skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You make excellent points. I guess what I meant was that Zillow's model _should be_ to improve the process and to make it cheaper. Maybe 6%-7% commission is still appropriate for high-end properties that only have a limited pool of potential buyers (that's not my world, I don't really know) but for average homes in 2015, it is an anachronism left over from a time when buyers and sellers couldn't do a lot of the legwork themselves online. Its not hard to see that there is a ton of money to be made closing that gap.

Just perused your website and from what I read your company certainly seems to have the right idea. As it happens our buyer did end up having an agent and we paid that agent a 3% commission, so from what I read your system definitely could have worked in our transaction and saved our buyer some dough. The $300 we paid the agent to get us into the MLS truly paid off though... we saved literally thousands. Looking back I could pay triple that and it would be a no-brainer. Just something to consider - toss in some boilerplate forms or instruction guides or whatever and it could be a great product with excellent margins. I bet theres a bunch of tech savvy go getter millenials that would get licensed to do the local work necessary. Anyhow, I'm really glad to see someone doing what you're doing, best of luck to you... I truly hope you win
Birdstrikes are incredibly dangerous.[1] Flying drones into class b airspace and ignoring FAA requests to cease should be a criminal matter.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/US_Airways_Flight_1549
I don't know where steveklabnik hails from, but in the US "cute" is sometimes meant with a condescending overtone. I seem to recall you are from the UK (Scotland?) from the last YAPC I was at, so I suspect this is a dialect difference causing a misunderstanding.
You mean sort of like this? (From the article.)

https://paragonie.com/files/blog/base64_password.png
Learn chinese the shopping way
Internet now is only about the moment. The momentum sometimes last less than a second.Transform those seconds, in a story, could be useful and remarkable. I hope you succeed.
I hope this prize leads to a more systematic (re)look at traditional medicine - both Chinese and Indian. It would be important (and exciting) to understand what thousands of years of 'wisdom' can offer modern science and the drug industry.

Can we discover new active ingredients by studying 'traditional' medicine? Should there be a branch of study dedicated to this?
Total weight and protein per 100 calories of plant food
It does yeah - you've taken what I was saying, made a replica stuffed with straw and then defeated that. Your response doesn't really tie into what I was saying it seems like something you had rehearsed. So you reinterpreted to suit your response rather than discuss the topic at hand.
If FED takes a position on their balance sheet that get's wiped out (very theoretical since cost of carry for FED is 0) This does very little to erode investor confidence compared to having full blown meltdown. In any case FED eventually increased it's balance sheet to almost 20% of GDP around 2012
so it might have being cheeper to bail out lehman brothers
surfaced on Yahoo today about nuclear materials smuggling attempts through Moldova and Transnistria http://news.yahoo.com/ap-investigation-nuclear-smugglers-sou...
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The 'crowding out' theory is quite controversial. Data has shown that fiscal consolidation (austerity) has a contractionary effect: https://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/wp/2013/wp1301.pdf (conclusion on page 19).

It does not follow that borrowing cheaply today reduces private spending today (expanding credit = more $ in circulation). It creates future tax obligations, but this is offset by growth in the economy. Growth happens because the government's spending is income to businesses, which increases tax revenues. As this gets spent and re-spent, it creates a virtuous cycle that expands the economy.
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Well if someone says that he really hates Nazis and is younger than 60 years, he is probably not the sharpest knife in the drawer... which is a huge red flag. Same with loving them - both require some form of temporal closeness.

Edit: Hating or Loving the Nazi ideology is another beer - ideas are immortal.
A/B testing for truth v/s maximizing revenue
I usually balk at herbal cures, but it's actually a really dumb thing for me to do, eh? Perhaps it's just the egoist in me that wants to think there's nothing nature or a random plant can figure out or has figured out, that we can't figure out synthetically in the lab.

I should probably stop - there is something to be said for herbal cures, meditation, etc., I think.
Douglas Hofstadter proposed something like this long ago, only the task was to find analogies in sequences. For example, what number in the sequence

1 2 3 4 5 4 5 4 3 2 1

corresponds to the second 3 in this one?

1 2 3 2 3 2 1

If that seemed too easy, what's the corresponding number in this one?

5 4 3 2 1 2 1 2 3 4 5

How about this?

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 6 5 4 5 4 3 2 1
Pretty much a non issue since 2012. It defrags itself.
That hinge is so cool! Finally a real tablet/laptop hybrid comes out!

