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I used to love Airbnb. I've been on their basically since inception and have stayed in dozens of cities. Everything has been positive. Lately, though, it's been degrading in a few ways:

1. Pricing in major markets is no longer competitive with hotels. Since most Airbnb properties lack anything close to the amenities offered by hotels, it's just not economically compelling anymore.

2. The last several times I've stayed, I've felt the effects of the new scrutiny. I've been to clandestine meetings with hosts, purportedly on premises, only later to find out that the listed address is false. "Enter through the alley door," and, "Say you're my cousin, if anyone asks" are typically elements of the conversations. That's not what I pay for.

Now, my first choice is hotels, and it's only the rare case that I opt for Airbnb.
I don't understand. I'm not arguing for some new group that implements and enforces these rules. I'm just suggesting that rules based on specific community problems (like noise) make more sense than on the much broader potential problem of short-term occupants.

The fines can go the same place they currently go. I don't know where that is, or if neighbors receive any of it, but that is a separate issue that also applies to long-term occupants puking on your door.
have you been there?
The drives don't get delivered in pods for you, right?

So why is this not just part of the "take all drives from large box/crate/etc" process for the drives?

IE whoever is taking them out of boxes puts them down, one by one, in a simple little labeling machine that slaps label on them (and records into a stupid database the label).

If you want something more advanced, labeling machine has small camera that takes picture of top of drive for further identification, you can process and store all the barcoded info that exist in the image (unlike OCR, the barcodes should be 100% accurate)
Yep. If you slip up -- a series of B's, a summer wasted at a dead-end job, or a break-up with a significant other you sunk tons of time into, and end in a lower-tier area, you'll be effectively "banished" from the community. Your "friends" will look down at you at the 10-year reunion you likely won't attend, and you'll never be able to afford to live in the area you grew up.

Banishment, or the threat of it, is one of the most psychologically difficult ordeals. Cut off from friends, community and our surroundings we have become accustomed to.

Making a middle-class lifestyle in the Bay Area affordable, with better transit, will go a long way.
> The aggressively anti-male prejudice baked into domestic violence law is entirely the work of feminists.

Specific (i.e., with citations to the actual law) examples of this alleged anti-male prejudice are called for in support of this claim.
Lets be clear, you are the only who wants to bend the rules for the people doing AirBNB. AirBNB is a hotel company, essentially. I don't see any reason why it should have a free 14% margin over hotels .
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Just make ‘em feel lazy
the article is incorrect, that the standard model has been confirmed. Neutrino oscillations are not predicted by the Standard Model. They were speculated to occur back around 1980, as a result of the solar neutrino flux being one-third what the Standard Model predicted. The underground neutrino detector was only sensitive to electron neutrinos, not to muon nor tau neutrinos.

Neutrino oscillations were experimentally observed by shooting a beam of neutrinos through a long, narrow pile of photographic film at cern.

To the best of my knowledge, while we know that neutrino oscillations do occur, we don't have enough data yet to have adjusted the standard model in such a way that it predicts them.
I'm cringing a bit.

I was skimming through the piece and wasn't quite sure to what extent it was all written in 1913 or comprised both an earlier work and contemporary commentary on it. Most of the language is quite modern.

But yes, you're painfully correct, my error.
But I mean wtf is this? Is Gunn comparable to TJ or Bronx or Stuyvesant where this is actually making you reasonably competitive at the higher level of entering STEM undergrad institutions? Why have these kids got it in their heads that the Gunn curriculum is so important? I didn't think this was a selective magnet school?
Taking the question a bit literally: http://www.molluscs.at/gastropoda/index.html?/gastropoda/mor...
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Right, residents of adjacent (or even nearby) properties would have an issue with it. Same as if I bought an apartment building and started using it as a factory. It's exactly why we have zoning.

A whole rented building has the same problems (loud guests, people abusing shared spaces, etc) as a single apartment rented to short-term guests, but on a larger scale.
He said later (~2-3 years ago) that he may change his attitude exactly because of possible liability.
To be fair, serial ports are actually really important and while we frequently don't have physical serial ports anymore, tons of devices still use serial emulation because it is such a simple technology to understand and the hard parts of the protocols are done in userland rather than drivers.

For managing virtual machines, it's more surprising that we give VMs VGA devices rather than just using serial: when using VGA emulation, you cannot trivially write code that reads text on the VM's screen, but if you configure the VM to use a serial console, you can trivially write a program which controls the VM. In a libvirt-managed qemu environment when the OS has its serial console enabled, you can run "virsh console MyVM" and instantly start executing commands and parsing their output. You can also have the OS write its log to serial so that if the OS crashes you can still read the full log. When all else fails, serial still works. Additionally, a virtual VGA device has an infinitely larger attack surface than a serial device.

