skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The issue with the websites already in use by agents is that the property is almost always out-of-date.

Agents are not incentivised towards keeping listings fresh. It's better for them if they can tell the person that gets in contact that it's "just gone" and hem-and-haw about how the market is very hot at the moment. They can then show you a selection of over-priced, not as attractive properties and try to extract a purchase from a slightly more anxious version of you.

I'm not sure if this is solvable with an app to be honest. And, you will be competing against listings with attractive-looking properties that aren't actually on the market, so on the surface-level won't look as good. Good luck!
Looking at boobs and talking about code aren't mutually exclusive.

But one is encouraged (and is your job) and the other should be avoided (or you should be _really_ discreet).

And everybody oogles. It's just that men have a harder time being discreet about it :)
If that was the justification, people would be giving gold bars, not gold jewelry.
Razones para instalar una fachada ventilada
You can backport it easily, and it will be present in 3.0.1. Ask on IRC or the dev ML.
Stopify is stopped in my country, otherwise I would be happy to see.
The saddest part of the article for me was the ad--"you can't look at Jane and tell me she's not worth 2 months' salary". There's so much wrong with that statement. The worst part is that a lot of people buy into it to some extent.
*This is the best NoSQL database going.

Yeah, right. Most of the things about it ARE wrong:

1. couchdb views, who likes async map-reduce indexes ?

2. memcached built ok (better would be redis built in)

3. json documents, even mongodb has bson and not json

4. the new global-indexes-thing IS NOT scalable because you have to hit every index-node to do a query

5. when will you be able to modify a document ? looks like still in beta
Kotlin is currently my favorite alternative JVM language. Kudos to all collaborators for the great work. After 5 years of hard work, you finally made it!

Here's a little starter project for Kotlin webapps using Spring Boot and React.js, I made a while ago:

https://github.com/winterbe/spring-kotlin-react-demo
Your comment has a big flaw: it assumes that the grandparent comment is comparing emacs and unix, whereas lisp and unix were compared. If your reading skills are like this, anything is complex for you. And afaik emacs is not a sexual being. And if you think that unix is simple, easy and consistent, your unix fu is probably just adding a fancy prompt to your bashrc. Try ls: how do you sort dirs before files? The first thing you ask is whether it is gnu ls or sth else. Try man, the first question is which format. Make? Same story. I want to get notified for changes in a directory: each unix has its own incompatible thing. And these are the very basics.
This just shows we really do need a step towards an 'appstore-like' permissions model for desktop operating systems. There is just no reason for all these software packages to have full write access to everything in your user account.
That a 'flagship' Android device will cost anywhere from 1/3 to 2/3 of the price of the current 'flagship' iOS device?

I'm sorry but that is simply not true in Sweden. The highest end Android phones costs essentially the same as an iPhone, especially if you are 'buying' one on a contract.

Can you buy a pretty damn good Android phone for 1/3 to 2/3 of the price of an iOS phone that will hold their own? Absolutely, but that is hardly the same thing.
The journal or the editorial board (staffed by publicly funded academics), as a connoisseur, is separate from the distribution mechanism that is the private publisher.

My department at my alam mater edits a top 3 journal in my original discipline. My alma mater has to buy a subscription for this journal (including the hardback version that nobody reads) with articles written by uncompensated academics paid for with public funds; edited, copyedited and typeset by my uncompensated university's faculty paid for with public funds; and reviewed anonymously by uncompensated academics paid for with public funds. What do all of these parties get in exchange that costs the university library so much? Prestige for the department, university, and individual CVs for being associated with a top 3 journal in their discipline that happens to be owned by a private company.

That seems like a parasitic relationship to me when the universities can just run the open access journal and retain the editorial board for very little by themselves. This is happening, but it just takes too long for a new open access journal to build reputation when careers are at stake with being associated with top journals.
For those wondering, some quick research:

> z-stream is 'Extended Update Support (EUS)' - errata kernels (and select other packages, as required) are maintained for an older Update (Point Release) after a newer Update comes out.

See [PDF] http://www.sistina.com/f/pdf/rhel/LIFECYCLE_EUS_Datasheet_22...
Sure, but translations are lossy. No 1-to-1 translation can ever completely emulate perfect fluency.
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Object oriented does not require state: it requires encapsulation. I incorporate as much immutability into my code as possible and I would say most of our objects never have their state changed from instantiation and I write Enterprise Java all day long.
This. Two years ago I visited Paris for the first time. I knew four phrases: hello, please, thank you, and "my name is.." and I expected ridicule and people being rude to me left and right.

