skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is best suited for async workloads (think EC2 spot instances or cpu intensive distributed computing tasks) where network performance isn't critical.
HN thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7407796
...and?

It seems as though he's in the right, and that AirBNB is still screwing him over, so why mention those things?
Is eviction not a form of property damage? In the best case a move costs money. In the worst case it's not even possible to find an appartment at comparable prices.
Does anyone know how he plotted where he slept on a map like that? I am assuming he did not hand enter it into some API maps tool, but rather, an app he has marks his location.

I would like an app like this in the event I ever need to prove my location. And I think it would be cool to see where I go on a map.
You also need a culture of entrepreneurship that bootlegs itself. The previous generation of companies helping the new generation - this is what is truly unusual about SV.

The more bureaucracy you build in to your culture to try and "facilitate entrepreneurship" the more you undermine this type of culture.
Is it really a problem? I'd argue that it should be a matter of public record that this guy was evicted for (indirectly) causing $23k in property damage, and it seems entirely reasonable for landlords to screen tenants based on prior evictions and other housing court judgements.
Well, first of all, he allegedly had $80,000+ in damages, and AirBNB has only paied him $20k. So... at least $60k in financing is missing.

I'd say that's a pretty penny. Certainly a non-trivial amount. Further damages to "reputation" can probably be tacked on.
The story of Henry Nicholas, Broadcom's co-founder : http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2008/11/nicholas200811
I'm not sure why he wants AirBnB to fix the blacklist issue. I mean, sure, the situation sucks for him and he was put there partially because of renting his place via AirBnB. But he can't realistically expect AirBnB to fix this issue.

According to this [1]:

> The blacklist is actually a database of suits filed by landlords and compiled by tenant screening companies.

So it's basically the same as Experian, Equifax, and other credit rating agencies. And it's the same kind of scam in the end.

What AirBnB could potentially do is get together with him to figure out how to appeal the entry based on the applicable regulations. But that's not what I'd call them fixing the issue.

[1] http://www.npr.org/2014/12/14/367833532/tenant-blacklist-can...
How is AirBNB screwing him over?

The AirBnB Tenant screwed him over. Why would AirBnB have any responsibility over the tenants?
He probably doesn't have legal ground to stand on. I mean, every single place I've ever rented, write in bold that I cannot, without explicit accept from the owner, rent it to other people.

I understand why he was blacklisted, and if his contract is anything like I suspect, it's his own fault. He can buy a place and rent it out instead, but doing it with other peoples property without their concent is asking for trouble.
It's significant that The Economist is endorsing this concept. It may now go mainstream.

This is more of an issue for businesses than for individuals. Businesses get to choose how they obtain capital, and that decision is often driven by tax considerations. All the ways companies pay for capital - interest, dividends, and stock buybacks - should be taxed at the same rate. Right now, there's a huge tax bias in favor of debt. Borrowing for stock buybacks is a huge fraction of US corporate borrowing, and it's driven by tax considerations. That's effectively a very expensive subsidy program.

Eliminating the tax benefits of debt has systemic advantages. When a company financed by equity goes under, its stockholders suffer, but the potential loss is bounded. As we learned in 2008, debt-financed failures cascade. Much M&A, private equity, and hedge fund activity is fuelled by the tax advantages of equity to debt conversion. Eliminate those, and much unnecessary financial activity goes away. The hedge fund industry will scream, but now that it's well known that hedge funds underperform the market while extracting huge fees, that's no big loss.

This change shouldn't affect startup companies. Those are almost always equity funded. Nobody loans to a startup that will probably fail. (There are some startups with complex debt/equity/warrant deals which exist to get the tax benefits of debt with the potential upside of equity. That's a tax gimmick, not lending.)

The overall effect is conservative. By removing a Government policy which distorts markets, we move back to a system where businesses are primarily equity-funded. It returns companies to their historical role as payers of dividends.

