skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems that many people are against AirBnB in their neighbourhood because they they don't like strangers there all the time, it's not pleasant, nothing happened yet but it might... stuff like that.

I understand those concerns but I think people who think AirBnB should be illegal because of that are forgetting something. People benefit from being tolerant to each other.

Everybody is sometimes doing something that is not pleasant to others. If you are trying to be ok with that unless they are doing something really damaging, they might cut you some slack when you need it - and you _are_ going to need it and when you do, you might _really_ need it. Social pressure is usually enough and people mostly avoid doing things unpleasant to others unless it's somehow justified or considered necessary.

Otherwise you are going to live in an over-regulated society where everything that can be unpleasant to somebody is illegal, you need a permit for simplest things like throwing your kid a birthday party and everybody is worse off.
I thought it was an Indian (or maybe Chinese) 3 year old - oh no that was probably the Daily Mail.

All nonsense of course. I suppose it does no good to wonder why such gets posted here on HN.
not sure if they are the best, but I've read about blinkist a while back (http://www.blinkist.com/en/). apparently their app uses some smart nlp magic to give people summaries of non-fictional texts/books.
There is a large difference between understanding mathematical concepts, e.g. ordinal numbers, and using effects that we describe using such mathematical concepts.

For example, you wouldn’t say that a human ‘understands’ how signals propagate from the brain to the hand to then do some calculations and hence decide when to tell his hand to let go of a ball he is trying to throw. What happens instead is that by repetition and exercise, we develop experience that lets us match the current requirements to previous ones and then repeat what we did previously.
What exactly is the phenomenon they're taking advantage of?
I can believe it. Sweden has a highly regulated renter's market. For instance, you're not allowed to sublet at a cost substantially higher than the average cost of publicly owned housing. People have successfully rented a luxury apartment, then gone to court to get the price difference back.
Say it's the exact same mechanism as evacuation slides.

Patents in the U.S. since 1995 have had a term of 20 years, prior to 1995 it was a term of 17 years.

The slides were initially patented in 1956. In 1956 the U.S. patent term was 17 years; those patents expired in 1973.

But, let's suppose some advances were made and the specific valving mechanism was patented later. It would have had to have been invented and patented some time after 1995 to still be covered by a patent.

If it were patented any earlier, its term will have expired and the idea is now in the public domain, which means anyone can use the idea without paying anything.
I completely agree that there are negative externalities to AirBNB, so I'm not disagreeing with your conclusion. But point #2, the rising rents thing, seems unlikely to me.

AirBNB increases the supply of housing. It does nothing to demand. Prices should drop. I imagine it would either have no perceptible effect on rents, or in an extreme scenario would cause hotels to close and convert to apartments which would lower rents.

Finally, this is a common misconception, rents for hotels are identical to rents for residential housing. Otherwise why wouldn't ever landlord switch to running a hotel? It costs more per night to stay at one because (a) you're paying for excessive housekeeping and (b) you're paying for the high vacancy in downtimes caused by ultra-high turnover in tenants. Basically, a high proportion of the hotel fee is paying for actual services, not the building's rent.
It is interesting as what other application this would have?

If I could replace my mouth (the source of the wind) with an electric fan, what else can I do with this?
> the mass, will not, because they don't care.

They don't know. Many of those people use multiple instant messengers in parallel, some even use messenger that speak multiple protocols. If these people knew they could interoperate all those, they'd find it awesome.

BTW, drm has nothing to do with interoperation. At least nothing negative, because it enables proprietary content to be delivered in a platform-neutral fashion. Thus killing one more reason to use/create proprietary browser plugins.
For what it's worth, my Sonos bridge and Play:5 barely worked on the Airport Extreme. I switched over to a new Linksys router and it works pretty well now - and the Windows desktop app even works (it didn't before). I have my music library hooked up to the Windows app via a network share.

The biggest issue is still when a component powers down, you still need to search for it again.
Isn't eviction the answer to a violation of my lease? I haven't suggested that the government shouldn't enforce contracts. Only that I don't see the need for there to be a law governing what I can do with my own property. I'm not even sure this is a very libertarian stance.
As mentioned by Nursie, the Samsung Chromebook XE303 is much faster, look better and has a better battery life while still having the same form factor. It's also a bit more expensive (still cheap). The Android netbook has a bit faster cpu then the Raspberry Pi netbook, although I don't know about battery life, does anyone know? The keyboard seems a tad to small, can you type on it more or less comfortably?
My Acer atom netbook (similar size) gets 3-4 hours with Linux and ssd.
It's not good for users to allow Microsoft to get away with vendor lock-in. This may force Microsoft's hand. That's good for users.
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Speaking of which, I wonder if they'll need to deal with patents. From what I understand Dyson has that technology wrapped up tight.

