skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The level of service is pretty low too. Its basically handling setting up a few appointments to see houses, helping grease the skids for inspections, and setting up a closing with a settlement company/lawyer. Stuff that really doesn't take all that much expertise/knowledge.

I'm sure there are little things that go on behind the magic curtain, but definitely something that could be automated in a b2b fashion.

The worst part of it all - all that money is spent basically to protect the seller so they can wash their hands of the whole deal once the house is sold. There is very little to no buyer protection in the real estate world.
>This is probably NOT marketing automation (Marketo, Eloqua, or HubSpot) you're coming up against

Not sure why you say this when all three (Marketo, Eloqua & HubSpot) have features to do exactly this kind of email automation.
Obviously s complete idiot breaking the law in a foreign land.
Essentially inventory management for locks, including the specific bitting(s) for each lock? That actually sounds really fun to build, not terribly challenging, and probably has huge market reach.

One quick challenge though, my understanding is that the average org that needs this either contracts or has full time staff who manage their locks. Those are normally guys who manage this by placing the 10 cores they need to re-key on their work bench, maybe putting a tape label on, and then just going to the individual locks and dropping in a new core. I get the value as a management tool, but does this really improve things for the average staff locksmith?
Let me put this another way: Do you believe Google can only afford to do one or the other? Can't they treat their employees well and donate to charity?
I'm actually one of the strange ones who's recently added cable tv, but I would jump at the chance to dump ESPN if I could. Garbage sports entertainment with the most annoying people imaginable discussing sports like they're debating federalism.
Yeah someone needs to tell the real estate people their jobs aren't safe from the robot apocalypse either.
>only bought 4 cars

Since when is 4 cars not a lot of cars?
Computational Physics [pdf]
I cut cable tv 5 years ago after being a heavy user my whole life. The strangest part was transitioning from watching what was on to choosing what to watch. At first I thought it would be obviously better but it was uncomfortable for a while. After a few months the benefits kicked in and now if I'm ever somewhere with other people watching tv there are a few things that stand out:

Commercials are incredibly intrusive. I am amazed at what I was willing to put up with for so long.

Sports commentary is offensively vapid. Actual comment from the Olympic coverage this last year: "This routine is so difficult it's been called incredibly difficult". Even allowing for getting a little tongue tied on live tv it was painfully bad.

Most other commentary is awful. Listening to explanations filtered through what a reporter is willing to take the time to understand just doesn't compare when are so many good sources from real experts in so many fields online.

Maybe I'm just to the point where I want to yell at kids to stay off my lawn but I don't see how the "TV ecosystem" survives much longer.
There are many interpretations of history that tell a different story.
The problem with ESPN isn't that it's losing subscribers. The problem is that it's losing subscribers while it's tied into incredibly expensive exclusivity contracts with sports leagues, like Major League Baseball or the National Football League. These contracts form the vast majority of ESPN's expenses and give it the vast majority of its content. This means that, unlike other companies, or even other media companies, it's not clear how ESPN can easily and quickly cut costs to match its declining revenue.
Yeah, even with a buyers agent, the buyer doesn't get much. Both agents (if being paid out of the 6% commission) have a fiduciary responsibility to the seller.

About the only thing a buyer gets out of the whole deal is a title search to make sure there are no outstanding liens on the property - and they have to pay for that themselves!
There are shops in Tokyo (and other countries) that emit a high pitched noise to keep teenagers from loitering
You are correct, it absolutely is not worth it at low/medium levels of play.

PLEX becomes worth it if you run a corporation/alliance, run a reaction chain, live in a wormhole, or are multiboxing a 16 rorqual mining setup in delve (YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE).

At those levels of play, you might be making anywhere from 5 billion ISK to 50 billion ISK per month for only a few hours of time invested, so PLEX makes sense.
It's completely anecdotal, but so many of my friends are put off by blacked out games which make random games unavailable to watch. So not only do you spend a ridiculous amount of money for a sports subscription, but you don't even know if you'll even be able to watch your team! And when you do, it's a little bit of sports sprinkled in between tons of in-your-face advertising, with ads in between plays, ads on coach's heads, ads scrolling across the bottom of the screen, ads interrupting normal play, etc. It's ridiculous. And it's even more ridiculous that media companies are surprised.
How to fix Design
“Its pretty much the internet, all the information is there for you”-Dylann Roof
Once you've played a ton of video games you can easily judge most games by their game play aspects within 2 hours.

The exception would be with highly competitive multiplayer games, and even then you can quickly get a very good idea.
Reflection APIs and compiler internals actually tend to be quite similar. In the case of Scala in particular, the reflection API was literally produced by scooping out part of the compiler into a separate library and trying to polish (or hide) the rough edges. The effort wasn't entirely successful in producing an easy-to-use API, but the in-development successor project, scala.meta, is still very compiler-y (just because, again, compiler internals tend to look a lot like reflection APIs).

