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They don't have less choice, they might even have more choice because flat which has been used as hotels could become flats again.
Do you have more info on the con job? It'd be good to know some things to look out for when using AirBnB.
Yes, but they still tax dividends & interest.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_income_tax#States_with_no...
That is very elitist of you. But then again, you did say you're from NY.
There has been one, and one time only, that I have flagged a story. It was unsubstantiated rumor-mongering with serious allegations, written by someone who has been known to lie in the past (about things as serious as having cancer), and it was an indirect link to try and get around the previous times the story had been posted and removed because of flagging.
(Note: I'm the guy who posted this) - Yes I completely agree with that. We know that most apps that are downloaded are free.

The people who participated in this survey are people interested in journaling apps and the Quantified Self, so they don't represent everyone. Maybe people interested in QS spend more on apps?

This was just a rough survey, mainly so we learn more about our customers. We just thought it was interesting and worth sharing :-)
I phrased my point incorrectly. What I mean is when I buy a house or rent an apartment, I want stability. I want to know who's around me and see familiar faces. I don't want the variable of some new short term resident LIVING every other week right next to me. It's like choosing to live in a rich neighborhood vs a poor one; I want to minimize the risk factor of crime as much as possible as do my neighbors.
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Your links all show the same thing for me.
I dunno, I bought the book and he comes across as pretty real and transparent, check out his blog posts on iPhone Development. One of his major points is that if you aren't teaching, you aren't adding value. Something a lot of coders could learn from . . . not to mention being able to make money doing what you love.
The free market is deciding what the best use of the space is, in terms of generating revenue and value for all parties involved. That's the power of the sharing economy
Why do professional photographers charge so much?
I tried using google's two factor auth for a while. It was such a pain to have to unlock my phone and load the app every time I wanted to log in that I stopped using it pretty quick. When people are used to just loading their password manager up when they start their computer, sticking their more secure details into that, and then being able to log in to wherever with a click and a very short wait, sticking that sort of extra complexity in seems like a deal killer. Maybe for my debit card but... then it's worth going to a little extra effort for the security.
I've made tons of international climbing connections that come to climb in the south. Im actually meeting 2 people from France at the Red River Gorge this weekend (another world class sport crag- 3.5 hr drive). Atlanta, largest airport in the country = 1.5 hr drive from Chat. San Francisco = 3.5 hrs from yosemite, 6 hrs from bishop, 8 from Joshua Tree.
Nathan is a good friend of mine (we used to work together) and he does have other books: http://nathanbarry.com/books/

I believe the impetus was more that self publishing is not that hard (although, writing is hard, just the other parts are easy) and you can make some money at it.
I find it's better in almost every design decision. From organizing large groups of files to launching applications or previewing files.

For example, after years in OS X I still can't predict where a folder will end up when I create a new one...the only thing I know is that it won't end up where I want it to be.

I can't ever seem to fit as much information into finder as I do explorer.

Then there's all the weirdo non-standard interaction bits that don't exist anywhere else in the OS:

- Why does enter rename a file?

- Why do networked computers give me an error I have to click away when they go offline?

- Clean up just aligns icons to the nearest grid instead of actually organizing them in any way that I'd find useful.

- Folders get mixed up in the file list.

- Why show me the path at the bottom if I can't do anything about it (like clicking to navigate back up the hierarchy?

- The move/copy semantics are sometimes unpredictable.

In the end I just find it really really fussy to do something like just move a bunch of a file around. There's no flow with finder. It feels like work.

I have a theory though: I notice that in OS X there seems to be a lot more in the way of dedicated "organizer apps" -- applications which organize photos or videos or music or whatever. I think this is because finder is such a chore to use. I don't think I've ever felt the need for such an app in windows-land. My parents, who can barely use a computer seem to get by fine with explorer as well but are completely flumoxed with finder.
When NYC residents tell you we don't want this and some startup founders in California tell you yes you do, that is elitist.
Yeah, I figure that the salaries are more to offset. And NYC is definitely a much better place than Pittsburgh.

The question is really: if I can own a house in Pittsburgh and visit NYC for 3-4 months a year, and still spend less than renting in NYC, does it make sense at all to live in NYC?

But never mind me, I'll probably end up in New York regardless :)
Care to share how someone tried to con you? I'd really like to know what to avoid, myself.
do you think it's harder than 'Google' to recommend to non-technical people? just curious.
I have to bring up the same thing on many of these...

But what if you're not white, straight, and Christian? How far can you venture outside of Chattanooga and still feel safe? Can I hold hands with my boyfriend in public and not feel uncomfortable?

