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> the pendulum has swung too far from "abusive regulation" to "abusive lack of regulation".

Of course, this always depends on your definition of "abusive" and your beliefs about the role of government (or other) regulation.

> people buy or rent residences in buildings expecting those buildings to be inhabited by long-term residents, then some part of the building gets converted to a hotel.

I'm just not sure why the duration of a resident's stay has relevance to neighbors' preferences or government regulations. What are the neighbors' actual concerns, and why can't those be handled directly? If it's excessive noise, then isn't that just as bad whether it's a long-term resident or a string of short-term residents? Same goes for any other concern I can think of, like maintaining the outward appearance of the property.
>DRM cannot and will not be the sole factor in determining what is worth buying.

Of course it can, that's at your sole discretion. If it will not be, that's a personal decision, but game of thrones is not oxygen, it's a TV show.

You could always take up hiking, if nothing else.
There's eight links of "related content" underneath this article. Not all about this particular species, but pretty easy to filter through to see what's directly related:

In 2007, there were 14 of these rhinos left, 4 wild and 10 in captivity: http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2007/mar/04/conservat... - this article also cited a number of 30 back in 2000.

In October 2014, the second-to-last male died at the relatively young age of 34, leaving just 6 and removing the last realistic hope for breeding: http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/oct/18/northern-...

In December 2014, the next-to-last male died, of old age, leaving just 5: http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/dec/15/northern-...

It's painting a pretty dismal picture altogether. I guess conservation efforts were too little, too late, with the remaining population already too small and too aged to ever offer much hope for success. :(
As, @NathanKP said, there's the gun debate, but there's also copyright (and other IP) debate as well, which I feel is far more dangerous to the technology because there is a lot more money behind that and seriously entrenched interests.

Instead of looking at it as a licensing opportunity, they are doing the same as music industry did with every new recording medium that came about.
Microsoft Picked a Name for the Smartphone-Friendly Build of Windows 10
Hah, Microsoft's DNA returns with a vengeance.

They tried to change, but couldn't /not/ segment their market, even if it impairs the customer experience. That's the MS we all know and love!
Only that I'm more familiar with FUSE as a systems administrator.
I'm not denying this - I do see it in my in laws - but I don't get it. I'd be very interested in more research/anecdotes here.
Hotels have a right to be pissed when they get charged 15-45 bucks a night in tax by the city and someone on airBNB doesn't.

Hard to swallow an outright ban though. Then again zoning regulations have a purpose.
Head shops have big signs stating that the goods for sale there are strictly for smoking tobacco too.
Dear Microsoft,

Windows 10.

Just release Windows 10.

No one knows the difference between Windows 10 Pro and Windows 10 Enterprise and Windows 10 Extreme and Windows 10 Cool Ranch Doritos Locos Supreme. Your customers actually don't care.

And as long as you keep selling a baffling array of variations on the same product, no one will believe you've turned over a new leaf.

Windows 10.

With love,

Guy on the Internet

PS: There should be no "it's even more secure" version. They should all be "even more secure."
That seems like a very good reason to cozy up to the idea that you should be able to get your money back from a host who misrepresents the property being rented, but not a particularly good reason to cozy up to the idea of arbitrary short-term rental regulation.
It's against the rules to solicit votes for your HN posts.
Management isn't just about who's working or not. There's a lot of what makes a successful team that requires careful consideration to replicate when everyone is remote. Yes, modern technology makes much of this easier, but it still requires effort to identify and address, whereas it is somewhat automatic at physical offices.

For example, "water cooler" conversations. In a physical office these happen because people are conditioned to make small talk. That is not the case virtually, as it's easy to spend an entire day in a chat room with a co-worker and never interact with them.
>>Estimates that more than 7,000 houses and apartments have been taken off the rental market in metro Los Angeles for use as short-term rentals.

As I am searching for a good apartment in LA, this makes me bit upset.
Consider cows. We eat a lot of cows. In a few years, we would make cows go extinct. Except we also breed a lot of cows so that it doesn't happen.

While many animals are far harder to raise than cows, the difficulty results in lower numbers and thus increased rarity which thus increases the price of the animal once brought to maturity. Any animal that is risking extinction from being hunted should be sufficiently desirable to make this equation balance out to a sufficient population of the animal being raised.

The only issue I really see is that in the long term this will likely lead to such species being slowly domesticated.
It's adapts itself to the market: if there's more gentrification in an area, the more likely it will be to have these things.

Without Airbnb, the only difference is that you'd have more shared disgusting hotel rooms.
Bēhance: Recursive Promise Chaining in JavaScript
Remote Desktop is almost essential for "home" users, as it allows remote guidance through the computer.

>You pay more for Pro/Enterprise because it has added features that Power Users/Businesses need.