It's a good time for this change to business financing. Interest rates are very low, so the tax impact is also low.
Get him to get unblacklisted so that he can rent in NYC again, maybe?
I liked to watch subtitled shows for this reason. I seem to pick up words as I go. Nouns seem to be the easiest to figure out, followed by adjectives and verbs, but this might vary depending on just how those words get morphed by the grammar in some languages.
You could argue that the 'discipline of debt' imposed on the management of PE-bought companies improves operational efficiency - because they need to generate steady cash flow to delever the company. However, these guys lever to the hilt with tonnes of cheap debt for a reason, though it's cheap it still results in huge tax shields.
In case you know a bit of javascript, such a map is trivial to do in Javascript.
I recommend AFWall+ for preventing the latter.
From the Amazon product page:
> Age Range: 12 - 17 years

This might be more relevant if HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE had a code for Ancient Greek.
Was the author sub-letting his apartment on a temporary basis via air bnb? Would that be legal in NYC? Maybe the fact his landlord found out and blacklisted him for illegal sub-letting is the bigger problem...
It appears he manually added each pin to a personal Google Maps map, likely as record of damages for lawsuits.
Personally I don't see any reason to provide a mortgage interest deduction for homes, but any US politician who suggested removing it would be roundly ejected from office immediately, both because home buyers are used to the benefit and because it would align that politician against powerful interests (construction, banking, and the money managers in government).

So as an intellectual exercise... yeah, sure. And there are probably deductions businesses take that could be curtailed. But politics is the art of the possible, and removing the mortgage interest deduction in the US ain't ever going to happen.
The rest of your Javascript must also be free software. The implications are basically the same as native code.
Because this seems like a publicity stunt. The guy is a genius who turned the orgy into international coverage and a movie deal offer: http://www.inc.com/will-yakowicz/how-to-make-the-most-out-of...
Google Latitude used to do this but it has since been shutdown. If you're on Android, check out https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=gaugler.backit...
Typically these sorts of things drive technological innovation.
Also in Latin:

http://www.amazon.com/Harrius-Potter-Philosophi-Lapis-Philos...

This has been available for a while though.
Why will they be sued into oblivion?
<snark>Doesn't [Google|Facebook] do that for you already?</snark>

But, all joking aside, "For the increasingly few of us who haven't used a Google account on a smartphone (or who currently haven't signed in), what you'd be looking at is your Location History plotted on a map. Unless you've actively taken steps to stop it, Google has been automatically recording of your location every 45 seconds and time stamping each coordinate." [0]

[0] http://www.abc.net.au/technology/articles/2015/02/19/4183553...
Luckily, the Apache Public License is compatible with itself.
There likely won't be any legal options to get him out of the tracking databases, after all he was responsible for the damages and violated his rental contract.

But Airbnb should have e.g. rented a hotel room for him until the situation is resolved, and they didn't do it...
Good point, there's no reason a business should be responsible for the liabilities it incurs.
A computer is deterministic, it operates by a set of understandable rules. We know that for sure. For our brain, we don't know. biology is mostly stochastic (unless it has evolved to obtain a certain level of deterministicness). It is difficult to replicate in a machine. But I think humans have a very strong sense that there must be a deeper set of rules that operates our brain and constructs consciousness. Therefor, the creation of a computer with consciousness would prove a certain set of rules exists, and we can understand those rules, even though a computer (as a computer is today) does not function at all like a brain. "What I cannot create, I do not understand" (Feynman), apparently we don't care if the mechanism behind the created thing is different in this case. So I think the lesson learned will be that consciousness can follow from a set of rules but less about how our own consciousness works. Who says there can be only one kind?
Upgrading the core OS is hard mostly because new android versions rely on certain new kernel features; and the new kernels break backward compatibility with proprietary drivers.

