skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> That's so nastily uncharitable.

> It's a parlor game and gives a buzz to both the writer and reader.

Uh...

I agree that it's a rude and pointless comment, but there's really no reason to go so far with the armchair psychoanalysis.
Good agents can be worth it.

Redfin provides a refund of a portion of their commission as a seller's agent. I considered them when selling a house. However, after having meetings with an agent of theirs and another independent agent that charged the normal 3% seller's fee, I decided to go with the independent.

The Redfin agent had suggested a price of $649k, while the independent suggested $745k. The house wound up selling just under ask of $738k. The Redfin agent did very little work to understand the value of the property and what it could be sold for, and only used an automated tool, while the independent agent did more work to select better comparable properties. And the more expensive broker wound up paying for some items such as light landscaping and staging, so the price difference was less than the percentage differential.

Obviously in this case the discounts Redfin provided did not nearly make up for the difference in selling price. A good broker can get a price that is vastly larger than the difference in their price.

However, Redfin would probably be great for selling properties that are part of subdivisions, or in a condo building, where the automated tool would work very well and not as much "human intelligence" is required to get the job done.
Bingo. Housing and zoning laws are the definition of protecting incumbent wealth at the expense of new participants who would like to join the system.
> Up to now, their customers have demanded performance. It's not their fault for listening to them.

I disagree - it is almost entirely their fault for listening to them. Customers usually don't know what they really want. "Faster horses". The whole point of having an oversight committee is to steer the language, and they failed at the task.

Rather than steering towards sanity - which C/C++ badly need - it was steered towards performance at pretty much all costs. The result is a broken language: it is extraordinarily difficult to write correct programs, and assure that a program will continue to compile as intended many years in the future. Sanity, correctness and fragility are exactly the kind of things which oversight should have tackled, but instead we got the opposite.

I say this as a decades-long user and fan of C/C++. But I've come to realize recently that it's a lost cause, because those in the position to fix the language are powerless against the wishes of their customers.
A reliable mail stack is configuring postfix+dovecot or cyrus, adding dspam, opendmarc, opendkim and a bunch of dns records.

How is this any harder than anything else in computing?
It doesn't show up in the US as US income, because it's not US income.
I wouldn't be so hard on JIT. JIT algorithms can massively speed up solutions to particular problems. For example, grep uses libpcre, which is one of the fastest regex engines around, and it uses JIT compilation.
Yeah, it reminds me of American McGee's Alice urban scenery.
...by justifying themselves to their bosses by annoying users.
I think Linus switches semi-often because as others have pointed out I've seen him with MBA's and OpenSuse.

I however enjoy Fedora very much and part of why I made the switch from Debian fanboy to Fedora convert was because I learned how to use SElinux and found it absolutely charming. ;)
Comienze sus negocio en programas de afiliados online
«I see room for a compromise in order to make it more sellable.»

What we have is the compromise. The point of (Universal) Basic Income is that the compromise isn't good enough and we can do better, by going simpler, removing the human moral judgments and encompassing everybody equally.

This is definitely a case where compromise destroys the integrity of the concept. It should be "sellable" enough on its own merits to avoid breaking it.

«We still need to make people feel useful rather than resentful and entitled.»

There are so many assumptions here to unpack. People will feel resentful to get "free" money from their government? People "need" to feel useful? Plus there is obvious so much hate overloaded in people's usage of the words "entitled" and "entitlement" that there's probably a half-dozen PhD theses we could point to.

Do you have moral complaints about Basic Income? Basic Income isn't about policing what people do with it. That's part of the simplicity that makes Basic Income more interesting than the compromises and the other alternatives. Does it concern you what other people would do with their money if they had just a little bit more? Basic Income intentionally doesn't make judgments, that's a part of its beauty. It's a sort of freedom: here's money, do what you will with it.

Yes, there are probably simple things that would still make sense to do, but mostly it should just be "Are you a US Citizen? Do you pay US income taxes?" Curtailing it further than that starts to conflate money and morality in weird ways.
>It places "human dignity" (which is purposefully left open to a potentially changing interpretation) above all other rights which are derived from it.

Which is why marital rape was legal until 1997 /s

>The constitutional court interprets all basic rights as broad, and all restrictions which are allowed need be as small as possible while still keeping the intent of the constitution.

Not really. Otherwise marijuana would be legal, the paragraph making incest illegal would have been abolished in 2008, the paragraph criminalizing gay sex would never have existed etc.

