skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a fun little research jag to be had in comparing the two; the big two basic differences I can find are:

* Providing insurance subjects you to state regulation on insurance policies, which are more onerous than those governing warranties.

* Guaranties and warranties indemnify against flaws in a product or service; they protect you from wrongdoing on the part of (or foreseeable by) the vendor providing the service. Insurance indemnifies against damage that is potentially unrelated to the service itself.

The latter difference seems material for something like Airbnb, where the protections you need include liability claims by short-term tenants and liability claims for neighbors, some of which might arise not simply by malicious acts from those tenants but from things like "the tenant left the door unlocked and the whole building got broken into".

Either way: take a closer look at what Abnb is offering here; it's not like renter's insurance.
It's like how people used to mistakenly plug their modem phone cord into a PBX jack and fry their modem because the voltages were way higher.

Having it show up as an unrecognized DIMM would be clever, but perhaps not worth the trouble.
I think its a pretty good idea. All depends on how well u design your algorithm. I had a similar idea but wanted to use twitter to get sentiment regarding anything, from people to movies to devices or services.
I don't believe that's a fair comparison, but you're entitled to your opinion.

I believe Airbnb definitely has a headstart in the placesharing space, and preventing rentals in SFBA, NY, etc wouldn't cause a significant dent in their valuation (two cents).

Their model works so long as the local jurisdiction supports it.
From the start I was unconfortable with the idea of firing or demoting someone who had worked 15+ years in an organization without any related issues raised before.

And now I'm appalled by all these justifications while nobody seems to really discuss the huge technical loss. Maybe it's my engineering side speaking but I'm outraged to see such a great engineer forced to leave by people who in the end for the most part don't really care about Mozilla and will soon go to the next cause to defend. Meanwhile Mozilla has lost a bit of its soul and a part of its mind. The outcome is just sad.
Just some examination of the math:

If the VC firm is taking 15% of your company for $15m, then you've got a valuation of $100m. As far as I know, the "We all know that nine out of ten startups fail" applies to all startups, not the ones that are being valued at $100m. Also, I think very few VCs are investing $15m into a company that they expect to have a 90% chance of failure. You're looking at more of a 3-5x on some of the deals to carry the consistent 1-2x that the rest of the portfolio is returning.

I don't disagree with a lot of the points in the article, but saying that a VC firm with a $150m fund is betting the farm on one $15m investment exiting at $3bn should raise some eyebrows.
And being able to combine it with an RDBMS means that you can potentially do plyr-ish things on datasets that can't fit in memory. I think the SQL generated by dplyr tries to be smart / efficient too.
You can conservatively play an irrational suppression of Apple's stock price by selling out-of-the-money covered calls against your position. Highly liquid market, immediate income in your pocket. Your worst cases are 1) The stock goes down (you were apparently holding anyway, but now you have more cash); or 2) The stock is called away during a run-up (so you pre-sold some fraction of your potential profits to the option buyer).

Edit: Clarity
As someone put it succinctly in the comments on the Verge:

"Sparrowed!"

(I am imagining it being said in the Strongbad/Teen Girl Squad "Arrow'd!!" voice)
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Very fun, however once I reached the level with the DOM, I catched the opponent but the game went crazy and submitted a lot of queries to Gist (when I closed the tab, the counter was at 64, and Github was serving 403).
I see you have updated the page and chosen to release the font in the public domain.

That's really cool! Thanks!
If you want to do dictation, you can use the Sphinx4 project. It's in Java, and you have to write a bit of code, but it's an offline recognizer, you record the audio and then it doesn't run in real-time.
I am not going to pretend to have already read all of this, but from skimming/reading down in "The Hook" and on to "Start your kernels" I can see that you have really uncovered a stunning leap of illogic in the article reviewed, and you have certainly done your homework and then some when it comes to writing up what the numbers do or don't actually show.

Bonus points for making an effort to see that we can actually replicate your experimental results!
"This is why you see so many popups and banners on mobile websites
that try to get you to download apps. It is also why so many mobile
websites are broken."