PS - Dyson's fans are also terrible. Great concept, poorly executed. They wanted them to be sleek, so they used tiny motors which are LOUD making Dyson's Air Multiplier far louder than other fans WITH blades.

PPS - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVbEE0Qe4BQ
> they basically bought the Stanford team and some people from CMU and elsewhere.

Also, the original impetus came from the DARPA grand challenge.

However, Google do deserve credit for recognising that self-driving cars could have a massive positive impact on society, and bringing the various team members under one roof and funding them would bring the concept from the research lab to the road a lot quicker. I bet many car makers have stepped up their self-driving cars efforts in response to the Google advances.

There's numerous companies and organisations that had the resources to bring the likes of Sebastian Thrun into their fold to work on self-driving cars, but Google were the ones with the vision to actually do it.
When I said reverse engineering was for niggers, here's what I meant.

"African engineering", usually refers to unprofessional work. Making guesses instead of reading documentation is usually a sign. Reverse engineering can be arbitrarily difficult, but it's contemptible. I don't respect CIA codebreakers... something's wrong if youre doing reverse engineering.

Obviously, Chinese reverse engineers are lower status than American original engineers.

The world is perfectly just. A criminal is stupid and crime indicates not knowing God is just.

God says...

23:2 Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil; neither shalt thou
speak in a cause to decline after many to wrest judgment: 23:3 Neither
shalt thou countenance a poor man in his cause.

23:4 If thou meet thine enemy's ox or his ass going astray, thou shalt
surely bring it back to him again.

23:5 If thou see the ass of him that hateth thee lying under his
burden, and wouldest forbear to help him, thou shalt surely help with
him.

23:6 Thou shalt not wrest the judgment of thy poor in his cause.

23:7 Keep thee far from a false matter; and the innocent and righteous
slay thou not: for I will not justify the wicked.

----

Reverse engineering sure seems a lot like plagarism. God said it's okay for a young engineer. If you want to send a person to Hell, take a graduate who prides himself on his honor and make him reverse engineer stuff.

Maybe, breaking pride is good. It's kinda like the King in the Bible who tried to make Jews eat pork and killed them.

God says...
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I know who these people were. They were a few young, just out of college, kids running a game site as their "full-time" job.

And by "no response", I meant "no response", not "no fix".

Each of those periods was a 24-hr wait.

I appreciate your sentiment, but in this case I knew precisely who I was dealing with, and their reputation for (not) dealing with things.
I would like to know if AirBnB is covering the $2,400 assessed penalty on behalf of Nigel Warren.

I am also curious about the immediate steps AirBnB is taking to address this, not the long term lobbying effort mentioned at the end of the article. For example, will AirBnB disallow NYC listings under 29 days until this is resolved? Or will they let people roll the dice with disclaimers that such rentals may violate local law and result court assessed fines.

As naive as this may sound, especially for a company that is likely already valued over $1 billion, this is a golden opportunity for AirBnB to gain unparallelled media and bolster main stream support.
I've been here for 6 years, and:

1. It is impossible to stop transients from entering your building. Delivery guys, doors left open, friends coming over, etc. You cannot possibly control this and AirBNB at least vets the people coming to stay.

2. I don't understand this, it's already pervasive in NYC and rent has not moved. Why do you think all apartment units in the city will become hotel rooms?
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I don't see how adding one to three lines of HTML is harder than adding a custom header, and I certainly don't know what you mean by "will require a lot of code to be rewritten". You stick it in your templates.

If anything, a custom header is worse because it's too separated from the actual URL. I can't automatically update that file if I change the login URL, but I can if it's in the template.
your "more inside" isn't quite what i expected. to answer that, i suspect you need to understand what how many targets are available and how much effort is required in each case. if there are "unlimited" targets then the approach that gets most response for a given amount of effort seems logical - and that might be the 1000/10 case (if it's the same amount of effort as the 10/1 case and delivers more responses).

but if you are talking about scaling in terms of technical implementation that i suspect the answer is that it is more fun.
Not affiliated with site but I use it and found none better.
You've just precisely described Wario's character. Looks like they hit the nail on the head!
Why not have both? If the browser is capable (theoretically) of handling logins from an http header this would be awesome in my opinion. Personally I would much rather have the browser be responsible for logins after seeing more and more forms use funky JavaScript which breaks standard functionality. Persona could just be built-in or a plugin, you could just say 'log in with Persona'. You could have account profiles, with varying levels of privacy, you could maybe allow the end-user to decide if 2-factor auth can be used where previously not available, there are a lot of possibilites to me and it would standardise the process. Of course, this may just be pie in the sky but overall I agree with the author on this.
They exist. Just very expensive.
> where they have resisted multiple calls by Wall Street to increase prices and reduce employee pay and benefits

