skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What's the contract law remedy for a tenant in a building whose unscrupulous landlord has decided to dump his spare inventory onto Airbnb as an ad hoc hostel? Break the lease? Sue for moving costs and to recover the security deposite? What if you're rent-controlled and the landlord says "go ahead, break the lease! woohoo!"?

What's the contract law remedy for unscrupulous businesspeople who buy entire buildings and convert them into Airbnb hostels?

I've used and appreciated Airbnb, but I think 'cletus is ultimately right and threads like this have a hard time of seeing the (valid) other side of this issue.
I get an error message from Heroku after trying to authenticate.
They look great. They have no function, no reason why I can't download the software and I regularly do, but is there not something nice about having a nice case for software like this.

Similar to the way I like to buy physical books for those books which I think I would like on my bookshelf.

as a p.s anyone feel like bundling vim into a nice case for me? :P
And remember, in those mails, the idea being discussed was the risk to the apartment owner of having their stuff owned. But in many NYC buildings --- including the NYC ABNB rentals I've had --- access to the apartment includes access to the front gate and the front door; in other words, it creates additional access to the apartments of every renter in the building, whether or not they themselves have opted in to Airbnb.
And here I thought I was creative for applying it to UX...thanks for this! :)
Correlations between political leanings and your online activities
That's not economics, that's magic. For comparison, note how the author indicates specifically Apple's economic strategy:

make money on device sales + encourage more device sales by making less money on media and apps

Note that all of the numbers in the Apple strategy are positive.

There's nothing comparable for his Amazon suggestion. "Miniscule margins + massive patience" works when price > 0, for all existing Amazon product & service lines. Applying that formula using negative margins doesn't work.

It's one thing to say Amazon can make money on volume by selling TVs for razor-thin margins. It's something entirely different to suggest they can make money giving away $200 smartphones + $350/yr voice & data plans free in perpetuity. That's the part the author conveniently skips over.
Actually, it does add information. It takes information from elsewhere in the picture and uses it to interpolate/guess what high-resolution image produced the low-resolution pixels.
Only if oil generally only needed to be replaced once or twice over the lifespan of a car, an oil change was traditionally so easy and convenient that most customers did it themselves, and the "expensive repair", in absolute terms, was only slightly more expensive than the retail price of oil change parts and supplies for otherwise comparable cars.

So no, not really.
Sounds like you bought a co-op, not a condo.
I agree, I watched the video and read the FAQ and I'm still not 100% sure what you're building.

Edit: I hadn't read your original post at http://daltoncaldwell.com/what-twitter-could-have-been. I just read it and now it makes sense. I have a feeling your video will reach a much wider audience, so others might feel lost as well.
Hmm… it looks like I misspoke. The "sparse mode" check that Array.prototype.sort performs in JavaScriptCore appears to be different than the its concept of sparse array storage, which is used under the conditions I described. The "sparse mode" check in the sorting code appears to be related to whether the array instance has getters/setters or properties defined via Object.defineProperty. The performance difference my code demonstrates is due to the extra overhead of iterating the sparse array storage compared to a vector, and not due to the different sorting algorithms that are employed.
I am thinking of instances where a landlord's interest are aligned with tenants generally. For instance, fighting neighborhoods who use political connections to oppose rental development in central city neighborhoods ("mini dorms").

Discrimination is discrimination. These are public neighborhoods. Protecting one's property value does not make discrimination noble or any less discriminatory.
Try to run a pig farm on your home and see how far you get with that. The law of "nuisance" has existed for hundreds of years. Your right to use your property extends only as far as the limits of your property. If any of the effects spill over to your neighbors, they have the right to limit what you can do with your property (to the extent of the "spill over"). This has been basic American/British property law for centuries.
I know some people have voiced concerns about Gatekeeper in 10.8, but this seems at least as bad. Especially from a normal user's perspective.
Am I the only one not seeing anything?
If you have Matlab, you might try the tools here:

http://www.ece.lsu.edu/ipl/Software.html
Maybe I'm misreading it, but it seems like he's clearly saying he alone is the only one who has ever implemented any kind of computation. I don't see how else to interpret "left to me". Why not "left to later mathematicians,", "left to later generations", or even "left to my team"?
It's a shame that hamburglar is hellbanned because his comment is insightful. In some sense, isn't this algorithm "inventing" detail? If you're lucky the detail corresponds closely to what should be there, but sometimes it doesn't and thus it can't be relied upon.
I think 'cletus is using "apartment" in its generic sense.

There's no question that most leases are done on boilerplate contracts that forbid Airbnb-type arrangements, often by spelling out by name each of the occupants, but at the least almost invariably specifying that the landlord gets reasonable approval over any sublessor. I'm sure there are pinholes to be poked in this point but I think as a general rule of thumb we can stipulate: apartment renters cannot lawfully put their apartments up on Airbnb, and the simplest remedy to them doing so is indeed to evict and then sue them.

