skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is no realistic way of policing short term tenants. Sure, you can leave them a bad air bnb review. But then they will leave you a bad air bnb review for retalation, so you don't want to do that.

How do you punish someone who breaks the rules for a one night stay?

People with long term leases can be threatened with eviction for breaking the rules, which usually carries with it pretty big expenditures of time and money for moving, finding another apartment, etc. People who show up with all of their possessions in a suit case and stay for 1-2 nights don't have much to worry about.
If anyone's trolling, it's you. Even if under the "patriarchal" model, the men were "incompetent at small housework" and "wouldn't be bothered with menial tasks", that doesn't imply they would be bad parents. Parenting isn't just taking care of the child, it's also parental guidance, being a good role model, instilling a sense of responsibility and the value of hard work, etc. All of these are thing even a working man (or any working parent) could do.
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Full Stack needed at GotChosen
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Not to be confused with "Swedish rounding" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish_rounding) which is the result of low denomination coins being taken out of circulation.
Discussion on Joining a startup with high equity or high salary
I have an opportunity to join a startup just finishing up a second round of angel investment. They have voiced a need for me join and I need to give them a number to start the salary talk. Im interested in understanding more about which option would be better.
Two Instruments of a Software Architect
"squashing discussion in standups"

No, that's one of the really good things it's done. Half the time I'm not involved in any way in those discussions, so moving them out of the status meeting means I don't have to stand around listening to stuff that doesn't concern me.
Are you at all familiar with the compensation model for employees at those restaurants? In particular, for front of house is it flat or percent of sales based?

I seem to remember an article when the Next website was launched, but can't seem to find it now ...

I do take your point though that things are getting somewhat more flexible at the very top of the industry. Hopefully that will filter down.
And when you are at a hotel and people are acting up.. You can go to the manager.

What happens when your neighbor decides to rent their place via Air BNB, And folks are noisy and disrespectful.. Who do you complain to?? The home owner?? Do you think he's going to kick the people out? They are a revenue stream, and you are not.

Well.. you may say. I'll call the cops. Ok. Your neighbor gets a warning.. then eventually a 300 dollar fine.. Your neighbor can afford a few fines a month from a few random loud nights as long as the air bnb money keeps coming in. In fact your neighbor will need to make sure their place is full more nights if you start calling the cops.
> Community consensus, which as luck would have it, is fairly easy to come to on a local geographic level.

Unfortunately that's not really sustainable. For instance let's say the community agreed that you can turn your home into a noisy 24/7 tool and die shop. Now 5 years past and half of the neighborhood has different home owners in it (quick turnaround for moving half a community but I've seen crazier things). Now the entire community wants them GONE.

Do we say it's okay one year then a few years later go "oh sorry but you can't do your business here anymore"? Moving or even closing up could cost the business owner a substantial amount of money not to mention the loss of customers now not necessarily knowing they moved, etc.

Point being while I don't know where the line is for regulating and not regulating something I also don't think community consensus is a silver bullet.

Really not sure about a solution here.
Writing a good technical book is hard work with uncertain rewards, and the very real possibilities for loss for those involved, so how do some publishers seem to be able to have so many titles? Is the model reliant on a few bestsellers to keep the rest going? Would love to know how it really works...

In the meantime, I still love these books, still buy them (I have this one), and hope they don't go away.
Great post Niall. Just wondering what groundwork you had laid down before the 90 days. Also, staggering numbers on the Bow Wow Times site. Do you think it's mainly down to the fact that people just love dogs (and articles about dogs) or is there anything you guys did that would be replicable for other B2C markets?
The Idea of a Dream Job Is Silly. Here's Why
"If you're building slack into your cycle"

Then management comes over and asks why you're slacking off.
The worst penalty you could incur via air bnb is a negative feedback. I'm almost certain there is no method in place for enforcing monetary fines for breaking rules. Then again, how would one even report rule breaking? If you live next to an illegal air bnb unit, how do you inform air bnb that your local rules are being broken? How do you show them what your local rules are? How do you prove they are being broken?
But do you be kind to some of your coworkers all of the time, and all of your coworkers some of the time?
You don't need cloth simulation to do have characters with clothes - you can animate it manually or simulate it offline - the problem with "baking" cloth animations is that they can't interact with the world (no collision, no wind interaction unless you bake/blend that, etc.)
It sounds like you have a bad relationship with your PM. I've been in that situation before (seriously, check my post history), and it poisoned my attitude for quite a while.

