skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think AirBNB actually claims this guy doesn't exist - that's a clickbait gimmick. What they do claim is that he's in the minority, which I believe is true.

I'm an AirBNB host in NYC and I know a lot of other people who are too. We're all exactly the kind of people AirBNB wants -- we have places that occasionally are available/empty, and AirBNB has become a great way for us to make a few extra $$. I personally don't make a dime of profit off my place (I do, however, offset a good portion of my rent).

I know the bad actors exist, and I know we do need some form of compromise between "No AirBNB!" and "AirBNB free-for-all". Not sure what the perfect solution is just yet, but I m confident a good one can be found.
True, although I've used something similar that compiles the code and runs tests, if they failed it asked if I still wanted to commit. It was just a quick check that I was probably committing what I thought I was.
Second this, I'm surprised you don't read more about it here. We use it in production to recommend image searchterms based on unstructured text, and it performs better with a few lines of python code than anything our team could write in a lower level language in months. It's REALLY fast once you've built an index.

The reason for that is a pretty epic list of dependencies (have fun explaining why the prod boxes need a fortran compiler), but in terms of efficiency and speed of development it's an obvious choice.
I, too, personally believe that many of the people who are proponents of greater government surveillance really are trying to protect the country. The problem is that there is no safety exception rule built into the Constitution and it should be the people, not the government, who gets to decide if we should trade freedom for safety.

I also find it disturbing that we would ask those who serve in the military to risk life and limb to protect our freedoms, only to have those freedoms given away by the civilians at home in the name of safety. Freedom is dangerous and carries inherent risks, which should be shared by all.
The press-and-hold is nearly indistinguishable from single tap. You could not use it by itself. The one with the clock says more.

The swipe-ups should have the hand off to one side so the arrows can be seen more clearly.

IMO most of these would be better with just a finger or fingers.
The reviews suggest the feature doesn't always work. I've experienced the same from other clients.
Beautiful Girls kissing
> The problem in the US isn't capitalism, it's that the government interferes extensively in the economy.

Well... maybe the problem is that the economy interferes extensively in the government.

> Building a society is the responsibility of each individual who values it. Using government force in pursuit of that goal leads only to the co-option and disenfranchisement Simon complains about.

Individuals have to band together to accomplish things because at some point one individual isn't enough. In democratic society such a banding, supported by the people and for the people, is called a government.
Groupon is awfully run. I ordered some pants for my wife two weeks ago. They literally just shipped. I have no idea when they'll arrive.

Their app is shit and it always has been. It's painfully slow.

Their products are usually not good. I rarely can trust that a thumbnail represents exactly what I'll be buying.
Some states (I know Illinois) actually have laws protecting renting out your own place. Typically referred to as subleasing.

Also, get off your high horse.
Proposed designs go under the heading of 'closed fuel cycle reactors' generally a "fast" reactor (which is using its gamma flux to create new fuel) a reprocessing plant, and the power reactor(s). Such a facility runs "forever" with no radioactive or chemically active byproducts leaving the facility.

Even closed cycle systems generate low level radioactive 'waste' in the sense that things get activated by exposure to radiation. Traditional incineration, like these guys (http://www.nukemgroup.com/fileadmin/pdf/Brochure_Incineratio...) propose, reduces bulk and chemical reactivity, using ionizing radiation from a gamma source (another small reactor like the TRIGA) can move the radioactive byproducts along their decay cycle into short lived isotopes and then inertness.
The Words of Mass Destruction
The idea that the market will solve such things as environmental concerns, as our racial divides, as our class distinctions, our problems with educating and incorporating one generation of workers into the economy after the other when that economy is changing

Is this idea actually being implemented anywhere? Isn't education, even in the US, almost wholly sponsored by the government? People talk about student loans but those are also guaranteed by the government, right? And then the government grants those loans special status by preventing you from ever discharging them in case of bankruptcy.

I don't know if the market could remove divides but neither does anyone else because it's a completely untested hypothesis.
There are many ways to do it. Basically you need to store posts and display them in a nested format, meaning that you should pull down the data and then nest it based on child-parent relationships.

I wrote something similar in golang. An example is http://askgolang.com/ and the package itself with demo code is at https://github.com/carbocation/go.graf

Of course, this can be done in any language, but I found to quite pleasant (and safe).
Time dilation is about one frame reference, let's call it "a" being simultaneous with another frame reference, "b", yet "a" experiences slower time from the perspective of "b".

