skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wish you had shared this sooner before I made my purchase :)
I noticed the R value of the kickstarter pad. But at 3+ inches it has to be above R:1. My guess is they haven't tested it so just to be safe they have put an R value of 1. Just look at other bags or pad at similar thickness and their R value should at least be in 3-4 range.
Agree. AirBnB is the ultimate John Galt system in NYC. Apartment renters get cash for their apartment (that they usually don't even own) and then everyone else in the building gets to deals with the fallout of a revolving set of neighbors who share the lobby, amenities, hallways, and walls. Good riddance.
I think the tannery comment was a statement of fact: there are laws against using residential spaces for business purposes. If you own a building, you set the rules, but not the laws. Again, this is not a moral statement, but a recognition of how things work.
Move out. The simplest possible solution.

Your rights does not include the right to constant neighbors. or likable, or any. In the deed you have there is no clause of restricting the mobility of the others. (if there is - this is another thing entirely).
I wouldn't have known it could look like that if I hadn't read this post.

It reminds me a bit of Muine[1], which was my favorite player on Linux for a while.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muine
> I hope you upvote this enough so it's visible

That's unlikely to happen, because there's nothing interesting or valuable in your follow-up post (unlike the original post, which had a salient and timely point that was buttressed by a somewhat interesting anecdote based on personal experience).

It's basically just, "HN readers are 'trolls' and 'assholes' and 'they' are Wrong About Dave Winer." Well, buddy, welcome to the internet.

HN may be one of the better internet discussion forums, but it is still an internet discussion forum. Frankly, I'm surprised that the grandfather of blogging can get this upset by the comments of strangers on the interweb tubes. If HN comments really make you "depressed", then I think you should take a step back and think about why you care so much.

(Especially since other HN commenters pushed back against basically all of the really moronic "hurhurhur, Dave WHINE-er, get it" comments, and the bulk of the thread was either supporting your post or at least pointing out that the attacks on it were mostly stupid. But even if that hadn't happened, and every single HN user ridiculed your post: so what?)

Finally, regarding the idea that HN should let you block your posts from being linked here: sorry man, other websites aren't about you. They're about the people who create and use them. And if your (original) post was of interest to the HN readership -- which I'm pretty sure it was, since it made the front page -- then who are you to say who gets to link to it?

People can link to -- and say -- whatever they want. That's how this whole "web" fad works.
Hi Gabriel,

Thanks for what you've done with DDG. Privacy is a difficult sell when everyone else is offering "free" services in return for it.

Is there any chance that you could create another brand with a name that I could get non-tech people to use? It could be exactly the same everything except the name. The number of times I've convinced someone to switch until they hear the name...
At some point, the cost of adjusting for the externalities will erase the savings of AirBnB. Which would indicate that the much of the "benefit" of AirBnB simply comes from not paying for the externalities.

Beyond the neighbors, there would also need to be city taxes to pay for the regulation and oversight of the rental (and fire inspections, etc), and the use of city services by visitors (who probably don't pay income taxes in that city.) Basically, "hotel tax", which in some places is 20% or more and right now you don't pay when using AirBnB.

Not to mention additional liability insurance, as you can bet that the level of risk incurred by someone doing short-term rentals is much higher than a normal homeowner -- so they shouldn't be in the same risk pool.
I think you are completely missing the point. The favour does not necessarily need to be returned by the same people. It's about tolerance accepted as general social value.

Lets say that tolerance is some kind of a deal with society - lets all try to be tolerant and we will all benefit - we all have to do our part and if we do we build something together and we are more likely that others will tolerate our annoying habits (or sexual orientation or religion or whatever).

Also you could say that this specific ' AirBnB tolerance deal' could be more like please tolerate my guests because I need their money right now and I will tolerate your [something annoying that you certainly do].
There are a few reasons why this won't fly with website owners:

- No ability to put in an anti-CSRF token
- No ability to add an anti-phishing token (like a login image or phrase)
- No ability to style/brand the login page
- "Forgot Password" needs to be added somewhere
Yeah, AirBnB basically seems to be an exercise in converting externalities into profit.
If the law was created to stop large property owners from buying up residential space and creating hotels, is there a way to change the law to prevent just that?
Why do professional Xs charge so much? Because they can do something you can't do as well, that's why you hired them.
I don't use sublime, but nice tip.
Short term rentals and hotels have existed since time immemorial, and the laws were created in response to those services. The fact that AirBnB now allows advertising that service over the internet instead of a classified is neither here nor there.
the problem is that social solutions are much harder to implement than technological ones , and rarely do succeed.

