skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is a shame. We technically already have a law here banning short-term subleasing for under 30-days if the tenant isn't present, which makes the vast majority of these full-time Airbnb hotels illegal. The only problem is that no one is enforcing it, so it is barely better than having no law at all.
Though one of the image captions says the trailer is designed to cut fuel usage by 5%, I suspect that an open system where trucks could communicate with each other and drive as a 'flock' a group of trucks could have a decent improvement in fuel economy, much like cyclists in a peleton. The trucks could follow VERY closely behind one another in auto mode without the fear of crashing.
Well,obviously if a laboratory creates a new drug,and that drug is not approved by the FDA,that drug is illegal.

The problem with Airbnb business,is that Airbnb soclializes the risk.Airbnb doesnt risk anything,hosts do.Of course it is in the interest of Airbnb to make sure its users risk the minimum.But Airbnb as a plateform is legal.Airbnb can argue it's just like Ebay or Paypal.

All these "disruption" plateforms Airbnb,Kickstarter,Uber and such,they pretty much work the same way.They are the new middlemen,that bypass former middlemen,collect a fee and wash their hand of any wrong doing when things turn south.

My only problem is with Airbnb, it can really drive prices up for long-term renters,that have others things to do than running illegal hotels.
the device ID, which is a 128-bit unique number tied to the processor.

15 years ago Intel tried this, and there was enough opposition that they removed the feature in later models: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium_III#Controversy_about_p...

When SGX gets implemented in a future processor, will the users once again fight strongly against it, or will they submissively accept it without resistance, looking only at the claimed "security benefits"? I really hope it'll be the former.

Reading the rest of that article and the linked Intel documents just... gives me a very bad feeling about the direction things are heading.
We've gone in a security model that Bruce Schneier calls Digital Feudalism. We give up rights to have large centralized organizations take care of our security for us. In exchange we give them data that they are allowed to sell. This is both for devices and for services (notably Web 2.0).

There are arguably benefits to this arrangement. Prostitutes have pimps, even though they cut into profits without taking much personal risk or providing much labor, because pimps do provide a safety mechanism. Likewise, vassals gave up large portions of what they produced for security from their lords and kings.

We've returned to this arrangement because:

1.) Paying is painful and copying software is easy. Instead of making money from you, Web 2.0 have monetized you as a target for advertisers. Web services are 'in' because that's the only way software can't be pirated. Much of our software today displays GUIs on a screen but runs on other computers because of this reason. The new Office products all run in the cloud, MMOs offer the same deal, and games like Diablo III can only run when in constant connection to the internet, even though there's no technical reason why that should be the case. XBox One tried to (and backpedaled from) make the xBox always on always connected. Other streaming video game and content services try the same. Essentially, the internet has become glorified TV (minimally interactive), with more channels.

2.) The internet is the Wild Wild West. Security professionals have been yelling for ages that the rush to release and the need to compete together with closed source development was making the world an insecure place. Essentially every layer of our computing stack is insecure. Attestation of computer intrusion is ridiculously hard. And there's money (and geopolitical power) to be had. We designed things insecure from the start, and continue to do so. Individuals can't stay secure on their own. It's not possible. So up with the lords and vassals - we know it sort of works from history.

I do think the average user cares. I don't think the average user is informed.
Yea, I'm starting to think that Ubuntu is the best route (at least for my foray into Linux). Thanks atmosx.
Disparate impact isn't about preventing the use of all indicators that correlate with a protected class. However, companies often use indicators that are of dubious predictive power (things where one can't show a significant correlation with the bad outcome the company wants to avoid, but show a strong correlation with a protected class).

This is done in a LOT of machine learning settings - the vast majority of variables used in classification/regression scenarios fall into this category. Most machine learning consists of turning a large number of nearly insignificant correlations into a single big correlation.

Consider category A, which has features x[i] located in the ball of radius 100 around the point [0,0,...,0] in N dimensional space. Category B has features x[i] located in the ball of radius 100 around the point [1,1,...,1]. Any individual feature is useless - if it's from category A, it'll be located in [-100,100], whereas if it's from category B it'll be located in [-99,101].

On the other hand, the classifier sum(x) works perfectly for N > 100. That's because in N dimensions, the distance between [0,0,...,0] and [1,1,...,1] is sqrt(N) (proof: use the pythagorean theorem).

That's an oversimplified example, but I hope it illustrates the point.

It's a bit scary that the FTC wants to start regulating feature engineering. Will they also take a position on Bayesian classifiers vs geometric/vector space methods?
I live in the shadow of a university that is a major biology research magnet, and quite a number of the professors have their own off-campus start-ups going on.