P.S: What's with the seemingly random "You're submitting too fast. Please slow down. Thanks" message?
Looks pretty good. Great job!
Took a quick look and their price estimations are dubious at best. In the complex I live in, comparing 2 condos of exact layout and sq footage, same view, sold 4 weeks apart, one on the 2nd floor the other on the 4th: the 2nd floor unit's price 'grew' $20k while the 4th floor unit 'grew' $500. Great job on 2 orders of magnitude error.
So if being a byproduct of comets is ruled out, and we take it for granted that the signal is of extra-terrestrial origin (which apparently has been pretty much accepted), then we don't have an explanation for the origin under our current understanding of the cosmos? Is this a correct understanding? How exciting.
Earth: A global map of wind, weather and ocean conditions
Dell screens all across our office do this sort of crap.
I guess these might be surprising insights to someone but I'm not sure whom.
I have seen the one guy replaced by a team of 5. The team got less done than the guy.

I have a longstanding suspicion that developer cost climbs slower than developer skill and productivity, meaning companies should always hire the best they can get, because they'll maximize productivity that way.
Google Chromebook Pixel 2015 LS. If Linus Torwalds himself choose Pixel at some point - it cannot get more linux laptop than that. I understand Pixel is getting some (minor?) upgrades this year as well.
Great :-) Do you already have a blog/etc you intend to put it on?
Zillow has a huge amount of data they publish at the Zip, City, County, State levels: http://www.zillow.com/research/data/
Remember that rent control only applies to buildings built before 1978, so it's not _all_ rent controlled.
Wow. Number of home sales for 3 and 4 bedrooms currently at it's lowest level since 2000. I guess that's expected. Really validates my decision to move out of the bay area to raise my 3 kids.
Loonie has gone up over 10% in the last couple months, Vancouver has continued to go crazier.
That mention of VMware sent little bubbles of rage burbling up through me. On a mbp VMware forces use of the discrete gpu if available. This destroys any hope of using the virtual machine without your computer plugged in, and worse, some programs I need (gazebo) don't play nice with nvidia cards (on Ubuntu at least). I could fix this with some hacky solution (you have to do some weird stuff involving gfxcardstatus) or I could just execute my script over and over and hope that the powers that be smile on me, and this won't be the time it decides to shit the bed permanently. Oh and also wtf gazebo? Is the idea of an nvidia card so shocking you suddenly have a stroke 5 out of 6 times?

Sorry about the rant. I realized I'm going to have to work with gazebo again soon and preemptive frustration is already building.
How Much of a Behavioral Change Can a Text Message Make?
TL;DR: Soap gets stolen because there is a market for it in the hood. No matter, if it's a corner store marking up the prices or an addict/door to door salesman, or people buying it from said addicts. There will always be a market for cheaper than retail goods.

I have multiple people in my neighborhood in Baltimore that sell stuff like this (detergents, soaps, deodorants, axe, febreeze, shower gels, razors, carpet, toothpaste and brushes, loofas, mouthwash). Including their food stamps. Well, not stamps but now they're debit cards that ironically say Independence on them.

So around the 1st-3rd of the month people get their stamps. They get enough in stamps that they can afford to sell some, maybe $200 FSD for $100 USD. Some folks actually budget and shop at the lower priced store like aldi, or food depot. So maybe a couple months out of the year they're able to sell sometimes more than half of the stamps that month. After that cash runs out for whatever reasons, a small minority, sometimes in groups steal from the local chain stores so they have quick cash. They're mostly drug addicts doing it for a fix or two for the day not for a living. But it's a daily thing.

One guy comes around often, sometimes everyday. He's got regulars sometimes he catches them on off-days and he'll need to come back to secure the sale. But fair is fair and he holds stuff for people. Most of his customers are the little old ladies you would imagine that spend hours peering over newspapers for coupons, or comparing the sales at store A vs store B. An $800 social security check doesn't go very far after expenses.

Seems like a way of life in the ghetto where I live. My family included, has always purchased these things from the guys in the neighborhood and still do. I'm not saying it's morally right. But as long as there is a cheap alternative to the corner store you will find someone in the hood willing to deal.
That's some odd reasoning. The Angular team does not decide which languages are invested in by Google.
That's JNI pain + C++ pain (this is coming from a guy who just did a C++ project full time for >year - C# and C++ aren't in the same league when it comes to productivity) - and C++ has no access to android java api - xamarin is just a whole different kind of solution to this - you can literally have all code in one language across all platforms - C++ can't do this without a custom UI like QT
This rather depends on whether you believe that allowing the independent judicial system to decide whether satirists get a day in court they more or less literally asked for (whilst announcing you intend to abolish the law and the criminal penalties associated with it anyway) is really "the triumph of evil". I think that argument's quite hard to sustain.