Seriously, this makes the difference for me. I never wanted to buy a tablet device because I thought I wouldn't use it much, but if I can just pull off the keyboard and turn it into a tablet that runs the same OS occasionally, that's something I'm interested in.
SublimeText is very powerful, but very much has the feel of a bad Windows port. TextMate 2 is a better choice if you want an editor that matches the rest of your environment, assuming you're using a Mac.
Not being privy to the talk, my assumption was that the final shipping feature list was solidified, and that's what was being announced. It's still due at Christmas, and that was already known. I think the article's meaning was somewhat ambiguous with the title, and HN just ran with it. Nothing has been released (but apparently there's two beta's officially planned now, the first of which is in a week or so).
Wow, it's like there's a government department which sees its job as serving the people instead of ruling over them.
I think the reddit core programmers (Stallman, DHH, Linus Torvalds and Al Gore) have been itching to sink their teeth into something with more depth. StoryServer is a strong offering, but ultimately the team was worried that even though CNET rebranded storyserver from PRISM when they acquired it people would confuse it with the NSA program PRISM (rebranded as Facebook in the US). Totally correct though, I am a little rusty with storyserver and I should pick it back up (we've been using facetime and a sharpie marker as our backend).
UK Programmer Releases Free Eye-Tracking Software
USDA: The United States Department of Agriculture

The U.S. federal executive department responsible for developing and executing federal government policy on farming, agriculture, forestry, and food.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Department_of_Ag...
Oh, you're going to love this - I worked for a firm that developed electronic trading software, back in the late 90s. They "encrypted" their incoming connections with a simple XOR scheme that used a "key" which was, basically, a random number. You want to guess how they generated the random number? They seeded the random function with the current time... now, almost all of their clients would just leave their trading systems running overnight, so in the morning all the clients would reconnect at just about the exact same time (market open), so then 90% of the clients would end up using the same "key" to encrypt their sessions.

Now, ordinarily it would be bad enough that almost all of your clients are using the same encryption key, but it got much worse from here - turns out there was a bug in a proxy server they had written, so that every once in a while client B's traffic would be routed into client A's session, and hilarity would ensue; because the "keys" were the same, Client B's traffic looked like normal traffic from client A, so nobody could ever figure out why Client A would call us up and complain that he was getting fills for orders that he'd never sent! It took me forever to figure out WTF was going on, but one day I was watching a logging display and noticed garbled traffic showing up in Client A's logs, and it was garbled because it was a user who actually didn't auto-logon at 0930 in the morning and subsequently had a different encryption "key" resulting in his traffic not being decoded properly. From there, it became obvious what the problem was.

Edit: Yeah, yeah, I know - you're thinking "Wait, XOR? shared secret? But, but... how did they do key exchange?" Well, how the heck else would you send a client the secret key for the session - in plain text, when the client first logs on, of course!
It is a lot to read. I read the first 30%; I live in SV, and have been working here for ~9 years. My experience is more or less what he describes. Have seen open office plans, scrum(hahah, putting a deadline on creative activity, because I know how to measure and I'm your boss, so your ass belongs to me), and the silent types getting snubbed in an environment that claims meritocracy(!!!)

I'm 33 years old and married. Can't afford a home in SV as a programmer. What are my options? What are other good places I can move to? Places where there are enough jobs, so I am not at the mercy of my boss, have sun and housing is not too expensive?
"The Devil's Breath:" the world's scariest drug (2012)
This is a sad day, this really should have been established... at least the discussion brought attention to the thunderous impact of animal ag on the environment, given that it produces more CO2 emissions than the combined exhaust from all transportation.[1]

Also quite revealing the meat industry's objection,

> The meat industry disputed the claim, and the notion that dietary guidelines ought to consider the environment.

They, of course, didn't dispute the impact, just that people should even consider it in a dietary guideline.

[1] http://www.fao.org/docrep/010/a0701e/a0701e00.HTM
Country limits for Green Card really need to go.

Number of green cards offered to People born in China and India (With Billion+ Population) is same as to people born in Vatican City (Less than 1000 population).
I wonder why didn't they do it as a config on the ELB instead of a new service.
Your Chair Is Killing You. Here's What You Need to Do to Stop It
See the second sentence of another post from me yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10336294 ...
I always assumed that USDA was some kind of industry body set up to promote the U.S. beef industry. I'm surprised to learn that it actually has other roles!
There's no fraud or cashback with Bitcoin. All Bitcoin transactions are absolutely irreversible, period, after roughly 60 minutes.

That's how transaction costs are so low.
Good luck avoiding all electronics with parts from China :P
In that case they should just leave out the examples entirely. If the code runs, someone in the world WILL copy & paste it into their project and walk away, no matter if it's marked as insecure or not, which just perpetuates the problems that the post is trying to deal with.

Also I'm not sure "password hashing" is any more descriptive than "password encryption."
Its a snap of today's perl6 IRC log . http://irclog.perlgeek.de/perl6/2015-10-07#i_11330785
Several of the requirements feel like the quirks of the authors implementation, rather than technological ideals. (Don't reuse previously fetched sith? Fetch each sith lord separately?)
No. A 4K display still looks pixelated compared to my Retina MacBook. I know that's not supposed to be true, and I was certainly not expecting it, but my experience is that 4K isn't Retina quality.
Because the meat worship we have today is totally a grass root movement.
Personally, I would think like this. Not matter it is herbal cures or chemical medicine, I only trust the one comes from the true scientific process like double blind tests.