There was a story posted a few weeks back about how a certain (Samsung or LG?) phone had added new members to the middle of a kernel struct, for the benefit of their camera driver. It hamstrung a lot of the community reverse engineering work to port a new kernel to the device.
There are plenty of people that need short-term housing that don't also think that a surprise sex orgy is an appropriate thing to do in a stranger's home.

Why should regular people not be able to rent out the space they don't need to regular people that need it?

The people who thought it was appropriate to trash the place should be made to cover the damage they wrought to the OP's life. That is the fairest solution.
I'm using the HTC One (M7 a few years old) with Android 5.0. I am a lover of Android and material design. Unlike a lot of people here, I've found the overall UX / usability to be very intuitive and easy to use.

One aspect of the new design I really like is native sharing. With as little as two taps, I can share any photo, video, selected text or other media to almost any other app (text, gmail etc) with ease.

I am not a huge fan of 'tiled layouts' but I also don't feel as though it is as tiled focused as Microsoft or others.
Isn't this exactly why you are not allowed to use your private apartment as a hotel?
How is that property damage?
For a modern audience, o think that makes it better. Communication isn't independent of the audience.
A gunsmith is not responsible for the people who are shot by his gun.

Because there's a person in between there. The one at fault is the murderer: the man holding the gun. NOT the gunsmith.

Similarly, AirBNB is not responsible for the tenant's misbehavior. What am I missing here?
He wants AirBnB to fix the blacklist issue because he can no longer rent an apartment after an eviction caused by his AirBnB guests.

I'm not sure why you find that hard to understand. It was obvious from the post.

Not that I would ever let strangers stay in my place, but I would expect the same thing.
Git already works like this. If you attempt `git foo`, your $PATH will be consulted for an executable with the name `git-foo`, and if found, it will be called with the rest of the arguments. That's why this command is `git-hub` and is invoked with `git hub`.
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> I would like an app like this in the event I ever need to prove my location. And I think it would be cool to see where I go on a map.

If you've got the right version of android and the right settings, go here: https://maps.google.com/locationhistory/b/0

More: https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/3118687?source=gs...
> implying one can file a lawsuit against a pimp and/or
any associated prostitutes, and that anyone would have
access to their actual lawful identity
If consciousness is an illusion, then ego is an illusion as well.

Who is it then, who is succumbing to this illusion?
Yes, we will need more than spreadsheets to model resonance in the feedback loops (visible and invisible) which influence outcomes within and among complex systems, from single humans all the way to inadvertent collectives. Today, currency and law are used to implement feedback loops, but we have since invented many other forms of expression and composition.
I was once an illegal subletter. The actual tenant moved out, and so notified me that I was being evicted. I protested to the apartment manager, who told me that I could not possibly be subletting, because subletting was contractually forbidden.

"That may be true, but even so I was subletting."

The tenant left a huge mess when he moved out. I told the manager that I removed everything from the fridge, cleaned it thoroughly then put back in the fridge everything that did not belong to me.

I was invited to rent some other apartment in the same complex but oddly was not permitted to stay in the apartment I was subletting.

A couple weeks later the tenant called me on the phone to demand compensation for all the cleaning, hauling and dump fees he had to pay.

"I had to sell my truck," he said.

"I removed everything from the apartment that belonged to me," I replied.

"I understand" he said woefully. I never heard from him again.

This experience made me a lot wiser about how I search for housing. There were many red flags such as his response to my requirement that my new place be near public transit.

"There's a bus stop nearby, I'll pick you up in my truck."

"nearby" in truck miles is a lot closer than in walking miles.
The first you see when you load that page is a website telling you to curl to bash.

The next thing you see is a gif that didn't seem to tell me what it actually is.

I notice that it uses Kernel 4.0.1 - which is great that they're using something modern, however 4.0.1 has a critical EXT4 bug that causes major data corruption. This has been fixed in 4.1 RC5.

A lot of typos throughout the site too:

- "Subscribe to the lastest Hyper news."
- " Pod is the first class in Hyper"

I won't even mention the use of comic sans on their diagrams...
That's not within their power.
> Why should regular people not be able to rent out the space they don't need to regular people that need it?