But getting back to 'cletus point: focus your attention on those "apartments" we call "condos". If your association contracts are good, there are remedies for Airbnb abuse here too, but they're nowhere nearly as clean as the remedies for apartment renters.

Or, here's another wrinkle: go back to the apartment rental scenario, but stipulate that the landlord doesn't care to assert their right to curb Airbnb abuse. What recourse do the other renters in the building have now? They probably do have some; for instance, they can break their lease. But this is messy.
"The government making something illegal really should be the last resort for societal problems."

Except that the ease to which people can now rent out an apartment short term has created a situation that was not contemplated by existing laws (or if there were existing laws they were not violated to the extent to make enforcement necessary).

Let's take as an example, spam. The founding fathers of the Internet didn't anticipate that the scholarly people who first used the internet would violate the unwritten rules to not spam. The community was small enough and the members respectful enough that it wasn't even designed into the system (let's assume there could have been a technical way to prevent spam in the original design for a second).

But with the success of the internet and it being opened up to everyone the game changed.

"I'm not convinced short-term rentals are really so harmful"

If you've ever had bad neighbors you will understand why people often want a single family home with lots of land or want to live in an exclusive building.
There is also another project named HappyJIT doing much of what is described there. The corresponding paper was presented at last year's Dynamic Languages Symposium [http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2047854]

It would be nice if there were comparable benchmark results available, or a discussion of what is different between both approaches/implementations.

EDIT: bb link didn't work, replaced it with ACM portal link.
Different thing. com.uris requires a jailbreak. Theres a few others out there, as well. I see a number of different styles of invalid ids
Once you have children (or nieces/nephews), there is a 100% chance that you will feel differently about short-term rentals.

Long-term rentals indicate tenants that are stable enough to at least afford the lease. They are subject to at least some vetting (including background checks) prior to moving in. Short term tenants can be anyone. No background checks are conducted.
If you are creating a Windows binary and expect a user to download it, you should be signing the binary. Period. It's not just IE that considers unsigned downloads suspect, many antivirus programs do as well. If you are proud of your work, sign it.
Ask HN: change username
Who and how much do I have to pay to change my HN username?
But market manipulation is my job
iOS apps can access email address of contacts w/o permission
You still own the improvements (Home or other structures), if any on the land - hence homeowner...
Step 2.5: Pay tons of restitution or get sued into next millenium
I am appealing to developers because I think they are the intended audience. I only think that is the most important experimental test.

From my personal blog post:
"Although Paul Graham is specifically describing a hypothetical new search engine rather than a new realtime feed service/API in this inspiring blogpost, his assertions about the power of 10,000 committed users are highly relevant:

The way to win here is to build the search engine all the hackers use. A search engine whose users consisted of the top 10,000 hackers and no one else would be in a very powerful position despite its small size, just as Google was when it was that size.

Since anyone capable of starting this company is one of those 10,000 hackers, the route is straightforward: make the search engine you yourself want. Feel free to make it excessively hackerish. Anything that gets you those 10,000 users is ipso facto good."
Simple iOS hack apparently lets users make in-app purchases without paying
I think you need to reread your deed, or move off of Section 8 housing. My deed explicitly states that I am the owner of my condo, as well as a % of the building and land on which the condo resides.
In High Point, NC they have a bi-yearly furniture market that nearly everyone in town rents their house for two weeks. This has been going on for decades and gave most of the people who did it an extra few thousand a year. It's not as radical as it seems even in non vacation areas.
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I'm female; I rent out my guest room on Airbnb. I have no idea what this has to do with gender. (NB: I own my house, do not live in an area with a HOA, and do not live in a city with an ordinance against short-term rentals.) I've also frequently stayed at other Airbnb properties and always had a pleasant experience.

Here's the real issue: So many people say this industry needs regulation. I don't necessarily agree; I lean Libertarian and tend to think the market will take care of itself. I have an incentive to make my guests super happy because I know they will write bad reviews and my days making extra money via Airbnb will be over if I don't treat them well.

Having said that, even if you do agree that the industry needs regulation, this isn't regulation! This is heavy-handed making an entrepreneurial venture illegal because of vested interests who are threatened by said entrepreneurial venture. As an entrepreneur and someone who's in favor of eliminating middlemen in general, I'm against this form of regulation.

Airbnb issues 1099's to its customers, so I do pay taxes on the money I make from it. If the city wants me to get a license and inspections, I might also be okay with that. But I'm firmly against making this illegal, no matter what strawmen others might throw up. (Heck, there is a "Hotel Hell" show coming out in August here in the U.S. featuring Gordon Ramsay screaming at hotel owners who have cockroaches and bedbugs. I've certainly never had that sort of experience at an Airbnb rental.)