But i've seen better solutions to this problem .one example is letting bacteria grow basic food elements at 10x less cost, like pronutria claims.another example is making high quality chicken substitute from soybean,which,depending on proces could be much cheaper than chicken.
While this will be a boon for consumers(24 hour, mostly-competent service in English), I feel bad for the coming wave of knowledge workers who will be eschewed in favor of technology like this, much like the factory workers who lost their jobs in the 90s and 2000s to either outsourcing or automation. Unfortunately for these workers, there will be next to no recourse like the somewhat limited recourse for manufacturing employees like there is today, in fields like design, automation, robotics and advanced manufacturing in general.
You used to be able to hack on the arduino without needing SMD components and a reflow station. Electronics newbies don't have those and arduino was targeted towards them. Now, they've become a component supplier, since you can't buy your own chips and hack a board on your own if you don't have an etched PCB or someway to get that. I love the libraries and platform but in the quest for more power (Mega, Due, SMD based arduinos etc.) I don't like the fact that they're shunning newbies.
Even if you own a building, you are still subject to zoning laws and other regulations like the fire code.
https://areweslimyet.com/
> probably sums up the Chattanooga, TN viewpoint pretty well. "People with other points of view don't know anything about the things we like the most here."

I think your comment pretty much sums up the California viewpoint, "Someone in Chattanooga said something, now I feel like I can classify everyone there".
I don't have a problem with the tool. If it helps people it's doing a good job. My problem is only with the article title overplaying it's utility somewhat.
It was less an argument than a statement of fact. These are the laws.

If you want to argue what fundamental rights should or shouldn't be afforded to a property owner, HN probably isn't the place. This stuff has a long and complicated political history, which I humbly encourage you to learn more about.
I can't agree more with you, and in the mean time I feel really bad because AirBnB is a blessing in this world.

There's no real efficient way to enforce such a law though, I don't really know for the US but we have many craig-list style websites in France where you can find a place to rent for a week (and avoid AirBnB's fee). AirBnB just made everything simpler, and safe (rating people, profiles, etc...)

One more thing. AirBnB is especially relevent in big cities like New York, Hong Kong, ... where hotels are super expensive and rent as well.
Why would a landlord (at least in a low-vacancy area like NY or SF) ever accept such an amendment to the lease?
I haven't seen any checks on this, but I suspect the Dyson can probably move more air than a regular fan. It probably isn't more raw energy-efficient, but it can be more comfort energy-efficient (more comfort for the same energy), because their principle makes sense -- if you use a regular fan, you air speed is going to be dictated by the blade speed, while the amount of air depends on the area. With the dyson, they can get a much greater area, which dictates confort, with the same air speed, because they've distributed the stream along this circle, and it picks up more air as it goes (and loses speed).

My point is, it may be poorly executed, but in principle it sounds nice, not even taking into account you don't actually have an exposed blade to worry about. It's not a scam.
As a Manhattan resident I am very pleased about this decision. As others have stated, people don't want strangers and transients living in their buildings. AirBnB was simply making profits off the inconvenience caused to residents in NYC and this is clearly wrong.

The people who run AirBnB simply don't respect the feelings of others and the investors should change management to those who do respect feelings of others.
Compare: http://gilesbowkett.blogspot.com/2008/05/summon-monsters-ope...
Expected WHAARGARBL, received WHAARGARBL. Entertaingly so, though.

(ref: http://www.popehat.com/2010/03/11/racial-babyocalypse-provok... )
Why do you have men's rights activists in quotes?
Do a search for just about any topic (like "kite sailing" or "Star Wars") and tell me how many pages until you get to a site that wasn't created by a corporation.
The site seems to be struggling with the traffic spike. Here is the google cached version: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://...
I've heard SF's laws against denser housing are a major factor in the housing "shortage" there. [1]

In NYC, rent control laws are a major factor in the artificial housing shortage. There's a consensus across economists of all stripes that rent control is a bad thing ("the most efficient technique presently known to destroy a city -- except for bombing"). See the studies cited here. [2]

[1] http://pandodaily.com/2012/12/01/san-francisco-can-become-a-...

[2] http://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/RentControl.html
There's a bunch of free-standing houses scattered through Inwood and Marble Hill. Not that they're a large portion of Manhattan's housing stock, and they're certainly not central, but they're there.

That listing's claiming to be the only free-standing mansion - which sounds a bit arbitrary to me.
1. so you want to limit the freedom of others to protect your comfort? what if someone moves in for the long term, but he's not "exhibiting neighbourly behavior"? is that acceptable to you?
2. you don't like a free market?
$6.2 million

http://business.time.com/2013/05/21/inside-yahoos-tumblr-dea...
I talk specifically about being a doctor only because that was my personal path. My argument was generally meant to apply to anyone with more direct influence over someone's well-being, so nurses, EMTs, hospital staff, pharmacists, researchers, and everything in between could certainly be swapped in any time I used "doctor."
Google are really crooked if they decided to kill XMPP federation. A trend of them becoming evil?
But people wanted iOS and the iPhones and I doubt they really cared it was a new OS. It was better than everything before it and you didn't need to learn a whole new OS every time you got a new phone. I doubt Janice from accounts is going to be able to or want to use Linux.
" what's a Linux and why do I want one? "
Google Talk supports XMPP federation and has done so since January 2006.

