user identity with the routing path to their storage, for reads and writes. The data is stored in your own gaia hub which you control which apps can write to, you can revoke access, delete your data, or take your data with you. We are working to make it more user friendly but you can read about it here: https://docs.blockstack.org/storage/overview.html

The identity is stored on the strongest blockchain and can be linked to your gaia hub.

"initial servers for a decentralized platform get more users over time and remain the largest, while later and/or smaller ones may not get attention, and could possibly even close down because of low usage" while we host our own nodes, in general the nodes in our network are selected based on a random walk graph and bias away from having a few nodes.
Very well written. We’ve ended up with a lot of similar structures in our codebase for managing plans and trials. Additionally, we’ve decoupled plans and trials so that it’s always possible to create a trial of any tier on the fly; some additional flexibility there. We also chose to do columns in postgres for features, and not use an array or JSON object for storing it (at least for now).
Ring buffer. When it comes to multithreading, I avoid using things like semaphores, mutexes and locks.
It's not like the city can't factor the info about the owner from the address. They pay property taxes to the city, right? If a city council wanted a crackdown on illegal AirBnBs, they could compile a lust of properties every month and fine the landlords based on zoning regulation. They could also provide some kind of report form or telephone number.
I'm so glad such interesting content is hitting the front page of HN. This was right underneath "Computer Scientists Create Reprogrammable Molecular Computing System". Who wants to read about reprogrammable molecular computing systems, when I can read about gay giraffes. Top quality stuff, guys. Carry on.
...or he got downvoted because it’s a solution that doesn’t work for all (I haven’t downvoted). I tried to subscribe to premium, but there’s no such option for me. It’s not available in my country.
Yes. Airbnb, “hosts”, and “guests” are all bad actors stealing from the commons.

If I wanted to live in a hotel, I’d move to a hotel. Instead in I rented in a residential building. If someone rents the apartment next door under false pretenses and turns it into a hotel room, violating his lease agreement and the law, he belongs in prison.
Your entire premise of lacking sympathy for an oversimplified group of people that only exists in your head was a bit condescending.
I don't know why you got downvoted, that thing did happen and "consenting adults" was the murderer/cannibal's defense. Another counter-example I'm surprised hasn't been mentioned yet is incest.

"Between consenting adults" is a necessary but unsufficient condition.
I'm not sure I've ever heard "homosexuality is unnatural" as a serious argument.

I've absolutely heard "homosexuality is immoral", but the two things are not really related.
The key difference between a gay aunt or uncle and a no longer reproducing grandparent is that the grandparent has already reproduced.

Also, if homosexuality is a strategy for childcare, why do homosexual relatives contribute so little to their nieces and nephews? And if it is a successful strategy, why does it occur at such a low prevalence?
Oh I see the chop shops too. There’s one guy downtown with one of those huge flat shopping carts from Costco that has an electric angle grinder. He has literally cut the locks off dozens of bikes on Market street and the cops do absolutely nothing. It’s surreal. No other city this rich is living in conditions like this. Something is broken in our society that is allowing this level of apathy. No one bats an eye at most of this stuff anymore, but it’s absolutely not something I am willing to tolerate as “normal” and that we can’t do better...

The police don’t enforce the law because there’s no point and the chief of police tell them no to unless they are a risk to others or themselves. Then there’s no penalty to not pay the fines and even if they don’t show up to court they never get jail time, DAs rarely prosecute (unless violence occurs), juries rarely convict, and even when they do the judges here make it so the consequences are meaningless. I really don’t think it’s the cops who are the problem. Their hands are tied by the incompetent politicians we send to City Hall. Although I really don’t understand why cops don’t walk a beat or do any kind of foot patrols in the worst areas... there’s no excuse for that.

I agree, we need to enforce the law. I’d even go so far as paying another jail in a cheaper area to hold all of the criminals so that they aren’t here where it’s prhobitively expensive. Good luck finding a city that would want to deal with our criminals though.
Preventing radicalization is a presumption without supporting evidence.

The New Zealand authorities have essentially made it illegal to disagree that that the video and manifesto is valid justification for taking away rights and freedoms because informed disagreement would require to view the content which is punishable with a sentence up to 14 years. Do you really not see the problem here?

If the video and manifesto is used as justification to take rights a privileges away from the citizens of New Zealand then its only reasonable that the citizens have the right to scrutinize their governments actions by viewing and sharing video and manifesto. Accountability is still necessary regardless how unpleasant it may be.
This is like reading a parallel-universe version of "Mein Kampf".
While I agree from a practical governance sense, having n number of votes on the same issue is still democratic despite it being increasingly inefficient.