It turned out that attempting to be polite in French bought me enough good will and sympathy that I was able to communicate without getting rude looks or annoyed responses. I may have a different experience in the French countryside - less tourists, less patience? - but I was pleasantly surprised the whole time.
That appears to be about it. The only difference between downloading the ISO and formatting the disk manually is that the Tails installer sets up a persistent partition that doesn't get wiped.
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The Strategy of Risk (Game) [pdf]
Comedy Theory inspired by ANNs
> When someone says, "ah, screw it, I don't like that law, so I'm not going to follow it," ...

Yes, I am Mexican and I agree 100% with you.

So, I would be extremelly happy to see that every time an illegal Mexican immigrant was caught in the US, before throwing him/her to the other side of the fence, and investigation was open to persecute and file criminal charges to every American national that said "screw it, I dont like that law" and gave an illegal job (at below-market wages) to the illegal immigrant.

I would be even more happy if other American nationials that were deprived by those illegal practices of honest livelihoods would start class-action civil lawsuits against the fat cats that lined their pockets with the sweat and blood of "wetback" labor. That would make my day!

But, you know... here in the real world, I would settle for you, sokoloff, to admit that whatever stability that those particular rules provide to American society is derived more from the discretionality to apply the same laws to some class of people but not to others. There is an old joke about democracy being 3 wolves and 1 sheep voting on what's for dinner tonight. I don't think that is precisely the case here, but there's a kernel of truth hidden there as well.
Can anyone explain how exactly cheap oil makes the stock market crash? Gas companies do not make up most of the stock market. Cheap energy means cheap everything else. Sense when does cheap energy cause everything else to crash?
A network protocol stack in Standard ML [pdf]
Someone should sell an investment-backed artificial diamond ring. So, for example, you could take a $500 ring and back it with a $10K investment that's tied to the ring. The only reason anyone buys a real diamond ring is to avoid the embarrassment of a cheap ring - on the part of the guy giving it or the woman showing it to her friends. Being able to talk about it as a "$10K ring" would go a long way to making it less embarrassing.
Autonomous Vehicles for Personal Transport: A Technology Assessment
Developers are very definitly going to have dot-files. .ssh

The article only mentions the system root directory, never the user's home folder. If you're storing your ssh keys in your system root directory, you're doing something very unusual.
Libraries are what make a language.

The major feature of Python for me is that all its various open source modules for anything n-dimensional (matrices, image processing, GIS, machine learning, etc etc) all use the same data structure: the Numpy array. It's basically part of the standard library that is developed outside of it for pragmatic reasons. And with the speed of Fortran array operations.

That's something that only Matlab really has as well, but Python is much better in other aspects.
"CRC32 value of the SubFile's real data. Used to verify decryption and decompression."

Nope.
Actually, I don't think any of those criteria should definitively rule a place out.
Python2 is not dying, its momentum is the main reason for Python's continued meteoric rise. Python3 is languishing though. At roughly 10% of Python right now but might(?) pick up that slack once Python2 starts to die.

I've always used Python, but I'm starting to wonder if I didn't back the wrong horse. I've been dabbling with Erlang as my side-language for a years, and Elixir is extremely intriguing to me. I'm considering using Ruby for a new project simply because the syntax is closer to Elixir.
A Ruby+Elixir shop makes a ton of sense.

I think the better question would be "is Python losing focus?". The answer to that would be yes. Which includes not only the ~8 year Python3 debacle that's ~10% complete from a usage standpoint, but also the Python3 feature soup. They've just added a 4th string formatting method in Python 3.6.[0] I don't even have words for Python3's feature soup, it's absurd in its own right.

[0]http://learning-python.com/books/python-changes-2014-plus.ht...
For the past several months I have been trying to understand how comedy works, to figure out a step-by-step process for coming up with jokes, and I think I'm onto something.

This is my first attempt to express the ideas I have about it. I'm not a neuroscientist, and my theory can be totally incomplete and mistaken, but I think it has some useful epiphanies that explain a lot of things.

I am still working on it and trying to figure it out, and now I'm looking for some feedback/ideas, I really want to talk to some smart people about the subject.

Please let me know what you think. Any criticism/questions that you have, anything that is unclear or can be better explained, any thoughts/ideas would be very valuable to me!
When you apply that to proofs its awful. To use a gaming analogy the real world is a sandbox game where you can build it any way you want as long as you follow the rules, but in K-12 school, proofs are either for exact memorization, or crazy contrived things on rails that you're only supposed to solve the one correct way.

Sort of a perl "there is more than one way to do it" vs a python "there should only be one way to do it". Nothing inherently wrong with either other than if you and your educational system philosophically disagree, its going to go extremely badly for you.
I believe in internet's archive mission even if I don't use the site that often but I use wikipedia too much, I can't justify not donating to them when they need it.
tl;dr--- the rules are unknown
Thanks for explaining this.