To deal with an onslaught of spam, Google disabled incoming subscription requests for a short time. During this time, all other XMPP federation features continued to work.
Some of the benefit is certainly from skirting regulations, but I can see some big benefits to accessing a much wider range of options, too, so there might well be a place for AirBnB even if it were taxed/regulated a bit more, rather than simply banned.
You are right of course, I doubt there would be a scene, only me embarrassing myself by probably dragging out some kind of justification of not wanting to hand over my details. Perhaps it's down to being schooled in implicit compliance, and it feels a little weird!

It drags you down though. Every supermarket you go to asks for your loyalty card - which I refused to opt-in to for years, but you still are confronted with the question everytime - it gets tiresome.

I do my shopping by proxy, through a partners' loyalty card, and I've been pretty surprised at how sophisticated these systems have become.

There's a desperate battle between outlets now for custom. Loyalty cards now lead to offers (coupons) on items from the weekly shop, and our shopping basket is quite anormal I'd say. We are actually recouping some worthwhile savings, for once. Rather than being offered some promotional discount on something I have no interest in. I feel a little wrong about it, but I no longer can resist the enticement.
Letter to Tim Cook from a Disgruntled Shareholder
So I have a suggestion for Paul Graham, the guy who runs Hacker News. Give sites the option of blocking links from Hacker News.

That could certainly be implemented (either on Hacker News, or by the site owner doing a redirect to a permanent 404 based on the referrer).

But that seems like a loss. It's a loss to HN if links to scripting.com were forbidden. Also, within the thread that he is talking about there was a great deal of meta-discussion about the way in which HN was reading the article and reacting to its author.
That's only because the effects of not having long-term residents who care about a community only manifest themselves monetarily years down the line.
Money and the app store: A few figures that might help an indie developer
the fact the author considers this 'open hardware' and news worthy worries me

I would say that it is news, and that it does deserve accolades. Very few consumer electronic devices allow the user to modify the software in any way outside of hacks that are actively prevented.
Science project could charge phones in 20 seconds
An 18-year-old's science fair project leads her to create an improved supercapacitor with technology that could provide super-fast phone charging in the future.
> > You can't, for example, run a tannery in your apartment

> Why not? Whats your argument?

Because it smells bad: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanning#History
The fire codes and taxes for a hotel are much more onerous than for a residential apartment building. Presumably landlords who are doing illegal conversions are flouting both, plus also violating zoning rules by converting a residential building into something else. (I believe NY zoning has specific "hotel districts".)
Nowhere did I suggest to do away with all idioms. I just don't like the ones of the form "<adjective> <noun>", when the meaning is far from <adjective>.
I thought people were a bit harsh yesterday too
I am an author, trying to self-publish and whatnot. After reading this post I almost bought the book.

Then I didn't. Because of this pricing model.

I wanted to buy the book. The value preposition is awesome and it is exactly the kind of content I need right now. The first option is super expensive and includes a bunch of things I don't care about. I want the book, not some videos I'll never watch, not a 90 day launch plan I'll never use. I want to read your book Nathan Barry.

The second option is still pretty damn expensive, and it's still shoving a bunch of things I don't want down my throat. I want the book.

Last option. $30, okay that's pretty reasonable. I will even swallow the patronisingly added one month subscription to ConvertKit, whatever that is. I just wanted the book and this option has the least crap with it.

Great.

Oh, for $29 I only get a PDF ... but I wanted a book. For that much money I really expected at least a paperback, possibly a hardcover.

I'm sorry Nathan Barry, I would love to read your book, heck, I want to read your book. But none of your pricing options make any sense for me.

PS: I passionately dislike watching videos and find it almost impossible to learn from them. I mean really learn, not just feel like I've learned.
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>> You can't, for example, run a tannery in your apartment
> Why not?

Because tanning hides requires strong acid and a bunch of other chemicals and it will stink up the building and probably break some kind of regulation for residential spaces. If you happen to be a tanner and you disagree with it, pretend he said "Nuclear reactor" or "shooting range".
I guess - I do wonder what the performance of the chrome browser, rendering 'full' sites, might be like on Android compared to ChromeOS. Not that it should be that bad, the processor is a pretty decent dual-core exynos thing, and it has a couple of GB of RAM.

I actually really like ChromeOS. I bought the xe303 to run ubuntu on, but most of the time I end up booting ChromeOS because it turns out that 99% of my casual computing can be achieved in a browser or using the dev shell and ssh.
No diss taken, Sir. We may be thinking of the same type of house, perhaps not? But no matter.

