skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Usually , a disruptive innovation is a combination of a new technology and a new business model. Being an expert in the old technology or business model becomes less helpful.

At the beginning you mostly don't compete on the same customers.With time, when you start competing on the same customers, you can hire experts.
Anyone can write a terms of service that says "if you link to my site, you agree to pay me US$1,000,000."

Enforcing it is another thing.
> What about punishing the people who snuck it by the regulators?

You're missing my point - "they" didn't sneak anything by regulators. Regulators (and policy makers) wanted "the market" to do certain things. Those things blew up.

For example, "real" LIBOR values would have spooked the market during 2007 and probably caused the collapse of various banks. What should a regulator tasked with stability do in that circumstance?

Add in the fact that many regulators (and policy makers) are, in fact, tools of the folks they're supposedly regulating, and regulation can't do what you want it to do, especially if you're unwilling to punish regulators and policy makers.

> We should've let your ideology destroy the modern economy.

Now you're just babbling.

Either you want stability, which will require things like the LIBOR "fraud". or you're going to have to let banks fail. You can't have no failures and no fraud. (You can have both fraud and failures.)

As to "too big to fail", surely the same applies to govts as well. After all, regulation is, by definition, systemic risk. If everyone plays by the same rules, you've got a problem when those rules don't work....

> all this crap from you guys for decades about how deregulation was the way to go

The problems didn't come from deregulation. (Besides, there actually wasn't significant deregulation, apart from the repeal of Glass-steagal, which actually helped a great deal during the crisis.)

The problems came from govts "encouraging" (and subsidizing) bad economics to accomplish social goals. They got out of hand in part because GSEs lied.
I'd argue not even morally true. I support drug legalization, but I definitely want legal protections against someone else setting up a meth lab in the condo next to me. Externalities nearly always exist, and market imperfection makes it impossible to contract them away.

It's a genuinely thorny issue in this case, though. On the one hand, you can easily imagine mechanisms where allowing widespread commercial short term tenancy in your building would increase crime rates and put your own self and property at risk. At the same time, it's abhorrent to me to imagine my condo building saying that I can't have non-paying visitors over several nights per week, which would likely have identical effects.

So where does the line fall?
I personally liked how the examples seamed to start with worst-cast and progress toward their new possibly "best case" method.

What do you think is gained by starting with the new result?
I just got my Verizon Galaxy S3, and ordered the 20-pack of NFC tags offered by http://tagsfordroid.com

I think I know what my Dad felt like when he got his first label printer... Within days it seemed like every object in his office was labeled...

I've got a tag in my car to automatically send my wife a "Headed home" SMS, a tag on my night stand to toggle between 'night' (silent) and 'day' (loud) volume settings, a tag by my back door to launch CardioTrainer when I go out for a run (this one may have crossed the "I've run out of ideas" line...). I'm using the keychain tag to dial a response number for the fire department I'm a member of.
"but this is a done deal: people own their stuff and they're damn well liable to do what they want to with it."

Not speaking specifically about your situation and experience which was positive for you but the laws also have other purposes. For example when you live in certain residential neighborhoods you're not expecting to have transient population.

Many communities restrict single family homes to "1 family" and many condo buildings restrict rentals to "1 lease per year" to prevent occupancy by people who presumably create a different atmosphere than regulars.

"the owner was magnificent, and I'm not about to share where it was!"

I love the old school way of thought. (Reminds me of not wanting to share a good mechanic or babysitter for fear that they won't be available when needed for ones own work!)
The whole thing does strike me as morally irresponsible in that a city with a persistent and undealt with homeless problem should not be limiting the availability of housing units until the blatant market failure has been dealt with.

Red herring. These people are not inviting the homeless into their homes. They are operating a hotel/B&B without following any registration, safety, health, or tax rules.
Does something you use on a daily basis bug the hell out you? Fix it.

Here's one based on my persistant annoyance. If you are looking for an idea, look into fixing software in the financial risk space. The current software is so poorly made, yet so many important decisions are made using output from the software.
edit OK I misunderstood. skip this post :)

Yes, of course. Starting with the obvious, your landlord could just throw you out. Your agreement almost certainly prevents you from making significant changes to the structure of the building. You can't sell the property. Your rights are much, much less than your neighbor.
I was skeptical of the bottom line of the eye chart image. characters are 3x3 pixels. The o should translate to a dot. there is no hole.

Their explanation for it:

"The lines of letters have been recovered quite well due to the existence of cross-scale patch recurrence in those image areas. However, the small digits on the left margin of the image could not be recovered, since their patches recurrence occurs only within the same (input) scale. Thus their resulting uniﬁed SR constraints reduce to the “classical” SR constraints (imposed on multiple patches within the input image). The resulting resolution of the digits is better than the bicubic interpolation, but suffers from the inherent limits of classical SR [3, 14]."