There are a lot of terrible PMs out there, but there are also a lot of really good ones, and you learn to suss out which is which when you're interviewing for a new team. If you read Rands in Repose and start wishing your PM actually thought and cared about the things he talks about, maybe you need to find a new job.
Can we all agree this AOL/Verizon deal is batshit insane?
Probably epic chemistry fail. Its like saying there's grass in my cheezeburger because some of the amino acids in grass proteins end up reassembled as muscle proteins in cow muscle. Not only that, but aside from the biochem obviously every single carbon atom in the cow came from grass. Real cows eat grass not corn which is a whole nother topic and there are some lipid (fatty oily) issues.

This can obviously be abstracted to my innards are grass, because the amino acids in the cow were consumed and re-arranged into programmer pot belly and my stylish hair do. (glances down at my hairy belly) yes you are grass aren't you...

The other epic fail is there's real food, then there's bread, and finally at the bottom of the barrel theres not-even-bread. And the worst of the chemically preserved artificial bread shaped stuff may include various peculiar preservative compounds. But when I eat junk food like bread, I eat the good stuff. So, no, "bread" is not a singular atom or compound or food, and only the cruddy stuff is full of preservatives of weird sources.
Fascinating. What constitutes a thread being labelled as a "train wreck"?
> While domestic abuse from women against men is important please don't make the mistake of saying the levels of severity of violence is the same.

The parent wasn't. S/he said:

> The aggressively anti-male prejudice baked into domestic violence law is entirely the work of feminists

which is true regardless of the statistics; under the US rules (AFAIK), police must arrest someone as a result of a domestic violence call, and the guidance is that they must arrest the "primary aggressor", the person who is bigger, stronger, etc. - deemed more dangerous (i.e. the man), regardless of who's actually being violent.

Even if men were attacking women in 90% of the cases, arresting men in 99% of the cases is sexist anti-male prejudice.
I'm not suggesting you personally punish short term tenants. You would punish the property owner.
Great post, as usual. I wish these posts had dates on them.
> I'm confused.. tragedy of the commons is when nobody owns something thus nobody takes care of it.

"Tragedy of the commons" is a common name for a multiparty game that bears some relation to the two party Prisoner's Dilemma, wherein each party has a dominant strategy of defection, despite the fact that the resulting universal defection has a lower utility for all parties than universal cooperation would.

(In more economic than game-theory terms, this is a situation where cooperation has an internalized cost and an externalized benefit, and the reverse is true for defection.)

The situation where nobody owns exclusive rights to common grazing land and thus everyone overgrazes their sheep on it and wrecks it, resulting in harm for everyone, is the typical illustrative example from which the name is drawn, but the "Tragedy of the Commons" doesn't refer exclusively to the situation where waste results from the absence of exclusive rights.
I live in Sweden and I usually tip between 4-10% (dinner in real restaurants with table service). Nothing if it's bad, or during lunch. At a bar, I'll probably just leave the change or I might tip up to 10% if I had a really good time.
"Agent of change" is a useful concept here.

The community originally says it's okay for 24/7 noise. Some of them move out and other people move in. They know when they move in that there is a 24/7 noise shop there, and they don't have much right to demand because they are the thing that's changed.
I went to a forum the other day in Mtn View where HS kids talked about their experience and the pressures they felt. Takeaways include: talk to your kids, don't be a helicopter parent, don't expect that your kids will want what you want. It's ok for them to take a different path.

The kids believed that many of the recent suicides did not have to happen - important for people to check-in regularly and ask how things are going. Kids won't always tell their parents - peers and teachers play an important role.

Somewhat surprising to me: reports of self-harm (cutting etc.) and eating disorders amongst girls. The kids said this doesn't get talked about much but is super common.

The forum was a nice way to listen & learn. IMHO community events like this would be more effective than track-side guards.
'something toxic about the culture'

My kids attend a different Silicon Valley school that has an academic culture that I find very difficult to understand. A very high number of students load up on college-level advanced placement courses starting their sophomore year. A 'B' is considered a failing grade. What is baffling to me is that the bulk of the pressure is peer pressure, and not directly from teachers or parents. It is typical that kids who transfer to high schools in other states wind up as valedictorians, where they'd barely make the top 10% here.

Jocks, burnouts and socialites seems so, so long ago.
My argument is that raising awareness needs to be done in a tasteful manner, not spreading panic and using pop cloture references.

VIRTUALIZED ENVIRONMENT NEGLECTED OPERATIONS MANIPULATION
VENOM seriously, kinda reminds me of:

Ward: Strategic Homeland Intervention, Enforcement and Logistics Division.

Hill: And what does that mean to you?

Ward: It means someone really wanted our initials to spell out "SHIELD."

