skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think "shame" is a really good word for what I'm feeling about my country's president-elect right now. As we slip further and further into the world described by George Orwell, I can only hope that those among us (here) with the power and voice to make a difference, will stand up to the fascist threat that Trump represents and fight for the ideals that are enshrined in our constitution. It is a living document, and right now it feels like I'm watching it die.
Nah. Here in the US they just pass laws to suppress voters and rejigger districts until they're guaranteed wins. Much less work for them.
Samsung did. Search this page for my username, another comment has the link (somewhere around this indent level).
I much prefer it. I don't see any reason to move my hands further than I need to to get just enough physical feedback. It feels sleeker and more modern too. Large travel just slows me down. I spilled a drink on my Apple wireless keyboard, and now I'm using a pretty standard office-type USB keyboard instead. And I can tell you I'm typing far slower.
This seems like a good place to tell Uber users that the only way of removing your credit card details from your Uber account is to either:

a) plead with Uber's customer service to do so

or

b) add another payment method (like another credit card)

This, of course, is horribly bad practice. I can only imagine that they arrived at this very peculiar arrangement after extensive A/B testing - Uber has hired plenty of FB folks and those people tend to be really into that kind of thing. I haven't seen this kind of outright customer-hostility from a large Internet company.. well, ever, before.

So, no, I'm not surprised that this company is doing other unethical things - it sort of seems interwoven into their DNA.
Trump doesn't write all his tweets, a digital media company he hired publishes the majority of his social media content.

http://www.npr.org/2016/12/06/504520364/how-trump-waged-an-u...

Somebody there knew what the next tweet would be, and traded based on that info.
There will be limitless buyers, and because Opendoor isn't competing on price, their ability to price securities to the financial markets will be absurd. I assume they'll have to keep a token % on balance sheet to show good faith but that's it.
It's amusing that the article labels this as "flipping" instead of being framed as a market maker function in an illiquid asset class.
The issue a lot of people have with OpenDoor is their business model. Only some people in silicon valley can raise $320mm to wholesale homes using algorithms. The skepticism I have is that OpenDoor isn't disrupting anything because they're not Airbnb or Uber. They're not going after unused inventory and taking huge amounts of business from incumbents, they're simply amassing massive amounts of debt like no wholesaler could and when the economy crashes, and it will as nothing goes up forever, they're going to have this backfire on them. And then what?

When the economy goes down, Airbnb will do just fine. More people will want to do short term hospitality to earn cash and more people will want to drive for Uber. OpenDoor will have to liquidate their debt which will prove difficult. Also if I remember correctly, Keith Rabois said he was talking with Peter Thiel and Peter mentioned how real estate has rarely changed. Later Keith helped create, more like fund, OpenDoor. What I wonder is, why hasn't Peter invested in Keith's new company? It's not because he's too busy with Trump's transition team.

OpenDoor isn't a startup you should emulate. I wholly disagree with this article.
The Great British Bakeoff ended just in time, it would seem.
That's the one, thanks!
Dick Tracy wasn't carrying around a lump of plastic in his pocket.

It's just a shame that when we get to the point of having all the world's intelligence accessible to us instantaneously, it's going to be mediated through institutions that are actively selling us out to the prison system.
Isn't this a problem even with ETL based solutions too?
Could you please explain this with an example?
I think it's time for the government to give you as many names as you want to give out to companies, and there's no reason for anyone who isn't suing you for it to know which of your aliases go together. Also aliases should be shared, to further conflate things. (nothing should stop my friends and i from sharing an alias and persona - companies should be legally forced to bend over backwards and enable this, for everyone. For example Google should be legally forced to allow you to create a new gmail inbox with a new name in a single click and not have it tied on any way to the old name.) Also credit card companies should be forced to give you as many cards in whatever names that you ask for. Nobody who isn't suing you should have a right to know your true name. They shouldn't even have it on record. If they wanna know something about you, they should ask you.

It works for writers, celebrities, etc - why not the rest of us.

EDIT to clarify: this is a serious comment, you can read it literally.
Co-founder here, I'll do my best to answer questions. The number one question we get is likely "what happens in a downturn/recession?", but that's more of a blog post than a HN answer. Anything more detailed/technical though, shoot!
I guess that's the sign I've been in the IT business too long.

