skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
AR is not just about persistence. AR is an object-relational mapping which maps an obect oriented object in your code, to a row in a relational database table. It is an adapter between two different ways of representing data. But don't forget that Objects are not just data, they are also behavior. They are your domain. The 'object' comes first and the 'relational' comes second. AR encapsulates your data and makes database access transparent, but it still represents your domain.

Martin Fowler's Catalog of Patterns:
http://www.martinfowler.com/eaaCatalog/activeRecord.html
I love airbnb, have used it in the past, but I have a really hard time sympathizing with this or seeing it as AirBnB's fault. This is always a risk if you let people you don't know (or hell, even people you do know) into your home.

It kind of sounds like this person never even bothered to meet the people who were renting his apartment (I was always shocked when someone rented me their apartment without meeting me, personally).

Nothing airbnb can ever do will guarantee something like this won't happen to you. That's why you have to also do whatever you can to protect yourself. If you wouldn't be comfortable with the precautions you took had you found the renter on craigslist, you shouldn't be doing it.

Of course, airbnb will probably pull out from their own insurance on this for this person because the likely result of not doing so enough times for them is that more places make it clearer that it's largely illegal to do it and start enforcing more zealously.
One could make a similar argument for just about any large financial, real-estate, or holdings company. Bank of America, General Mills, and General Electric to name a few.
I have found the mozilla community to be very helpful and each project has a very good list of mentored bugs. The community has found http://www.joshmatthews.net/bugsahoy/ to be a very good tool for beginning contributors to get the right first bug and step into the whole community.
Best way to get involved remains to ping to #introduction on IRC (irc.mozilla.org)

Regarding discovering them algorithmically tends to be quite an interesting idea actually, should think more on this.
Great, it looks beautiful!

@see https://gitprint.com/reeze/tipi, but Chinese text didn't display correct :(
I don't see how this is AirBnB's fault, at least to the degree that's implied.

You rented out your apartment to a stranger on the internet based upon what other strangers on the internet said about them. You almost certainly broke the terms of the lease in the process and probably deserved to be kicked out even if you hadn't had an "XXX freak fest" thrown.

Sure, AirBnB should try and figure out the damages, charge the accounts credit card(guarantee that won't work) and the pursue damages(good luck).

This is why people have renter's insurance(doubt you thought of it as you were probably trying to do this illegally anyway).

This is also why this industry is regulated, because when it's not humans get pwnt by their own stupidity combined with the malice of other humans.

At the end of the day for a lot of people AirBnB is a way to make easy money under the table, that's why there's little to no regulation; yeah that regulation comes with taxes/overhead, but it also comes with protection from the hazards of the business. It's pretty fucked logic to take such a huge risk with your property, give it zero protection, and then be not only surprised, but furious(with the site connecting you to the offender not the offender themself), when shit goes down. How dense can you be.

TL;DR- AirBnB pays for these situations anyway[0], this drama post is made by someone who took a huge risk in renting an apt without insurance, without a face-to-face, and probably not in accordance with his/her lease. The post will probably result in a faster payout, but the entitlement is slightly annoying considering the circumstances.

[0]-https://www.airbnb.com/guarantee
I had 3 interviews with google about 9 years ago. totally failed the on-site in mountainview. sorting a balanced tree on a whiteboard is tricky (quiet you!).

In hindsight, I'm not sure why I was excited to work at a post-ipo cube farm, even if it says "google" on the side.

edit: I believe it was also for SRE, which (at the time) means you do two interviews: the sysadmin interview, and the developer interview.
Someone at AirBnB needs to read up on Sybil attacks :)
Even if you are allowed subleasing on your own lease, there are probably also minimum stay requirements by law to get out of being considered a hotel/b&b/whatever with taxes and insurance requirements.

I think it's pretty hard to use AirBnB without breaking some kind of law, unfortunately.

Of course never mind that some of the people doing this in bigger cities like SF are already illegally subletted themselves to someone who's probably paying a rent controlled price.
Can someone explain why we should think this tumblr post has any credibility?
This is fucked up.

87k of damages ... doesn't that seem a lot?
Perhaps a payout under the terms of

https://www.airbnb.com/terms/host_guarantee

will mitigate the issue that this particular host encountered.
>That being said, I guarantee you were violating your lease when you used AirBnb

How can you guarantee that? Plenty of places let you sublet. Hell, in reasonable jurisdictions you can't legally prevent someone from subletting.
A potentially interesting thread of discussion --

Who has ideas on how to handle customer service and public perception in an industry where the downside of a single bad event is the mix of horrific, intimate, and very newsworthy?

Even if the rate of AirBNB disasters was only 1 disaster for every 1 million successful rentals, you'd still get very sticky disaster stories coming out regularly. Similar to how the evening news covers all the murders and trauma in the world, potentially inflating our perception of how often it happens..