The classic and dramatic example is if an astronaut left earth and zipped around the galaxy several times at the speed of light. When he/she returned there perception of time would be that they experienced very little of it, while the earth would seem to them to have elapsed over a great deal of time. Is this technically time travel? From a psychological point of view it is absolutely time travel, but from a physics point of view, not really. We all experience time dilation in unnoticeable amounts during our life. Someone who is at a higher altitude than you will experience time a tiny, tiny, tiny amount slower than you.

To my mind, time travel means I can go forwards and backwards in time. Time dilation, from a a psychological point of view, is about slowing one thing down relative to another. Like this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZRYyejNksk#t=9m59s
Define corruption.
I think comparing it to identity theft or insurance fraud is a bit extreme, but the harm is real. There are many reasons why certain buildings are not allowed to operate as hotels - just a few off my head:

- Bedbugs. They're at pandemic levels in NYC, and the more volume of people moving in/out of a place the more likely you are to get them. Hotels are required to mitigate the bedbug threat with a level of thoroughness that simply is impossible unless the building owner is aware that there's a hotel operating under their roof. I would be mighty pissed if I found a AirBnb in my building, as that dramatically raises everyone's risk of infestation.

- Noise. Particularly in neighborhoods like mine that are restaurant and bar districts, where a large part of the attraction of the location is the ability to stumble home directly from an innumerable number of bars. Temporary residents have no incentive to keep things reasonable. Whenever this point is brought up you get a few anecdotal stories about "the British family that was sooooo quiet", but no mention of the rest of the time where we'd have to put up with the noise.

- Security. I live in a small pre-war building with 20 units. I've met literally every one of my neighbors. This building isn't Fort Knox - once you're inside the main door it doesn't take Harry Houdini to break into any one apartment. Real hotels have security cameras, personnel on-site, and much more elaborate locks on doors... we do not.

These are real risks and real harm happening to neighbors of guys like this. His actions have a negative impact. While calling him a sociopath might be a tad extreme, it certainly isn't completely without merit.

None of these problems are unsolvable - but they are unsolvable unless the hoteling party is operating in the open. If we're going to allow people rent out their apartments in a pseudo-hotel manner, then the neighbors, the building owner, and the city needs to know about it in order to mitigate all of the above.
Can the Nordic model work in every country, though? All of the Nordic countries have trade surpluses, especially when you look at the per-capita numbers. How would this work in a country of large trade deficits like the US?
But the regulations cannot stop anything. They only introduce additional costs that distort the natural behavior of the market. And since everything in the market is connected, often in ways we do not understand, regulations produce odd behavior and unexpected consequences.

The rent is too danged high because the supply of rentals is too danged low with respect to market demand. If hotel demand is high enough to cut that far into regular rentals, that just means there aren't enough purpose-built hotels. The regulation chooses to protect long-term residents at the expense of visitors and owner-investors.

Why are they less valued people? Because NYC has a very high renter and owner-occupier population, and they vote. And does it even truly protect them?

People should be able to dispose of their own property as they see fit, without undue intrusion from uninterested third parties. This sort of liberty is sometimes inconvenient for other people, but when those people choose to restrict the ability of other people to enjoy the ownership of their property, they do the same to themselves. And all those petty infringements on freedom add up to undermine one's sense of control over his own life.

Attacking rogue AirBnB users may satisfy shortsighted political goals, but removing artificial barriers to new housing construction would be better for everyone in the long term.

That said, the guy from the article is a dick that engages in willful fraud on a daily basis. NYC is right to go after people like him, but not at the expense of solving the underlying problem that produces such people as a symptom.

Price is high because the cost to produce additional supply is high. Period.
It is not Math, Science that is Boring that is the problem. It's the level of effort required to be good and to become better. More than almost any other industry or skill, if you get easily frustrated or you can't focus (well) - you won't get enough experience (read: doing stuff the wrong way or failing) to get better.

It is the frustration and ambiguity that one has to deal with when solving technical problems. Remember, most technical problems aren't cut and dried - sometimes the problem is correctly finding what the problem is.

To be good in this industry - you have to want to go down the rabbit hole and spelunk. To get your hands and mind dirty.
That is pretty cool stuff.
>Well... maybe the problem is that the economy interferes extensively in the government.

Well... maybe the government shouldn't have so much power that when influenced it can cause so much harm.
The problem is that Congress doesn't represent the people. It's biased toward the older, wealthy, white, Christian male. Everyone else gets marginalized. Voting =/= representation.

Math gave us the solution on how to get a representative sample. It's called random sampling. If we replaced Congress with 1 house made up of 1,000 randomly selected citizens it would solve almost all of our problems. No more corruption; lobbyists, corporations, and special interest groups would have no power, since they have nothing to offer. Greater equality; everyone would have truly equal representation. Currently men have more power than women, white people have more power than minorities, citizens of Wyoming have over 60x more power than citizens of California (in the Senate).