When doing unattended windows installs, a lot of people use floppy drives to store the Autounattend.xml file. Floppy disk images are the most trivial and smallest images for automation tools to create. They're additionally useful for placing a linux bootloader on to boot a linux install CD with command line parameters.

Most people still use CD-ROM images to install operating systems, and it's basically required for windows. Virtual machine management software also tends to use the cd drive to install guest tools since it's the easiest way to let the guest see large files from outside the VM - nearly every OS can read CDs.
Overlays often have ask users to like some page on facebook, or to subscribe to some mailing list, it's not advertising. But you need to make a click to close it.
I was, frankly, shocked when I went to Dallas and discovered I had to pay 30% more than the price on the menu due to a combination of tax and tip.
Your comment reminds me of that novel www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/exhalation/
that's not sufficient to my requirements.

What I as an iOS developer require, is for users to visit my website to download my app.

The reason is that I want links to my app, to link to _my_ website and not apple's. As it stands, the app store is steadily increasing apple's link popularity and not that of the ios developers.
I just bought one of the 3TB models described here to replace a failing 1.5TB Seagate. It's nice to see my choice backed up by data; none of the 3TB drives in my price range were particularly well-reviewed.
If the quality of the gun was irrelevant to the effectiveness of the weapon, the military would be armed with homemade zipguns.
> How do you punish someone who breaks the rules for a one night stay?

If you are talking about AirBnB tenants breaking rules set by the AirBnB host -- which is implicit in the rejected option of bad AirBnB reviews -- you file legal action for breach of contract.

If you are talking about other neighbors or the property owner who didn't consent to the AirBnB host, then, either they file nuisance complaints against the host and/or property owner or, if they are the property owner and the host is their tenant, they evict the host for violating their lease.
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Not free, but the most recent Humble Books Bundle has a bunch of stuff targeted to the Maker crowd:

https://www.humblebundle.com/books
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> The experience is usually good for the people getting paid, and the people getting the service. It is frequently bad for people who are not part of that exchange at all, and just happen to be in close proximity.

The externalitati.
Michigan has a single tax jurisdiction, which specifies the tax rate.

In other States, like WA for example, sales tax is a composite of jurisdictions: State, County or City, Special Tax Jurisdiction.

There is a graphical representation of Tax Jurisidictions in the US: http://www.taxrates.com/calculator/

Note: I work for the company.
It seems like one of the root causes behind dreadful situations such as the one described in the article is that the various groups of actors in the system (students, school officials, teachers, parents, etc.) aren't in tune enough with each other. There are many nodes in the graph, but it's quite sparse.

Quotes from the article:

> "She’s referring to a series of chalk memorials that were drawn by students all over the Gunn campus after Cam’s death. Rather than leaving them up as a reminder of (or, school officials feared, an homage to) suicide’s lasting effects, the administration unceremoniously hosed them away within hours. The students were left feeling wronged, their voices and feelings silenced."

> Lisa hasn’t found the grief counselors provided by the school to be of much help. “They kind of, like, force you to talk to them,” she says, “but you don’t know them, and they don’t know you, and every time you get a brand-new person.”

> Kathleen Blanchard, the mother of Jean-Paul, who died in 2009, has some simple advice for parents: “Talk less. Listen more. Listen deeply.” She’s speaking at a community event to an auditorium full of parents who are wondering what, if any, signals she saw in her son. “He sent out signs to people by phone and online,” she says. “He even let people know that he intended to take his life. But they didn’t understand.”

There's a reason why pedagogies like Montessori/Waldorf/etc. schools tend to work well. The educators who designed those systems understood the importance of having tight feedback loops and small social groups for children to develop into fulfilled, productive citizens.

Having teachers who get to know the students over several years, in small classrooms, with healthy parental involvement, and school officials that are in tune with what's happening really does help. It's the kind of stuff that just seems like commons sense when you see it in practice, and yet the vast majority of our schools are diametrically opposed to that. It's really enraging: we know what the properties of good schools and good teachers are, and what the properties of bad schools and bad teachers are - and yet we ignore all of it and perpetuate a model that hasn't changed much in the past 200 years. Modern schools - and particularly middle and high schools - are a toxic environment in which it's surprising that some kids manage to flourish at all.

Like 'tokenadult said, it's unclear whether there is a statistical significance to the suicides. But hearing the students interviewed for the article, it's evident that they are deeply unhappy. When you observe the social structure they spend their lives in, with Silicon Valley overachiever culture added on top, it's not hard to see why.
I grew up in Palo Alto, attended Palo Alto High School, and this is not at all surprising.

The train tracks are literally right outside the school. Depending on where you're coming from, you may cross these tracks every day. If you're having suicidal thoughts it is extremely easy to step in front of the train.