I wont say the traditional Chinese herbal medicine is absolutely crap as some of current wonderful medicine is the extraction of plant.
Europe Could Learn from Russia's Google Ruling
Still... no logical connection there. Are you cutting and pasting this from somewhere else?
YC's Sam Altman sees India breeding multiple $10B startups
That's interesting, I always figured Python's list comprehensions where their answer to Perl's map and grep.

But in direct answer to your question, no, but it's part of the answer[1].

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_comprehension#Perl_6
The USDA should advise on nutrition not on environment, likewise the EPA should advise on environment and not nutrition. So, while I eat little meat, I think they made a good call. It's not in their direct scope. At the same time, the meat producers should be reserved, one day they may find that less meat is better nutritionally and if they do find so, tell it like it is.

Not sure what the WAPO is trying to imply here. It's as if they want the USDA to go outside their scope --you know, not printing newspapers might also be beneficial to the environment, WAPO, but I don't see you ditching printing out of benevolence but rather necessity as fewer people buy newspapers.
Don't be ashamed. http://oeis.org/search?q=1%2C2%2C4%2C_%2C_%2C_%2C_%2C_%2C_%2... does not know it, either, it gives me http://oeis.org/A115346

That has 46 terms before hitting the right pattern.

It also gives http://oeis.org/A188668 which has only four terms before hitting 1, -2, 4, ..., -232.

I guess one could try and tweak either to get a matching sequence, but I don't see a trivial way to do it that is mathematically 'nice'.

It is easier to start with http://oeis.org/search?q=0%2C0%2C1%2C_%2C_%2C_%2C_%2C_%2C_%2..., though.

It gives me http://oeis.org/A242067 "Number of triangular numbers between n^2 and n^3 (excluding the bounds)."

So, this sequence 'must' be "n plus number of triangular numbers between n^2 and n^3 (excluding the bounds)."
There is no shortage of meat consumption in the US to the point of adverse health effects - in fact the opposite would seem to be the case. The amount of meat consumed per capita has increased around 54% since 1950 (up to something like an average of 222 lbs per person per year)[1].

There is likely a shortage of healthy vegetable consumption compared to what's been reported to reduce all-cause mortality.[2] Meanwhile beef production uses something like 160x the amount of land per calorie of crops like potatoes, wheat, rice, and around 28x that of other meats.[3]

[1] http://grist.org/article/2010-03-25-corn-ethanol-meat-hfcs/

[2] http://jech.bmj.com/content/early/2014/03/03/jech-2013-20350...

[3] http://arstechnica.com/science/2014/07/among-meats-beef-has-...
WTF they already pushed carbs for 30 years

turns out cheetos and coke is a vegan diet

that strategy backfired massively, tho
For Password Hashing Competition (https://password-hashing.net/) we tried to come up with a better term, which describes both password-based KDF and password hashing for server storage, but couldn't, so it's been decided to keep calling those things "password hashes".

- "KDF" says nothing about passwords (e.g. see HKDF) and,

- "PBKDF" (password-based KDF) says nothing about password verifier, such as for server storage (e.g. bcrypt doesn't produce a "key"), plus already taken by specific algorithms,

- "password hash" sounds good for both key derivation and verifier, but makes it easy to confuse with normal hashes.
How much of the whiskey consumed is locally made? It seems like the US is by far the largest consumer of Scotch whisky. I would guess most of the whiskey imported is from either Japan or the US but that's mostly because I can't think of any other top whiskey producing countries. (I guess Ireland is the only other one)
You're right, reducing government spending today will contract the economy today.

It does not follow that borrowing cheaply today reduces private spending today

Correct, it increases spending today, and reduces it in the future. The "growth in the economy" will be lost when credit must inevitably contract again. expanding credit = more $ in circulation, more goods will be consumed, less goods in market, less goods invested in the long run. Government's spending is income to businesses, which increases tax revenues. As this gets spent and re-spent and invested, it leads to over-investment for a short period of time, because businesses re-invest the income to produce goods, and the government is unable to increase their spending exponentially to consume those goods without raising taxes. The government must eventually repay the debt it has borrowed, and by forcing interest rates down to reduce its obligations, the income to the private sector from investment in government bonds is reduced. Private sector income is further reduced by expansion of taxation. The reduced income meaning less $ is available to purchase the increased goods that came from the increased government spending, causing temporary deflation that you see today. Expanding available credit to subprime borrowers is the last gasp of the economy trying to keep the expansion of credit before contraction over takes and economic decline returns to the economy[1].