So it's guessing based on the larger characters. Neat.

Here's their last line:

DKN?MULJSPAVMRA?C?OVZO

Here's the actual:

DKNTWULJSPXVMRAHCFOYZG

(from what I can read.)

( http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-VgvutrSWaFk/T4VI-2tDH2I/AAAAAAAAAX... )

This could probably help ocr.

Other than this, I think Genuine Fractals and BenVista PhotoZoom give similar results.
The papers aren't technically websites, but publications. I felt it would slightly out of the purview of the question, but I thought it was worth mentioning.
> Vested interests can fight as much as they want, but this is a done deal

I think this is absolutely the case. Right now we're seeing what happened in the early days of Napster. The RIAA and governments were shocked shocked at the widespread disregard for the law. Now a decade or so later it's common and widely accepted that breaking copyright is just something that happens.

Airbnb & Homeaway/VRBO & Craigslist are currently the exchanges for a p2p transaction, like Napster or Kazaa were for music. I suspect they will be targeted by existing interests and governments and they might even be taken down in some jurisdictions. But if they do, more will pop up in their place, as always seems to be the case in distributed p2p markets.
As a former Flattr developer my impression is that Flattr's lack of focus on hard numbers is due to one of its core values when it was founded - that all flattrs are equal and should be treated as such - that a flattr doesn't just represent the number of euros given but more so represents the act of giving in itself and that that's what important about it and that the actual size of the donation is secondary as that is dependent on so many factors like the givers personal economical status and such.

As long as people feel comfortable with what they are giving away and recievers feel comfortable with what they are recieving then how much each individual is giving is pretty irrelevant.

Flattr would never reveal any numbers about their users' economy as Flattr very much values, respects and sees the importance in their users' privacy. It's of course always lovely to see users share stories about how they are using Flattr in different ways, but the telling of such stories should be up to the users – Flattr should stay out of that business and instead focus solely on just making such stories possible.

Regarding fees, I think the Pinboard blog makes a great case for why they should exist: http://blog.pinboard.in/2011/12/don_t_be_a_free_user/ Apart from that I also think that micropayment services are a bit like what Steve Jobs described Dropbox as: "a feature, not a product" Features are embedded into products and are not something you pay for separately. Flattr isn't the goal – it's the means to realize the goals – it's the goals, the "products", that people want and it's they that will be flattred and it's they that should be flattred.
Here's some further reference to the UK laws:

(http://www.out-law.com/page-9441)

(http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2012/apr/13/olympics-2012-br...)

> As well as introducing an additional layer of protection around the word "Olympics", the five-rings symbol and the Games' mottoes, the major change of the legislation is to outlaw unauthorised "association". This bars non-sponsors from employing images or wording that might suggest too close a link with the Games.

(http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/olympics/the-olympic-law-...)
Multiple accounts: check.
Decent design: check.
Fast, easy to use: check check.

This is already better than anything google could have come up with.
Also, The Washington Monthly has here painted the most sympathetic possible picture of someone stung by hotel regulations.

But in NYC, there's some reason to believe that the intended target of those regs isn't homeowners trying to make an honest buck, but rather unscrupulous businesspeople abusing Airbnb to operate "off the books" hostels --- my many NYC friends and acquaintances have taken to calling these "mob hotels".
> They aren't telling you who you can or can not have over, they are prohibiting you from having temporary guests that pay.

Right. Now try to get the average person to care about the distinction.
> "That's the price for..." implies that this is constant across alternatives, but it's not

Well if there isn't, as I've already mentioned, you can make your own sub-reddit.

> Call me an optimist, but I can't help but think that there's something better than what's out there now.

hmmm you're right... Reddit's sub-reddit's is imo a half-assed implementation of an idea tribe paper that showed up years ago on HN. To this day I can't find it.

Anyways the gist of the idea, is that everyone belongs to an idea tribe / group aimed that making wikipedia better. All of these groups have differences in what they think are accurate, right, cool, etc... However many groups have things that they agree on. The paper talks about how great it would be if we could have something that would highlight those commonalities.
I want something like this but hooked up to my facebook friends.
yeah, "importance" was a needless distraction from the main point, which was that sourceforge and later twitter undeniably crappified their user and ecosystem experience in pursuit of ad pennies.
In some vacation places, such as Monterey, it's illegal to rent a house/apartment for less than a month without a hotel license.

These laws predate AirBnB by decades.
Plenty of HOAs would consider you less desirable. Which is completely wrong, of course.

(personally I consider the super-serious-HOA-attending-is-my property-value-always-increasing-neurotic undesirable, but that's just my bias.)
Free aint cheap for you? Well, then you're just penny wise and pound foolish. Like I said, the vast majority of the time you might need some service, Apple does it for free. If you think you're going to buy some other companies machine and keep it for more than 3 years with better success, then, well, you're simply not educated about the state of affairs in the industry.