I meant, of course, that they've exhausted their cache of cachet. <ahem>
Simply awesome. Ironically, I haven't had a radio in years and I don't own a car, but I found a local radio station I've never listened to before.

The designer's website is a trip too[0].

[0] http://puckey.studio/
Exactly, this reminds me of a podcast from last year about how a master artist forged sketches/drawings and fooled the experts to prove he was just as good [1]. What is the likelihood that this was really just found in a book?

[1] http://www.npr.org/2015/12/01/457232855/how-the-brain-tells-...
If labor is being replaced by capital, then the revenue should come mostly from…
You can get all the sitemaps here; http://www.nba.com/video_sitemap_index.xml
They already offer a VoIP platform for existing game studios to integrate (think built in voice chat per team with positional audio SDK)
> Or, in the next downturn, the entire company might go bust.

> To that end I hope Opendoor succeeds simply so it can be a role model for tech: taking on big risks for big rewards that create real value by solving real problems is the best possible way our industry can create benefits that extend beyond investors and shareholders;

The only reason (ok one of the big reasons, not the only) Opendoor exists is that the massive amount of capital deployed has the potential to make investors and shareholders a ton of money. It's an all or nothing proposition. Furthermore, I don't think the author has rightly assessed (or assessed at all) the negative externalities associated with Opendoor's model to the economy. Part of the whole reason the housing market revelation of "too big to fail" of banks was exposed was because too much of the real estate market was tied up in too few organizations (Fannie/Freddie, Wells, etc), which means when it crumbles down, our economy cannot sustain the burden. If OpenDoor's risk mitigation model is to basically "own more of the market" it means that if/when the market does go for a downturn and OpenDoor goes bust, then it's not just VC's who lose, but a whole lot of homeowners, or even worse, homeowners and taxpayers.

That's hardly a model I'd admire or try emulate, unless of course, I want to make a buttload of cash (or fail very hard trying).

> Opendoor is creating value as opposed to taxing a few bucks off the top of an existing market or simply trying to be cheap.

Opendoor's arbitrage is no different then an ad network, they're both exploiting inefficiencies. I'm really having a hard time understand why it's so much more "benevolent" as it's suggested here.
In 2016, I picked JavaScript, Linux, and Emacs. Somehow, despite seemingly learning a great deal, I failed to finish learning all about any of them.
A few days ago (on the discussion of the Uber app tracking users' movements after the end of their ride) an Uber employee commented on their data handling: [0]

> Individual users' data is very closely guarded internally. It's immensely difficult to look at user data without specific access. Overwhelmingly, this data is queried in aggregate and fed into machine learning systems. The risk of abuse is exceptionally low.

Obviously this doesn't add up. What gives?

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13085775
If you've got a chain of them, they don't need to.

That's good, because it looks like they can't slow down.

The chain is a nifty idea.
How do you know which candidates to approve? Given a candidate I like, a candidate I really don't like, and a candidate I can tolerate, which ones do I approve?
The charge cable is USB 2.0, I believe. It's not that it's not compliant, it's just intended for charging only.
Part of me is kind of happy that the whole "era of experts" has come to an end- We've all just seen too many f-ups by experts to take such people as a whole too seriously (the downside of course is that often experts really do have better answers than laypeople)
When the push notifications hit FCM, Firebase do not guarantee delivery of those messages to clients (usually iOS or android devices). There are quite a few reasons that FCM/APNS might fail to deliver a message, so applications almost never have functionality depend on them.

As you say, you might not get the notification pushed to the device, but you should still see the message if you open the messaging app as normal.
I'd love to see some real data from San Francisco as well, but I'm almost certain San Francisco is well above capacity. The following article points out some interesting facts about vehicles in motion in relation to gridlock. Unregulated ride sharing is definitely having an impact, how much is the question.

http://thepenngazette.com/uber-gridlock/
I've never owned or used a Pebble, but for me it's poignant that this coincides with my decision to stop wearing a Withings Activite and dusted off my trusty old Seiko 5.

This shift was primarily motivated by two factors:

1. I lost interest in the activity tracking features.
2. Even worrying about the battery once every 6 months was too much.

And supplemented by a third, which is that the fancy watch wasn't very readable and lacked a second hand. That made it less capable at the main thing I use it for: keeping track of the time.