Any general thoughts on what's required to thrive if you're in an industry where things will go wrong even if you do best practices conservatively everywhere, and the "going wrong" scenario is both quite bad and quite public?
On Google+: http://www.businessinsider.com/sex-and-politics-at-google-it...
Because he's in NYC, and it's illegal according to the "Illegal Hotel Law":

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/05/nyregion/the-airbnb-econom...

Even if there's nothing about subletting (which I doubt), you can't do illegal stuff without violating a lease.
You know, I really hate it that those two pieces of information alone are almost enough to make me outright dismiss the chance this person has anything sane to say, but SJW are just so damned toxic and clearly feel no need to alter course that I simply cannot view it any other way.

It's a special shame, because I imagine if someone were a predator and wanted to pick victims who would be unlikely to be taken seriously, that entire SJW milieu would be ripe grounds for such victim hunting. Anything any of them say will be immediately assumed to be wildly exaggerated hysterical nonsense, because almost everything they say is exactly that.

I wonder if they realise just how much they're shooting themselves in the foot and enabling their "oppressors".
as i said, if someone comes across as a jerk to you he won't be taken. that's the test.
hopefully most people aren't jerk during interviews, i mean, that's a really dumb thing to do ;-)
No, I think I'm getting thrown off by the correct definition of the word pronoun.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/pronoun

"Queen" is not a pronoun, gendered or otherwise, it's a noun that refers to a female person.
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Nvidia gimps the integer and double precision floating point math so they can sell ungimped chips for several times the price.

http://www.nvidia.com/object/quadro.html

Granted, most games don't use double precision or integer math so it's a reasonable choice for market segmentation.
What if those same rules were applied industry-wide for the good of users of AirBnb and other services?

At what point does it morph into a corrupt regulation?
"NYPD Counsel" is not an example of an executive branch agency with rulemaking authority. Counsel is an advocate, and they have merely asserted a position with reference to the law. Absent some other (unprovided) citation, it doesn't behoove anyone to use loose language here.

"NYPD's lead freedom of information counsel refused to release the department's freedom of information guides, citing attorney-client privilege."
“Excluded Accommodation” means:

any condominium, townhouse, co-operative, apartment, or other unit within a multiple-dwelling structure, complex, or similar type development to the extent owned in whole or in part by anyone other than you

Since he mentioned a landlord, I'm doubtful that he owned his apartment.
nice interview! Great innovative mind that duffield
I don't doubt that some bad engineers get into Google...I've met quite a few. I met one engineer who believed that you should avoid interfaces in Java because it makes it difficult to click through source code in an IDE. I've interviewed ex-Googlers who were completely lost answering the interview question, "how do you write maintainable code?" From what I've seen, Google isn't testing for being able to write maintainable code and is, instead, testing almost exclusively for problem solving and being able to apply algorithms/data structures. That, alone, is going to lead to hiring some bad engineers.

But you have to look pretty hard to find those engineers...much harder than you do to find quality engineers that have been turned down by Google. And I believe it's intentional...that those false positives are about seeding the rest of the industry with people rejected by Google. I believe they interview more candidates than they need to bring in to fill their open positions in order to feed the perception (not the reality) that Google's engineers are the best of the best. That's the perception they care about, not the perception that their interview process is good at choosing employees.
This is obviously a bad situation. No one wants this to happen. (Except perhaps the FF participants) There have been plenty of bad situations at hotels as well, though.

I'm most interested in the final paragraph.

All because I trusted AirBNB that this individual was a “Verified” member with multiple positive reviews...

AirBnB has pioneered some of the workflow for establishing and communicating social proof. P2P requires trusted reputation.

If the story is as described, it appears AirBnB failed to provide a trustful counter-party. And it went very wrong as a result.
Just spent way too long a time drooling over that Dell 31.5 inch 4K monitor!
Agreed, that is rather bizarre, especially considering the, "What Countries is this available in" section is quite difficult to miss.
You are saying:

(a) This could never happen a hotel room.

(b) Since Airbnb is illegal in NYC, it's not Airbnb's fault someone is trusting them and their vetting system in NYC.*

Both seems false to me.

* Obviously it's not their "fault", but they should take responsibility, just like an insurance company / hotel chain would.