Huh, is that surprising? They break their mobile sites and expect people to still use them more than apps? This is self fulfulling: if you make a sucky website, people will NOT use it. Make a wonderful mobile site and people will not care about your apps.
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What prevents the bad guy from torturing you until you disable the DMS, then kill you?
That would be true if gays were trying to make straight marriage illegal. However, in reality, there is no symmetry in this issue.
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Your assessment seems to suggest this is a perception issue. But even the best mobile websites really are second-tier to solid (not even top tier) native apps. And as smartphones become more and more sophisticated sensor platforms, this will become even more problematic.
If Cover gets pulled, I hope some people take a break from making Flappy clones and 2048 clones to make a Cover clone.

Cover is (was?) a phenomenal addition to my Android experience.
>in the time he was CEO

You mean during that week that everybody hammered him about his anti-gay donations and then he quit? I have doubts about his ability to push substantial policy during that period, to say the least.
People have forgotten the magnanimous spirit championed by Martin Luther King.

He did not advocate that one day, the oppressed would be on top and the "bad guys" would get theirs. That sort of attitude would be inimical to what he, Gandhi, and Nelson Mandela would have advocated. Getting Brendan Eich fired makes nobody more free or less oppressed. Instead, it moves society towards a state where no one feels free to say what they really think, unless it hews to the majority opinion, and where might makes right and principles of tolerance and decency are only applied to the "correct" people. In days past, the "correct" people would have excluded non-whites and homosexuals.

An English vicar once said that to judge someone's character, observe not how they treat the people they need, but how they treat the people they don't need.
Those are all very fair points. Although devs and tech consumers may be able to accomplish these things, the typical consumer doesn't understand or care about these things. Dixon's article was focusing more on the end user side of things and it's very clear what the demand is.
That's the same thing they said about gays and miscegenators. They weren't opposed just because people were on their high horses — no, it was the damage that gays and miscegenators did to society that required us to run them out of society.

In the end, it's all just "You hold the opposite opinion from me about what's good for society, so I'm going to try to evict you from society."
I think you're proposing a different law, one which I distrust for its obsequious devotion to the status quo.
I wonder if you can split things between several switches. In the most simple scenario, DMS #1 would receive an encrypted file to be sent to Bob in case of Alice's death. DMS #2 would receive a passphrase for the encrypted file, also to be sent to Bob (or they can be sent to Ben, who would have to meet Bob and both of them together get access)

DMS #1 and #2 (Assuming there are several 'providers' in the 'market') would need to collude or both get hacked in order to compromise the secret.

If there are more DMS services, the key can also be split between them. And I believe there are some key-splitting algorithms that even help this process further.
It's ok though, because this time the mob is right. All those other times the mob was wrong. So long as you can predict exactly which way subjective collective reasoning will go for years into the future you'll be fine.
How about letting me to decide what I want on my phone? And if I prefer apps to the ad-ridden, third-party-tracking-code infested web pages, so be it?
Their business model is illegal almost everywhere people would want to stay. It's not an ethical company. They're betting on their disruptive quality to overcome the ethics.
How's the cost of living in new york? I'm an intern in michigan and I'm getting way less than 6k a month but I definitely feel spoiled.
We recently rewrote our mobile website to be a much more modern experience ( http://m.trulia.com ). Our ability to easily deploy and test ideas while behaving almost exactly like our iOS / Android apps is quite powerful. It's also added a lot to the value of a web visitor, which is important given the SEO nature of our content.

In general, I agree with the sentiment that the mobile web is only now getting it's feet under it. My main concern is that Apple/Google prefer app improvements over improving their browsers.
Yes, but the growth aspect will move away from new native apps to new web apps as soon as 'UI side of the web' stops trailing too far.

I agree with you that the competition will push either sides forward, but by how much at each end? - that is the question.
You're correct. While not common, top interns at Amazon A9 can pull ~$35k for the summer.
That was great,

Here's making the boss kill itself

https://gist.github.com/anonymous/2d45242a73f72847417b
Unfair I might concede but not naive. I've been doing circuit development for a long time. I also have a challenge with 'copied for pennies.' Software you can copy for pennies but hardware really does require some tooling which is not 'pennies'.

There is a market for 'soft' test equipment. The amount of margin available in that market it something worth debating. I've got a USB oscilloscope that has proprietary software that only works on Windows XP, I've got a Tek475 oscilloscope with similar specs from 1981 that works on anything. They both cost about the same amount (just under $300) The point (for me at least) is that the 'softness' of test equipment, where it relies on a third party OS/computer to work) has a negative value coefficient. I know that at some point its going to be worthless, unlike the Tek scope which, as long as it can be calibrated, will have intrinsic value.

