skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So basically, she's admitting that the property is more valuable than its current use, and the city is actively denying itself tax revenue because of it.
"When have you most successfully hacked some (non-computer) system to your advantage?"

Weeeeeell…
I'm a little surprised a gray market hasn't emerged where cable companies will rent you a login for HBO Go without stringing cable to your house.
That article is .. not helpful. So baby swipes and 'at least ten condoms' is a proof of prostitution? That .. doesn't quite add up. I mean, you actually buy condoms in packs of 10-12 here and the baby swipe thing is inconclusive.

Maybe the claim in the headline is right, probably the story is backed by real facts. That article though? That's really useless.
Longer shifts does not mean that doctors can't have longer sleep that 4 hours. Let doctors have 16 or even 18-hour long shifts interleaved with days without shifts at all, for sleeping and some [light] paperwork.
Go to Google's jobs site and look for listings labelled "Special Projects" [1]. These are (often) Google[x] listings.

[1] http://www.google.com/jobs
It's always painful to watch luddite bureaucrats pontificate on technology and how it needs to be controlled to "protect" the population. I remember when I was at Google in 2003 there was a California politician who demanded that Google be regulated like a utility company because it was so important. That was when it was still a private company! Or when another California bureaucrat wanted to ban gmail because it violated people's privacy by showing targeted ads next to emails. Listening to people like this requires a perma-facepalm.
Tuition at UBC med is $16,000 per year and many students qualify for up to $100,000 in bursaries. After 4 years of academics there is a paid residency. It's not a huge salary (~$50k) but enough to avoid going into debt.
I lived a block away from that apartment. Note 2 things - theres only 2 or 3 of those available in the entire city (and you have to compete for them), you will have a slumlord-style landlord who won't tolerate any noise or usually a single guest, your fixtures won't work, there will be stabbings and shootings within a block of you (not west/east oakland, but enough to have to be careful at night).
Nice use of Telesc.pe: http://telesc.pe/
"Recoverable system upgrades" - https://coreos.com/blog/recoverable-system-upgrades/

Run from root partition A and only update on partition B, essentially via chroot. Downtime required for updates is the cost of a reboot. If, however, upon an error during boot, reboot into other partition which will be your last known good config.

Seems simple and straight-forward but is difficult for unmodified Debian-based distributions, so they've addressed this as a key feature of CoreOS.
I work in the CERT division at the SEI. I have no idea what CMMI stands for, and I'm not even sure what it actually is [1]. If I hadn't heard it mentioned in passing once or twice over the last year, I would be even more clueless.

What I would like my perspective to convey, is that the SEI is a relatively large institution. I am aware there is some methodology-type work being done, but I've never met anyone who is engaged with it.

For what it's worth, I think the SEI handles some interesting R&D. It's not all sunshine and rainbows, but in my experience it compares favorably to the startup world in terms of dynamism and engineering challenges.

[1] So, I did end up googling it, and it turns out CMMI was handed off to a dedicated institute and is no longer managed or developed by the SEI.

http://www.sei.cmu.edu/cmmi/
To add to the list - I recently used http://kineticjs.com for a data vis project involving some massive amounts of data in the browser and was very impressed at its performance and ease of use.
Doesn't this mean paying with bitcoin in the real world is now broken? Merchants will either have to make people wait for up to 10 minutes for the transaction to confirm or risk that person reversing the transaction after walking out the door.
Well, the downvoting didn't stick.

I learned this primarily from my mother, who was a RN nurse anesthetist, and a doctor who became my father's primary hunting partner about the time I was old enough to start actively hunting.
Coming from the healthcare marketing field, I can tell you there are many doctors who are looking for more patients. Especially specialists.
I think this is where the argument for short term whole-residence rentals breaks down.

In the beginning, Airbnb was for homeowners and renters to provide a spare bedroom to travelers. In that case, they're facilitating a private transaction between two individuals to exchange money for a place to crash. By the residents staying at the home for the duration of the guest's stay, it's hard to call that a sublet, and there's a very strong argument to be made that it's just a communications platform to link either side of a marketplace.

But the case of whole-home rentals gets murkier. I don't see how letting someone stay in your home while you're living somewhere else is anything but a sublet. And if it is a sublet, why should it not have to conform to the established rules for sublets?