ADDITION: What's the purpose of Airbnb's vetting/trust system? Is it not the same as the purpose of hotel regulation? Should they not both serve a similar function?
Sure. LISP is always worth the time, even if you cannot use it at work. Technically still far superior to everything else out there.
Because it contains ample verifiable evidence.
Someone's certainly bought into the marketing.
DynDNS is painting with an unavoidably broad brush. It's a student page at the CS department of NTU -- National Taiwan University. I'm sure the server has hosted something unsavory at some point, but this particular page is hardly threatening.
In fact, the base salary of a full University professor (so-called W3 group) is 5672,13 € per month (http://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Besoldungsordnung_W), so in total (with extra 13th salary) 73737 € / year, hence about 101k$ / year. This excludes extra pay for fulfilling faculty functions etc. which can easily double that amount. Take in addition the generous retirement money, the fact that they are state functionaries and thus cannot be fired and do not pay any social security taxes (usually about 15 % of your salary) makes this look pretty good to me. Btw the salaries of older professors (which are still payed according to the old C standard from before 2005) is even higher. Of course there are so-called "Fachhochschulprofessoren" that earn less than this, but since they usually have strong ties with industry and focus on applied research they profit from other income streams.
> There have been plenty of bad situations at hotels as well, though.

Sure, but hotels are regulated and licensed and zoned so they keep those bad situations away from residential areas.

> AirBnB has pioneered some of the workflow for establishing and communicating and social proof.

It's really an open question of whether "reputation economies" are workable at all. I continue to be disappointed by user ratings on services like Yelp. I wouldn't trust anything more substantive than a new restaurant pick to such ratings.
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This is the donation site:

http://doge4water.org
Every good open source project I've seen will happily accept and merge refactoring pulls, as long as the refactoring:

-Actually makes the code cleaner.

-Reduces redundancies.

-Above all, actually results in there being less code than there was before.

If you can achieve clean code + negative lines of code after a refactor, with identical functionality, they'd be fools to not merge it.

It's possible the refactors you submitted didn't meet these requirements. Or the project owners simply were too possessive of the code they wrote with their own fingers.
That's not actually a response. You are just restating the premise. And exercising your right to be snide.

What is the ample verifiable evidence in the post?
You give lossless compressors too little credit. An optimal text compressor (with a sane running time) should be able to "understand" the context to generate a density function over words close to the true one to encode optimally. The lossy one if optimal in some manner should generate this same density but it would use an error metric to achieve a "rate-distortion" boundary, and encode optimally based on the desired position on that boundary.

So what separates the two is the error metric, in other words, how much humans would bother if you replaced y for x. But this involves humans, not general intelligence -- you'd need a lot of testing with actual humans to get good results (jpeg has extensive testing to find optimal quantizers for chroma values based on human perception, for example).

Not that the latter would not be interesting too; I just think it's less practical.

Relevant:
http://www.stanford.edu/class/ee368b/Handouts/04-RateDistort...
Yea, it is illegal. Even if you are allowed to sublet your apartment, renting it out for any period of time less than 29 days is classified as running a hotel, which you aren't allowed to do in an apartment.

Update: I am not entirely correct. It is only illegal if you are not present in the apartment at the time, so people renting out rooms in a multi-room apartment can do so legally, although they are likely still in violation of their lease.
But now you have less content on screen than a 27" monitor.
The purpose of hotel regulations isn't to keep these things from happening. It's to keep these things confined to places equipped to deal with them, and zoned to keep it all away from residential places.
This isn't a product for high-level competitive gaming. This is a product that allows the average gamer to play the vast catalog of steam games from the couch.
But with Yelp they don't verify you've actually eaten at a restaurant or visited a business so it is very much up in the air and their stance is we don't spend our time verifying or taking up false claims so you're stuck. I've experienced this first hand helping businesses with their social media. It sucks a lot.

The only way to have sure reviews is to have some kind of receipt verification or pass the payment through the service so that you know for sure this person is paying for this service which AirBnB does. So there is a big difference from AirBnB reviews and reviews on Yelp and other sites that let you post without real proof.
No, it totally could happen in a hotel room. And I bet it does, constantly. But hotels are equipped for it, so there's fewer issues (no personal property damaged, better fire codes, credit card on file, not happening in a residential area, etc).

And I didn't say (b). Rather, I said AirBnb didn't force them to let strangers into their home; it was their decision. AirBnb approved the people, sure -- but so did the apartment owner.

EDIT: In response to your addition -- AirBnb doesn't verify they won't do something bad (they can't see the future). Rather, it means that AirBnb has verified they are who they said they are. So, AirBnb can now go to the police with that information.
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This article is much more reasonable that the previous one i've read from you.

Yeah, women will be women and men will be men. There is always some kind of sexual attraction between the two, and there are always physical and even mental differences between the 2 genders. It's how we're made.

There will always be a divide - its about how we behave about it:

This seems to be much more of an issue in the US than anywhere else tho. The US default expectation seems to be to always over-exaggerate stuff, and always takes the over-defensive position.

It's seen as "good person".
It's seen as OK for the minority to attack the majority and is considered legitimate regardless of the attack or argument being made (in this case, women using their gender as a weapon, so it's really just a minority within the minority).

Sometimes the same happens with black vs white, and so on, too.

In fact "think of the children" attacks are based on the exact same concept. (remove internet neutrality, THINK OF THE CHILDREN!)