Because he doesn't own the property. I severely doubt that his landlord is letting him sublet his apartment for less than 30 days.

Why not? It doesn't matter. If you don't _own_ the land, you don't make the rules. Hell, even in my townhome that I own, my HOA / local laws do not allow me to sublet due to zoning restrictions.

If I didn't agree to the law, I could have bought a different house. But I like the location, so I agreed to it. (I don't really care for AirBNB or subletting anyway). But these are the sorts of things you need to take responsibility for if you want to be a functioning adult.
Half the time it would be "off" (during summer), so that means I will pay for 100% of the actually used energy? In that case I'll stick with natural gas for my heating. Also this arrangement should not be called "free".
I don't understand how AirBnB is responsible here. You're obviously taking a risk when you hand over the keys to your apartment to a stranger. This is the same risk that landlords take when they lease the unit in the first place; hence why these blacklists exist: to minimize risk. The difference is that the landlord is at least leasing what is his to lease. Renting your apartment on AirBnB is prohibited by just about every lease, and is flat-out illegal in NYC. He broke the terms of his lease and the law to make hundreds of dollars a night, trusted a stranger that a website connected him with, and got busted. He could try to sue the guy that threw the orgy, just like landlords can try to sue deadbeat tenants; but just like the landlords, he'll probably get nowhere. The law can't protect you from your own poor decision-making. Would you want to rent your property to this guy?
You let a complete stranger into your (landlord's) property without verifying their lawful identity?

This is absolutely reckless.
He obviously made a bad decision to rent out his apartment. This isn't AirBnb's problem.

Look through my previous comments. I'm no fan of AB or most of the sharing economy's big players, but this is the sort of thing that will continue to happen and why basing a business model on the backs of people's bad risk evaluations is tenuous. These models won't hold up without the downside being felt directly by the app providers. But, then where's the fun/money?
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There are several large differences you're missing. Many of these are elaborated upon in other posts, and some in his twitch stream.

His methodology basically completely eschews dynamic dispatch in favor of static dispatch. No function pointers or vtables, just conditionals.

Abstractions are built up slowly, only after you're reasonably certain its the abstraction you want. The initial pass of the code has almost no abstraction and favors large functions. The reasoning here is that its usually far easier to add abstraction than it is to remove it, and starting with abstract code is a good way to lead yourself in the wrong direction.

Most interfaces between systems are based around data layout, and not functions/method sets.
I just tried to upvote your post and may have downvoted it instead :( I wish the upvote and downvote buttons were separated horizontally at opposite ends of the post title, instead of vertically by 1mm.
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How is Airbnb screwing him over? Their host guarantee says they'll pay for property damage, and they did. Ari's problem is that he got evicted for allowing the damage to happen on his watch.
Nice to someone behave so humbly for a change. He believes, probably more or less accurately, that he along with his collaborators made a minor contribution while perched high atop the shoulders of giants and disclaims accordingly the accolades he considers unwarranted if not embarrassing. I suspect if he were offered a Knighthood or some other ostentatious honor, he'd respectfully turn that down as well--unlike certain other Internet protocol "inventors"...
he should not be the CEO.

I suggest that you make your concerns known to the board of directors; among the reasons we have director boards is so they can correct problems like this.

There is some possibility he would be suitable for some other position at your company.
Ahh, as an ME you would appreciate then that the useful work a computer does is not thermodynamic work but a decrease in the disorder of some system it is a part of, and this necessarily requires increasing the entropy of its environment - typically by transferring heat to it!
I liked that none of them could reliably answer what exactly Material is at the start of the video. So much wankery.
The reliability issues that are mentioned are no problem with enough redundancies of course.