Your premise is based on falsehoods, and you make assertions and then claim others are "uneducated" because they don't agree with your denial of reality?
"As proxied BY my landlord"

I am speaking of my rights in the community, not to the property. That is, should there be a speed bump on the street, should a WalMart be allowed to build on the condemned lot around the corner.
Indeed. Not to mention a lot of agreements specifically state that the renter is not to sublet their apartment. If the person doesn't like it, just find a landlord willing to allow it.
Kevin Rose: Digg Failed Because ‘Social Media Grew Up’
What you are talking about are private contracts - breach of contract is not a crime. The article is about the government persecuting AirBnB renters as criminals, and specifically refers to the protagonist as a homeowner.
> Would people feel the same way if someone was operating a brothel in their house or apartment? After all, it's their property and they can do with it as they please right? What about operating a bar or a club?

That's the way you're going to go with it? Why don't you try it. You'll find that those issues are actually already handled by local laws in most places.
PyPy Status Blog: Prototype PHP interpreter using the PyPy toolchain - Hippy VM
They sold their investors the idea that they could monetize their users at a higher level than their previous advertising model permitted. That meant that they had to come up with a new model and that new model pissed off the users and ultimately killed the egg laying goose.

This is the same problem Facebook is facing having promised investors astronomical per-user revenue. They continue pissing off their users and if they aren't careful the next ad-based redesign could be the turning point.
I find CRMs are better once you have a client. What you are talking about building seems closer to lead management software. While CRM are not themselves communication software, you can easily integrate communication software like skype or leaddesk into salesforce and it's pretty much there. I would still like to see a better solution, as I don't like the salesforce pricing (yearly contracts) and some other things...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super-resolution

Implementation in Python: http://mentat.za.net/supreme/
Reminds me very much of javelin.js's tone. If Facebook engineers can do it, why can't you? https://github.com/facebook/javelin/
Hypothetically let's say you reach the $500K goal. That is enough for a small team to survive for 12-18 months. Ongoing, will I have to pay $50 per year to use this service at the member level?

The reason I am happy to pay Github $25/month is because I want access to all my old projects. What is your thesis around whether people really want access to their old "feed" data (is that a proper way to describe it)?
Disappointed so far with Google Now - "calendar 3 o'clock" is recognized but brings up a web search for that. Needs to get more Siri-like so it brings up the calendar app and shows 3:00
"Were"? Have they stopped being sold?
Part of me wishes this is reverse psychology. The rest of me hopes nobody will fall for it.
The HOA for a condo generally covers building maintenance, insurance, and other necessary costs that are shared by all of the units in the complex. Thus, if you buy a condo, you do not have a choice about joining the HOA unless you buy the entire complex (meaning the building and all the units*).
I think it's still true that you have somewhat less rights since you're not (directly) paying the property taxes.
Fielding himself posted an annoyed response to articles like this, saying the four verbs are not the sum of REST. The critical aspect they miss is that the resources themselves tell you what you can do, just the way HTML gives you hyperlinks. You don't have to get documentation from some external source.
don't be so sure. in los gatos a woman tried to turn her lovingly restored victorian into a bed & breakfast and vigilant neighbors shut it down. people who are paying $1 mln and up to live in a neighborhood will know what is happening and will vigorously defend their zoning
Der Spiegel is also a magazine which is famous for a rather strong shift in their agenda. ( And a somewhat good example for the dangers of not declaring a policy viewpoint of a news source. )

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Am I the only one who doesn't feel like Twitter is hammering me with ads? OTOH I don't use Twitter very much and when I do it's almost exclusively on my phone or iPad.
Short term Tourist Homes have a historical precedence in this country.

http://www.arkansaspreservation.com/historic-properties/_sea...
Ah. Yes, that was precisely what I was looking for. It wasn't very obvious though, so you might want to add some more visual ways to make the user aware that the option exists.
Django DEBUG = True
Kind of confused by this heroku error message I received? Are you storing my gmail credentials on heroku? When I tried again I have a google /looking/ login screen?

http://cl.ly/1p0M0o2t0H1E3Z1h3i0n
Then you're moving into tautological territory. Those rights are held by your landlord. If he proxies them to you, then you have them, if he doesn't, you don't.
It doesn't have to be slow - it may be possible to write a shader that does it on a GPU.
Well to start there's:

Reddit (http://reddit.com)

Boxnutt (http://boxnutt.com)

Snipit (http://snip.it)

What others have you guys came across?
thats irrelevant. ultimately, you chose to buy the property, and your name is at the bottom of the contract that says "i hereby agree to follow the rules of the HOA"

check it, i am certain you signed something like this
I did the same thing. Tag next to the entry-way light switch for changing to an "at-home" profile, tag next to the bed for switching between night mode and morning mode, tag at work, keychain tag for switching between car mode and quiet mode.