There's even an argument that in this instance the less just course of action might be a powerful politician stepping into thwart the usual judicial process and signalling to the wider world that Western democrats, like Turkish autocrats, don't see anything wrong with subordinating the judiciary to executive fiat when a particular case allows them to step in.
This is true. And to go a bit further I was attempting to build a Shuddle like service a bit over a year ago, and many of our early interested families actually requested that the driver double as a sitter after driving them. Drive the child home from school at 3:30pm and stay with them until 5:30pm when the parent gets home. I do still believe there is a niche here that's not simply an Uber "feature".
Apple Ending support for iTunes Allowances
I suspect this repository has the issue tracker mode set to "private". If the owner changes it to "public" issues will be anonymously accessible: http://i.imgur.com/JqCvXNU.png
I get an unlimited supply of thinkpads from work as it's our defacto laptop given to employees. I still bought my own personal X230 though because I think the Thinkpad is a great format for work.

However, it cost about 1354 USD here in Sweden and I'm not too happy with the resolution. It's enough for two vertically split python files, but it could be much better.
By my estimation, Lets Encrypt has at least 16 million dollars in annual sponsorship.[1][2] That's quite a bit of money, but I wonder how much of it goes to operations, versus other overhead of various kinds (legal, marketing, administrative).

Many of our clients are excited about LE, and as we figure out how to support it without disrupting our infrastructure too much, it's concerning to imagine that there's substantial daily risk that 4-5 certs will fail to renew.

I suppose since it's free and automated, you just renew a month earlier than required.

[1] https://letsencrypt.org/sponsors/
[2] https://letsencrypt.org/become-a-sponsor/
Writing assembler for Harvard architecture microprocessors is one of my favorite things to do in the world. Bringing some Frankenstein's monster laid out on a breadboard into life from nothing gives me a sense of accomplishment like nothing else. Strangely, PIC assembler is the only language that I can compose so quickly that I sometimes can't type fast enough to keep up.
This applies to most every law. You never agreed to 99.99% of the laws you're required to follow everyday.
Speaking of short urls, am I the only one that refuses to click on them? I hate that I can't see where the link is going to take me.
How Jon Favreau Juggled Walt Disney's Legacy and Digital Effects Beyond 'Avatar'
well, didn't lock anything for me... uMatrix didn't allow it to run the JS
So then there was a gratuitous UI inconsistency across platforms? Management problem.
A huge chunk (but not a majority) of urban real estate in my city is also unoccupied most of the time, but I wonder how many are parking cash and how many are just summer vacation homes.
Well, despite using the term progressive, the poster I replied to was not emphasizing progressive taxes, because he used an analogy where everyone literally pays the same amount.

In any case, what I said wouldn't be covered under a flat tax percentage unless that flat tax percentage were on wealth, not income. A person making approximately 20k or less currently pays no income tax, which makes sense, because there's virtually no way they can accumulate any wealth at that income. On the other hand, as you move up each income tier, the amount of wealth you can accumulate goes up progressively. So a progressive tax is a close enough approximation to a flat tax on wealth, which is what I'm arguing makes the most sense.
The announced plan is to vote it into law this term but having it take effect in 2018. This is not unusual, though I don't know why they would leave such a long gap.
Who's the Japanese firm with half of the self-driving car market?
Some people really want to talk back and forth with a human and have an ear that will listen to their questions. Instead of shopping for their own house, researching areas, etc. So it's convenience cost for the hand-holding.
And all of them got paid (often handsomely) for their contributions. Zuckerberg has "only" what he hasn't spent or sold of his creation.
That wouldn't be such a problem given that most SSL stacks (correctly, IMO) ignore revocation checking... except that you can't get a new cert without revoking the old one. It would otherwise be reasonable to determine you don't care about getting it revoked (and therefore don't want to fund the revocation infrastructure, like a highly-available OCSP responder) but you just want a new cert.
I feel like this is a band aid for core design flaws.
Well, I think you have completely missed my point.

Whatever you do, let me suggest that you be incredibly careful to avoid implying that use of this new and improved material means you can slack off on other hygiene practices. If you market it as a means to not have to bother with cleaning as regularly and that sort of thing, or even if you fail to rebut this assumption that other people will almost certainly make (that they can clean less because it is germ resistant -- which a lot of people think means germ proof), you will be practically guaranteed to eventually grow a superbug.

And I hope you take that seriously. I am not trying to shoot down your product. I just know something about this stuff.

Best of luck.
I bet people give him tons of stuff for free.
There are other solutions that don't have to push a religious aspect. Would you use this solution or find another filtering solution?
TypeScript is fairly mature and conservative, whereas Flow has some reasonably innovative and bold (for JavaScript!) features.

I'd say go with TypeScript if you're looking for a type system closer to C# or Java (including extensive OOP features), and go with Flow if you're looking for a type system closer to F# or Scala (including things like type inference and disjoint unions), although Flow supports ES6 classes, too. In my opinion, the Flow approach is a more natural fit for JavaScript.