Further, it is my belief that your project actually was a compiler, whether you thought of it as that or not!
John Markoff Retires from the New York Times
Right on all points. You touched on it with your laptop comment, but there are also so many other avenues for couch entertainment. There are traditional shows on services like Netflix, but then there is also Twitch, YouTube, etc... that have compelling background content with little to no commercials.

Speaking of commercials, this is what is really killing TV. We have more things competing for our time than ever before, and commercials are the first thing to go. In addition to the time wasting, people also start doing the math. $10/month for Netflix commercial free content or cable $80-$100/month for commercial laden content.

BTW, AMC and TWD are one of the worst offenders with commercial time vs. show time.
I've recently found a department for the company I'm working for needs help as they have literally reached the limits of Excel.

They have a sheet with around 30 rows and 150 columns, and they have 100 of these sheets (in a single Excel file). Some parts use formulas, but usually when somebody needs to change something they need to go through every single sheet. The issue is now when they try to add new data Excel won't let them.

I don't even want to know how they share the file or do backups.
Trying to save money is a loser's game in ESPN's business, and in many others too--imagine telling Blockbuster Video to keep the business going by securing cheaper leases. ESPN needs to break its addiction to high cable TV royalties and give people the sports content the way they want to view it, and stop chasing the ridiculous celebrity angle, personal gossip, hashtags, etc.
Here again someone will say, but just because I know John really wrote the book of John doesn't mean that John wasn't lying. That's where McDowell --- and the other books --- will talk about logic and human nature. Most of the disciples were martyred, terribly. Who would die for something they knew to be a lie?

John may have really believed / perceived what he wrote and simultaneously been wrong about it. Human perception is unreliable, malleable over time, and subject to distortion from a wide range of internal bias and external stimuli. Plenty of people around the world genuinely believe in religious and spiritual experiences that directly contradict the experiences that you hold to be true.
Yes, AMD should definitely dedicate an entire team to focusing on writing drivers for desktop Linux. An OS that currently captures less than 1% of the overall desktop gaming market[1]. In other news, McDonald's should really start tailoring their marketing and in-store experience to people making over $10 million/year.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_gaming#Market_share_vs._...
State? Try county! A lot of the public records for homes are held in county courthouses.
>PoS is resistant to nothing at stake attack as long as at least one smallest stake is indefinitely honest in each block.

You completely misunderstand the security model if you think one honest stakeholder can prevent these attacks.

There is no concept of an honest stake holder in the eyes of the network, best they can do is try to estimate which history is the "true" history, however it is free to write a new history.

>To not cancel, the attacker has to own something in all histories

Why do you think this is difficult?

>Which currency system gets destroyed by the enemy country, wrecking their economy as a result?

This is a question of whether attacking PoW through expending energy is more expensive than attacking PoS through designing a program that takes advantage of known PoS flaws.

>P.S. I think in practice all cryptocurrencies are driven purely by social consensus

I'm sorry, but you clearly don't understand even the basics of distributed consensus if you think only social consensus and not a blockchain is necessary. I recommend looking into

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byzantine_fault_tolerance#The_...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sybil_attack
I remember taking pride in having cable tv and enjoying watching live sports on ESPN. Now I've noticed the amount of actual sports coverage has decreased and in its place is their original content. I used to watch tennis tournaments on ESPN2 now those matches have also decreased and moved to their online portal, WatchESPN which still requires a cable tv subscription to access.

If I really want to watch tennis, I need to pay more and subscribe to my cable tv's sports package that includes The Tennis Channel. Maybe I should take up Golf, that's already included in my basic cable subscription.
If you actually intend to serve traffic back to the original requestor, you can't have too many requests handled per server because you have a limited amount of bandwidth. 150 requests per server on a 1Gbps pipe (which is what you get on, for instance, a single ELB instance) only actually gives you about 813 KB/s per request for 150 requests/server. For 10,000 requests you'd be down to 12 KB/s per request. For comparison, the average web page size is now up to 2048 KB!

To be clear, you can do a lot better with a better pipe, smart caching, compression, etc. But people often have horribly unrealistic estimates about how much traffic their servers can handle because they don't take bandwidth into account, and load balancers are no exception.
>"For just 10TB, I would recommend that most home users stay away from RAID and buy 3 Seagate 10TB drives (street price currently $399 each) for total of ~$1200. Use 1 drive as primary copy and the 2 others as backups. With 3 drives, you could even rotate the 2 backups to an offsite location."

And how do you plan to detect if your data is silently corrupted? Unless you're using some archive file format that includes checksums/hashes, you have no way of knowing whether your backups are any good until it's too late.
LOVE this markdown app.