Do you really? When negotiating large licenses with volume discounts, does Microsoft really end up charging more for each install than they do with the Home options?

How many consumers pay for the Pro or Enterprise versions, and how much money does Microsoft actually make on that small price differential, compared to how much the market segmentation costs them in terms of consumer confusion and dismay?

Clearly MS knows these answers better than I do, but I also don't really trust their marketing teams to execute that well in the consumer space. Sure, they are awesome in the business sphere, but they really suck when it comes to consumers.
Full-disk encryption is something people want even if they don't realize it. Android, iOS, OS X and Linux have encryption built in, whereas BitLocker for Windows comes with the Pro version only.

Normal people also want Remote Desktop, again, even if they don't realize it. That's how I'm able to debug the problems that my parents are having, from a distance.
Iwo Jima?
And ALL other Japanese islands that had to be conquered?

## EDIT
I don't mean to be dismissive but anyone with even remote knowledge of what went on to recapture all the Japanese held islands in the Pacific during the WW2 will say the nukes were needed.

On all the islands that US Marines/soldiers fought on to recapture from Japan, Japanese units were usually wiped to the last man. And this kind of resistance to the last man was repeated on every single island.

Example, Saipan island.
Out of 31,000 Japanese soldiers, only 921 were captured. 24000 were killed and 5000 committed suicide. 22000 Japanese civilians died, mostly from suicides.

US suffered 3426 killed and 10364 wounded.

For an island of 44 square miles.

## end EDIT
"limited housing" is the key point. Most North American municipalities have painful and binding limits on the number of housing units allowed: http://www.metafilter.com/148375/Anyone-have-a-Pop-up-blocke...

Banning AirBnB is at best going to lower demand a little bit, it' not going to fix the much larger underlying problem.
For me, it's a combination of things... I'm far more distracted at home, and it's much easier to communicate face-to-face when you can have, for example a white board to draw out discussions on.

Aside from that, hangouts, lync and the like do make communicating remotely very nice. I've wanted for years the ability to actually share a project session with someone via Visual Studio (or something similar)... so that you can work in the same visual space... if you're on the same file, you can see eachother's edits/changes real time... if you're in other files, you can just flow...

I don't think it all requires that people be in physical proximity, but there are advantages to being a closer team. I often find that 3-4 developers in the same room can dramatically outperform teams that are disconnected from each other. But then again, I think that if your project can't be distilled into units of work/services worked on by 3-4 developers you're doing something wrong.
And, since many seem here to be too busy slagging on "Agile" to RTFA, note that the solution being proposed in the article is essentially to try to create a methodology that consists solely of "you have to grow your own methodology using evidence and adaptation", so that there's nothing left to hijack.

Personally I think the author underestimates the ability of management to turn good ideas into checklists wholly divorced from the original idea, but it's at least an attempt.

But the fact that people decry psuedo-Agile with exactly the same criticisms that technically "Agile" was supposed to be is indeed some pretty strong evidence that "Agile" has failed to accomplish its original goals.

Note I say this without regard to whether Agile in either form is "correct". It's just that things are what they are, and there's definitely a great deal of difference between what the Agile Manifesto, a real document that exists in the real world using real words that aren't just "whatever somebody says they are" [1], and "whatever processes some team somewhere developed that may or may not have worked for them and are not being blindly applied to your team because I say that's 'Agile' and you can't object, because it's 'Agile'". I wouldn't get emotional if you want to claim both are bad things and bad ideas, I will only say here that they are not the same idea.

[1]: http://agilemanifesto.org/
> Regulations aren't even needed some buildings are just taking care of this issue on their own.

Some buildings won't take care of it (especially in situations where people are buying whole buildings to rent out), leaving their neighbors without much recourse without regulation.
god forbid that a governing body gives the low influence nuisances less attention than the powerful social nuisances. Slumlords all over the place, but of course the first thing on the governing bodies agenda is to make sure nothing disrupts the hugely homogeneous industry that is room rentals.
http://i.imgur.com/gzCATUl.png

I was incredibly confused for a good 5 seconds.
It's not just theft, it's conspiracy to commit armed robbery.
Finally, some humour on HN!
yup, parent is talking without knowledge of uberman
Test Driving a Petrol Car
One sentence in the article made me do a double take: "reasonably tightly optimized low-level Haskell". For I minute I thought that this defeats the whole purpose of using Haskell, because for me it's all about being able to code at a higher level of abstraction.

But when I saw how quickly he fixed the problem, I reconsidered. As wrong as low-level tweaking in a high-level language feels, if it's still less work to optimize than in C or Java, that's a win, right?
Some devices include Windows 8.1 Pro, see for example the Surface Pro 3.
> If it's excessive noise, then isn't that just as bad whether it's a long-term resident or a string of short-term residents?

