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Your argument presumes that an extended-stay hotel needs to be licensed. I don't buy it.
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And there are programs like that, focusing on getting people housed first, as people finally realize that this could be more helpful than shelters, etc.:

http://santacruz.patch.com/groups/politics-and-elections/p/t...

Linked from that article:
http://www.unitedwayla.org/home-for-good/
London has its own economy when it comes to property. Prices have soared to a new record high just in a month (+10%).

So yes, I think the capital is overheating.
Have you quantified that the browser speed gain offsets the time spent doing work the browser could do for you?
And the PGP one too, I think it is the clearest explanation I've seen of public key encription.
> The amount of projects that do this is absurd. People have been saying this for ages and nobody seems to listen. You could have all sorts of fun based on the user agent, as well: if it looks like a normal browser, send the harmless script. If it's curl or wget, prepend "echo 'I hope you are not going to pipe this into /bin/sh'; exit 1".

It's not really absurd. In truth, this roughly equivalent to what people would do if you had them download the code, unpack it, and go to work.

What the author doesn't seem to know is that if the web server returns Content-Length (which the project really ought to ensure, and all the ones I've seen do), then wget will by default keep retrying until such time as the entire content stream has been successfully downloaded. If you Ctrl-C out of it, both wget and the shell process will terminate without processing any partially downloaded statements. The one liner is just automating the tedious manual steps that people would otherwise do, and arguably doing a better job of it than most.

You can and should do better (which is why package managers exist), but this is better than what a lot of people do if you don't provide the one liner. If you look at the commands in most one-liner shell scripts, there usually aren't a lot of destructive things like "rm" in them either.

Now, it'd still be better to do these one-liner shell scripts as shell archive whose last line extracts and runs the actual script, and you could use gzip encoding to provide some extra sanity checking, but for the most part one liner scripts are not the problem.
Hell yeah, Wednesday with HN down was my most productive day this week.
As a consumer, you have a few options available to you depending on where you live.

If the manufacturer given you a written offer for source code and then do not follow through, contract law and false advertisement laws is yours to use. This also include if they use wordings like "open source" or "linux" on their website. I would contact nearest consumer protection agency and seek their advice.
Two questions, what applications does this $90B market cover?

And does the cost of a camera (or even all of the hardware) make a significant contribution to the cost of data collection? That's what matters for adoption. Sticks are free and anyone can dig with them, yet professionals buy expensive bulldozers if they really want to dig a big hole.
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Four years is a ridiculously quick time to recover the entire cost of an apartment, and that limits the risk a lot. For example, if this gets stopped somehow in the next year or so, he would only lose out if property prices also fell more that 25-40% in that same year or so. The chances of both happening at once seems very, very small to me.
the likelihood of you getting bedbugs in a hotel room is smaller than from a random room in all of NYC. Granted , the rooms up on airbnb for the moment probably don't represent a uniform cut of NYC, but considering the type of people who would start running unlicensed hotels, I'd imagine it being more likely.
Stretch goals will extend the schedule (something that Kickstarter doesn't really explain), but you don't have to have stretch goals. If people give you more money than you need you can just keep it.
> Android 4.4 is designed to run fast, smooth, and responsively on a much broader range of devices than ever before — including on millions of entry-level devices around the world that have as little as 512MB RAM.

Does this mean that it will run the same as it is running now, but just on more devices, or does it mean that KitKat is even more responsive than JellyBean?
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The example sites on your homepage look rather like tumblr blogs. As an author, why would I use HappyBox over tumblr (or livejournal, or medium)? If the answer is "because it gives me more control over my site's design", remember that the majority of real users have little design sense and so readers will prefer to read tumblr and similar.

Not meaning to say what you've made is bad - just that there are giants in this space and you'll need a compelling advantage if you want to beat them.
I actually have grown to dislike Litmus to be honest. I've sent an email to Litmus and to a device it was emulating, and it looked great on the device and busted as hell on Litmus. Leads to some false negative bugfixes.
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sounds like a Great Filter that author's ego didn't fit through (not that i'm in anyway critical of the author, as until we're back in 2003 labor market or i start to feel [undesired] impact of my age on my opportunities, my ego doesn't feel like trying to squeeze through even coarser filters), it is just that moral/ethical/emotional appeals (slavery/etc..) don't work in market.
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Feeling sorry for a TSA agent because they took the job just so they weren't poor and jobless is like feeling sorry for a Nazi. You always have a choice. Joining the TSA is probably the most debasing and anti-human thing you can do in America right now.
I own two houses. I live in one and rent out the other (traditional, long-term lease style... not AirBnB style). My insurance company doesn't care that one is a rental. That is to say, I don't have to lie to them... they know one is a rental and accept it like any other property. The only real difference in my two policies is that the one for the rental is for structure only (possibly some liability too since I am the property owner... I don't recall) while my home has additional coverage for the contents of the house. The renters are advised to get renter's insurance to cover their stuff in my house... but that is completely optional to them.