I was a Mou user prior, until I upgraded to Sierra and Mou stopped working.

I'm very happy with this one. Feels very solid; Mou sometimes would take awhile to save a small file. Macdown doesn't do that.
Looker looks great! Not EXACTLY what I'm looking for but also definitely close enough, especially for companies at scale.
Law Enforcement Uses Border Search Exception as Fourth Amendment Loophole
Reflecting on the Right to be Forgotten
Pebble Alternatives
What are DPA and PCI?
I definitely think we are at peak NFL. The head trauma is a big issue, but not because of lawsuits. The NFL has plenty of money and can pay whatever. The real problem is 10-20 years from now when parents have kept their kids out of football because of the head issue, and now you have the best athletes in other sports instead.

The NFL has also oversaturated the brand. It used to be Sunday games and then MNF. Each week was an event. TNF ruined the event aspect, and has put on really terrible games showing how thin the league has become. Then there are the games in other countries. For a sport like baseball or basketball 1 game in another country is not a big deal, but the NFL season is only 16 games and losing a home game is a huge deal for the fans, players, and competition aspect.

So yeah, I think all those things (and the stadium issue you mention) have added to up to pushing fans away.
On the other hand, in Texas my quite nice house cost less than $300,000, my state government is totally solvent, and very little is on fire or running out of water.

Your standard contracts may be better, but California certainly has its share of drawbacks.

And did you know there's a Fry's and an In-N-Out burger within ten miles of my house?
My blockchain-based voting proposal:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=413196.10
It speaks more about ESPN as a product. It's a terribly inefficient way to get info about your favorite sports teams. Most of the time its just 2 talking heads arguing and going on irrelevant tangents. Its especially bad with their radio station.

Other than live games, ESPN simply isn't competitive with the other ways sports fans follow their teams. You can watch highlights on youtube (without watching an hour long program), follow the good beat writers on their blogs, and get instant updates and breaking news from twitter.
Cannot prevent https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electoral_fraud when voters succumb to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockholm_syndrome
Sacramento just got a $$$ stadium. City used it as an excuse to significantly jack up the parking prices, $28 for an evening to pay for the stadium. Of course now the restaurants are seeing a drop in business because not many want to pay $28 to park.

Spending so much on stadiums seems insane. In Pittsburgh the Steelers and Pirates lobbied for and got seperate stadiums, despite minimal overlap in seasons.
Does anyone have experience with the C++ backend ?

https://github.com/pure11/pure11
It's just so wrong on so many levels to deny anyone their shot at independence.

Companies taking advantage of ambiguities in the law or making employees live in fear of innovating on their own terms is wage slavery in its illest form.
This will likely be an unpopular opinion, but it is just my opinion.

In the Midwest, the Kappernick debacle, and the downstream protests from nba players, lends itself as a figurative rotten egg on network's reputation. Nobody here disagrees with his motives, but they see his methods as despicable. Furthermore if people speak out against him, they're accused as being racist, which they aren't (false dichotomy). All of this ends up poisoning the brand. Getting constantly accused for something you're not, and then having to be reminded about it when you just want to relax leads to viewers migrating elsewhere.
Analog’s Rising Status
Proposed CA law tells cities: Build more, or we’ll do it for you
Excellent point that puts this in its proper perspective.
Have you read the book of John? He said he was an "eyewitness" to miracles.
my twitching due to self-restraint from posting marxist critiques of capitalism is ramping up again.
>TV just isn't a priority because the vast majority of it is pure trash.

>TV had it's heyday

I can tell you don't watch much TV. It's never been better. We're in a golden age of TV, it's just not on ESPN. There have recently been a lot of extremely high quality, hour long dramas, which basically amount to a movie every week. Breaking Bad, Mad Men, Game of Thrones, The Wire, arguably Westworld, to name a few.
If I were the prof I'd fail you then hire you for my startup ;)
Would love to see FreeBSD take their code.
From a logical perspective, first prove logic is thinking.

To me, they seem conceptually different domains.
From a logical perspective, first prove logic is thinking.
PCI is probably refering to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Payment_Card_Industry_Data_Sec...

DPA might be https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_Protection_Act_1998
I would strongly encourage people to think twice about trying to sell software to lawyers.

It's a Sisyphean task. They are, as a rule, extremely anti-technology and conservative. At a previous startup, we had built software which was saving customers many hours a week—yet it was still an uphill battle to get paying approval.

If even after all the warnings in this thread you really want to build legal software, focus on disrupting lawyers instead of selling to them.