I can also attest to the pressure that Palo Alto kids face growing up. It's an intense environment and the assumption is that you should be aiming to get into an Ivy, Stanford/Cal, or another top-tier school. (Stanford University is literally right across the street from Paly). Many kids in PA high schools have parents who work at big successful firms or at the universities so there's also a lot of pressure just to achieve what your parents have accomplished.

Many kids at Paly used drugs of some type to cope, and often the most high-achieving kids used the most drugs. I knew a lot of kids who used Adderall or similar drugs to get studying done or push through deadlines. Palo Alto parties are crazy - the kids have lots of money and easy access to get any kind of drugs they like.

I can only imagine that as the years have gone on the pressure has gone up.
It hurts me how thoughtless suicide with a train is. The engineer often suffers from PTSD and many (a closely guarded but often too high ratio) are never able to work again. People who have only one way to avert catastrophe - "dump the air" plus emergency brakes to stop the train as fast as possible - become lost in the horrible run-up to impact.

Suicide is never the answer, especially when it can ruin the life of another and lead to their own suicide. A chain of deaths that ripples through communities far removed from the place it starts.
We do not get them delivered in pods no, we put them in at the datacenter. We don't do it because of the time constraints. Lets say it takes 30 seconds to do one individual drive. With 45 drives in a chassis that's 22 minutes per pod, and we get a ton of pods and drives delivered at once. Our datacenter techs are busy enough as it is, so if we can offload them, we try to. Now, if these drives were inexpensive and had a 0% failure rate over 4 years and the manufacturer/retail chain supplier still refused to put them on, yea we'd hire someone to do just labeling and do it ourselves, but for now the math doesn't work out.
Wow, great resources. I really like http://www.pexels.com/ to find free photos
It probably could, but every hour spent on that has an opportunity cost. You might find the same hours spent elsewhere do more for you.

If you're doing your planning and analysis right, you should hope to have identified this... so in your example, hopefully that subsystem went up in priority because it was identified as a place for gain.
> Why did so many men die from testicular cancer? They do not seek help when they find a lump on a testicle. We had extensive campaigns to get men to see a doctor when they find a lump to help reduce the death rate from testicular cancer.

Did we? I don't recall people wearing anything in support of testicular cancer awareness, but many frequently wear pink ribbons. I also don't really recall a campaign from my childhood, except one (1) occasion when doctors told us (university student) to self-inspect our balls.

Maybe it's better in the US, though.
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Different post. agumonkey posted the right one.
Wow, isn't it in USA? Do I understand you correctly: I see a "price" on a product, and have to manually multiply it by 1.2 (or whatever taxes are in USA) to know, what it actually will cost me?
I damn near committed suicide. The depression lasted for three years. It was a struggle just to survive.

I expect that it's been a lot worse for me, that my resume says I attended grad school, rather than for my resume only to say that I have a bachelor's degree. However I am very insistent on stating that I attended grad school, even if I lose jobs by doing so.

There are a lot of people who fail their exams. It's quite common for graduate students to take ten years or more to earn their doctorates.

If you don't pass your exams, save up some money, go on vacation someplace nice, get laid - then go back to school.

You're not generally required to take any specific course as a graduate student. When you come back, take classes that interest you, not what you require to pass the exams.
On the other hand, these suicides threaten the well-known saying that "wealth lasts three generations".
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There are lots of jocks in Palo Alto but all the jocks I knew when I went to Paly were also academic high achievers.
Thanks. My question was more for an on-going basis.

I think here in California one is required to keep minutes (of at least a C/S corporation) at least annually.

I do not think this is enforced or when it comes into play.
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> GamerGate is a great counter-example where shaming those who support GamerGate is positively received by a great number of people.

That's the kind of thing I'm talking about. The controversy of GamerGate was not that there was sexism among gamers. It was that there was conflict regarding when someone complains about sexism. The debate turned away from the salient issue and to arguing for and against whether there should even be a debate. People were complaining about other people complaining, which leads to complaints about those people complaining and so on.

Of the public shaming instances I've been aware of, the discussion on the internet has been about whether or not the incident should have been made public, and less about justifying or recriminating what originally happened.

It's an odd and frustrating social feedback loop. I wonder if it's related to bureaucratic inertia. Where problems fail to reach a solution because the bureaucracy gets stuck in a cycle of studying the problem, then studying the study of the problem, etc.
Paper finds a surprising link between warmer temperatures and math test scores
I can already imagine this link being shot around offices during the constant AC Thermostat Wars that take place.
In Japan, I believe they try to discourage death-by-train by making the suicide victim's family pay for the cleanup.