As to my own experience dealing with data, the degree of freedom, as basically a programmer, is small. Specifically, I have to think and bear tools in my mind from the start. Which might not be ideal, but cant avoid anyway.
Actually sealed traits and case object/case classes and pattern matching is really useful for http programming.
Reactive Redux in Angular 2
Just for those using this: this phones home to panthema.net when checking for updates. You might want to forcefully make it phone home, and then create a firewall rule for it.

I inspected the traffic and it's fairly innocuous, but you never really know, unless you compile from source and leave out any third party TCP connections, which I have done.
I think that it does not make sense that Jamie extends Tywin etc. This is not "is a" relation.
True, but the point is that in principle you can write very detailed, fully formal proofs, in exactly the same manner programs are written. The rest of my comment then discusses why it is not written that way.

Doing formal proofs manually is like writing turing machine instructions. Computer-assisted proving gives you higher level tools, but apparently it is still not powerful enough to be accepted in mainstream. And unlike programming where you get stuck if you haven't invented higher level languages, mathematicians have the widely accepted tool of "it trivially follows". Bourbaki might disagree, though.
The point is probably "it's not acceptable to assume 'everyone knows English, but most are just too lazy to use it'" rather than "of course you're supposed to be fluent in any language" ;)
It also seems, from a few minutes research, that the fix is available with an OS point release update, the only thing being held back is the z-stream (fix without point release update).

Disclaimer: worked at Red Hat more than a decade ago.
Couchbase may have involved the creators of Apache CouchDB but they are only lightly related these days (mostly some remnants of replication and map-reduce concepts). Both have move some distance since then so it's best to assume that CouchDB != Couchbase. (A most annoying name clash but that's that.)

What is being talked about here is the 2.0 release which is under development. It integrates IBM Cloudant's clustering layer which was previously called BigCouch. It's been a long road but it's good to see the C in couch (Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware) finally get supported. IMO, the HTTP API code in the project is probably the biggest jungle left mostly untouched from the earlier days of CouchDB and is ripe for a major cleanup. It's not surprising to see bottlenecks like this and it's great to see the author find a reasonable fix for the time being.
That's probably where I got it from, somewhere in the mists of time, thanks rakoo!
This is cool. I think the benefit of condensing these sources into 1 is either that you have to check them less often, or you only get the best posts. If its the second, a top 5 of the day would be more useful. If its the first, its perfect!
Slightly off topic but I'd say the way Parse was handled was pretty good.
Do a research apprenticeship - a PhD - which the article says most of these people have.
>> Who's going to pay people to do real news? It's not a hobby

IMHO the problem is that it's still too hard to pay for something like an online newspaper. From a usability perspective, I want to enter in some payment information once and then be able to read seamlessly for a year (for example). Meaning that I don't want to share a bunch of personal information, or my FaceBook profile, and I don't want to create a separate userID to log into the site.

Part of this comes down to having an ID that is both reliable and portable across devices, while not being tied to other personal information, and requires zero effort from the user. That's a hard problem, but I think it's one that needs to be solved.
I wouldn't say there are that many situations where Google Translate is good enough, to be honest. It's not so different from an automatic way of looking words or phrases up in a dictionary.
I wouldn't characterize it this way. There was a whole thread on just this question: https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/45j6ua/why_dont_we_pr...
You don't. If you need to run custom code in the build you have to encapsulate that as a plugin (which will be a first-class maven module in its own right, which naturally nudges you to writing unit tests, having a proper release process with semver and so on for your build step). But mostly you keep your build simple and declarative and you put any business logic in the actual code. It's wonderful.
There is a lot of attention on the crypto situation right now, which can be expressed thus: "crypto is great, but the normals don't use it" ..

So, Tails going into Debian is a step in the right direction, even if its an obscure one. And I wager that there are plenty of people on HN who might be interested in the fact that its now easier to install Tails ..
Consistent, Thin, and Dumb: Redesigning the Spotify iOS App
Changed title, but still, I'd call "crashes on boot" a critical bug.

Interest: I have an affected system, and discovered the crash when I upgraded to CentOS 7-1511. Until this gets fixed, I'm stuck on the last working kernel, though I could use the mainline kernel from ELRepo. Otherwise, it's "hello, Ubuntu Server."
Chinese tech firms entice Opera with $1.2B buyout bid
I can't remember who said it, but someone said technology changes less in 1 year than anyone expects, but more in 10 years.

Translation, however, is a tricky bit. Due to the nature of the structure of language, it would have to be "say a sentence, wait, respond, wait" which would slow down the course of a conversation significantly.

I think you could get to usefulness for simple transactions today if you're google or apple for a romance language in a standard accent. You would probably have to download something beforehand to preload the soundex for that set of accents, but it's within the power of your phone to do so. You'd probably need the top 3000 words + food + touristic places + top 5000 idioms in a set of common accents for the region, but that's not too bad compared to talking about something like politics.