I may not have marriage today where I live, but it's coming soon. How long is it until I get the same in the South? http://www.timesfreepress.com/news/2013/mar/05/poll-62-perce... -- For that matter, am I going to have hassle seeing my boyfriend if he's in the hospital because someone doesn't respect my health care power of attorney?

How far do I have to travel to feel like a second class citizen?

I know you like your city, but outside a certain radius, it's not very friendly for a lot of people.
As a resident of TN, I can say that rock climbing isn't the only outdoor activity that we have awesome access to. Within an hour and half of Chattanooga are some great whitewater kayaking spots, including the Ocoee, Rock Island, spots on the Cumberland Plateau, and several rivers in the Smoky Mountains.
Nathan, how long do you reckon it would take for a newbie to go from not having any audience to $15,000 in sales (including time for writing the book)?
I'd like to see a 3-d printed compost-able seed planter that holds the exact seed, the exact depth, printed with spacing (or attached to a string?) with printed fertilizer and all that. Shove this stake into the ground for a perfect "whatever" planting environment.

Doesn't help with floods / droughts / windstorms / frosts but at least it would remove some planting variables.
Doesn't seem like a great idea to combine a low-end micro with and embedded Linux WiFi module. I've worked on systems with that type of architecture and ended up wishing I had one more powerful micro that does both.

I still like the Arduino platform but this seems like the wrong direction with so many capable low cost ARM boards to choose from.
Care to provide an example or two of the culture shock? From California and I've never lived in the south, let alone visited.
It makes sense to me to test the default configuration that Riak ships, and even with the caveat of "you probably shouldn't use this", it's failures are an instructive lesson (which is the underlying goal of the series of blog posts, not just benchmarking various databases).
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I think that this is not a good example, yes you should know http from your networks classes, but you need a highly specialized worker in a really big field, you just cant expect that everyone know everything that you need, maybe the students that you interview know more about OS or maybe Graphics and nothing about the web.

I think its just a broad field! Im doing a MS in CS and if I would apply to some work in 3D I wouldnt get a job because thats not what I like and I dont see people from the 3D field complaining that the schools dont prepare the students properly
This sounds more like your own personal paranoia than any sort of rational argument agains Airbnb. The fact that you might have visitors from all over the world passing through the area only enriches the culture and worldliness. To assume that a bunch of tourists paying $150 or more a night will result in increased crime sounds baseless
It becomes useful when:
You have a large number of items in your ssh config, say 20-100+ and you don't want to jump around in vim.
When you want to control teams' ssh configs using scripts. If you have a team of developers that all have this installed, you can now update ssh configs just by having them run an executable or possibly by some sort of job queue.
Want to switch to key-based access for an old server, delete a different old server and give devs access to a new server without having to coordinate and answer questions with 20+ people? You now have the ability.

Very nice work
From someone who has tried to pursue this path: The answer is no. If your parents have it ingrained in their minds that college == success, and the idea that there are no alternative routes has set in, enjoy your mental starvation with a side of busywork.

The situation is even worse when one wants to work with computers. Minors plus computers OBVIOUSLY equals someone staying online every hour of their life, playing video games where you violently kill kittens. </sarcasm>
I think the issue is that people outside of our space often fail to fully understand how information can be collected on them and how much analysis is possible.

For example, people don't necessarily really understand basic stuff like client/server architecture and believe that their facebook profile just "is" without thinking that every time they do something on facebook a row is being added to a relational database on a computer that is somebody elses private property.

And that row will probably never be deleted regardless of how they toggle their privacy settings.
I have a right to say no to AirBnB. Does my individual opinion matter? Probably not. Does the collective opinion of my neighborhood matter? Yeah it kind of does.

We've been saying no to AirBnB for years, this isn't anything new. NYC says yes but for some reason the rest of the world thinks we're wrong to choose how we want to live.
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Do you not worry that someone will setup cameras in the WC, record you pooping, then sell the videos, together with your personal details, on an underground tor darksite in exchange for Bitcoins? And you'll never know?

I used to be very trusting of places until I stayed at a university accom during a conference one time. The janitor was up to no good, but we had to leave and no one wanted the trouble of reporting it to front desk.
While Atlanta is in the south, Atlanta proper is much like any other big city. There is an unbelievable amount of great food and every restaurant has vegetarian options (my wife is one), etc.

I will admit that I hate the weather. I'd take 50's-70's any day over the 6 months of 90+ degree weather with 50%+ humidity we have here in Atlanta.
It isn't descended from Prolog either -- I presumed the author was making a point about conceptually similar flavours of type systems, semantics etc. and Haskell's position as a typed Lambda calculus.
"my trips to the Alabama/Mississippi every summer were pretty challenging."