I don't know what the numbers are (if suicides have decreased as a result of this policy) but I suspect this only makes matter even worse for those left behind.
Because there isnt a one size fits all approach that works well. The most effective project I have worked on had ~15 hours of meetings every week.
Thanks for your feedback.

> In a densely populated area such as West LA there is a gas station every half mile - what is the use case for this except "oh crap, I didn't fill up and I don't have 10 min in morning to get gas".

We are viewing it as an convenience / luxury service.

> An average tank size is circa 16-18 gal - so a courier would literally do a single trip to station per car?

Couriers carry 6 x 5 gallon containers.

> How will you deal with gas tanks that lock with the car, ie BMW, MB, Audi?

When you send a request we remind you to make sure the fueling door is unlocked. When that is done is the customer's choice.

> Lastly, from logistics side, how does a human know when to stop filling the car so as not to overfill the tank? Listening for the funny 'oh shit it's about to start spluttering out of the tank!' noise?

The pump we use automatically shuts off like at the gas station.
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So this actually brings up an interesting point: There are many of us that use AirBNB, like you, and are quiet, respectful, and essentially good actors.

The problems that almost everyone seems to talk about are the (rare) bad actors -- the loud, disrespectful, messy, troublesome guests who ruin the residential experience for others.

So I wonder if the solution is in the platform itself -- it's not AirBNB that people don't like, it's bad AirBNB'ers. And maybe if AirBNB puts some real effort into cracking down / banning / preventing bad AirBNB'ers, a lot of the bigger issues & externalities go away...?
an affluent neighborhood in Seattle recently had a cluster of teenage suicides. I think it must be hard to live up to expectations, real or imagined in a place like PA where incomes are skyhigh and that becomes the expected outcome/path, it must be very easy to become disenchanted and inadequate. I think these kids do not realize that most of that talent was imported to where it "fit", so these kids should be taught that there are other bubbles they can go to that they will fit into. not all of the world is obsessed with startups and valuations. If you are good at sports, go to a place that like sports, if you like the outdoors, move to the mountains, etc.
1. The energy "wastage" being complained about is not dependant on bitcoin usage, it's dependant on the subsidy and fees. If bitcoin would be used worldwide, the energy used wouldn't increase linearly with usage. You seem to be assuming it would.

2. Why will energy costs continue to rise? If it becomes less profitable to mine, less mining happens, and less energy is used. This has happened in the past, when the price dropped.

3. Why are companies using off-chain transactions? It's faster for same-company transfers. In a sense, many banks are using "off dollar" transactions as well, not actual dollars. Sending bitcoin is still faster than sending money.

There are plenty of problems bitcoin solves. Just look at all the big-name companies using it, like NASDAQ, for example.
This "epic chemistry fail" is a strawman. I did not say there's hair in bread. I said there's cysteine in bread, cysteine which is made from keratin from human hair. Quite obviously it's not in all bread, but you'll find it in most if not all industrial bread and even in many local bakeries (you won't find it in a good bakery though). The actual chemical process for extracting cysteine is boiling the hair in hydrochloric acid, which separates it into other stuff and a white powder, which is the cysteine.

Whether you personally eat that bread is not very relevant for this discussion, but for what it's worth, I personally think that whether cysteine is made from duck feathers or from human hair is irrelevant, it's chemically the same molecule. I generally bake my own bread, but when I don't I have no qualms about eating bread with cysteine in it, and if my own bread would taste better with cysteine I would put it in. Scary chemicals are just a label people put on things, salt is a scary chemical too when you call it natrium chloride.

Duly noted that HN prefers not to learn such factoids though =)
Oh it's worse than that, in the USA it vary by state (even by city I think) and by type of products so you have to apply a different multiplier each time
Folks, let's be honest. This is mostly about ornery landlords who are bitter that they are missing out on perceived higher rates for their properties. Add in a few nosy neighbors who have nothing else to do to make them feel important other than file complaints with their local HOA/city/whatever.

AirBNB should seriously hire a full time team of economists to publish studies defending their company. The efficiency gains are tremendous.
Any citations for number of people China executes per year?

You simply state China and Russia are far worse but present no evidence.

America has killed hundreds of thousands of Muslim civilians over the last 12 years.

America holds people in indefinite prison without trial and even admits that they are innocent but continues to lock them away.

We torture people. We have secret kill lists. Our police rob citizens without punishment. Our politicians openly flaunt the law and go unpunished, as do bankers and large corporations.

Anything to support your view beyond mere assertion and blind allegiance?
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My sense is that it's cultural, and not clustering. The kids have an awful lot of academic pressure. In most schools, the mediocre football players just give up on the team. These kids don't feel able to quit the academics.

Seeing the guards at the Caltrains is very sad.
I expected at least a mention to Planescape: Torment.