There isn't really any ding to my premiums for it being a rental. I lived in the rental before it was a rental. The full insurance premium (when I lived there) was about twice as much as it is now as a just rental.
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Very True. Smashing the stack for fun and profit? That was the first interaction I had with more advanced techniques anyways. I read it as a soph/freshman in HS (97 or so I think)? Timing seems to be close. That could account for the explosion at least; I don't have any theories on the "dead" period.
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Hy HOA (not in Nevada) has this exact same clause, and when I read about this, I wondered what his HOA would say. If I were an HOA, I'd be pretty concerned about AirBNB.
If you get a written offer by a company included in a purchase, that counts as a contract. It the same as if they said "2 years warranty" or "24/7 free support", or "free installation", or any other kind of deal.

And contract law is contract law. If a company do that in the US, you sue. If they do that in EU, local law might consider it as a criminal offense and threaten the company with large fines and possible jail time.
I completely agree!

We'd love to be able to find this data per-plan, but its not currently easily discoverable for the states without exchanges.

We're hoping to find deductible data in time for these plans as well as more data that would help people differentiate plans such as number of providers in-network nearby.
Why? Do no insurance polices cover landlords? Or do those policies specify a duration for a tenant to stay?
Rather than saying "don't do this", it would probably be better to say "Step 1: make sure it is legal to do this".

As you've pointed out, there are plenty of places where it is perfectly legal to do this. My guess is that it's harder to find a profit opportunity, though, because the more profitable use (legal use as a short term hotel) is already priced into the unit.

I suspect that one reason airbnb is so profitable in areas where it is not legal is that the restrictions on short term rentals suppress the sale price of the unit. So you buy a unit that is cheaper precisely because it is illegal to use it as a hotel, and then you profit by using it as a hotel. So in cities with very strict zoning and tenant protection laws (like SF), I guess they're selling the assumption of risk.
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In case you missed it somehow - we live in a society that abandoned slavery, feudalism and even factory sweatshops more than a few years ago.

Facebook isn't requiring him to do this. They are asking him to if he wants to get further in the candidate process. Clearly a bad approach by the recruiter (perhaps a mistake?), but to liken this to slavery is a reach. Just withdrawal candidacy since you weren't very interested anyway.
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I don't get it. What benefit are they deriving from the puzzle being completed? It doesn't even compare to regular work in that way, let alone sweatshops, assembly lines, whatever.

A lot of people would go to a lot further lengths to work at a place like Facebook, that's for sure. The holier-than-thou attitude here is so aggravating, for many reasons.
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Hmm I don't see any mention of equity here but only profit. If you're able to cover the cost of mortgage + HOA/property tax + expenses of running the place then the equity is the profit. Assuming the price of the place is the same in, say, 10 years. Then you've built up 10 years worth of equity buy having someone else pay your mortgage...

Of course if this place was bought cash, you could have done the same thing in reverse. Take that money and loan it to an individual to buy a house. The only difference is there's no extra profit to be made but also no added risk of not finding clients, repairs, etc. (unless someone wrecks the place and it becomes worthless)
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Does stealth just not work anymore?
It's worse than that... There is at least one ZIP code that crosses STATE lines!
Real Genius - 1985

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfbqJpn8fN8

though it did suffer from a launch problem or possibly a design problem... :)
Or having a guest house on your property and running a Craigslist ad to rent it out for the summer.

At what point does somebody giving me money in return for staying on my property turn my property into a hotel? I'm not talking the legal definition, I'm talking common sense.