There's a widespread misconception about scientists too, due to the assumption that we're all academics. In fact there are quite a lot of scientists in industry, either in companies or as entrepreneurs. I've known quite a few millionaire scientists. Within the company that I work for, and in my side-business, I have a sincere interest in seeing my inventions commercialized.

I saw a video'd lecture by Alan Kay (probably linked to from HN) where he distinguished invention and innovation: Invention is creating new things, and innovation is bringing things to market. Those are separate skills.
Amazon CEO, Jeff Bezos, once said that your brand is what someones says about it when you’re not in the room
I'm extremely skeptical that this will work as well: they say you can remotely lock the card which would require some kind of bluetooth polling to your phone at a pretty regular interval and I doubt battery life is going to allow for that.
> Airbnb itself dodged the one big item that would have impacted them directly, which was an idea that Airbnb should be on the hook for $25 million in "back taxes."

Though, I'm sure they didn't want to pay $25 million, I doubt it was as important as some of the other regulations they were hoping to avoid.

A one time fine of $25 million isn't as important as a law that would've prevented any type of rental. That would've been more existential.

Also, the $25 million was proposed to be paid by Airbnb and other similar companies. They weren't on the hook for the entire amount, though, it probably would have been most of the amount. But that's off track from my point that $25 million isn't the #1 issue they were worried about.
Can't you just search the keywords? I wonder how useful it would be given that the information (tech articles, such as rails2.1, best features in jQuery1.0,...) will be out-of-date as time goes.

I think what's useful is various tools if they are still alive. That's why I want to build a toolbox which collects all the useful tools.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8413016
And their paying users are more likely to be on the slopes in the daytime. Snow guns are loud and unpleasant to be around.
pretty amazing any administration would sit on it.Yes it would be complicated to collect but even if it takes 5 years,it's still $25 millions.
> But if you get lucky because you stumbled on something great, that's not science.

No, that's exactly how science works. The consistent delivery of predictable desired results is called engineering, not science.

The rest of your post revolves around this misunderstanding, so I won't insult you by repeating myself.
He did also just pick up a Nobel prize today, so that ain't half bad...
Computing isn't a hobby anymore. Everything changes when big money is on the table. Back then the virus said "your PC is now stoned" and everyone just laughed. Now if your computer isn't totally locked down it's root level malware produced by professional career criminals that steals your financial data and conscripts your computer into a botnet to extort money from web sites.

I share these concerns but coming up with a way to be both open and secure is deeply hard. Companies like Apple have decided to just punt on the problem, especially in the mobile space. Not only does it save money on R&D while delivering a product that isn't instantly malware ridden, but it also gives them App Store revenue.

My point though is that its not just them ramming these models down our throats. Other factors are in play helping to seal the deal.
Unless the competition only lasts 1500. That's the case with LED's competition.
They should certainly aspire to solve it, but the inability to type one aspect of your program isn't an argument against types.
> The problem with Airbnb business,is that Airbnb soclializes the risk.Airbnb doesnt risk anything,hosts do.

Like Craigslist. And Ebay. And Etsy. And all these other fantastic platforms that let people generate money / increase productivity without the old gate keepers getting in the way. Not a new problem, and one that many consumers -- like me -- are happy to deal with versus the alternative.
Line losses through the cables are usually a killer with really low voltage DC (like 5V or 12V), so I think that AC would be more efficient there.

But some datacentres are using 48V DC now and then just piping that through a switching regulators in the servers instead of going from AC to DC. That could be workable.
Yes, like ham sandwiches, since the Board of Supervisors has not yet passed a law to legalize them.
> It was income, and it's taxable.

So let's say you are at a casino, and win $20K. It's reported to the IRS. As you're driving home happily whistling away, the police pull you over for illegal "whistling while driving". They find the $20K, and under the Civil Asset Forfeiture law (mentioned above), seize the $20K. Now how are you supposed to pay the taxes? You don't even have the money anymore!
Never thought of that—that explains a lot of the fatigue I get from typing on them for long periods of time. I know that certain Cherry MX keys do the same. Which ones don't bottom out too harshly?
Piracy is a really huge part of it. Nothing is free. Pay for it or it finds someone who will pay for you.

... And If neither occurs, you won't get it at all. I've started to become increasingly convinced that huge scale piracy really did harm the quality of popular music. You can find some good obscure music today, but the average quality seems to have hugely declined in some objective way. Art is no more free than code, and good art really does cost more than bad art for all kinds of reasons... Fewer can make it, and quality takes time and sustained focus. Having some talentless tart squall into an auto tuner to a cliched catchy melody is cheap. Finding an Elizabeth Fraser and paying them to practice for 40 hours a week under the supervision of a professional choral voice instructor while you coach the band on composition in a recording studio is not. Why invest in a product nobody will pay for?