Pass thru Huntsville? 20 years ago, before the "peace dividend" it was quite a hopping place. I hear Austin today is kind of like how Huntsville used to be. Has a heck of a .mil base and an excellent museum too.
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Out of curiosity what was the most shocking part of your experience in Atlanta?
is there a way to auto-clear console on refresh? i hate the current auto-persist behavior.
Actually, I am a resident of Rochester and I understood the title intuitively. Rochester is far (6 hours+) from The City. I was from Buffalo before that, even farther away. I am used to hearing about odd laws that only apply in NYC (the boroughs), from special conditions on a learners' permit license, to bans on 16+oz fountain drinks, when I hear "now illegal in New York" I tend to think naturally, it must apply only in New York City.

We are actually second-class citizens, the legislature of NY is only for NYC (and the benefits of all the taxes we pay, union dues, etc, at least to hear my father tell it.)
>I'd have to dig up the article but I've read about shady landlords evicting residents and turning entire apartment buildings into Airbnb hotels.

Why shouldn't landlords have the right to turn their buildings into Airbnbn hotels? (Assuming that the landlord pays taxes as usual, and the evicted residents were evicted under the rental agreement).
No, that's a little different. The problem with password reuse is that if someone breaks into a site and steals the passwords, or a malicious administrator steals your password, they can reuse it. The public/private key separation of ssh keys means that that is much less of an issue. You can't login to another server with my public key.
And then 4chan floods your house using your dishwasher...
You can't use Flickr as a public CDN AFAIK. Their terms require if you use flickr to host an image displayed in another page that page must provide a link to the photo's page on flickr.

Flickr also only allows photos, illustrations and screenshots. (and video). Nothing else.

These terms are not spelled out in the ToS but in their community guidelines and faq

There are plenty of examples of people having their accounts closed for not following these rules.
Are you using a Mac? If you get an Airport Express, you can use Airplay[1][2] and just plug in some speakers.

[1] http://help.pandora.com/customer/portal/articles/24294-using...

[2] http://support.spotify.com/us/learn-more/faq/#!/article/Stre...
A great IDE or language can add "Force multiplication":

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Force_multiplication

Hopefully, Light Table will enable developers to many times more productive.
Its a really long story, but I wasn't the renter, I was scammed by someone who rented on Airbnb and pretended it was their apartment
This practice is relatively common in the US as well, and it's never turned into scene if I refused. I've also been asked for (and refused without making a scene) my phone number and email address. I just say I'd prefer not to give it out, and they go on with the process. Obviously can't vouch for the UK, but I'd say at least try it once.
I've had this argument with several people. Their position is that "it's my house/apartment, I should be able to do what I want with it" (even when renting they use this argument).

My argument is that this is not and has never been true. You can't, for example, run a tannery in your apartment.

What's more, as a resident (and especially if I were an owner) I wouldn't want my building being a de facto hotel. An endless stream of people coming and going, having building keys and so on.

I don't believe this ruling is anything new. I believe short stay (<30 days) like this was always illegal in NYC.

A friend of a friend lives in a building where the super was soldering a pipe and managed to burn the entire building to the ground (gutted the inside that is).

Imagine the scenario if an AirBnBer does this with say a cigarette?

Or what if someone is assaulted by such a person?

Residency laws exist for a reason. Honestly, AirBnB just seems like a massive liability time bomb waiting to go off.
I think you are overestimating the majority's ability to make an informed decision on these issues. Most people are still shocked by the idea of web servers keeping logs, let alone the privacy implications of their decision to use GMail or Facebook.
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Personally I am convinced that the purpose of the US educational system is to prevent kids from having a single creative though, at least until they are adults and can be bullied into being average.
I did it with my first book (The App Design Handbook) in 6 months. The first 3 were writing in secret, then the last 3 involved basic promotion with a landing page, email list, and blog posts. All while I finished the book.

It took 1.5 days after launch to hit $15,000.

Though it depends a lot on the skill you plan to teach—do people value it?
I've climbed once in Arizona. Glad to hear that you love to climb and code. If you're ever interested in visiting Chat, you've got a climbing partner.
Very cool. I'd love to actually set this up with some scripts as a way to manage server migrations or new servers

I'm actually working on a web-based gui for managing ssh configs and I'm likely to switch to python and reuse some of this
"strong integration between the creativity of your sketch and the power of Linux"

Got real excited for awhile, then realized they mean liberal arts generic meaning of the word "sketch" and not the nifty into to programming language named "Sketch". Sketch now with I/O, that would be cool.
I declare Poe's law! I can't tell whether this is someone with another viewpoint I can learn from or just some brilliant sarcasm.
15,700 compromised after Anonymous hacks South African Police site
Finally, the debugger has a REPL! Hallelujah! That's the main feature I was waiting for.
Hacker News is depressing
Just edit a current attribute, add a space and type the new attribute name and value.
When I saw the project name, the first thing I thought of was: https://github.com/nathanmarz/storm
They are only part of Pro
Could you please clarify which of those circumstances do not apply today?