So far the data works out. Labor participation dropping, private investment & private consumption going down, deflation widespread.

Lower savings rate = lower long term economic growth. Keeping interest rate near zero had the effect of temporarily holding the GFC back, but is now going to cause economic malaise in the American economy.[2]

[1] http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-10-06/meet-fortr...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solow–Swan_model

EDIT: tcbawo: I like to see cutting government consumption to increase government investment expenditure. I don't agree with cutting government investment either. Iceland is the only country so far to do what I'd like to see governments doing, and is the only country to have recovered to pre-2007 growth. As a reply to RobertoG: Yeah, I hope I'm wrong because what I'm saying is there's no free lunch. We'll see how long it takes U.S. economy to completely recover, I doubt it will recover for the common person within the next two to five decades, but maybe I'm wrong and there's hope.
I don't see it happening and here is why-- when was the last time you used a computer + operating system + software that you would trust your life with?

Out of nowhere we are expected to believe that a new computing platform is going to appear that is not going to be susceptible to bugs, viruses, and hacking? If it was possible to create such a platform, why don't we already have it?
Perhaps the problem was that I didn't travel by bus :)

Or perhaps I was just consistently ID'd as a foreigner and mark. Either way, fifteen euros to get across that border seemed reasonably sufficient to all.

It's entirely possible that things have changed - I haven't been to Transnistria in several years.
It's not America's fault that China and India have insane birth rates. More than half of them live in poverty and many corrupt officials stole money from the Chinese people and settled in the US, Australia or Canada. Allowing more Chinese immigration would come with corruption.
In China, at present, we have some institutes conducting the research of using modern scientific process to extract the essence of traditional plant.

Hopefully some would show the true effect to the human beings
I don't remember anything deplorable in Malcolm X's position.

I disagree with separation of the races but it's not like he wanted to exterminate anyone.
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Yes, and no.

It's obvious that you can't see the 90% of the iceberg under water when you are well versed in the ways of wayward icebergs. Many people, even smart/experienced people, aren't - or they don't get it in their gut and it has to be re-re-re-explained periodically.

I've recently come across an odd reverse scenario. I had done the standard 5 year financial projection for a business plan, but "only" had about 200 engineers in year 5. Now, leaving aside any pivots that occur, that's a lot of engineers. But as a percentage of projected revenue, it wasn't very many. And the investor had yet another objection: compared to the staffs at Facebook and DropBox (for example), it's tiny.

This article helped us (me) be able to point out that none of these 'hidden' things that the article talks about are things that we have to deal with. So, we don't need as many engineers. He 'got it', just from me being able to use this article this evening to riff against.
You can build Perl6 and try it right now if you want, see my [early Perl 6](http://g14n.info/2015/03/early-perl6/) article for detailed building instructions.
I use the number row. Is that weird? I think it's much faster than using the numpad anyway since you have 8 fingers you can use instead of just 3 (or 4?) for the numpad. It also means you can much more easily switch between letters and numbers.
Show HN: Wright Magazine – 80s and 90s gaming implemented from scratch
Really appreciate the kind words. We'll do our best!
Well think again, as a commercial pilot with 16 years of experience I can tell you that sometimes you can even see what type of bird you crossed. And it has to be quite close to be a problem to you, so pilots are reporting drones that could be ingested in to the engine and create a fire in short final.
Not all reports are accurate, that's true. But most of us don't go reporting ufos these days...
It is. Also grass fed. Tasty tasty grass fed.

Meat has always been the food of the rich, of the higher classes and is damn tasty. Meat is also terrific source of proteins, fat soluble vitamins and fats.
"in other [countries], like Canada, it is merely very, very difficult."

This is not true.

More difficult than the United States? Yes.

"Very, very difficult"? No.

There are millions of legally-owned firearms in Canada.

"I’m grateful to my colleague Jeffrey Toobin for showing so well that the idea that the Second Amendment assures individual possession of guns, so far from being deeply rooted in American law, is in truth a new and bizarre reading, one that would have shocked even Warren Burger.)"

This crosses the borderline between "untrue" and "deliberate lie".

At the time the Constitution was adopted, private individuals could, and did, own everything from personal weapons up through artillery pieces and fully-equipped ships of war.
Airbus wants to fit more passengers–by stacking them on top of each other
Wouldn't it be more like HaaS? Hardware as a service? Since they sell the terminals not just the software?
If you are interested, read all 3 papers on this.

Jim Gray pubished the first paper, 5 minute rule in 1985 (http://www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/tandem/TR-86.1.pdf)

In 1997, he (along with Goetz Graefe) published the followup - The Five-Minute Rule Ten Years Later (http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/gray/5_min_rul...)

Goetz Graefe published the 2nd followup in 2008 - The Five-minute Rule: 20 Years Later (https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=1413264)