If anything, it deserves the ones who really get harassed IMO, because eventually those might not be defended when they really should be.
Mutual agreement vs imposition
I would imagine most of that is rent you are liable for if you are evicted. At least $2k+ a month for x amount of months.

If they had decent furniture that could add up quickly as well, but $80k does seem like a lot unless they are including 'emotional' damages which at that point is hard to quantify.
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(I don't know anything about AirBnB's terms of use, etc., but I would assume that they rid themselves of as much liability as possible.)

It just seems like blaming AirBnB here is akin to blaming Google Search because you found the renter there, or Craigslist, or...
I heard Germany and Italy had many double taxation issues also, besides Australia, but they have at least treaties to avoid such.
They only other state which goes after their people living abroad is Ethiopia, but they have double taxation treaties with at least Israel, Italy and South Africa.
So yes, US tax laws are the worst.
No, hotel regulations are there because hotel owners lobby the lawmakers to protect their business and exclude competition. Nothing in the hotel regulations could prevent somebody from inviting people in and having a wild sex party. Of course, eventually they'd be thrown out, and possibly billed for damages, but there's no way to prevent it upfront.
This is my first module, just looking for a bit of feedback before I publish it to NPM.
> In New York, it is illegal for you to rent out your apartment while you are gone.

Pretty sure that's the reason. Also NY state has laws requiring a minimum stay in a property that isn't zoned as a hotel.

In any case, if you break the law relating to your rental it's fairly easy for a landlord to terminate the lease.
Probably $4k-6k+ per month for a 7th Ave "luxury" studio with a back yard.
There are absolutely tons of people more dense than the OP, tons. Vast parades of dense people. So it's a little bit unwarranted to really come down this hard on him.

On the other hand it is these vast parades of dense people who keep voting for less regulation as a whole. So I can appreciate the need to come down hard on them. But this guy doesn't seem like the guy honestly.

AirBNB is a business model used by millions, they take a huge or even really huge cut just for being the middle man. You expect a tiered amount of "XXX Freak Fests" rolling through your apartment.
The tweet by the "BBW party promoter" is on twitter; you can view it there. The account has 5 years of history tweeting about sex parties.

The address of a residence is in the tweet. You can do a Google search and see the previous real estate listings for the residential condos/apartments at that address. You can look at it on Google Maps to see that it's a real address and not some kind of sex club.

The "porn star" profile of the party organizer that tweeted, screenshotted, is there on Xvideos; you can look it up and view it yourself.

The screenshots of the booking conversations through Airbnb are included as well, which Airbnb can confirm actually took place.

These are all evidence supporting the story, and all of these pieces of evidence can be verified by third parties. That's verifiable evidence, which is what I said.

"Restating the premise" means to restate the base of your argument. I argued the opposite, that the post does have credibility. Sorry that you felt I was being snide by disagreeing.
AirBnB requires credit card on file, doesn't it? And property gets damaged in hotels the same way, the only difference whose property it is - hotel owner's or appartment owner's. As for fire code, I don't see how it is even relevant.
I mean if you can weather the storm of bad credit and have a decent shot at digging yourself out of it in the future, being able to pay no interest on that debt is a huge benefit

as usual it is all about the cost-benefit analysis. the author maybe should have put that disclaimer at the end there.
And if I use AirBnB legitimately for a while, then decide to do this, then what? It's AirBnB's fault for matchmaking?

That seems similar to blaming Google Search, not the site itself, for returning a site that has ranked well for a long time, but has just now started serving malware.
Have you ever read a subletting clause in a lease? They all require landlord approval of the new tenant.
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You don't need to increase the screen size, but the font size/dpi setting.
I think 128k mp3s recordings sound tinny, but as someone else pointed out that is because of the lossy data encoding. The distortion is not as noticeable in the early Dead shows --you know the ones with PigPen that have that bluesy feel--but I think it ruins the jazzy sound of late 70s early 80s Jerry songs. But all this talk of bootlegs and the Dead might be to heady of a discussion for HN. Suffice it to say I think flacs/shns are sexy and low bitrate VBR mp3s are shitty.

There are lots of noun+y words that do not fit your theory, but linguistics is a messy endeavor.
Tree style tabs us different, but it's what I use to manage my tabs.
One, I would definitely evict and sue this blogger as well if I was the landlord.

Two, how the AirBNB user the blogger rented to is "Verified" with multiple positive reviews needs to be investigated. Whatever weakness they are exploiting in the AirBNB review system needs to be eliminated.

Lastly, I am sorry this happened... but the reality is...

this is the reason you shouldn't be using AirBNB. This could have turned out much worse to be perfectly frank.
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You expect renters insurance to pay out claims when you rent your apartment out to strangers on Airbnb? You must have excellent insurance.