Funny how when I bring up the issue in the context of software everyone agrees. Of course people have to get paid somehow and of course polished products cost money. But on every forum including this one, nobody gets how there could be any relationship whatsoever between the quality of art and its ability to be financed. I think this comes down to one of the greatest myths about art: that it comes from some automatic and magical place and people either have it or they don't, and that artists make art solely out of duty to the muse. Like anything else art is a skill and doing it well requires practice, research, focus, coaching, even peer review, and all of that takes time during which many people including the artist must be supported. There is a component of inspiration but raw inspiration without the rest of it results in rough draft quality work that is only of value to the artist themselves.

Piracy undermines the ability to finance art just like it does in software. What's one of the first questions a VC asks about? Defensibility. In other words how will you protect your ability to monetize the value you create. You think investors only ask that question in software?
> Well,obviously if a laboratory creates a new drug,and that drug is not approved by the FDA,that drug is illegal.

Is that true? I thought the FDA could only regulate drugs that made a claim to treat or cure a disease. If it wasn't specifically illegal or if it isn't making a claim to treat a disease, the FDA doesn't have jurisdiction to regulate it.

Can someone with a source confirm or debunk this?
The Vending Machine Supermarket, 1948
I don't believe that introversion is like sedentary lifestyle, which can be cured through exercise. I have taught myself to socialize, and people tell me I am good at it. But it has never stopped being draining. I just do it because I know it helps me socially and professionally. Discomfort hasn't really been a factor since my mid-thirtiesbut it is still as exhausting. Unlike in my teens I get invited to parties, but I still go home early.
OK, so you are talking about the ability of the IDE to scan (and parse where needed) the code and libraries to generate a symbol table for validation, auto-completion and definition / usage look-up.
"Airbnb allowed" should be a feature of rental properties the way "Pets allowed" is. It will attract people who want to be able to use Airbnb and repel those who don't want the problems it brings.
Devil is in the details, e.g. in all processors or optional? Can hardware owners set root keys? How will enclaves interact with client Hyper-v, Yosemite OS X hypervisor, html5 drm, open-source virtualization & crypto, etc.
But it wasn't unregulated. It was just poorly regulated. You could legally AirBnB your place by getting a "conditional-use permit" and notifying all your neighbors.
A self-driving semi will save almost enough on driver salaries to pay for its fuel consumption.
> The gaming laws do not give the dealer the right to change the rules of the game once they have been set by the house and registered with the gaming control board.

I don't know about that. Don Johnson, the blackjack player who won more than $15M at the casinos, did so by having them change the rules. He made enough little changes that the odds swung into his favor, and he took the casinos to the cleaners. All valid and legal. From the wiki: He negotiated several changes to standard casino blackjack in order to gain a mathematical edge

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Johnson_%28gambler%29
>Each day your code will be assigned to a team at random

so today (500 diamonds vs 7) server randomly assigned one guy that dominates vs 10 pretty bad players?
When you're salary your compensation isn't based on your time. So your argument doesn't really make sense. It doesn't matter how much time you spend on non-related stuff at work, as long as you get your work done. That's kind of the point of salary.
> Casinos make more than 90% of their revenue from less than 10% of players.

Do you have a source for that?
ah, good point on the ATMs, I stand corrected

(imagine this card getting stuck in an ATM, suddenly all your cards are lost)
Isn't AirBnB already technically required to do all sorts of things it doesn't?
Two plots and some R examples
The FDA only has jurisdiction over things that are intended to "diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent" an illness. Witness the incredible boom in dietary supplements, (nearly) all of which disclaim exactly the quoted verbiage. (Those that don't disclaim doing those things tend to get a lawyergram from the FDA in short order. See what happened to 23andMe's service a while back as one case in point.)
Screenhero, the most impressive bit of software I've used since licecap. So sad my company didn't subscribe after the free ride ended. Sadly stuck with hip chat and g hangouts.
Today’s Nobel Prize-winning physicist only got $200 for his invention
A 100 dollars in credit in digital ocean is better than a backpack considering most backpacks cost >$100
The parent's argument that a bank account is needed was a retort to the idea that Bitcoin is easier than banking.

Conducting financial transactions in a police station is not easier than using a bank, so whilst a bank account isn't strictly necessary it doesn't change the argument that Bitcoin is harder to use than regular banking.
Thanks for clearing that up.