I find it disappointing that the Airbnb team hasn't done much in the way of explaining this point. When they do address the legality of Airbnb, they almost always refer to the first case. It's understandable, as it's a much more easily defensible position. I'd be interested to hear someone from Airbnb directly address the possibility of their service being used to turn residential spaces into commercial spaces (in the form of hotels).
Funny that the article links to http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2600319/Medicare-dat... which references the top paid doctors by medicare... I read an article last week saying that this data would be misinterpreted, as a lot of the "top paid" doctors actually are just like whole departments using the lead physician's billing code, and they don't actually get any of that money - and here we are.
http://www.eirec.com/DPimages/digisqwvtest.jpg

Okay here is a picture of what I'm trying to explain. And the author of this picture used a frequency much further inside human hearing range. This is transient response test I guess. My main argument is for the verbatim capture of the input wave. It will make the sound at 10k but it isn't the same wave that went in.
Will this integrate with Slack?
I've read that malpractice insurance is a few thousand dollars a year and the premiums have been going down.
Comcast will sell you an HBO subscription unbundled from their TV service.
Potential Mt. Gox Buyer: Exchange Has Important Role in Bitcoin’s Future
Where can I find my application result for YC summer cycle
Will I get an email?
many thanks.
I remember when this came out. I looked at the code for Binary Search & Merge Sort that I had written for a Data Structures and Algorithms class I was teaching at the time. Neither of these had the bug.

The reason was that I was using C++ iterators.

template<typename RAIter>
void mergeSort(RAIter first, RAiter last);

So I could not do

RAIter middle = (first + last) / 2;

because the there is no operator+ on iterators in general. Instead, I did

size_t size = last - first;
RAIter middle = first + size/2;

and that is correct. The efficiency concerns in the article are a little pointless, at least in the context of my code, since I needed to compute the size anyway.

// BASE CASE
if (size <= 1) return;

I'm not exactly sure what the lesson is here. Although certainly types with restrictions on the operations available can be a Good Thing.
Here is the answer:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7593830
In pathological scenarios where the edge weights change near the goal, rather than near the start of the search, D-star and all its backwards-incremental-graph-search variants can be slower than regular A-star. I would only recommend the use of D-star where a) that effect is unlikely or doesn't matter, or b) you can guarantee edge cost changes to occur only near the start of the search - such as a robot with a proprioceptive sensor, which is precisely what the algorithm was designed for.
There is no model where Piracy makes sense. There is a cost of piracy (both in setting up and in risk of using). That HBO hasn't found a way to easily capture that value speaks to them not having found the right channels to market.
Only 9 counties participate in inter-county transfers

http://www.boe.ca.gov/proptaxes/faqs/propositions60_90.htm#1

And as you point out, if you are under 55 then none of this applies.
yourlogicalfallacyis.com is a good way to explain fallacies, but Fallacy Man is better:
http://existentialcomics.com/comic/9
Its funny how they show it most of the time without the cable.
Slippery slope is not a logical fallacy. Like any argument, it might be right or it might be wrong, and if your entire argument is, "X and Y are in some way vaguely similar, so if we allow X, then Y," then your point is certainly under-argued. But it is, in fact, the case that in at least some circumstances, people change the status quo by taking a small step outside the status quo, normalizing it as the new status quo, and then taking another small step.

If you believe that AirBnB WILL be used for prostitution, but WILL NOT be used for gambling or a drug operation, you should articulate a reason why you think there is a difference in kind that would prevent people from using AirBnB for those other purposes.
Slippery slope would imply that each thing was worse then the last, hence going down a slope.

In this case, all there are pretty equivalently bad, and the quote was just other similar ways the rooms could be exploited.
> Real estate is an extremely well-developed industry here in New York City
Should read over-regulated industry
> By the residents staying at the home for the duration of the guest's stay, it's hard to call that a sublet

Its actually quite easy: you are renting out space in a unit you are renting from a landlord -- so its a sublet. That you are present is irrelevant to whether it is a sublet (it may, OTOH, be relevant to whether it is prohibited by law independent of lease conditions even aside from considering whether it is a sublet, but that's a different issue.)
Google searching no, but an IRC room or being logged into something would be good for metadata. Especially a forum or chat room where you reveal timezone or other geolocation info. "It's snowing here"

Would not take long to grep ISP logs and find the known Tor bridges, Obfsproxy bridges, relays and who might have used them.

If you tunneled Tor traffic through a VPN exiting Russia then your local ISP has no Tor timing metadata to give, unless you're Snowden and your adversary is global. Running an internal relay would help obfuscate your own traffic too if you can connect to it on a local network it would be a lot harder to prove you logged into IRC channel #blowuptheembassy on the Al Qaeda IRC freenode server.
Hotels have so much to lose they won't let it happen and this is an opportunity to give them a bad publicity.
I sympathize with your position, but I want to point out that it's equally foolish to assume that technological progress poses no dangers to society and that no control is necessary. It isn't really about controlling the technology either; it's about controlling how that technology is operated by human beings, people who are fallible and who can be dangerous when given a certain level of power.

There's definitely a continuum from "radical luddite" to "techno-utopian," and I think striking a balance between caution and optimism is the way to go.
Because the next time you'd want to shop with that store you'd need to fill out the profile again. This kills the conversion rate.