As is voting out leaders you don't wish to follow anymore, even immediately.
And that's why I believe that the search/discovery problem is not solved yet by google
What exactly is the distinction being made here?
Wow, I used to work with someone who ticked every one of those boxes. Incredibly knowledgeable and spent all of their free time reading spec documents and programming. Unfortunately they could be emotionally unstable at times which was had to work around.
Shameless plug, I’m developing an iOS keyboard where you receive XP by typing words, and you get stats like words per day. Currently in private beta and looking for beta testers more info at https://erudito.io
I'm a huge fan of writing in a paper journal, for more important stuff, i.e. blog posts, video scripts, I'll use my Surface Pro + some OCR to get a rough draft converted.

Something about the physical action of writing makes me retain information better.
> Amazon.com as well. In the beginning one of their biggest competitive advantages was that they didn't charge sales tax.

Wasn't that basically the law of the land (until this year, due to Wayfair), based on the Quill SCOTUS decision?
In this Airbnb drama there's a company getting all the business and none of the hate: Booking.com.
They list apartments, don't perform any more checks on the legality and are never mentioned.
It's amazing to watch.
One of the issues here is that it's very likely that e-bikes will start to dominate regular bikes in near future. Because of their fast acceleration they may well be more suited to the roads that cars currently dominate than to the typical "bike lane" environment. Certainly the difference between an e-bike and a regular bike is much bigger than would be expected at first glance.

Last year the Dutch bought more e-bikes than 'normal' bikes. And in terms of the euro total amount it was even much more. [1]

[1]https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/mar/01/bike-country-n...
I’m surprised Kirkland even has Airbnb’s. They seem to be almost illegal in next door Bellevue, but then again Bellevue has plenty of hotels.
They didn't ban them they changed the license requirements to own them, something that they can do legally by regulation under the current law

The ban will be done in parliament over then next week or so, looks like 95%+ of the currently elected MPs will vote for the change, all major parties in parliament, left and right, have publicly said that they agree with the changes.

Remember that less than one person in 15 in NZ has a gun license, and even fewer own semi-automatics, it's a small minority affected by this change, it's not all that controversial (in NZ)
"just" a shortage.
Airbnb listings don’t provide addresses, which aren’t seen until they are long booked. You couldn’t just scrape them, you’d have to actually order and pay for each one whose address you wanted.
The manifesto includes direct calls to violence. So promoting and spreading the manifesto in that way should be a crime. However, reading and sharing the material for informing ones self should be seen as right that one has - especially since it is being used as justification to take rights and freedoms away.
Nevermind, it seems to be working again.
And dinging their "I'm a responsible adult that will pay my debts and fall in line" score.
What I mean by that is its not a problem that people are paying for short term high price rentals. The real problem is more housing needs to be built.
Flow is a static type checker for JavaScript, and flow-runtime is a separate project that turns your static types into runtime assertions. You can even enable this on a file by file basis. We use this at my job to statically type all of our front-end code, and then check API responses (the bane of static type systems: external data) against those same types at runtime. It works really well.
> How does Airbnb benefits residents of a city outside of landlords/slumlords?

When I moved to Seattle a few years ago after college, I wanted to explore different neighborhoods to find out where I wanted to live. I found an Airbnb that let me rent out a persons mother-in-law house for $1000 for a month which is like 1/3rd of hotel rates and way more spacious because the alternative is that they would just let that space sit empty.
> People are generally more forgiving when you perceive your employees' disability in a positive light instead of viewing their disabilities as something to exploit.

Is that what this is?

I guess it's no more exploitative than employing anyone else.
HTTP client as a ViM editor plugin
I like this idea, but maybe there should be (or maybe there is) a writing-specific subset of XML, like there is with music. The HTML elements come close to encompassing a lot of functionality, but I think there ought to be an expanded set of tags for doing ... stranger? .. things. For example, how would you render "House of Leaves" in HTML? I'm thinking of modern music composition and how it's really pushed music notation, and I think MusicXML handles it... so I imagine a WriteXML can cover traditional forms of writing and adapt to more experimental forms as itt developed.
We’ve found 4000 exoplanets but almost zero are right for life
Wow that was an interesting 5 minutes of my life. Does U.S. TV still have so many pharmaceutical ads?
One can hope. Silicon Valley loves to devour industries.
You're probably thinking of George Dantzig: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Dantzig

It's not unbelievable that this happens. Ramanujan presumably solved some important problems without knowing their context in contemporary mathematics: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Srinivasa_Ramanujan
We're only beginning to really understand Autism, Asperger Syndrome, and countless other cognitive states.