That is what I like about the SUMP based designs that DP did. They took the risk away by publishing all their source and letting me decide if I'm willing to do the work (or hire someone to do the work) of keeping the test gear running on my current hardware. I get tired of the 'Atmel' based digital o'scopes but eventually we'll get a decent open source front end and then all bets will be off in terms of being able to make something useful, and more important to me durable. I'd like my test gear to have an expected 20 - 30 year lifespan, it isn't like the test problems change.
I usually discover web content through social sites like Reddit, Facebook, or Twitter. On mobile, such sites have built-in browsers, and I suspect that most "app" traffic is actually of this nature.
will soon go to the next cause to defend

Just who is being "defended" here? No free society should take offense to a nonviolent political stand, even unpopular ones. Going after someone like this is not defense. It's attack.
That must be frustrating, have you tried bringing up your concerns with management? Sometimes they just don't realize you're having difficulties until there is a major issue.
Each situation is unique, but leaning too hard on that fact starts to resemble "It's different when I [Mozilla] do it."

there's really no need to rely on Slate to tell us what to think here.

It's OK, good even, to stick your ear outside the tech bubble. But you shouldn't let anyone - in or out - tell you what to think. Everyone has ideas, synthesize them with a heavy scoop of context. You should be as skeptical of tech-bubble sources as you are mainstream ones, just in some different ways for different reasons.
> between dialogue/engagement and intimidation/suppression, the latter was chosen.

I've seen much more dialogue and engagement than intimidation and suppression. Most things I've seen on this topic were people complaining and writing, not forcing Mozilla to do anything. The only one that got close to "intimidation" is the OKCupid thing, which is still debatable.

> Do these people realise that the exact same arguments were used for the suppression of gays? how are these valid now?

Are you seriously comparing the oppression of gay people with the "oppression" of people who have homophobic views? I don't think this should be explained to you, but it's totally OK to discriminate people because of what they think or the opinions they have; is not OK to discriminate people by what they are. For example, any company should be free to fire White Supremacists, but not to fire white people just for being white. Are you seriously saying that people shouldn't dissociate themselves from people whose opinions they find offensive? And you are complaining about political correctness?

> But even worse than that is the argument that nothing illegal was done. Yep, the same as stripping Alan Turing of his awards was legal at the time, or put him under "treatment", or marginalising and ostracising him.

Again with this comparison! You seriously need to stop comparing the discrimination of gay people with the discrimination of homophobic people. Next thing you know, you are probably going to argue that LGBT organizations need to accept homophobic managers and volunteers.

> look at the lack of compassion as human beings people have for those who dissent in a way that offends them.

I'm not even sure what you are saying here. I haven't noticed a lack of compassion. in your whole comment, there is no single argument to explain your position, and the only thing you did was create arguments from thin air and disproving them. I don't even know who you are talking about... everyone who supported the firing of Eich?
You don't get fast by adding frameworks, you get fast by removing them.
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This is all a matter of perspective. Some people think that markets exist and whatever happens, happens. It seems to me that a lot of the HFT folks fall into that category.

Others say "the stock market is supposed to exist so that large companies can raise funds for growth" The market isn't a thing that exists unto itself, it's a thing that humans created for human purposes. If something is happening in that market, due to a particular set of incentives that causes human beings (which are the only reason said market exists) to feel that sub-optimal outcomes are happening, well then the rules can be changed. The market exists to serve humans and if humans aren't being served they can change it.

So once you have a market structure that exists on smaller time scales than human beings are capable of comprehending everything about "what's really going on here" goes right out the window.

To human beings water is essential for life and largely speaking pretty harmless. But to flies water is hugely dangerous. Surface tension is a joke to a human being but it is much stronger than most insects. That's why so many insects have proboscis. http://irl.cs.ucla.edu/papers/right-size.html

What we have here is one side trying to argue the technical side of things and being 100% correct. Technically their arguments are quite good. The other side is arguing philosophically and their arguments are good as well. The question then becomes, which is more important? Professionals involved in finance are split on the tradeoffs. It should not be surprising that those not professionally involved in finance don't care to learn why a non-intuitive outcome is better than an intuitive one.
Well, just custom-build a PCB. Either laserprinter-etch it yourself or use one of the maker services. If you're just after USB (for the wifi) + camera + power, you don't need that many pins so you can solder the SMD SODIMM socket even by hand.
Whenever I start reading an internet article in depth, I get a nagging feeling that I'm putting more effort into reading the article than was put into writing it.
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It does! Thanks, and thanks for a fun, engrossing diversion on a rainy Monday afternoon.