Long-term residents tend to have more of a need/interest in keeping the peace with their neighbors.
Under these conditions, it could still work in irons or especially electric kettles. Those are so crappy nowadays, you have to buy new every two-three years anyway.
BOOTSTRAPPING STARTUPS: HIRE WORKHORSES, Not THOUGHT LEADERS AND UNICORNS
Vive la France
Most efficient solar energy dish in the world uses engine developed in 1816
The only "process" that I've ever seen work is "have someone really good in charge." It doesn't matter if they are male or female, and I've learned that it doesn't matter if they initially have a technical background.

The best project manager I ever worked with, in the 16 years I've done this work, was a woman who initially did not have a technical background, but she was willing to dive into the technical end of things. She eventually taught herself SQL and how to write Cucumber tests, so she could better QA test the code she was overseeing. I met when she was in her 4th year, and she had an impressive skill for estimating how long a given task would take, and whether things were going well or badly.

If you have someone really good in charge, and they call their system "Agile", then it might appear that Agile works. If you have someone terrible in charge, and they call their system "Agile", then it might appear that Agile sucks. Likewise, if they call their system "XP" or "Deep Review" or anything else. But the only process that seems to matter is "have someone really good in charge."
Ok, this is a bit of satire but it did leave me chuckling. As an example of framing the question differently to achieve a different point of view it excelled.
It looks like the oryx will not go extinct at all. It has been reintroduced in the wild, and isn't even called a endangered species anymore, 'just' vulnerable (https://cmsdata.iucn.org/downloads/arabian_oryx_factsheet.pd..., http://discover.iucnredlist.org/species/15569)
Is it reasonable that hotels and my friend with a couple of spare bedrooms in his house should have to compete on a level playing field in terms of regulation, inspection, taxation, and the like? Because as far as I can tell Airbnb does not operate anything; they are just a booking service for people who rent out spare bedrooms. It doesn't seem reasonable that my friend with the big house should have to jump through all the same hoops as the professionals running the Marriott or whatever.
I just moved out of downtown Santa Monica, from an apartment building that was swamped with Airbnb renters that caused all kinds of problems.

Airbnb is doing good and evil in the world. They deserve to be forced to reduce the evil to reasonable levels. Maybe apartment buildings shouldn't be generally permitted, for example.
Drones Boom Raises New Question: Who Owns Your Airspace?
Please Microsoft, just one Windows 10, the technical side sounds great(one OS runs everywhere) but your marketing guy is messing things up, the list of various window10 flavors made me dizzy and I had to quit reading quickly.
I just don't think city councils are going to be able to put a billion dollar genie back in the bottle.

Airbnb is a p2p market. When regulation attacks p2p markets, they don't die, they adapt.

Airbnb itself might die like Napster, but someone else will find a way to take their place. Maybe the company that replaces it will be based outside US borders, safe from any subpoena for rental records.
It's also just a scale thing. Activities that most people are OK with as a occasional and informal person-to-person thing turns into something else entirely when "there's an app for that."
Videos don't usually gain traction on HN.
Good lord... With all the stride MS has made and they STILL insist on releasing 1 million different versions of Windows... How stupid do you have to be to continue to do this?
With Ring, you’re always home
>it's a slap in their face that you don't want to spend your time basking in their physical proximity

That's slightly self-centered. Nobody cares about you or their co-workers so much that they are offended if you don't want to work (or bask) in the team's presence.

People are tribal by nature, and one of the ways humans feel a sense of belonging is through overcoming common conflict (i.e. Tuckman's stages). While not impossible, it's much harder to have common conflicts if you're just not there.
Lathes should also be outlawed, they've had the capability to create untraceable weapons for decades!
Oh I know this is true and I definitely didn't mean it as a blanket statement. But it seems for most of the historic core neighborhood that the buildings are enforcing their own leases/rules.
It's possible to be assertive and insistent and yet still be polite and calm about it. The cynic in me would label this as "fuck you said with a smile", but the pragmatist in me notes that "fuck you" really does get a very different reaction from people when said with a smile.

Think of communication as having two layers, an emotional one and a factual one. In your car example, the factual layer remains the same, "You are going to fix my car." But you can either combine that with an emotional layer of "And I am fucking pissed off with you right now because you fucking don't do your job, you useless twit", or you could layer it with "I understand that your job is difficult and you're doing the best you can, I don't want to make things difficult for you, but the contract clearly says that the car is under warranty, the car is clearly broken, and I'm not leaving until it's fixed."
> We won't see the extinction of the chicken, cow or pig