They've been able to resist because they have demonstrated that shareholder returns are better when employees are well-paid and -treated.
What's the name of the phenomena?

ot: I find Dyson's bladeless fans way too weak (and loud)

Edit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venturi_effect
The valve is based on the Venturi effect. The fluid flow through a constriction lowers the pressure at the constriction point. An inlet at the low pressure point will allow addition fluid at atmospheric pressure to enter through the inlet in the constriction thus adding to the total fluid through the outlet. Pretty clever use of fluid dynamics!
This is a great demo - it's often done at kids' science museums as well, if they have an instructional area. Particularly with kids' tiny lungs, they can only fill a fraction of the bag, then when they do it this way, they fill a bag bigger than themselves. It's definitely memorable.
This seems naïve: "A character is not an Unicode character but a single byte."

Disappointing from a developer who presumably types several ü characters each day.
Why I don’t think Flickr’s 1TB storage offer is such a big deal
Thanks for that, the little I had read about it gave me a much different impression of a complete rewrite to move away from lisp.
That depends on what internal rules apply to the said university. For example the university that I've attended forced us to log in on Windows via LDAP but you could connect on linux without any problem without any account.
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Sorry folks, but I'll have to post the middlebrow dismissal: personas can be dangerous. All those well-designed Microsoft products that nobody used? You can almost always reverse-engineer the personas they catered to.

If you are building for a specific customer, you run the risk of overfitting for that customer, but at least you know someone will pay for that.
"The concept is simple: Google Wallet is an app, rather than just a website or an integration via MasterCard’s PayPass. It’s an actual payment app that lives on Android devices. Users can sign in using their Google+ username and account, and then pay for online purchases directly via the app."

From:

http://www.tnooz.com/2013/05/15/news/mobile-payments-get-ser...
> leasers are hardly missing out because I'm renting out an extra room.

It's not just you though. If the owner of the room has decided that it's more profitable to just use the room as a hotel room rather than leasing (which is very possible in many situations) then the room is effectively off the market.
I wrote a blog post based on my experiences with the trolls here yesterday.

http://threads2.scripting.com/2013/may/hackerNewsIsDepressin...

I hope you upvote this enough so it's visible alongside the abusive stuff the trolls posted. Thanks.
I'm not a lawyer, but I have been a director of a couple of companies, including one US corporation, though not of a publicly listed company, and have been a (tiny) investor in a number of listed corporations.

There is no explicit duty to maximize shareholder returns. In most jurisdictions there is a duty for directors and officers to act in the best interest of the company and its shareholders (as a whole; most places a director does not represent a specific shareholder even if selected by a specific shareholder).

This can be interpreted as maximising returns, assuming that is what shareholders ask for, and there's no charter etc. that set out other goals for the company. But it can also mean prioritising any number of other goals as long as investors are not misled about it.

In general the board and officers have quite wide latitude as long as there's at least a plausible subjective argument to be made that their actions are in the interest of the company and shareholders on the basis that shareholders can have them replaced if they're not doing the jobs shareholders want.

Anything else would be pretty much an impossible situation, as there's no objective best course of action to maximize returns.
It was purposely vague to avoid an example/counter-example flame war. It's better to think of this in the aggregate. As a full time resident would you rather live in a building of full time residents who keep similar schedules and are invested in keeping the building nice, or would you rather live in a building of transients who have no vested interest in the long-term upkeep of your building.

Another way to look at it: Do you take better care of the car that you own, or the car that you rent?
I read the flickr TOS. I don't think this violates it.

How is this a dick move? Get over yourself. They're valuing the company at $1.1 Billion. If you can actually drain any significant amount of their resources then sure it's a dick move, but crazy impressive.

Besides, you really think Yahoo! would be so upset that hackers are using their site for a public CDN? Sure they might make a big fuss, but they probably would think it's cool too. Afterall, flickr started as an online game. Who's to say they won't pivot again?

Further, as much as anyone wants to complain about the downfall of hacker news quality, this has made me more cynical than anyone's nit or snark or trolling.
I don't know the details of the French case, but there is a valid question here:

If I make some widget, that turns out is used widely, and happens to be used by an oppressive regime, am I helping commit opression?

What about if I make a tool that really only has uses that look like oppression, but some of those cases are not opression and some are (say web filtering - parents can use it to protect their children, and opressive regimes can use it for censorship)?

What if I create machine learning software that finds activists and determines the best time to arrest them?

What if I work with a regime on custom extensions to a medical program that helps find the optimal torture times and methods to break people the fastest?