It's a security/UX tradeoff.
If my neighbour chooses to work as a prostitute in their apartment, or rent their apartment to someone who happens to be a prostitute - that's not nearly the end of the world, you know, they're people too, just with a comparably hard/unpleasant profession.

An active neighbour can easily be bringing some stranger they picked up at a bar twice each night; if that stranger pays afterwards then that doesn't change anything for me.
Interesting. This seems like a step in the right direction. What can't PAs do, that MDs can?
A slippery slope is fallacious if there's no argument for the the progression down the slope. Lots of valid arguments take the form of a slippery slope.

In this case, there is in fact an escalating progression of bad things happening in Airbnb rentals; in rough order:

* Criminal enterprises buying entire buildings and turning them into unlawful hotels

* Renters trashing Airbnb rentals

* Floating brothels

The leap from here to "gambling" doesn't sound too crazy; in fact, gambling seems more innocuous than a floating brothel.
You read negative connotations into 'excites'. That wasn't intended.

I was just curious, since 'from scratch' can just as well mean 'untested' although I certainly agree that it sometimes is the Right Thing. The reference to Go was another thing that threw me off, since I rarely (admittedly .. sometimes) judge software projects by the language it is written in.

Thank you for the answer and some more references.
You are essentially advocating that reporters write a test script with each bug filed. During the process, of course, this makes sense, but it may not work right away because coming up with a solid repro can be a challenge. And not all users of all projects will be coders able to write test scripts. OTOH that is a fine job for a somebody taking on the role of triage / "gardener".
HBO gets paid by cable companies, not by end user subscribers.

Subscription fee's go to the cable providers, who are the ones that are potentially losing out by piracy, though many cable providers are also internet providers, so they do get some money.

HBO would be worried if cable companies decided it wasn't worth it to carry HBO, but they know currently HBO is an anchor on many lucrative tv packages, which make cable companies lots of money.
Before you start to complain, I am a fan of collaboration but Devops might just be the best joke ever! The truth is it means something different to every person. For years I have defined Devops as Engineers trying get Ops out of the way and pushing forward with out those pesky sys admins. Your think I am over blowing it? I have been in the Silicon Valley for the boom of Devops and I hear it all the time “We dont need ops, we can just have a developer do it”. The number of new startups who use AWS thus allowing them to forgo a system administrator never ceases to amaze me. My biggest problem with this is your cutting the legs out from yourself, but your assuring me job security so maybe I should keep my mouth shut.
I have been a a operations engineer for over ten years now, and honestly developers and ops engineers have different ways of functioning. To me a good software engineer has long term focus, can get deep into a project and crunch on the same code for extended durations. Give a good coder a project that will take weeks or even months and they will put there head down and solve your problem. As a generalization these people do not handle interrupt driven work well, they also often do not handle high pressure situations well.
Operations people on the other hand do the majority of their work under massive interruption and constant pressure. Tell a operations engineer the site is down and they will not focus on what the origin of the problem is, they will focus on getting the product back online and come back to fully understand why. This does not mean they do not troubleshoot but they are trying to identify the immediate cause not the who or root. One might argue this is short sited but when your stuck waiting for someone to figure out why the web severs where started your killing your customer experience. I would argue restart the web pool get the product back online and then start to look at root cause once you have identified the customer impact problem and completed the shortest path solution.
When you start off by having your engineers run operations you never allow new ops people to start from ground up and develop their skills, learning the pain points as the system grows thus ensuring when you grow to the point that you need a operations engineer the is a shortage of trained people available. One might argue that some of the developers that started the company by running operations will become your operations engineers and will cover this but to me thats like using a vice grips to remove a bolt.
argh, and thanks. In my defense, I was reading this paper (https://www.usenix.org/legacy/event/osdi00/full_papers/strun... -- Self securing storage systems) by Garth Goodson, also of the CMU Parallel Data Lab.
I think she's taking the position that there's inherent value in providing affordable residential property in New York which exceeds the value in extracting maximum tax revenue from every square inch of the city. At the very least, I find that to be a defensible position.
Since this had a significant discussion less than a year ago (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6799336), we're going to bury this as a dupe. Please check HN Search for the title of a story before posting. It doesn't work for everything, but it found this one.
I think it makes sense in training (under supervision), it's just doing it as an all encompassing lifestyle that I think makes no sense.
More anecdata.

If I had a dollar for every time I've heard this one. I refuse to believe that professional landlords are keeping units off the market when the current rental market may well represent the top of what they can get for the next 5 years. Most of the long term landlords who bought 20-30 years ago have gone through at least 3 down markets from the late 80s to now. The current employment gold rush in SF is just that, and I suspect long term owners recognize that and want to strike while the iron is hot.

I am willing to change my opinion if anyone could provide any tangible data, but I only see this argument bandied about with no actual proof.