In general, law and media are two of the worst fields for technology.
Word Perfect is the vi of word processors. I still program in vi.
Complexity theory literature is littered with algorithms that rely on things like O(1) access to a 2^O(n)-sized array. They are almost uniformly wildly impractical. In fact, even 2^O(w) (where w is the word size in bits), which you see sometimes in the succinct data structures literature on stuff like optimal compression of bit vectors, is usually unusable because the asymptotic improvement doesn't kick in until w = 128 or whatever.

As another illustrative example, if you allow unbounded fan-in and an exponential number of AND/OR gates, you can solve any monotone boolean function in two steps (you just take the DNF of a positive input and turn it into a circuit). This means that if you're willing to use an unbounded amount of space (chip area, in this case), you can simulate things like k-clique for any fixed k < n in two steps. As a result, essentially all circuit lower bound results either restrict fanin (to 2, generally) or restrict you to polynomial chip area.

Moreover, you can encode any monotone boolean function of n inputs in O(lg(Dedekind(n))) bits as long as you have an auxiliary array of size O(Dedekind(n)), which you can look up answers in in constant time. So you can compress boolean functions pretty well (about 5x more than the naive bit lookup solution for n=32), but Dedekind(n) grows so fast that nobody would ever actually try to implement this.

I have lots more examples, if you want them :P Exponential space algorithms are almost totally useless in nearly all cases (with the exception of those that only rarely take exponential space).
There's a loophole in most of these draconian contracts: they might own the copyright of what you do in your spare time, but they don't get to decide the license you use for your software (at least I've never seen any clause about this, ever). Then the solution is to use a liberal opensource license (MIT), and publish it somewhere. If you decide to reuse that code in the future for your own venture, you can just use it, the license allows you to do so even if the copyright is owned by your previous employer.
>human powered audio/video transcription service

Mind sharing the name? I have friends doing ASR in college and they may be interested in your company. Though since their focus is on research/publishing papers, they may stick to standard datasets. But knowing about a new data source is always welcome.

Thanks.
It looks like you have to pay "to have more than 250 entries [I don't know what's typical], to sign up for web page creation options, and to receive technical support".

And here they ask for credit card details over http...

http://www.douglassassociates.com/online_registration.htm
That's not right. The owner of the copyright is the only entity that can decide the license of the code.
Gee, supply and demand has a really good solution for this last time I checked.

It's called LOWER YOUR PRICES.

Funny how people don't like capitalism very much when it works against them.
As a Brit I don't get the agent thing for buying and selling houses in the U.S. As I understand it's basically required for the buyer and seller to have an agent.

Here you can sell a house privately, and the only fees you need to pay are the solicitor for conceyancing - the fees are around the same when buying or selling, between £500 - £2000. They will just do the paperwork, check there aren't any issues with the deeds, and do minor contract negotiations, and register the sale.

The purpose of an agent here is really just to have a shop where they can advertise your sale, take clients and guide them around a house (but TBH I'd rather just look myself without an agent as they don't add any value in my experience), and do a bit of management between the buyer and seller. For this they'll usually charge 0.5% - 3% (to the seller), but if you want to do it yourself you can just advertise on sites such as Zoopla.
All of those programs are available on demand on the internet. When people talk about TV in this context they are talking about cable not the content.
Yes. I posted an interesting technical article I found about it on here recently: https://ge0n0sis.github.io/posts/2015/12/exploring-androids-...

[Edit] this is specifically about the SELinux Kernel policy in Android
Facebook's Investors Criticize Marc Andreessen for Conflict of Interest
They also have some folks working on Akaros.
http://akaros.cs.berkeley.edu
> Birds and whales (great sea monsters) precede reptiles and insects

What's the problem?

> grass precedes light

verse 3: And God said, "Let there be light," and there was light.

verse 11: Then God said, "Let the land produce vegetation . . . "
> TL/DR Help me, I'm drowning in data

Omg, so many sales pitches. You should figure out which of those were automatically generated by someone who's bot is crawling HN and using NLP to find posts like this, and then hire them. There's basically 0 chance that isn't happening...
The Bridge Headset Powers Up iPhone VR with Positional Tracking
Chollida. I have been working with a startup in Seattle tackling these very issues. Super great team and great software, please get in touch and try it out! datablade.io
We were talking about unzipping. If successful, the unzipped contents appear next to the archive.
You can see a table of AMD quarterly net income back to 2004 here.

https://ycharts.com/companies/AMD/net_income_ttm
Ah, proud of UI design makes sense. I thought OP was feeling proud about his/her program design, immediately after mentioning it's so awful.
True. And it's easier to watch these on the internet (legally or illegally) than on "TV".
At this point in time, those who don't support Linux are only hurting themselves.
The parent comment was discussing the quality of the content.
Right, but what I'm talking about is a case where they fail to give that form to you until after your start date (and of course, after you've left your previous job). So they have the advantage -- either you sign the form, or you get fired on your first day of work. Too bad that most states won't consider this "signing under duress".