At least heartbleed and shellshock were kinda properly named, this one is a hell of a stretch.

Inb4 people start registering silly domains that can be used to spell out vulnerabilities.

CITRUS: Channel Insecure Transport Releases User Sessions

TBONE: Transmission Buffer Overflow Network Exploitation

BUTTER: Buffer Underrun Transactional Execution Relay

Let the parking wars begin!
Mortal Kombat is example of game series where significant effort was spent on death scenes ("fatalities").

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatality_(Mortal_Kombat)
I lived there for decades and never saw a rat. I guarantee they have rat infestations occasionally, but they are caught and eradicated pretty quickly. I know they had one down near Lethbridge recently, but I think it turned out to be pet rats that were let loose and started breeding.
I'm not sure, maybe it's just the overhead of having so many function calls and Set accesses? My guess is that the Haskell one could be made quite a bit more efficient if you used a low-level mutable array.

To add another benchmarking data point, I have a simple sieve of Eratosthenes written in Nim using an array that can generate 10,000 primes in less than a millisecond.
Hmm good point, but the argument stands, all good conservationists should be flooding ebay with "genuine rhino horn pocket knives" made out of cow horns.
Will Firefox have double-digit market share in 3 to 5 years? (May 2010)
Doing everything in parallel is pretty much the point of the project. I'm not directly involved but I have been watching the project. There a few specific parts of layout that can't be parallelized[0] but pretty much every page [1][2] has work that can be done in parallel. The last batch of perf numbers I know of is from last November [3] and I'm unaware of any major perf regressions.

[0] http://pcwalton.github.io/blog/2014/02/25/revamped-parallel-...

[1] https://github.com/servo/servo/pull/4969

[2] http://blog.servo.org/2015/04/02/twis-29/ (scroll down)

[3] http://events.linuxfoundation.org/sites/events/files/slides/...
I don't know if any studies have confirmed this, but it seems that smarter people are more susceptible to severe depression.
Unless you have CSS floats affecting the whole page, 90% of DOM elements in one parent element or other pathological cases my impression was that it is.
Reminds me of the great line from Jeffrey Eugenides:

"There is no evidence against genetic determinism more damning than the children of the rich.”
Thanks :) C = 2 was enough, of course. So O(n!) is between O(k^n) and O(n^n)?
> I briefly considered self publication via Kindle Direct
> Publishing, because I thought it would be an interesting
> experiment to publish EMC++ for $9.99 and see what
> happened. [...] I fantasized that it would also have
> shaken up the market for programming books and paved the
> way to a world where $10 was the new normal for
> high-quality technical books in digital form.

Guess we'll never know now.
Ask HN: People who dropped out/failed grad school how did it affect you?
I'm currently taking an advanced Computer Science degree at a top British university. I've been incredibly successful in all my assignments and problem sets: achieving either full marks and always above 75%.

I'm currently half way through my finals and there is just so much to learn for my last three exams (all in the same week) I don't know if I will be able to pass (we need at least 50% in each exam or we can't graduate).

It has, without a doubt, between both the most rewarding and stressful year of my life. I didn't quite believe it was possible to learn so much in 8 months. However, should I fail an exam(s), I don't think I can go through the stress of resitting, just to receive a PASS at the end of it.

My question is to those who dropped out or failed grad school: 1. what did you do afterwards and 2. how did it affect your employability in your field of choice?
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Who punishes the property owner? Where do the fines go? Do I get some of it, since I had to deal with people puking 2 liters of half digested wine and hot dogs onto my door?
I think that to open a restaurant you either have to be naive or incredibly passionate. Most restaurants fail, and many of those that "succeed" are just getting by. That seems a pretty clear signal that the market does not want me to open a restaurant, and I'm happy to oblige.

To think that I could succeed without doing something fundamentally different than those who have failed before me would certainly be naive, unless I am truly a culinary prodigy.
But if you hold the tenant responsible for the actions of their subletters, then they'll be less likely to sublet their room (or at least be more discerning about who they let sublet); the end result is that the issue diminishes.
Are there any jocks? Or, are all the kids only encouraged to worship academics?
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That would be the domain of the US Cyber Command not US Army.
> Women still have more difficulties than men.

I think the above statement needs to be qualified. It's most likely true in most of the third world, but in the developed world, women enjoy many of the advantages that men don't, so it's really hard to claim who has more difficulties...
I guess if you're a kid living in Palo Alto, you are living in an environment where everyone and everyone's parents are high achievers and that is what is expected of you. In order to get admitted to the best colleges, everyone is gunning for the straight A's. If all your peers are getting straight A's and you get a B, yea I can see how that can have an impact on you, seeing that that now takes you to the bottom of the rankings.
Yes, yes I am. You're showing me good.
The poster never said vigorous debate is the only way that bad ideas die.