At some point the use of "your freedom" is just a shield behind which one tries to hide complicity in removing others' freedom.
Practising pitching: overcoming the fear
we usually record every talk, but there was an equipment malfunction that night so unfortunately there's no video.

videos of other talks are at http://lispnyc.org/meetings. we're pretty awful at getting the videos up in a timely manner, and by "we" i mostly mean "me".
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As does my Droid Razor Maxx. I wish Android was more consistent across vendors...
If my sole assets were a moneypile of $500,000 from which $35,000 were extracted for living expenses per year ... probably not.

If I had to have a rough guess, my minimum retirement target is $300,000-600,000 of personal property, plus a moneypile or otherwise low/no-work income (if I were working an insignificant number of hours at something I could stop anytime but enjoyed doing, I would still consider myself retired in the conventional sense) yielding between $20,000 and $40,000 / year.

So, using the 7% figure from the GP, that puts my target retirement assets at around $600,000-1,200,000.
I would have to say the last one is solved, but don't get me wrong, the rest is a joke in the US. My "fake" bitcoins are more secure than my USD in Wells Fargo.
No love for Yahoo? I'm not an employee there, but even I find it annoying that even when there is solid good news there's a heap of people on HN trying to tear them down at every decision/move they make (let's not forget about the "forbidding working remotely will be the death of Yahoo..." tirades)

On one hand there were people trying to say that Apple deserved every bit of its stock drop, but when Yahoo gets a boost it deserves no credit?

These (Yahoo team) are your fellow tech community members who are passionate (hopefully) about what they do and have life savings and paychecks riding on this -- let's cheer them on and offer some constructive feedback.
There's got to be an acceptable middle ground though. I really think this is an area where some regulation is needed. I wouldn't want my building to become a hotel, and I don't want housing to become more scarce because landlords see more value in using it as a hotel room. At the same time, I also don't want to stop my neighbors from doing what they want either.

One person commented that allowing a certain number of nights per year may be reasonable, and I'd tend to agree. It's a start, at least.
I don't think the price is unreasonable. This is the going rate that other sites like SmugMug offer. While most offer unlimited storage, they lack the community aspect of Flickr. I look at it as supporting a site you love to use while opting out of ads and possibly ad tracking as well.
> 1. Who wants transients moving about your building? I'm sure most of them are nice, but they are certainly not as invested in exhibiting neighborly behavior as full time residents.

I wouldn't mind new people in the apartment next to mine. There are already plenty of laws to keep them from making too much noise. In fact, most tourists are probably better behaved than residents.

> 2. If AirBnB became a serious economic force in NYC, it would only make my outrageously expensive city more expensive as apartment rents converged upwards towards hotel rates.

Or hotels (with lower demand) will convert into residential housing, lowering rents and the price of living. I don't think its easy to say which way it would go.
specificity is important for attracting eyeballs but this article doesn't show you an affective way of doing it.

Check out Eben Pagan Summit videos or or Dane Maxwell interview on Mixergy. They have a detailed breakdown on how to attract leads, and target your market with success.
Hype is the pulse of your startup
Even if they did, applying for a patent doesn't indicate that you have a valid patent, nor does it provide any protection whatsoever for patents that came before.
You wouldn't need to have the header point to a log in page though, you would just have the server handle the post request sent from the browser (or plugin).
Another "factoid": The word "factoid" means a piece of trivia presented as fact, despite not being factual at all: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Factoid.

Unfortunately, a lot of people have missed the original meaning, and now assume it merely means something that is true but trivial.

Edit: Just to be clear, I accept, and love, the fact that language evolves, but it's unfortunate when a useful word has its original meaning gradually overturned when there are no alternatives.
This is just marketing for this game

http://mynintendonews.com/2013/05/03/game-wario-hitting-aust...

Starting a bad Kickstarter campaign completely fits with the Wario character, whose basic modus operandi is running get-rich-quick-schemes. This is, of course, not saying that is what Kickstarter is good for (or that it's what Nintendo thinks its good for), but it _is_ what _Wario_ would think it would be good for.
As a fellow Brit and huge fan of the NHS, I don't think you are not doing your cause any good in this set of threads.

Apple minimising the tax they pay has nothing to do with funding of social causes.

The Tories' desire to privatise the NHS has nothing whatsoever to do with Apple's tax bill.

Please stop hijacking this discussion.
It should impress you more!

For all the talk of "changing the world" that comes in the software start-up scene, it's the physical inventions[1] that have more obvious & immediate impact on the world - and by "world", I really mean developing countries instead of our first-world problems(annoyances really). These fast-inflating/deflating mattresses would be very helpful in those countries.

1. http://vimeo.com/53588182
They are not (although they definitely should be). Google will read and index javascript, they do not execute it.