So programs of this nature are wonderful to see — they create the opportunity to learn from and work with people who think differently than the general population.
Are you sure? Aesthetics is a huge part of the success of a product. A lot of wireless earbuds are much larger, and thus AirPods are much more desirable (they look less stupid). People absolutely buy mostly based on aesthetics, provided the functionality is reasonable. In fact, I argue that this is why most people buy Apple products...
My recollection was that Amazon started collecting sales tax many years ago, but apparently it was much more recent than that. They started collecting sales tax around 2011-2014 because many states passed explicit state legislation requiring them to.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_tax
I think the problem isn't the blockers at that point.
I'm sorry for your suffering, but please don't take HN threads on tangents like this, so we don't have to ban you again. This is in the guidelines:

"Eschew flamebait. Don't introduce flamewar topics unless you have something genuinely new to say. Avoid unrelated controversies and generic tangents."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
In the last two weeks youtube started having problems with uBlock. If it's on, youtube refuses to play videos that have ads on. At least for me. Maybe they are testing the ad-block-blockers, and I'm one of the subjects.
NIMBY voters. The issue is 100% local zoning to allow less parking spaces, efficiency units, inlaw apartments in suburban houses, allow multi-family housing, and allow zoning of nearby grocery stores.
The first thing I ask when looking for an apartment to rent is if they permit Airbnb’s. If so, I don’t even bother checking out what they have, too many bad experiences with kids getting them to hold very into the late night parties.
This is exactly the right answer. Big brother, surveillance state, police state, etc. the list goes on and on.

This startup is for us citizens. Students should be taught English in the way it’s spoken in the states; not some China-ok’d version. Taking a step back, the whole idea of a Chinese company teaching English primarily for US citizens is smelly to begin with. Sounds like all future students should stay away.
Supreme is the company I like to bring up as one that survives on almost 100% pure positioning. The "feature" Supreme released a few years ago was a brick with the Supreme logo on it which sold out instantly and started going on eBay for $1000.

This is a feature that no other company could have built. Every single one of Supreme's competitors could have known that Supreme would be releasing the brick and the information would be utterly useless to them because only Supreme could have released the Supreme brick.

On the one end you have Supreme and the other you have pure commodities and It's up to you to figure out where you'd like to be along that spectrum.
In that case though the worse crime is its website...
Exactly. I mostly use the debugger to see the call stack so I can understand what calls what without having to read everything. I can work backward from the faulty behavior to better understand the context of the issue.

I rarely actually fire up the debugger, and I try to refrain from gratuitous prints (though I use them in emergencies or if a debugger isn't convenient).

I think this makes me a better programmer, though that's really hard to tell objectively.
Attitudes are different in NZ from the US. There is no right to bear arms, and self defense is not a valid reason to hold a firearm licence. An overwhelming majority of people believe that military style weapons have no place in society, and that those guns - though not all guns - are too dangerous, and that accordingly yes, you must hand them over.
I would expect making a pro-ISIS video/tweet to leave me without additional molestation from the government, yes. Probably wouldn't stay up on YouTube, but other sites don't seem to have a problem with such things. (stereotypically, that would be LiveLeak)

You can check out the list of exceptions to free speech in the US here [0]. I disagree with a number of them, but an "ISIS is awesome and this is why" video would fall under none of them. (the same goes for a "Hitler was awesome" video, a "Trump is awesome" video, or a "Trump is a fascist and we need to rise up in violent rebellion" video)

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_free_speech_exce...
FWIW, NYC also came of age before the age of the automobile.
I think it's DNS blocking with the ISP-provided DNS servers. Perhaps you're using google public DNS already?

In Australia I believe it was blocking at the IP address level, so requires a VPN to circumvent. But only for some ISPs.
But why does each company have one for their own[0]?

[0]news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19473944
> (low property taxes AND they never increase)

Under Prop 13, property taxes go up 2% every year.

Sure, that doesn't quite keep up with appreciation in boom years, but not the same as "never increase".
> I wonder if there's a forum...

There was one https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/02/22/rip-culture-war-thread... <- a very interesting read.

Various satellite forums of slatestarcodex have grown and are around, and only the original Culture War thread is gone. That whole group seems to be politically mixed and at least partially vaccinated against the dangers of framing political disagreements in terms of tribes and dehumanising the outgroup/opponent.
They do, although selection was limited. A quick search just now turned up about 30 results.
Candidates aren't told why they were accepted/rejected from a job.
Of course a US ISP could do this too, completely legally - the 1st amendment only binds the government - and the Trump administration's removal of net neutrality gives ISPs carte-blanche to do whatever they like in this area
Something else that's worrying is this comment from a technician:

His internal assembly designs for the Max, he said, still include omissions today, like not specifying which tools to use to install a certain wire, a situation that could lead to a faulty connection. Normally such blueprints include intricate instructions.