My fiber optic connection is 50/50 even though the line is (the way it is used now) able to do 500/500. They should aim for deals with ISPs for my excess bandwidth.
I'm pretty sure "people who like to do Sex Orgies in stranger's houses" wasn't on anyone's mind when New York made short-term subletting illegal.
Rickrolling is sexist, racist and often transphobic in context
I'd say plan your retirement by 40 in Globalization;
Do you know YouTube from a to Z?
When I hear the word "semiotics", I unclip the safety on my Browning Automatic.
The user interaction of this sucks on desktop with a mouse.

If I click+hold and move my mouse fast, then bring it to a stop and let go, the thing spins off into the abyss because it's as if I swiped fast when I did not. I repositioned the cursor to a set point and let go - it stopped and should stay stationary.

If I move my cursor slowly there is absolutely no inertia. If I move my cursor above some arbitrary speed, the thing spins like it's trying to take off.
edit: Sorry, there is a very narrow band of inertia levels. Most of the 'slow' mouse movement sits below the lower bounds and so has 0 inertia, and if I go even just a bit faster I exceed the upper threshold and shoot off into infinity.

The first thing I did was try to use my mouse wheel to scroll, like just about every other desktop implementation of such a list. Nothing happened and I wondered if it was just a fixed image I was interacting with wrongly.

edit: FF 38.0.1, Win7 x64, default mouse settings (6/11 slider setting, "enhance pointer precision" acceleration on, presumably 400 dpi on this generic dell workstation mouse).

edit #2: I should clarify: graphically, this is neat and I like it. I haven't tried it on my phone but I sense that it'd work well and look good, but on a PC it just keeps moving in ways you don't want it to and feels all wrong. I keep having to 'catch' the images after flying over them several times.
> Why would AirBnB have any responsibility over the tenants?

They may not have any legal responsibility.

But consider the message sent to potential renters. Does AirBnB really want this horror story out there, scaring away customers?
Philosophically, why should ownership imply total absolute control?
Your experience matches mine as well. Hell, my current home doesn't allow subletting. (I'm only allowed to lease the _whole house_ as a unit, and it has to be for a full year minimum). Local laws, zoning... and all that good stuff.
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Geoffrey Hinton gave results to this effect in a talk about "Dark Knowledge" [1]. Haven't seen any of these results published, though. I think he mentions something in the talk about NIPS rejecting the paper.

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EK61htlw8hY
Such is the nature of these new school services like AirBNB and Über, no? Idealistic amateurs and artisans operating with optimistic expectations.

Also, the use of the word "you" isn't quite appropriate, since I've never used these websites. One should use an indefinite article.

THE dildo, never... YOUR dildo.
Elixir(elixir-lang.org) and Phoenix(www.phoenixframework.org) seems to be coming along nicely. High speed and concurrency by building on the Erlang VM. Written by Rails Core developers who wanted more speed but, the spirit of Rails (though it's not a 1-to-1 port in the least)
He broke the terms of his lease so he could make hundreds of dollars a night. Rental agencies aren't in the business of leasing to people with a record of violating lease agreements.
Eviction is not damage to "your property", which is what the airbnb guarantee protects. (It is the termination of a subordinate interest in real property by the person whose property it actually is, but that's a different thing altogether. It seems particularly risky to use AirBnB to rent out someone else's property.)
I don't understand how AirBnB is responsible here. ... trusted a stranger that a website connected him with

You answered your own question here. It's a bit mystifying why you're giving AirBNB a complete pass here when they were the ones that set up the connection.

It's possible for both parties to be at fault.
I don't think it shouldn't be public record, but I do believe you shouldn't be able to reject someone outright due to one event.

I foreclosed on my underwater town home. Should I need to live in my car because my credit report has one negative item on it in 16 years? (Rentals of course pull your credit)

Housing is a regulated industry for good reason. Property managers are free to use data sources such as in this case, but there needs to be an appeal process. Otherwise, we'll start to have a class of people who a defacto homeless due solely to historical data.
It is because of Amazon's unfair and abusive labor practices that I choose not to purchase from them.