So in my rebuttal, I would say that I guess that there are less than 100 units like that across the city. I have no proof, but I feel thats the case, therefore rent control not bad. See how that works?
I can't see many British people queuing up to pay for this - it has the wrong plug on it!
Would this be an example for Tragedy Of The Commons?

A small group of users act rational and in self-interest (by offering prostitution, illegal gambling etc.) and therefore make it worse for the other 'legitimate' users. In the long run, the 'illegal' users destroy AirBnB (by causing stricter laws etc.) and therefore destroy their own business.
Not sure why you're being downvoted but I logged in to same the same thing. This blog is blank to me.
give medical professionals more operational and financial freedom to run their practices using tried-and-true free-market principles.

They are not tried and true. A friend of mine worked as a QA engineer at my city's most prominent children's hospital (a minor power on the world stage). His thankless task was to find ways to improve communications between departments and curb the errors. It was simply not possible - every doctor had their preferred provider, sometimes from merit, sometimes because they liked the shiny goodies that the sales reps brought.

All the individual systems interoperated very poorly, and none of the physicians would budge, and the hospital administration could not force their hand. Any time admin tried to regularise something, the affected physician would just state "If we make this change, children will die". It didn't matter that everyone at the table new that this was a total lie, because the official authority for that department (or speciality) was that specialist. They got their 'free market', being able to use their preferred products for each individual specialist, for personal preference at the cost of better overall treatment. The whole was very much less the sum of its parts.

Another friend became a sales rep for a pharma company. The rep she took over from was a fairly standard rep, but she was quite ethical, and would only allow her 'freebie' budget to be used on things that developed the practise. Some doctors already do this. Others were more like "ah, well, the ride is over with this rep". Some were absolutely outraged that she should dictate to them what this 'extra income' was spent on - how dare she suggest medical charts instead of football tickets?

I myself have personally seen a specialist in a field report on some clinical studies so badly that we technicians had to go to other specialists and get them redone. That specialist didn't get any more of that kind of work at our practise, but his utter incompetence was never followed up beyond "don't hire him again".

I guess the moral of the stories are that freedom to run practises as you see fit does not mean ethical (or even ethically neutral) behaviour, and that an environment where every physician uses their preferred products does not mean better care is delivered.
This is the first in a series of weekly updates explaining the entire stack from top-to-bottom, and how all the pieces fit together.

I'm mentoring some students that are pretty much in the 'web designer/has built a wordpress theme' category. This series captures what I am going to be teaching them on our weekly sessions.

So the theme is kind of 'you need this sort of tool', 'this is why you need it', 'these are what your options are', 'this is what i recommend/use', 'this is why', and then follow that up with a set of links for further information.
Check out www.codetriage.com (albeit not CLI). In any case it sounds like you have a great angle for a fresh approach to the issue, maybe using the GitHub API.
Ability to react extremely quickly to a complete unknown situation goes down, I would imagine because there are more situations/memories that an older person's brain needs to query.
in many cases that is true. after you have gone bankrupt in lawyer fees
How important is it, really, for everyone to know what everyone else is doing at every moment. I see two issues:

1) Daily stand-ups are adequate to communicate what I'm working on each day. Updates more often than that become noise.

2) The issue/task tracking system will let me see who, if anyone, is working on a particular issue. I more often care about who is working on issue X (if X is blocking me, for example) than I care about what Joe is working on right now.
Sometimes a short term gain in capital doesn't result in a long term social benefit. Of course people on vacation will spend more for a few days than a resident will for rent. But if that grows unchecked, the city will begin to lose its residents. Which additionally will result in a decline in income taxes, so it may even result in a decline in tax revene.
Just FYI nurse practitioners (NPs) can also diagnose/prescribe/refer. I happen to know this because my mom's finishing up school to become one. When she's finished, she'll get a huge pay bump, and have quite a few options open to her. A clinic at Walgreens, for example, is often staffed by a nurse practitioner. Cheaper than a doctor, but with their general prescriptive abilities.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nurse_practitioner
And there's always hope for those of us who (for various reasons) could not submit our app until today...hoping for a miracle...
Who runs the HBO adverts in magazines and newspapers?

http://www.adweek.com/files/imagecache/node-blog/blogs/got_d...
this only bears a very superficial resemblance to the slippery slope argument. We're not leaping from a dubious, frowned upon activity to an extreme hypothetical.

All of the aforementioned activities are (a) unambiguously illegal, and (b) within the same class of illegality, in that they are all based off social norms of morality and thrive on the same drives of moral ambiguity.
To the IRS: Provide computerized formulas for all tax forms
"Says a 21-year-old call girl who works for the illicit business.[...]

“It’s more discreet and much cheaper than The Waldorf,”

--> Apparently, this is from an interview. But, YMMV.