The only working definition I can come up with is "when you reach a scale where the government can start taking a cut"

Back in the old days, that was a good-sized establishment. With computers, however, the government can go after anybody -- including lots of folks that earlier slipped through the cracks.
1/2 million? Waterloo has 100k residents, kitchener has 200k, Cambridge is too far from Waterloo to be counted in that group
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Not really. It doesn't take much effort to manage properties like this. Most guests on Airbnb don't want negative feedback as the author mentions, so they make an effort to leave the place as they found it. The person managing the property is probably not the same one cleaning it. She sources her own cleaning team most likely, and very may well have 60 or so properties under her wing. @ 80 properties & 200 bucks per month, after paying the cleaning team, she is pulling 12000 without lifting a finger. Also, I would be willing to bet she does not report all that income.
But is too complicated system underneath for me to use. I love Funtoo/Gentoo for it's simplicity. I know exactly what's installed to my system and how I should configure it. With OS X, Ubuntu or Windows, I don't have that feeling anymore.
> 1) You say "religion is a dangerous evil whose existence threatens the very future of humanity." This seems, at best, blowing something way out of proportion.

You must not live in the US, must not be aware of how religion influences scientific research, and must not pay much attention to the news.

> In fact, you make a whole shitload of biased, uncited claims in your first paragraph. ...fearmongering.

This is so typical of HN. Disagree? No problem. Dismiss everything said with a "citation needed". Your entire blog post was an uncited claim. But I'm not going to even bother making that a point of contention. This game is juvenile, especially on matters of common knowledge. Only a jackass walks around saying "citation needed" to every claim someone makes. Re: fearmongering, is this some kind of joke? Are you really questioning that the religious majority controls politically the United States? Are you really questioning that religion shapes public policy in ways detrimental to scientific advancement and societal progress? Do you really think the ideas behind the second coming of Christ encourage self reliance as opposed to say extreme apathy, since their Lord and Savior will soon descend from heaven to judge, condemn, and then magically fix all the problems of the world for us, creating an eternal paradise for all believers? Are you really unaware of the common objection to climate change among Christians in America that climate change is bogus because "God wouldn't let that happen"? Do you really contest my assertion that religion lacks empirical evidence? Have you yourself seen signs, wonders, and miracles on the order of Biblical proportions? Do you often see water turned to wine, great waters parted on command, the sick healed and the dead raised? Because those are the claims of Christianity.

> If you don't see the power of a community, I cannot help you

I never said community wasn't a great thing, I only said, in so many words, that a community based on ignorance and nonsense is not a net "good". Do you argue that the "community" created around Hitler's ideologies was a net "good"? That's absurd. Not everything that unites is good.

> I would argue that it was another war fought for the same reason that every war has ever been fought: for power

Right. Except, of course, that you're wrong.

> How many people died during the crusades? Was it less than 40 million? I did a little bit of googling, and it seems to be way less than 40 million, so it still pales in comparison to Mao or Genghis Kahn.

Do you really think it somehow makes what happened during the Crusades any better? Your point is completely irrelevant. If religion did not exist those tens of millions of people would not have been killed. That's the only thing that matters.
For new project, would you recommend rails 4 or rails 3? My concern is that not all gem are updated to support rails 4?
It is unrealistic to expect any dwelling, whether it be hotel or hostel, to be free of bed bugs, especially if you're in a region with lots of international travelers. There is no effective insecticide for them, they can be impossible to see, and they don't need to eat for months.

Now, any decent hotel will be doing periodic checks for bedbugs around the box spring and headboard, and any other wooden furniture. But there will always exist a small chance that the last person to be in the room brought a couple and you will get them.

Good news is they don't transmit any disease, and if they bite you, it just itches for a few days and goes away.
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I'm semi seriously contemplating doing 2-4 weeks of work to get up to speed with a weird technology because if I did that I might find it easy to pitch myself to someone who isn't actively hiring. Probably not a smart move, but perhaps a very interesting move.

Opportunities have costs. They also have benefits. One evaluates and decides.

Shrug.
s/computers/disruptive/

But, yeah. Pretty much.
There must be a threshold for that, I don't have that setting...
Well, they were writing in Lisp ;).
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I like everything about the 13" laptops, but the screens are too small. So I'd go with the 15" MacBook Pro with Retina Display. Those laptops ended up being too expensive, and I couldn't wait for the Haswell versions to come out, so I ended up with a Samsung Chronos 7 780z5e (which after some tweaking is pretty good all things considered).
I'm happy to give Elias credit for a big part of the shift, but the reality is that first x86 exploit was published well before that Phrack article, and people quickly repurposed it. (I'm a little biased here, since the author of that exploit is a partner of mine).