They said that vigorous debate is the only way that some bad ideas die.
Interesting article!

From the Wait But Why article:

Then, in 2004, as that “project” was just getting
going, Musk decided to multi-task by launching the
second-most unthinkable and ill-advised venture of all
time: an electric car company called Tesla.

I think this refers to the initial funding of Tesla, led by Musk as an investor and chairman of the board...

A timeline from the text of your Biz Insider article:

July 1, 2003 - Tesla Motors incorporates.
April 23, 2004 - Musk leads funding round, becomes Chairman
November 2004 - First development mule
February 2005 - Series B funding
July 19, 2006 - Roadster launch party
.
.
March 18, 2008 - Production begins
October 15, 2008 - Musk takes over as CEO
Apple Makes New App Analytics Beta Available to All Developers
The problem with Agile is that it's political; it gives programmers lots of power because it allows them to control the scope of the project and it gives the more access to the client/customer/business analyst/user. It also lets them argue for improving quality through test-driven development and pair programming.

When you have a manager, a marketing department, you have multiple points of power where the manager(s) come first and try to control everything. Giving up that control is difficult to do. When you have a marketing department, they assume they know what is best for the user and what features the user needs and at what time (all the features done by day X). The developer ends up being a code monkey who's hired to implement exactly what some MBA (or even worse, non-MBA!) wants. It doesn't even matter if users hate; it doesn't matter how slow it is, as long as it meets the whims of the managers in charge.

With Agile, you get rid of the bureaucracy and you make the feedback cycle faster and you have quality built-in. You don't really need marketing or a manager calling the shots because you can go to the customer directly (or through the customer proxy who also is with your agile team every single day). You've effectively removed one or two jobs or at least reduced them to part-time work; that's very dangerous in a hierarchy.

Programmers are low status; when we're high status we can have Agile and we can influence the work we do.
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> The music industry didn't really have a serious problem with personal mixtapes or copying a friend's album.

I don't know about the RIAA and mixtapes, but the MPAA tried to get VCRs banned. As Jack Valenti (MPAA) explained to a congressional panel, "I say to you that the VCR is to the American film producer and the American public as the Boston strangler is to the woman home alone."

Just wait until Disney finds out that you can make Mickey Mouse shaped pieces of plastic on an Ultimaker.
> under the US rules (AFAIK), police must arrest someone as a result of a domestic violence call, and the guidance is that they must arrest the "primary aggressor", the person who is bigger, stronger, etc. - deemed more dangerous (i.e. the man), regardless of who's actually being violent.

There's several errors in this:

(1) There aren't really one set of "US rules" on this level of specificity for domestic violence calls,
(2) Under the Constitution, arrests without probable cause are forbidden, and the mere fact of a call will not always support probable cause, so insofar as there are "US rules", they prohibit the form of "must arrest" rules described,
(3) Where rules do require arrest of the primary aggressor in cases of mutual combat in domestic violence, the rules for determining who the "primary aggressor" is generally do not consider "who is bigger, stronger, etc.", but instead consider the actual injuries that have been inflicted in the particular case, past history of domestic violence of domestic violence complaints, and whether one party's violence was in self defense or defence of others. A few also include consideration of the potential future injuries as well as those other factors, which is the closest thing to the "deemed more dangerous" standard you propose that might way against men. [0]

None allow arrests of one party regardless of who is actually being violent, as you claim.

[0] a state-by-state breakdown of relevant statutes is at http://www.bwjp.org/files/bwjp/articles/Primary_Aggressor_Ch...
China would have more prisoners if it didn't execute them all.

You can't see online news articles negative of Chinese leadership, in China, they're taken down or blocked for the entire country.

This is not "doublethink", this is just being realistic. China and Russian are, objectively, way way worse. If you don't see that, you've lost touch with reality.
Going into a fixed service charge model will force staff to pay more taxes, lowering their take home pay, which in turn forces businesses to either up their pay, or up the % of service charge.

Ultimately, it means more taxes for the government, primarily from people who dine out a lot.
No. Mining adjusts so that it always takes 10 minutes to find a block on average. This can happen on a single computer, or on a billion. If the price of bitcoin keeps on increasing, there's a larger inventive to mine, which will cause the difficulty to increase. The marginal profit of mining will always tend towards zero, and the total spent on trying to mine will tend towards subsidy plus fees. The subsidy halfs every so often.
I was hoping the introduction of Viagra etc. would stop this nonsense.
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