And profile switching is just the basics. You can have a tag that connects guests' NFC-enabled phones to your wifi without having to hand out the password, for instance.

NFC task launcher + tasker is an amazing combination that opens up all kinds of possibilities.
We also need more convenience, though, especially for low-security things like discussion forums and blog comments where the choice is often between a lousy password and a lousy password reset scheme. Your solution only works well with a convenient (no extra steps beyond "save my password") and ubiquitous (works with all major platforms, browsers, and applications) password synchronization system.
I can't recall ever having seen a Twitter ad.

But I think the subtext here isn't so much that Twitter is hammering people with ads, so much as that their need to show users ads is causing them to constrict the marketplace for Twitter applications --- anything that might get in the way of an ad-supported strategy is, in this understanding of Twitter, in jeopardy.
You're forgetting that this problem is already solved by contract law.

Tenants sign agreements not to rent out their units all the time. Home owner's associations often have rules against short-term rentals as well.

If you don't like the idea of short-term rentals in your neighborhood or building, choose one protected by one of these types of contracts. In fact, they're so common, you probably already have such protections, even if you don't know it.

The government making something illegal really should be the last resort for societal problems. I'm not convinced short-term rentals are really so harmful as to meet that threshold.
I disagree. If I started getting into the habit of throwing some bitcoins at gittip, I might be inclined to send a few over and keep them there with the intention of distributing them to people without having to do a new transaction each time. If they're just used as a way to fill my account there and then instantly changed to dollars, what's the difference between that and a bank transfer? (Except that there is no fee and no hassle.)
Startup Hubba Takes a Big Data Approach to Online Product Management
ignore if you're still using snow leopard. requires 10.7. (boo)
would the loophole here be to just post availability and list an email address then keep all discussions of payment offline?
I doubt it, because going door to door to attempt to steal from people's credit cards sounds like an incredibly stupid way to commit fraud.
ever had a neighbor who suddenly decides to stop caring for their property? when you live eighteen inches away from them, it matters. this is the allure of an HOA for some - it enforces minimal standards. you are of course free to not live there if you think its too uptight
What does gender have to do with opinions about whether someone should be able to rent out a room in a building they own?

Renters don't tend to look after properties. No, that's why it's called rent and they have property managers or landlords who have that responsibility. That said, I've been in my rented place for 12yrs and take good care of it, as do other tenants in our building. Myth busted.

How would I feel if someone opened a brothel? Not great, but then AirBnB doesn't really cater to brothel operations, and those don't usually fly by night so what point that is supposed to make other than setting up a BS false dichotomy (restrict renting or live with the sex trade next door).

Bars and clubs are regulated by zoning, so how would that ever happen?

The point is that a scummy hotel industry is trying to hedge out competition by using deep pockets to lobby local government into reinforcing their monopoly. Making apologies for them puts you against people like the guy in the article: hard times, tries to make a few extra bucks and gets shut down by the five cops at his door. Sound like America to you? Sound like he was opening a brothel? Look him in his unemployed eye and call the cops on him while you do.
Thanks. Some pretty interesting discussion on that bug actually. Although I think it wouldn't be too hard to rig up yourself, I have to agree with the guy who suggests just hooking up with a 3rd-party bitcoin payment processor--it might make things easier and more similar to handling other currencies.
While I would be the last one to shed a tear for the hotel industry that's seeing it's too-old business model disrupted by airBnB and the likes, I feel like more regulation of the temporary hosting industry is needed.

What's to stop someone from acquiring a bunch of property in, say, Paris and put it all up on airBnB?

"What's the problem with that?" you ask? Well, this makes housing more expensive (you now have to compete with that industry), further gentrifies residential neighborhoods, and pushes the middle class further away from the desirable spots.

I haven't thought all of this through, but perhaps a rule requiring lodgers to live at least 1mo/year full time in the place for rent would be useful?
"Generally the more owner-occupiers, the better the building."

Same from my experience on the east coast. I will assume that's universal.

"Renters don't tend to look after properties, tend to be less mindful of behaviour that impacts the neighbours (parties, etc), etc."

Once again true from my experience. And here we aren't even talking about longer term rentals. We are talking about days and the fact that you could literally have 50 to 200 different occupants per year greatly increasing the chance statistically that there would be some people who might cause problems.

"you are raising the risk of damage or theft to the property of others by bringing a stream of strangers into your home."

Iirc, while the Fred Wilson emails with PG regarding airbnb didn't reveal this I feel that this fear of strangers and what they can do played into his thinking as far as not wanting to invest in airbnb. It was my gut immediate reaction.

Edit: http://blogs.wsj.com/venturecapital/2011/03/17/fred-wilson-o...