While red junglefowl and wild boar are doing OK, the aurochs is extinct. If you just incentivize rhino horns, you don't incentivize preserving the species or genetic diversity.
Well, as the guy staying there, I'd like to have SOME guarantee that the place isn't unsafe, unsanitary, cheating me or spying on me. So as a consumer, then yes I do want them to jump through all the hoops.
Who’s Responsible When a Driverless Car Crashes? Tesla’s Got an Idea
The UI will adapt on the Universal App Plattform as well, because it has to. So not really sure where the argument for Apple is here.
A good analogy is responsive design for websites. It can have a few advantages to have a mobile and a desktop version seperate, but i don't think its always better, and i don't think its the future.
There is two sides to this equation. Men need to be taught to express their emotions, but society needs to be taught to be just as accepting of a man who expresses his emotions as one who is stoic, if not more accepting. As it stands, you can teach men to express their emotions all you want, but as long as the stoic man is valued more, we are going to have problems.
The Wolfram Language Image Identification Project
I don't see how this is true. If you're building slack into your cycle there should be regular investment time available that a pure flow-based system wouldn't have.

If there's no slack in your sprint schedule, well there's your problem.
Somewhat of a relief to read this. As much as I have zero connection with these animals I'd rather not see them go extinct.
How about : "No one actually cares about your long term success, and you know it. Get yours while you still can."
Yes, and there is a more established community process to get consensus on how people will get along with each other, and mediate any disputes. Many condo buildings have monthly meetings of the owners, for example. Short-term residents have no real investment in being part of a group of neighbors who they get along with long-term. The buildings where this functions best are already taking some steps to crack down on AirBnBs themselves, though, without waiting for cities to get involved. Usually the condo association contract gives them the legal tools to do so, although it varies by state & building how effective that is.
It's not just the hotel tax; it's also that zoning boards are tough on hotels, limiting their options and driving their real estate costs up.
This [1] article explains another big reason:

> The appetite for killing rhinos to saw off their horn is fuelled by demand in the far east, which has risen as countries such as Vietnam, one of the biggest consumers of rhino horn, and China have become more prosperous.

> Rhino horn is made of keratin, the same material as human toenails, but an unfounded belief that it cures everything from hangovers to cancer and can serve as an aphrodisiac, has fed demand and sent prices soaring to an estimated $75,000 (£50,000) a kilo.

[1]: http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/apr/27/ol-pejeta...
Pretty comprehensive details here.
http://blog.otoro.net/2015/03/28/neural-slime-volleyball/
I think this misses the mark a bit. First, with CAP, you do get the usual "pick two", but one of the ones you pick has to be P. Distributed "CA" systems are proven impossible by the theorem.

Much of the interesting thing about AP and CP systems is their behavior during a partition.

With a CP system, when a partition happens, the system may have to stop accepting transactions. It becomes unavailable because it cannot provide consistency. For example, imagine something like Raft, where a message can only be committed to the log once it has been replicated to a majority of the cluster. When there is a partition that prevents the cluster from reaching a majority vote, messages cannot be added to the log.

With an AP system, nodes continue to accept transactions even when they cannot communicate with other nodes to guarantee consistency. When a partition occurs, for example splitting the cluster in halves, the state of the system on each side of the partition may diverge, losing consistency. You might eventually reach consistency if you have a way to reconcile the divergent state when the partition heals (see: CRDTs), but during the partition, it's possible that the overall state of the system will not be consistent across all nodes.

Here's a thought experiment to think about how the distributed ledger system works under a network partition. Imagine you run a bitcoin mining rig at home. You use it as part of the global distributed system of bitcoin miners. Your roommates are all bitcoin users, and you use bitcoins to settle payments between yourselves for various purposes. So one day, your home loses internet connectivity. Your bitcoin rig still works on your local LAN. Your roommate submits a payment to you, which your rig goes to work on, finding an acceptable nonce to prove out the block for the transaction. After several hours, you see that your rig has actually processed several other blocks following the original payment, but you are still cut off from the rest of the network... Now ask, are you satisfied that the payment made to you is permanently logged in the bitcoin ledger? What if your roommate had submitted other transactions to other nodes which were still connected to each other, perhaps via his cell phone or the coffee-shop wifi down the street? What is going to happen when your internet service comes back, and your mining rig can communicate with the rest of the system again? Odds are that the rest of the system has processed more blocks than yours in that time, that your rig has a short branch, which will be discarded by the system as a whole. Since the system was not in a consistent state during the partition, it looks like bitcoin is a CP system overall.

This is not to say that bitcoin is uninteresting! Lots of CP systems are built on the idea of cooperating nodes, which use the principle of majority voting or confirmation to provide consistency. Bitcoin is fascinating because it achieves consistency without requiring majority voting, while providing resilience to many kinds of attack by un-cooperative nodes.
Verizon Security Flaw Left Millions of Home Internet Users Vulnerable to Attack
Still paywalled, actually. They're smarter than that. ;) You have to actually search from Google.

Also, they're discriminatory, it does not work from Bing, only from Google.