(Update: Each time I enter a level, it loads as level 13, and I have to reset it to get the correct map and code -- just a heads-up in case it helps with debugging. Chrome 33.something, Windows 7 x64.)
This is using espeak. There are alternatives, such as Festival which, with decent voices, sound way better.

Example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BA0z6ztG7qU
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I think people waste a lot of time blogging. Why not focus on what matters, first?

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P.S. would love any feedback on my copy

Thanks,
Rob
Such subletting (which on a nightly basis isn't subletting at all) is illegal almost everywhere. There is a reason why hotels pay hotel taxes and it's not just because they're not a cool startup.
Were demonstrators in the 60s using intimidation and fear? Should they have had a dialogue with the people who considered them inferior humans, and did not permit them to sit on the same stools white people did? Demonstration does not need to be polite, especially when the other side has been anything but. Speaking out en masse is a perfectly ordinary and effective form of protest.
I call bs here, if landlords are struggling then they should get out of the business of being a landlord in a market with regulations that don't support their business model. There are more than enough people willing to buy a unit to move into it themselves. I'm 100% anti rent control myself, but to claim landlords are struggling is disingenuous.

There is no rule out there that says that landlords have a right to their business model on their terms. I'm aware of several units in this city where the landlord grew up in a unit their parents purchased way back in the day, who then moved out of the city to the suburbs. They now profit handsomely because they self select for tenants that are likely to move out of the city or outgrow a unit.
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This is precisely why I dislike Comic Sans. Case in point: our shop handles advertising and print work for a prominent local hospital, and we were asked to design a invitation for a formal, black tie dinner reception being held for a new doctor. We designed the invitation using a formal-looking font combination of Edwardian Script and Adobe Garamond Pro, however the draft was rejected and we were asked to replace all fonts with Comic Sans. The end result looked informal and amateurish, more suitable for a neighborhood barbecue flyer than a black tie dinner invitation.
It kind of bothers me that the Raspberry Pi Foundation is supposed to an educational charity, yet they are devoting resources towards developing products aimed business and industrial users. It doesn't seem aligned with their stated mission.
Yes, that's what PGP is for. Encrypt whatever you want to the recipient(s)' public keys, done.
I agree, as my regularly maxed-out library membership will attest. Why buy-keep-store when you can borrow, and re-borrow?
An alternative is a personal instance of a DMS for each person. Maybe a Github repo linked to a service provider, like Heroku, where each person manages their own switch.

One may say this is too complicated and the layman wouldn't know how to do this, but laymen wouldn't have the need for this. Anyone who is not satisfied with the given service, must have the power and will to change it to their needs.
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Same thing in Sweden.
It's possible we're talking past each other. I think Abnb should take responsibility for making sure it operates lawfully in SF and NYC (and elsewhere where it is encumbered by regs), but I think the model is a good one.
> as soon as 'UI side of the web' stops trailing too far

Except not likely it ever will.
You are correct that this is not only specific to AirBnB but the whole shared economy. However, things are not black and white and only time will tell how they will settle.

From the article:

"The law I'm using is that the city says there are hotels and there are apartments, and the two shall never meet,"

They have already met!

Clearly, the demand is huge due to the new realities: better technological infrastructure, disappearing middle class, high prices of real estate and high rents in urban areas, the desire to socialize.

The issues are just starting to surface and the laws will have to evolve and adapt.

EDIT, since I can't reply to the comment below:

"Demand is huge for what? For unlicensed short-term rentals that don't pay hotel taxes or follow regulations, thus saving money? This is not news. This is not a "new reality". In fact, it's why the regulations exist in the first place."

I agree with this but that's not among the new realities I was referring to.

Some of the new realities are:

- people have gotten poorer and don't mind the extra income; some needed it pretty desperately

- there is a trend of growing appreciation of urban areas which worsens the first problem

- people have learned to be willing to trust strangers due to the reputation/karma system

- the Internet has taught people to enjoy the social aspect: meeting interesting strangers