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Airbnb Just Lost A Big Regulatory Battle In New York

Airbnb just took a hit in New York, where Governor Andrew Cuomo signed into a law a bill the short-term rental startup has been fighting for months.

The bill regulates short-term rentals throughout the state, including fees of up to $7,500 for individual hosts who violate state regulations. One NY state law that could particularly affect Airbnb hosts bans residents from renting out a home for more than 30 days if the home owner isn’t present. Thousands of New York users with listings on Airbnb could be subject to fines, Airbnb says. According to the company, it has more than 46,000 hosts in NY state.

New York City is Airbnb's largest market in the United States, but it has also been the site of some of the company&039;s most heated contention. Critics say short-term renting like Airbnb exacerbates the city&039;s ongoing struggle with affordable housing. In a statement, New York state assemblywoman Linda B. Rosenthal said the new law, “will help to keep housing available and affordable for thousands of hardworking New Yorkers and their families.”

After the bill passed to Cuomo&039;s desk earlier this month, Airbnb offered a last-minute litany of concessions to try to encourage the governor to veto the bill. Those proposals included changing the platform to prevent hosts from listing multiple properties, a revenue-sharing deal for landlords whose tenants are hosts, and a three-strikes-you&039;re-out policy for hosts who break the rules.

But, for the New York governor&039;s office, it seems that offer wasn&039;t enough.

Airbnb&039;s Head of New York Public Policy, Josh Meltzer, said the company plans to file a lawsuit against the state of New York later today. “A majority of New Yorkers have embraced home sharing,” he wrote in a statement, “and we will continue to fight for a smart policy solution that works for the the people, not the powerful.”

Some of the policy proposals Airbnb made on Wednesday will take place despite Cuomo signing the New York bill, including the “One Host, One Home” program. However, other offers, including $90 million in taxes, Airbnb says it can’t follow through on without cooperation from the state.

Airbnb has previously filed lawsuits against the cities of San Francisco, Santa Monica, and Anaheim, all of which are in California.

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Production debugging the easy way, with Stackdriver Debugger GA

Posted by Sharat Shroff, Product Manager

When it comes to cloud-based applications, traditional debugging tools are slow and cumbersome for production systems. When an issue occurs in production, engineers inspect the logs and try to reproduce the problem in a non-production environment. Once they successfully reproduce the problem, they attach a traditional debugger, set breakpoints, step through the code and inspect application state in an attempt to understand the issue. This is often followed up by adding log statements, rebuilding and redeploying code to production and sifting through logs again until the issue’s resolved.

Google’s been a cloud company for a long time, and over the years, we’ve built developer tools optimized for cloud development. Today we’re happy to announce that one such tool, Stackdriver Debugger, is generally available.

Stackdriver Debugger allows engineers to inspect an application’s state, its variables and call stack at any line of code without stopping the application or impacting the customer. Being able to debug production code cuts short the many hours engineers invest in finding and reproducing a bug.

Since our beta launch, we’ve added a number of new features including support for multiple source repositories, logs integration and dynamic log point insertion.

Stackdriver’s Debug page uses source code from repositories such as Github and Bitbucket or local source to display and take debug snapshots. You can also use the debugger without any source files at all, simply by typing in the filename and line number.

The debug snapshot allows you to examine the call-stack and variables and view the raw logs associated with your Google App Engine projects — all on one page.

Out of the box, Stackdriver Debugger supports the following languages and platforms:

Google App Engine (Standard and Flexible): Java, Python, Node
Google Compute Engine and Google Container Engine: Java, Python, Node (experimental), Go

All of this functionality is backed by a publicly accessible Stackdriver Debugger API with which applications interact with the Google Stackdriver Debugger backends. The API enables you to implement your own agent to capture debug data for your favorite programming language. It also allows you to implement a Stackdriver Debugger UI integrated into your favorite IDE to directly set and view debug snapshots and logpoints. Just for fun, we used the same API to integrate the Stackdriver Debugger into the gcloud debug command line.

We’re always looking for feedback and suggestions to improve Stackdriver Debugger. Please send us your requests and feedback. If you’re interested in contributing to creating additional agents or extending our existing agents, please connect with the Debugger team.
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Even more Docker Labs!

Since we launched Docker Labs back in May, we’ve had a lot of interest. So we keep adding more and improving the labs that we have. We now have 22 hands on labs for you to choose from, ranging from beginner tutorials to much more advanced ones. Here’s a peek at what we have:

To accompany the launch of Windows containers in Microsoft Windows Server 2016, we launched a Windows Container beginner tutorial to walk you through setting up your environment, running basic containers and creating a basic Docker Compose multi-container application using Windows containers.
We added 6 security tutorials to take advantage of some of Docker’s strong security features.
A Docker community member liked our Java debugging tutorials so much, he translated our labs into Spanish.
We added a new Node.js tutorial to show how to easily you can debug Node.js applications live in container.

So check out Docker Labs to learn more about using Docker. And as always, we really encourage contributions. So if you have a lab you want to get out there, or find a way to improve what we have, please contribute today.
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A Major Denial Of Service Attack Brought Down Websites On The US East Coast

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Websites such as Twitter, The Verge, and Spotify were down or had spotty service Friday due to a massive denial of service attack on the servers of Dyn, a major DNS host, which routes internet users to the correct websites.

The Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack overwhelms a company&#039;s servers with traffic from multiple sources to make online service unavailable.

Dyn said services were restored to normal after the first attack as of 9:42 am EST. Dyn was investigating another attack at 11:52 am EST.

DNS or Domain Name System is the internet&039;s system for converting alphabetic names of websites — the ones humans use — into machine-friendly IP addresses which direct users&039; internet connection to the correct website.

A statement on Dyn&039;s website said:

Starting at 11:10 UTC on October 21th-Friday 2016 we began monitoring and mitigating a DDoS attack against our Dyn Managed DNS infrastructure. Some customers may experience increased DNS query latency and delayed zone propagation during this time.

This attack is mainly impacting US East and is impacting Managed DNS customer in this region. Our Engineers are continuing to work on mitigating this issue.

Other websites affected by the attack included Netflix, PayPal, SoundCloud, Etsy, Zillow, Shopify, Reddit, Github, and Pinterest.

Here&039;s what the outage looked like.

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It wasn&039;t clear who was responsible for the attack. However, discussion threads on cyber communities suggested that the attacks might involve criminal extortionists targeting infrastructure providers, KrebsOnSecurity reported.

This is a developing story. Check back for updates and follow BuzzFeed News on Twitter.

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