As citizens, we have the right to make our own decisions. As a citizen and a voter, I hope we can start a campaign much like we did against SOPA and PIPA to help make sure our voices are heard. I'm sure these cities have heard plenty from hotels. Now it's our turn.
What will happen to the current App.net product suite for app developers? Will you continue innovating on those tools?
And why would you say that, Chris?
iOS 6 addresses this (system account management) for FB and Twitter.

The vast majority of Google account holders only have one account, you and the average HN user are atypical.
Before you suggest that short-term rentals through AirBnB impact your living standards, you should try to rent your own place on AirBnB, as well as go travel and stay at AirBnB locations. You'd be pleasantly surprised that most visitors are decent human beings and don't have a mission to destroy someone's property. At least, this has been my experience with AirBnB.

Saying that "one person complained, once .." is just silly. Wherever you live, you may have a bad neighbor, but that doesn't mean your entire condo building is full of them. More so, if your bad neighbor buys a condo or a house right next door to yours, there's nothing you can do about it either. With short-term rentals, you at least know that less fitting people are only staying for a few days.

Finally, the only reason this issue is getting a lot of attention is because AirBnB is so freaking successful. Before them, you could find any short term rental, but you'd go to Craigslist to find it. You'd then have to connect with some shady people and pay them in cash, upon your arrival. With Airbnb, you get quality postings in great location, hosted by some really great folks. Travelers love it and use it. Because of that, hotel industry is getting upset. This small SF-based startup just kicked them where it hurts and shows no signs of slowing down. As a result, hotels are using outdated legal system in order to get their way.

Unless you never travel anywhere beyond your backyard or you just love to give up all your money to the hotel owners, you should be jumping up and down and cheering for AirBnB and for short-term guests in your area.
Or the revenue could implode. Companies making money selling stuff people want face competition from other companies making better stuff. Companies relying on advertising as their main source of income compete with every other company selling advertising space. For example, Old Media isn't hemorrhaging money just because someone's selling better newspapers.
Actually, that's not true. As of today, because of this[1] $7.2B settlement, merchants will now be able to charge customers that use cards a fee for doing so. This is already the case in Australia as I understand it, and card use has not decreased as a result. I personally use cash for most store/ restaurant purchases (I used to work in the Merchant Acquirer space), so I will finally be getting a better price in addition to reducing my behavior-tracking surface area.

[1]http://newsroom.mastercard.com/2012/07/13/mastercard-speaks-...
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it can be interpreted as that; that's obviously how you interpreted it.

The irony is Apple's one of the greenest, if not by far the greenest, manufacturers in the world. Can you name any tech manufacturers that are better?
If my friend grows tomatoes in her back yard, should I be prohibited and fined for eating one without it first being inspected?

Inspections are there because large institutions don't always take the care they should, and as a consumer I sure as hell want -somebody- to look into it. If it weren't a government institution then I'd expect some sort of company to do it, and any restaurant that hadn't gotten inspected I would avoid.

On the other hand I -don't- worry when I use Air-BnB, because it has reviews that signify quality, and because there's not much that can go wrong with sleeping on a couch.
Both heart disease and stroke according to two studies I pulled up. The first speculates on causal relationships, including possible malnutrition as a precursor to both conditions.

http://www.savantmd.com/2012/02/13/there-may-be-a-relationsh...

http://stroke.ahajournals.org/content/38/1/22.full
Oh, I see where you're coming from. You're right if we limit the ecosystem to just phones, phones, phones.

But, Amazon is kinda everything in the frigging world. The amazon phone would (obviously) tie to your amazon account. You could instabuy anything. They would make buying things from Amazon a first class feature of the device. Having the device (much like having Amazon prime) would mean you most likely spend more through Amazon.

I admit it's a magic fairy dust line of thought, but it's still quite compelling.

Suru, I need more toothpaste by Friday.

Same kind as last time, sir?

Yes, Suru.

By your command.
On the other hand it is quite heartening that New York has improved to the point that this is now the top of the priority list for the police.

I remember New York when any murder of less than a dozen people wasn't worth bothering with.
yes, you own the improvements, but the point of stipulating you as a TENANT is to permit the county to make and enforce rules, since your improvement is ultimately on their land. not much to argue here, counties have been making and enforcing rules for centuries, there is no loophole to exploit

this is why, for example, foreclosure evictions often involve the sheriff's office - the county is protecting their own property rights. also, mineral rights, right to dispose of hazardous waste, etc etc
Yes, it's a compelling narrative. Where's the evidence though?