The way I see it is that science refers to research in a very fundamental sense. Computer Science, Physics, etc. I don't understand just yet how you could put a value on things like that.
iOS 8 Adoption Stagnates
Perhaps sending the same data to everyone and letting js filter it be much simpler and faster on a server end.
Amazon.com has an electronic book reader that will knock your socks off.
The Networked Employee – A Look into the Future of Work
Don't forget HIV denial:

"I believe, but cannot prove, that global “AIDS” is a whole cluster of
unrelated diseases all of which have been swept under a single rug for
essentially political reasons, and that the identification of HIV as
the sole pathogen is likely to go down as one of the most colossal
blunders in the history of medicine."

http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=184
I meant the list of newest stories as on this page https://news.ycombinator.com/newest

Any idea?
Valid point. How could I forget inflation?
He makes some dubious efficiency claims. It's true the colored LEDs have always been pretty efficient, but that's no use lighting your home. White LEDs have surpassed incandescent bulbs but still have a way to go to reach flourescent tubes and the grand-daddy of efficiency - gas discharge lamps.

One (the?) reason for low power levels is they generate so much heat and are difficult to cool. LEDs are still primarily heaters - useful in the winter.
Interns are great. Some of them are PhD candidates or even post-docs. Just because they are looking for short-term employment doesn't make them underqualified. They also lack any responsibilities that are heaped on full-time engineers, like managing or mentoring junior engineers (and interns), attending meetings, etc. They focus on their projects.
Though I use PubMed frequently, can't say I've encountered "copycat" articles. It's disheartening to find out what has been happening, but perhaps not a huge surprise to the extent publication becomes merely a commodity to accumulate in order to further an academic career.

It does prompt me to keep an eye out for such occurrence. But I'm pretty sure not every researcher goes about things that way. Maybe it depends on the field of research. The topics of interest to me could simply be too obscure to attract that kind of attention.

Sure seems if anything can be done with computing technology, it will be done. What sort of future awaits us? We humans always seem to do until we overdo then redo it all over again, it doesn't ever end.
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Isn't it solved for any prime generator, by way of hydroelectric storage? It's quite efficient and hills are common.
Soon, It Will Cost Less to Sequence a Genome Than to Flush a Toilet
That 683 lumens per watt number is, as you say, for a monochromatic light. This is not useful for humans to see with[1]; the actual limit for human vision is about 300 lumens per watt[2]. That's an upper bound even ignoring losses, and some LEDs are around 70 now, so the remaining efficiency gains we can make seem limited to about 3x.

[1] http://www.cool.conservation-us.org/byorg/us-doe/color_quali...

[2] http://phys.org/news202453100.html
Some thoughts on working with GnuPG
Create a kernel with keyboard driver in just 200 lines of code
Followed the link, tried to create a account, under "for business"...

And it asked for my cellphone number?!

I have left my cellphone number a year ago, I could not handle the spam calls.
Yes I do have a sim card in my mobile but I actively don't want to remember it and only use it for the data, I don't share the number, except for my so and mother.

But back to the point, there was no other option to login, why only cell phone, did I miss something?
Zillow is an awful tool (data quality is infamously bad), but it is fun infotainment that gets eyeballs to hand over to agents, and those agents get a huge commission due to the oligopoly of real estate agent industry, so they can pay large referral/ad fees to zillow.
This seems like a pretty good example of perfect being the enemy of good. Would there be that much of a usability conflict if /?page=2 30 minutes ago was slightly different than /?page=2 now?

Not to mention that if a scale of time that large has passed, there's a high chance that the closure-style links expire anyways
And yet, in practice, I have found that optimizing for instruction counts works really well. I've gotten way more mileage out of Cachegrind's instruction counts than I ever have out of its cache or branch prediction simulations.
Am I missing something or is that unbelievably cheap electricity? What is the actual billable cost per kWh?
Zillow makes most of its money from ads for real estate agents.
Binpress Podcast Episode 14: Glyph Lefkowitz of Twisted
God reading about the San Fran housing market just makes me angry.

Only 376k housing units? WTF!
And 172k of them are rent controlled? WTF!

What a clusterfuck.
If I were a merchant, I would not accept one of these. Fraud claims always side with the cardholder, what do you say as a merchant? "Yeah, some guy came in with this black piece of plastic and a screen on it and I just swiped it."
Very eye opening. Personally this was the best of the series so far for me. Helped solve a lot of questions in my mind about why certain companies succeed (Instagram, Snapchat, Facebook, Tesla etc). Serve your niche well - is a often repeated quote, Peter just brought the idea to a higher level by answering the Why.

One thing he might be missing on is the idea of lean startups. Its my opinion that Lean Startups does not mean build and release crappy products, but to validate your market and market-fit your product before you spend years building a product. Just helps you improve your product faster (or ditch it) using market's help.
I meant the goal of getting rich, whether it happens or not.
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