The vulnerability research community in 1995 was very close-knit (not tiny, but you could fit them in a hotel banquet hall for Summercon), and they worked pretty quickly to educate each other about the attack.
I've always seen k used to represent one thousand in dollar amounts, so I've never interpreted M as being a Roman numeral but simply as standing for "million."

Disclaimer: I've been in the US my whole life.
Sorry, but what a self-important buffoon. Slavery? What "value" does FB get from his solution to the puzzle, how is it "work"?!

And by the way, there is nothing at all special about getting an email like this from Facebook, Google, or any of a dozen other firms. They all have industrial-grade recruiting machines and this initial stage is like a trawler scooping up half the ocean. If you post on technical forum or mailing list, or have a LinkedIn profile, it would be more unique not to have been approached.
In my personal experience, I love travel agents. They were able to:

(1) Make valuable recommendations
(2) Offer me a better price than any website
(3) Save me hours upon hours of wasted time
Nothing stops a party barge: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mv9Wblb3zJo
Easy: at the point where your sole use of the property is for short-term rentals.
I am not an expert.

This page[1] says " If the dry bulb temperature is higher than 35°C (95°F), the hot air passing over the skin can actually make the worker hotter. When the temperature is more than 35°C and the air is dry, evaporative cooling may be improved by air movement, although this improvement will be offset by the convective heat. When the temperature exceeds 35°C and the relative humidity is 100%, air movement will make the worker hotter. Increases in air speed have no effect on the body temperature of workers wearing vapor-barrier clothing. ".

[1] https://www.osha.gov/dts/osta/otm/otm_iii/otm_iii_4.html
Might be a cloudflare thing.
HR at a large company is not like HR at a small company. Broad strokes have to be taken to make the process manageable at scale while being somewhat fair. Generally speaking, the phone screen comes after any pre-requisite criteria are checked (such as programming competence). Phone screens aren't very useful from an interviewing standpoint anyways; most simply exist to weed out candidates that are non-adjusted or have interests that lie entirely elsewhere (e.g., I only want to work here before I go back for my M.S. in CS in 6 months). They are more for the benefit of the interviewee if the company isn't a household brand; I think you probably already know most things you need to know about Facebook.
Having done > 70 interviews in my time at UW, most companies don't understand or care about the difference between Soft-eng and CS programs. I'd highly recommend CS over Soft-eng, unless you like pain.
I guess so. I revisited it and realized that bubble had a link in it. That's ridiculous, of course. I thought it was user content and ignored it entirely.
Curious, why the choice of mongo vs something like redis?
Probably a fair amount. 10? How much memory do you think you need per exploit if you have a carefully coded C program that uses system libraries?
We're extremely backed up, mostly because of Mail 7. We'll clear out the backlog this weekend, and, moving forward, we're sending challenges out 2 sets at a time.
I suspect it's people who:
-enjoy the challenge
-like the paycheque
-either have trust in their superiors/government, or simply don't care

I don't understand the attitude of people who can't believe anyone would work on $SECRET_PROJECT. Not everyone shares your worldview. Try to pretend, for a second, that you really, genuinely, trust the people in charge, and they come to you and say "hey Zac, can you build this? It checks everyone's emails, and only spits out those that are really likely to be related to terrorism. We never look at the rest, even if they're juicy or about drug deals or whatever, because that's not within our purview". If you actually trust the person asking that, maybe that's an easy thing to say yes to.

To your side note: if your problem is "too much information" the appropriate solution is better methods for looking through it, not deciding to collect a tenth as much next year. As for whether they can sort that much...google does a decent job with the internet.
And because there isn't much money to be made in it, you really can't make it scale on the back of its own business-model. So there's really nothing a startup can do to help with these problems.

Well, there are outfits like YC's Watsi which, while small, are looking to make a difference. And just yesterday the guy behind this said he'd be sending his profits to Watsi:

buy.startupnotes.org

So perhaps there are ways of using the startup mindset to create outfits that can help with social problems.

Just as a thought experiment, imagine a Watsi-esque startup that was an AirBnB for (rigorously screened) homeless people and/or families, i.e. trying to scale what this LA lawyer did (giving his house to a homeless family for a year):

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/lawyer-house-homele...
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