The top phones have the power to do that today.
Posted earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11100271
Just have to +1 Aldi. We have limited choices. The popular chains suck. Whole Foods is too far and expensive. The big markets are filled with popular items in the American diet (especially in the Midwest) - alot of garbage - and the prices are not great. I've found the Aldi store brands good quality - they have alot of organic and gluten free choices.
Tumblr is an virtual insane asylum for various narcissistic personality disorders. I'm not sure if it's a good thing to keep these mentally disturbed people in one place, or if this is outweighed by the echo chamber effect which amplifies their destructive behaviours.
You can always make your builds do what you want, but the flipside is you can never understand what someone else is doing with their build. I don't think the build system is the place for turing-complete code. Business logic certainly doesn't belong there. Keep the build simple and standardized, and keep code in code.
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Hamburg city bans (city employees from buying) Nespresso capsules (with city money)

Presumably they are buying them because they have Nespresso machines, so what are they going to do with those?
cheap oil is not the cause of the market crash, but rather they are both caused by the same problem - fear of recession/depression. Cheap oil (along with many other commodities) have been falling quickly over the past 15 months. Increasing supply combined with "China contagion", ie lower demand growth, have caused inventories to rise. In this case, oil becomes a proxy for "demand", and since it keeps building, that means global economies are not growing. This is further exacerbated by quantitative easing policies that encouraged investment in the past 7 years where-ever there might have been any sort of return. This kept the economy afloat, but it could be argued that it was keeping a zombie economy afloat. These policies are now coming home to roost - over-investment led to oversupply now meets lack of demand.
Show HN: My weekend project – a showcase of top Kickstarter videos
That paper seems somewhat suspect. In their interpretation, they essentially hang their hat on the most suspect data that shows a percentage difference that just might lie in the margin. Scanning their other figures, the, so-called "reverse discrimination" that other findings suggest are well outside the error bars they plot. It doesn't further inspire my confidence that the authors are not psychologists but are computer scientists, which might explain such they make the mistake of weighing small changes so much...although that's because my impression of CS people is they don't deal with empirical data that much, which I may be wrong about.

Their findings still might give evidence towards their hypothesis, but more because acceptance rates are on-par with men instead of beyond men as it was when their gender is obscured.
Efficiency is Behavior
Pitch videos are one of the most important parts of a Kickstarter campaign. To help people get inspiration for their next pitch video, this weekend (yesterday and Sat) I built KickFlicks, a gallery of the videos from campaigns that raised 500% or more of their original goal.

I built it with Scrapy, and Meteor. Here's a blogpost with more details: https://metabitblog.tumblr.com/post/139355740639/my-weekend-...
So it's a also a propaganda channel ;)
>I'm not clear how that would be different to the top-down economy and moral pretensions of bankers and investors that we have now.

To be fair, the economy is both so heavily regulated and so stagnated that it barely counts as a free market anymore.

Part of the problem is that nobody is willing to fight the "priests", as you put it. Why try to beat those massive banks? They have far too much money for you to ever defeat them. But having that much money and nobody to make them work for it is precisely why we need new banks to compete with the old ones.
It is a hard thing to write the code for and then run a simulation of coupled plasma turbulence taking 15 million CPU-hours to explain a phenomenon.

But it is another thing entirely to take such a huge simulation and try to use many of them to do tokamak design optimization.
That could be six months or a year from now. I don't like the idea of having to put "exclude=kernel*" in my yum.conf.
Hi,

thank you for your constructive response, I agree with what you are saying. Due to the length of my experience it's going to be hard to give my beliefs any sort of foundation to an experienced programmer. With this in mind I also wrote the article to hear and learn from other people's constructive views.

I believe there is no shame in being wrong, because to me that is the only way one will ever learn and improve. I also try to be aware of trying not to fall into the bias trap, so I try to use the null hypothesis when it comes to choosing what to follow or learn. But most importantly I want to learn a subject in which I take a real interest and passion. Then branch out from there.

Like I mentioned before, the primary goal for my article is to inspire people to experiment and try things that might not be what the mass agree with and actually give it a go and taking it further than checking if the repo has enough stars.

Plenty of companies pay for developers to experiment and it would be impossible for all companies to afford this. At the same time there are plenty of chip100 companies that don't have any OSS projects yet they are clearly reaping the benefits. That comment is me being optimistic and potentially not a realist due to the harsh nature of business.

Thank you again for the response. :)
Perhaps a bit pedantic (HN!) ... We may be remembering a different bug but wasn't the steam bug a failure to check that a variable existed before using it to complete a directory that was to be deleted.

The variable was empty when a user moved steamroot but that would have been fine with proper input checking - also there were probably other scenarios where that failure soul result in catastrophe too.

http://m.theregister.co.uk/2015/01/17/scary_code_of_the_week...