The problem with the narrative is that I can come up with an opposite narrative: "fresh perspective is important to come up with a new direction, but only an insider has the skills/experience/connections/market knowledge/capital/etc to finish the new direction, therefore all innovation is done by insiders". Now we have two compelling narratives, both of which cannot be true at the same time. We're not advancing our understanding of the innovation process.

It's all empty rhetoric until the evidence is laid out.
I think they are mimicking the Google Login page and just saving your username/password. Seems damn fishy to me.
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There's a 100% chance that I won't.

Strangers, even unvetted ones, almost never pose a danger to children. The vast majority of harm done to children is done by friends and family. Having more strangers around makes your kids safer, if anything.
And what will that solve? In a day or two the tenants will be gone, replaced by other loud assholes. The complaint solves nothing, as the neighbor has no reason to punish the original assholes who have already left.

The assholes problem is why we have restrictions against short-term leases in so many areas. (Most such restrictions predate AirBNB, despite what the article would have you believe.)
> Signed Bob

A middle finger, the Apple way.
While we might infer it, you will notice that the parent poster did not indicate his feelings about short term rentals one way or another.
If you plan to be in your house for a long time, driving down property values is a good thing as you will have lower property tax. I never thought property value was a good argument. Its not constrained by law or morals. Its all about demand. For example, a minority neighborhood will have lower property values for a similar white neighborhood. Now apply your logic about property values. The thing about bars and brothels, is that they are public nuisances. Bars are loud and brothels you have people coming(no pun intended) and going all night.

A better argument would be about health regulations and competition. It is unfair advantage for these home motels because they don't have to abide by regulations and aren't even required to be insured/bonded. There's also a public safety risk since health regulations aren't being followed.
Hi thomas-st, thanks a lot for bring this up. we just fixed the issue and changed credentials on the server as well. All transmission also happen securely through HTTPS and contents are only stored on Google's server, not ours.
Each public library pays amount x into a government fund for each person living in its coverage area. Said government fund then pays for this:

http://rowling.books/index
(served as a JSON or Marc file)

http://rowling.books/hp1.txt
(or ePub, mobi or HTML)

It won't happen while publishers keep putting $40 books in the bookshop and expect to be able to sell them. Nor will it happen while Elsevier still charges $80 for that article you can only see the abstract of. But between getting said book as a text file from untold websites or torrents already or for half a dollar used at Amazon or some local second-hand bookshop, the above might really be the answer.

And let Goodreads, IMDB and Amazon worry about the metadata and discovery and the review aspects.

What we have right now flies in the face of Tim Berner-Lee's statement "Cool URIs don't change". They really don't and they never should. And librarians are hating it.

We have a gross inefficiency in the system as it stands, and neither Amazon's Lending Library thing nor paywalls nor keeping on charging for books on a per-book basis are the answer.

We don't just need a Steam for books, we need the web and some way of nixing this whole DRM problem. DRM is a symptom of the problem, and that's problem is getting authors paid. If it's out of my taxes (or some other way that leaves me paying about $10 a month per household or even some reasonably priced subscription service, Netflix-esque) and there's adequate metrics for determining which author should get paid for which publishings of theirs, then I'm all for it.

We've managed to fund public broadcasting. Maybe it's time to fund public booksharing.

I just hope that 2020 will be the year of:

http://rowling.books/hp1.txt

or

http://asimov.books/foundation.html

or

http://criterion.books/12-mockingbird.epub
Agree on the need to make sales tools more usable by sales people. The two biggest issues we've identified with CRM usage are around (1) compliance (e.g., Inputting sales info per company policy) and (2) currency (e.g., keeping the sales information fresh and up to date). The design point for most CRMs is as a corporate reporting tool, in essence a static db of outdated or missing data. The reality is that most CRMs fail to add value to a typical sales rep’s daily effort, and the output (typically exported to Excel) fails to provide the level of insight or information to correctly "money ball" a sales team or manage a pipe. This requires a herculean effort of people and time with layers of sales management and sales ops to provide the rigor and discipline required to forecast a quarter. Net, net -- a hairball. Here's a good read if you are interested in a well thought out understanding of the issue: http://birch.co/post/19234996380/the-failure-of-sales-analyt.... As CEO of Foretuit (www.Foretuit.com), the selling process is ripe with inefficiencies and inherently ineffective. Hence a huge area for disruptive tech. While no one vendor (established or startup) has cracked this code, the opportunity to leverage the $18 billion each year that orgs spend on CRM presents a solid opportunity now and in the future.
If you are a voter, you have the same rights by law, and this would apply to the issues you brought up.

If you are not a voter, you do not and should not have the same rights because your social and economic investment in the community is not as great as your landlord's, or your underwater neighbor's.
This is very cool. I never thought the improvements in something like PyPy could end up benefiting PHP in such a direct way.