I hope that all these failures are investigated and addressed before the plane is allowed to fly again.
5% + 50c!

They only make sense if you are small in scale. Use them when you are starting out and then build your own after you have a good number of paid users.
How could prices increase? Effective supply of housing goes up so prices should go down.

Edit: Apparently sometimes whole apartments/houses become airbnbs, which I wasn't aware of. My experience has been spare rooms being rented out.
The American Constitution is the longest standing implemented constitutional document in the world. Clearly they have done something right. The American Constitution isn't optimized for perfect social harmony. Its designed to work and stand the test of time. The New Zealand constitution is only 33 years old - which is peanuts. If it doesn't stand the test of time then your opinion really doesn't hold water does it?
At grade bicycle lanes tend to be victims of snowplowing anyway, in my experience.
I thought the base state tax in CA was 6%, but actually you’re right anyway. The total rates are pretty similar. Mental error on my part.

Ref: https://www.avalara.com/taxrates/en/state-rates/california/c...
It should go without saying that your emergency fund should exceed the deductible on your insurance. I know there are multi-year illnesses, or illnesses that cause one to become unable to work and keep health insurance, but those situations are exceedingly rare. Being broke, on the other hand, is exceedingly common.
Never heard of it London, mine certainly has at least one: I had a guest of a neighbour on a (very) different floor try for some time to open my door - with a key - in the middle of the night one time...
I particularly like the Medieval Total War soundtrack by Jeff van Dyck. I still remember many of the songs, very haunting, just so well done, the intensity of the music going along with what happened on the battlefield, with small elements like environmental sounds for various seasons...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWhbVYre9uk
Google could respond by forcing them into an AdWords-like program and making embedded ads unskippable.
I don't believe that. The last time I saw a study claiming it, which was a long time ago, it turned out to be funded by the hotel industry.
I don't believe so in this case, in NZ these laws were written with film in mind - more generally the safe-harbour laws are largely written for copyright issues on behalf of the content people
Even if an overwhelming majority of people believe state shootings (with guns) of people who won't hand them over is moral and ok in society.. the point of my reply still stands and has nothing to do with the right to self-defense etc.

There are plenty of times in history when overwhelming majorities beliefs took away minority rights.

When reading the wrong words can get you 10 years in prison, it probably does trend towards Orwell's future though.
Just curious, is this restricted to Android only?
This is not hate speech, this is a snuff film
I think some people must be more sensitive than others to the color temperature of light, myself included. My parents (who are otherwise wonderful people) use the 3500-4000K fluorescents in their living room instead of the much more warm and pleasant table lamps. When I walk my dog at night, I often see the blue-green glow of what must be 5000K bulbs coming from many of my neighbors houses. And my office mis-ordered bulbs for their track lights and ended up with a random mix of 3000K and 5000K bulbs; I seriously considered finding a new job until I was able to convince them to change the bulbs, but nobody else really seemed to mind.

By the way, Philips makes a line of dimmable LED bulbs that are 2700K at full brightness but go down to 2200K as they dim. Installing those in my dining room fixture was a revelatory experience.
what broken printers are for?
The Elaborate, Dying Art of Hustling for Money at Dave and Buster's
That's already a more informative and substantive comment than the first one.
Drone analytics startup Aria Insights shuts down
It should be noted that Matt Taibbi has considerable history in Russia and may not be particularly objective about the American media establishment.

To wit https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/the-two-expat-bros-wh...
How would someone actually do that? The only way to identify the dips and peaks is N days afterwards, where larger N increase the confidence of that it really was the max/min.
Sure. I'm in charge of HN and I don't know how all its systems work.

And there are plenty of other scenarios you could imagine if you wanted to assume good faith.
Super Metroid > everything else.
Structurally WA has many of the same benefits. It’s not a perfect comparison though because Seattle is struggling with fierce nimbys against a tech boom, and also tax rates are around 1% like in CA.

Note that Austin has some of the same issues with housing prices surging due to nimbys. The biggest difference is that outside the city proper there’s a lot of land and a lot of suburbs that are thrilled to have Austin aggressively push the growth “out,” and also it was a much smaller city to begin with so this is the first ring of suburbs we’re taking about, not a second or third ring as you’ll find in bigger cities.

My main argument is just that property tax is a more effective wealth tax and lends itself towards a more progressive overall tax system.