Most of the problems with government have come from mis-representation. The people are slow to get into wars, quick to get out of them. The people favor helping the poor, Congress favors the rich. Fix representation, and you fix Democracy.
I suppose they have already collected enough data to make the right judgement about how many people hate them.
It's astonishing that, in a nearly 3,000 word speech calling the United States a "horror show", the word debt is used not once.
True that a lawyer has recurring income. A "book" of business so to speak. So you are right that the situations are different. But my point is that if you are depending on something to bring you new business in a certain way you have to be careful that that thing doesn't and can't end arbitrarily. To the best of your ability at least. Or be aware of the dangers of losing it (when signing that new lease). Generally if you pay for something you have more control because the transaction is less lopsided.

"Also, I think it's inadvisable to name real people in hypothetical scenarios without their permission"

Why? Grellas is a public commenter here (whose identity is well known) on quite a large scale. And he is referred to by others in comments. To me it's really no different than making a comment on any commenter.

Now if I said "Jane who works for PG" (just made that up) "has to be concerned if bla bla bla" that would be different perhaps.

For that matter tptacek has mentioned his wife's name as "Erin" iirc. If he hadn't mentioned her it might be wrong (if I knew her name) to disclose it or to talk about her in any way or that he is even married. Or to disclose the street which he lives on. Etc.

I would be curious what others think about this. Not sure I see how using grellas as an example was wrong but I'm open to others thoughts on this.
Most of the HN clones you see (that share the style of HN) are built based on this Arc example. Note certain features of HN (like the rules used for scoring posts) are not in this source code.
Translators can end up with considerably different results. The first version of the Tao Te Ching I ever read was Stephen Mitchell's translation. I later picked up another version and just couldn't stand it.
>Are we all in this together or are we all not?

Vague drivel capped by an appeal to emotion. 10/10.
"...because you know when people get to the end there's always the brick."

Chilling.
Can we call the process of moving from Python syntax to C-like "uglifying"? You know, call it what it is...

(And yes, I intend to go through this book re-writing for PHP...)
Doctors will typically prescribe the "best" drug to their knowledge which often means the newest drug with the least serious side effects. I don't think they are always out to bilk their patients.

If you are ever in a situation where you have to pay for drugs out of pocket or your insurance doesn't cover enough of the drug call your doctor and ask for a lower cost alternative. They can call the pharmacy and often times find a lower cost alternative to fit your budget.

At least this has been my experience with my doctors. I have also had my primary physician straight up tell me the price difference between the best choice and second-best choice doesn't justify the benefits.
> The question - and only question - should be what David Simon asks: are we all in this together or are we not?

I can't agree. This is just another way to tell the world at large "you're either with us or you're against us". Posing the question is a good way to convince me that I'm against you.
Tips on coding Javascript for performance
//FROM

for (var i = 0; i < myArray.length; i++) {
...
}

//TO

var arrayLength = myArray.length;

for (var i = 0; i < arrayLength; i++) {
...
}

---

//FROM
var myVar = "Hello World";

function printHello() {
console.log(myVar);
}

//TO
var myVar = "Hello World";

function printHello(myVar) {
console.log(myVar);
}

---

Any other tip for general Javascript performance?
Tough to recommend that, though, when it can't even keep links working when I leave a page open in tabs. Much better off going with a mature, open source project that isn't crippled and bug ridden. There are quite a few. Personally it would only take me a day to style a real CMS into looking like it, like Drupal since I've written Drupal plugins for far more advanced stuff before, so I wouldn't even need to hobble myself with a site type specific project like Telescope.
Translations make a big difference. JRR Tolkien's Gawain and the Green Knight is head and shoulders above another soulless and forgotten one I read.
Well, there's a rising number of for profit schools and colleges. These are different in that they still get government funding but are run by private companies (as opposed to private schools, which are funded by tuition).

http://chronicle.com/article/Annual-Portrait-of-Education/12...
Like it or not , NodeJs is here to stay.

The problem is devs using it for every use cases,even when it doesnt make sense, just like rails.

Of course,in a few years you'll read articles about how bad node is, just because developpers did not choose the right tool for the job.
Someone who was an anti corruption activist an year back, not only dethrones a lady who was ruling New Delhi for last 15 years but mercilessly removed her party out of any political scene in the state.
Something like david and goliath.
His business is not zero-sum. It actually creates wealth. People that used to not be able to afford a visit to New York now can.
I can see AITMC at #3
Its the system and its players that overall are corrupt, not just the rules.