Especially the basic one that most housing space is intended for residency which, by its nature, is less lucrative then short-term renting?

Quite on the contrary, in this case I think that the circumstances here are even pointing towards more regulation and AirBNB is accellerating that.
Ah, didn't realize that. Thanks for pointing it out. I suppose the header should contain some sort of nonce, then.

To keep things as simple as possible, I propose:

Auth-Spec: type=plain; action=/login; method=POST; fields=email,password,nonce:8977340152

The "colon syntax" could also be used where the name of a required field is different from the defaults (another problem that I overlooked). For example, WordPress uses "log" for the username and "pwd" for the password, so it would be "fields=log:username,pwd:password".

It wouldn't be possible to require a nonce, though, because it would break backward compatibility with sites that are already vulnerable anyway. As an option for new or updated websites, though, it would be a good idea to add a nonce field.
While Google's recent moves are indeed a backward step, the only way we can fight them is by having open alternatives like this available to people, and by making them as attractive as possible.

There are many practical reasons that people and organisations would rather be in control of their communications, so XMPP (or something, the protocol doesn't matter) is here to stay. The challenge is making that open network worth the big players' time, they currently don't seem to think it is.
The problem is that adds to your weight. Not important if you're car camping, but important for hiking.
If you have a great portfolio of designing fasteners as a hobby, couldn't the same be said of that job?

To me, it is a matter of supply and demand. When the talent pool is larger than the demand for talent, there is a need to find a way to filter the hiring application results down to something that is manageable. A degree has become the defacto standard for doing that. It doesn't matter if you throw out great people with the bath water doing that, because you still have a ton of great people to choose from.

Web development, and software development in general, have been through a fairly lengthy period of demand outpacing supply, leaving many companies without the need to arbitrarily reduce their application result set. That gives them the ability to evaluate all applicants as the normally would, just without the arbitrary filter to start.
Unabashed racism, homophobia and jingoism. Most people I've gotten to know there start out super friendly and then repugnant beliefs start to emerge as we've become more familiar. I've heard similar stories from other transplants.

eta: I'm not saying this is a universal problem with the south. I'm just saying that I've noticed it there far more often than in other places I've lived and traveled.
this is not exactly the point.. the point is that DDG gives you now a free and "we don't track users" XMPP server that support federation...
I assume that hotels have to comply to additional regulations (safety, hygiene, etc) and taxes. In this context, an AirBnB hotel would be a de facto hotels, without all the legal constraints. So this is not fair, to your competitors.
Save their business? I thought that Nintendo was doing quite well with the Wii, while also dominating the handheld market?
happy to hear that :)

loading and dumping ssh configs would be tricky. let me know if you need further assistance.
I can't say that I'm at all surprised. Moreover, I would expect to see more judges, as well as legislatures, pass such rules. I've discovered (full-disclosure: through consulting work with a site similar to AirBNB) that many vested interests -- typically hotels and real-estate organizations -- don't want such sites to operate. Until and unless the legislators are convinced to change the rules by a popular, grass-roots demand to allow it, things won't change so fast.

And you know what? I'm not sure if they should.

My family has used VRBO ("vacation rental by owner") to rent apartments in Paris, Amsterdam, and Budapest over the last three summers. We loved the experience, and would never even consider going to a hotel in the future, for all of the reasons you can imagine -- we save money, cook our own meals, and feel at "home" in a foreign city. It's a marvelous feeling.

But that marvelous feeling is probably less-than-marvelous for a city's permanent residents. When we stayed in Paris, we were told that short-term rentals there are illegal partly because housing is in short supply, and is thus astronomically expensive. Forbidding short-term rentals, in theory, can increase the pool for annual rentals, thus bringing the cost down. (We were also told that rental law was 100 years old, but was only now going to be enforced. Amusingly, we were also told that the French justice minister lived in our building...)

Plus, I don't know if I would want an apartment in my building to be occupied by new people each week. We have enough trouble with the neighbors we know.

Bottom line, AirBNB is a brilliant idea, and many people clearly love it. But I don't think that they, or we, can expect laws to change immediately to accommodate this new idea. And when the laws do change, we can probably expect them to still impose some restrictions, or even taxes, on the homeowners.
Speaking of feeling like science fiction, I wish everyone had read David Brin's The Transparent Society in 1998. Such a prescient book.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Transparent_Society
Google is an abstract nonsensical word, so it fits in the whole internet thing. DuckDuckGo sounds childish and stupid, therefore mustn't be very good.