That's not to say that either project can actually achieve the coherence and completeness of any language designed to be statically-typed from the start, but those are kind of the the type system ideals that each project seems to lean toward.

Also, Flow is fully integrated into the React ecosystem, since it's built by Facebook. TypeScript can work with React, too, but TypeScript also tries to give first-class support to many other frameworks.

TypeScript is undoubtedly the more mature of the two projects (Flow is much newer), but I'm very happy that both exist since they're taking pretty difference approaches to the "JS problem".
After reading this, I have so much I would give my right arm to ask him (similar to my sentiments on other luminaries). His focus on quality is a trait that often seems to go unrewarded in his very institution, and I often struggle to reconcile the success I see achieved with the merit based success often insinuated, and the act of "getting things done" often seems blocked with politics and bureaucracy.

Clearly however he's found success through this, I can only hope he sticks around long enough that I may selfishly brush shoulders and share some of his wisdom, I find there to be far too few who have managed to succeed to that level of notoriety/accomplishment while maintaining the principles he seems to uphold, and would love to learn more from those who have on how they approached surmounting their environment. (on that note, thanks for the showstopper link, the review was more than sufficient to motivate a longer read)
I didn't know about this thanks!
You only have to produce if you are poor.
If you are wealthy you merely need to convince others that society owes you something.

Many wealthy people produce nothing, but society owes them by virtue of who they are.
Everything? When was the last time the stock market went to zero?

Every market crash in the US has been follow by a even bigger boom.
If the true URL and shortened "URL" aren't managed by the same organization, we've added another point of flakiness and link rot to a system that already has too many.
If you quit you don't have a chance to get better.
Report: Apple considering a paid search model for the App Store
WRT "high performance", it's perfectly fine to write, "This armor has high performance." It's not actually incorrect, as far as I know, to write, "high performance ballistic protection", but it's unnecessarily ambiguous: the parsing that is intended is ((high performance) (ballistic protection)), but it parses equally well as (high (performance (ballistic protection))), which doesn't make sense, so we know it isn't the intended meaning. The authors use the less-ambiguous punctuation two sentences later. "Lightweight" achieved wordhood decades ago, maybe more than a century, and therefore has no need for the apologetic hyphen.

The issue with "its" is that it's singular, but its antecedent (or postcedent, if you will) is "composite foams", which is plural, and used with the plural form of "have". So "its" here violates pronoun-antecedent agreement.

The problem with violating grammatical rules (whether they're the rules of academic English or of AAVE) is not that it's morally wrong; it's that it makes you hard to understand. In fact there are people who would have understood and made use of their research who will not do so. If the errors were more serious, the number of people thus excluded would be larger, but it's still nonzero. Some of those people will simply remain ignorant of the results these researchers attempted to publish; others will get them from another source, perhaps an experiment done by someone who was ignorant of the results, assuming that the results are correct. Perhaps metal-foam composites research will lag behind where it would have been with a more coherent paper, and alternative forms of armor (aerogels, say) will become dominant instead, and the researchers and their research will languish in obscurity.

Another part of the problem is that the sloppy abstract signals to readers that the researchers had very low standards for the paper—perhaps if I attempt to reproduce their results, I will discover that they misstated the composition of their strike plate, omitted crucial details like the density of the spheres or which stainless steel they used for the matrix and how they sintered it, or even incorrectly measured the deformation of the backplate.

If you're writing formal papers in languages that aren't native to you, you should find a native speaker to write or at least proofread your abstract, if not the entire paper. Some people do this professionally at a cost substantially lower than the cost of fabricating a stainless-steel foam, so even if you're living in Bhutan, you can contract a professional writer. But the authors of this paper are at NCSU, which has 34000 students, over 29000 from the US, so presumably they have at least 25000 functionally-literate native English speakers in their very own university, most of whom would be willing to work for well below market rate and many of whom are actually interested in learning to Do Science.

But they didn't care about communicating their results.
compared to the options on linux its rather limited.
I have the same and concur no issues with debian, and about the HDMI, it's infuriating because on the same chassis last year, it was a full size HDMI...

Someone just chose to change that particular port.
Most of the comments here are bashing this for ease of defeat and not having a useful reason for it's existence.

While I agree that it's easy to defeat, it could be interesting in test cases to make sure there aren't any DOM side effects to an operation. You could also use it to ensure that there are proper side effects. Probably not the best way to do it, but still a cool idea in my opinion.
NBA meets with wearable tech firm Whoop to bring wearables onto the court
Indeed. But fingers crossed until they reach a Virdict. (I'll show myself out hehe)
What strikes you as being particularly psychoanalytic about it? The comment is certainly taking an unnecessarily cynical view of the topic, and doing so is almost always intended to position the author and those who he persuades as superior (i.e. "giving them a buzz").