For example. Someone will be paid a bonus to make sure the average retirement account is emptied. The average american woman has about 2 kids, so we'll charge about 40% of an average lifetime account "earnings". After all we can either directly or indirectly select any price we'd like.

Another example would be some weirdness with plastic surgery where the cost would now directly correlate solely with human emotional response to a procedure rather than difficulty of the surgery.

Finally I think you'd have some pretty weird and borderline inhumane situations with respect to just barely under retirement age patients getting sick... Feel a lump? Well your grandkids will never go to college, or your kids will never live in a house, etc, if you seek treatment before retirement. Just wait a couple months / years, after all what could possibly go wrong with untreated cancer or heart disease or diabetes?

Now if you could roll over the treatment fund directly to your kids, that sounds great until (grand)parents start offing themselves so their kid can afford treatment.

"Give a team of professionals a few weeks"

Fox guarding the henhouse, you'll end up with something at least as corrupt if not more so than the existing solution.
The thing people that write these articles don't acknowledge was how fucked up things were in the USA, even in the 'great' times. The 50's and 60's were a booming time for the economy and middle class. But black people still had their lines to wait in, had to sit in the back of the bus, and we had 'colored' drinking fountains.

Things have came a long, long way since then. Things might not be perfect and there are bits of racism but we are so far ahead of where we were.
If your attorney isn't in the room, there's no such thing as a "Good Cop". If your attorney is in the room, there's still no such thing as a "Good Cop", so listen to your attorney.
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Words of Wisdom for all Startups from Sqream CEO
Manhattan is extremely construction-friendly. There are, however, limits. It's already an extremely developed city, so there's no real empty space left. Any construction will involve buying out existing owners/tenants, demolition, and replacement.

This is happening, but naturally is not fast. There are reasons why you wouldn't someone to demolish a skyscraper in the middle of Manhattan without oversight.

Adding to this problem is the state of infrastructure. Manhattan streets are packed, and most subway lines also. There is currently a proposal to up-zone the area directly around Grand Central and raise the height limits. This is a great thing, except all subway lines feeding Grand Central are already operating past peak capacity. Creating this extra space is pointless (and in fact detrimental) unless there is infrastructure ready to support it.

There are already infrastructure projects in place to alleviate this, but digging tunnels through bedrock is understandably not a fast affair. The East Side Access project will connect Penn Station and Grand Central, and alleviate some of the traffic at both. Adding to the complexity here is that Manhattan's underground is already filled with tunnels of all varieties, forcing new projects to tunnel ever deeper, with requisite cost and slowness.

The world is complicated, city planning is complicated. This isn't software where we can just deploy a new server - apartments, offices, subway lines, streets, sewers, power plants, cannot be willed into existence at a whim.
Not really. India's problems are almost entirely due to colonialism. At independence, life expectancy was 30 years, literacy rate was 15% and the population was about 300 million and IIRC the avg per capita GDP was approx $300 in today's dollars. (If these numbers seem unbelievable, I suggest looking them up. They are easy to verify.)

Combined with this, India inherited a dysfunctional governmental bureaucracy and law and order system which was aimed at preserving British control over India and not really do the actual job of governing the country. The founders did the best they could, and copied a bunch of seemingly good ideas from a bunch of western economies. This failed miserably because they overlooked the fact that western economies were fuelled by slavery, colonization, reckless industrialization and exploitation of natural resources. India doesn't have the natural resources like the US because there isn't any land left to be stolen. Exploiting colonial resources like the European powers is also out of the question. Bonded labourers etc. were (are?) present to some extent, but large-scale disenfranchisement and exploitation of entire demographics similar to the model used by westerners fifty or so years ago is not really tenable in today's world.

The point is, it's now obvious that the western model was bound to fail, but unfortunately this wasn't obvious back in the 50s. It's only now that India is making visible progress towards the goal of development, but this is largely because of the ground work laid in the last 50 or so years in raising levels of education and healthcare (which of course still have quite a long way to improve) to a reasonable baseline.
As someone in the US, I'm not really willing to buy a phone with no LTE in this day and age, and carriers will loathe to put them in stores. I think even HTC's Facebook phone from last year is a better attempt than this, goes for free on contract, and could probably be obtained as cheaply off ebay. I doubt this is really meant to sell in the US anyway, though.
The good compromise already exists:

* Sub-leasing is legal in NYC, for medium-term rentals. You are free to sub-lease your place during your month in europe, you are not free to sub-lease it nightly to transients.

* Owner-occupied Bed-and-Breakfasts are legal, but carefully regulated.

If AirBnB restricted itself to listings in these two (completely legal) categories, no one would object to them.