I love NYC, and have visited 3x this year. It is an amazing place. I'd say that Chattanooga will not be comparable in almost any metric - # of X, density, variety.

I think for many living in American cities other than NYC, SF, downtown Chicago/ Boston/ DC/ ATL/ Seattle/ a few others - being able to live, walk, eat, get groceries is fairly unusual. Especially for a relative low cost with decent-to-high quality of housing.
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I was about to say "not packaged for Debian", but apt-cache has proven that to be a false statement. Can't say why I personally (not the GP) went with ejabberd as my first choice; I just picked it at random, and it worked well enough. I will have to look into Prosody. Thanks!
Yikes, pg is not gonna be happy.

Honestly I feel like the only option is to just stop accepting new members at a certain point, because above a certain tolerance it stops being a community and becomes a city. CIP: I'm in a rural town for a couple days and everytime I walk outside everyone I pass says "Hi" or "Good Afternoon," the first time that happened I was kinda surprised I tried to figure out if I knew that person from somewhere, because where I come from (Chicago) strangers on the street ignore you, they don't wish you a good day and smile...

There's the whole "you can't know more than 150 people" study [1]. Which I think is very apt here, obviously we have to scale that idea (as anything less than like 5000 people means it doesn't exist when it comes to the web) but it might be a good idea to stop accepting new members or cut the community into chunks, if you wanna keep things from getting worse...

Finally, I've begun to really like OSC's version of the internet as presented in Ender's Game, at least when it comes to having real discussions.

[1]http://bit.ly/10iAy6P
Austrian School economists don't make predictions, but when they do they're right 100% of the time, except when they're wrong in which case I will remind you that Austrian School economists don't make predictions.

If you think I'm exaggerating, check out this unintentionally hilarious excerpt from the Ludwig von Mises Institute wiki. See if you can count how many times they flip-flop on whether they make predictions.

Austrian predictions

This page attempts to list various predictions made by
Austrian economists about important economic and other
developments.
Important note: Austrian economists, as Austrian
economists, or praxeologists, do not predict. They can
predict not as formal economists, or praxeologists, but,
rather, in their role as thymologists, or economic
historians. In praxeology, A causes B, other things
remaining the same. But, in the real world, other things
cannot be relied upon to always remain constant. Therefore,
predictions of the "A will necessarily lead to B" type are
strictly prohibited. Instead, praxeologists, but not
thymologists, must limit themselves to statements of the
if-A then-B variety.
With this in mind, it is interesting that Austrian
economists have been quite successful at predicting major
events.[1]

http://wiki.mises.org/wiki/Austrian_predictions
I'm very sorry it has come this far.

It's easy to forget we have a tendency to make remarks about people online that we would never bring up in a personal conversation. I'm not excluding myself here, I too feel I'm sometimes harsher online than offline - and it sadly also happened in the Dave Winer thread yesterday. People can come across in a certain way through their writing that we would never attribute to them if we met them face to face - yet that's all we have to go on in most cases.

Keeping these difficulties in mind that are inherent to all online communities, I think this article is a damning statement about our discussion style here specifically. It's important to acknowledge that most commenters on HN do not behave that way, but some do and they are very loud. To make matters worse, "good" people sometimes overshoot their target because something in a news item or an article pushes their buttons, leading to a disproportionate response.

All in all I think HN has a lot to offer. I said it before, but it bears repeating: I come here to have insightful discussions with clever people who sometimes disagree with me. HN is the only community that does this for me, because I feel there are many like-minded hackers present who have a lot of value to contribute through both their work and their opinions.

At the same time I believe we should take a long hard look at these other instances where we're simply not at our best. Again, this includes myself specifically.
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Not everyone here is a troll. Some of us just like to read interesting things.
It's actually very important. AirBNB opens up a renting forum to the world, which creates a bigger population of users, creating a bigger pool of reviews, which leads to legitimacy. Let the people decide which places are worthy of staying at. A (print) classified rarely reaches outside the local region.

Not only that, but the pool of renters or owners will grow because they see AirBnB as a easy resource to advertise their properties.

The growth of both groups of people change the economy and the effectiveness of the current law.
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That's fine, but it's unproven that the AirBnB market works at all if renters have to pay 20%+ hotel taxes and apartment owners have to pay income tax. It would both raise the effective rates and greatly decrease the received benefit to the seller -- there might not be a clearing market any more. I'd consider renting my spare room for $100 a night, but not for $40.
When people in NYC say "upstate," they actually mean anything north of the Bronx. They don't really think of the fact that NYC is the southern-most part of the state, and it keeps going to Canada.

I lived in Mount Vernon one summer, and I was confused when people in the city (see, I just did it) said I "lived upstate."