I looked hard at a Pebble at one point before deciding that, since my phone is almost always in my pocket or on the table in front of me, getting it into position for viewing information would take only nominally more effort and probably gets me to a place where I can act on whatever information the device is telling me much more efficiently. Also, having a non-user-replaceable battery means that the device will only live for so long, and I'm really trying to limit my consumption of disposable technology.

I think that, for now, my most optimistic case for smartwatches is that they're at about the same phase as handheld computing was 15 or so years ago. The technology is really interesting, but there needs to be more technology development and ironing out of subtle details before the idea is quite ready to take over the consumer market.
Also, their position in the market gives them a very good insight into the likelihood of a crash. As demand for their services will increase whenever sellers are desperate to sell their houses.

If they track those indicators, they will be able to dynamically decrease their purchase price based on the likelihood of a crash and (in the worst case) limit their exposure to only the housing stock they had at the start.

In the best case, desperate sellers might accept the much lower price and Opendoor will make a profit off the crash.
Two additional global radio places to explore:

global time machine with http://radiooooo.com/
and streaming with http://tunein.com/radio/regions/
Hey, definitely appreciate the criticism.

Without going into too much detail, investors aren't generally in the business of losing money and at the scale of investment we've taken we're far beyond "bet on the team" kind of diligence.

Managing inventory and pricing risk is a key piece of this business and has been since day 1.

We really owe the world some blog posts, but until then hackers, data scientists, and predictive modelers are always welcome to come by the office for lunch!
? I thought I was explicit? Can you write how you interpret what I wrote (you can try to interpret my meaning) then I'll clarify if it's not what I meant...

EDIT: to eon - ah, okay. No it was serious, as my other replies here show. I'll add a serious tag.
I wish a startup would decrease the transaction costs of buying real estate rather than increasing them.
It was right in front of my eyes and I didn't see it. Humbling. Thanks for pointing it out.

In related news, Titan just got bumped to the top of my reading list.
I think 20 weeks is a good balance, verging on generous. 52 weeks is great and all, but what does the employer get out of it? And more importantly why is paying for babies the responsibility of employers?

It seems like this is a problem being tackled in the most inefficient and damaging way possible. The focus needs to be more on helping people fund themselves and create their own financial security rather than forcing an unrelated third-party to foot the bill.
How about the people and community you live in vs. random internet assholes who are a small minority of people and exist in your home country too and curated entertainment?
Related: https://edgedb.com/

I can't remember where I stumbled upon that, but it implements an object database over PostgreSQL and offers a GraphQL superset for querying. Don't know if it's still in active development, but it looks interesting.
I'm surprisingly okay with this, although I feel it should really only apply when the "box" contains any rewards that can be traded/resold.

It's not perfect, but it's an 80/20 thing that would give a clear exemption to a lot of innocent loot scenarios while still covering most of the problematic/scummy ones.
The Quick and Dirty Guide to Creating a Winning Pitch Deck
I really want to hear the logic behind this, I love gymnastics.
Yes, as a Delft alumni, that remark hurt a little.

The Porceleyne Fles, the only remaining Delft blue manufacturer, is now a touristy place, employing probably less than 50 people.

The TU is one of the better universities in the Netherlands, employing almost 5000 people, and around 16.000 students.
Negotiating with a president is a complex sale, not a simple sale. In the SPIN Selling Fieldbook (https://www.amazon.com/SPIN-Selling-Fieldbook-Practical-Exer...), Neil Rackham makes the case that in complex sales situations it is better to get a continuation than a 'no'. Additionally, the objective is likely a series of incremental wins toward a desirable future rather than an all-in-one victory. I get where Swisher is coming from, and I agree that the CEOs should plan to manage the inevitable spin that will surround the meeting, but it seems like going to the meeting is worth doing.

Side note: when I was using it as a consultant I actually saw a lot of positive results from the SPIN Selling approach. The idea is to demonstrate to your customer you understand their situation, problem, the implication of that problem, and customer needs. Then, map their needs back to your product to show, in your customer's words, how what you're selling satisfies their needs. The framework is proposed in opposition to the classical concept of the "hard sell" or "closer" method often applied at car dealerships.
> it's not just VC's who lose, but a whole lot of homeowners, or even worse, homeowners and taxpayers.

Unless I'm misunderstanding their model, it is only OpenDoor and their investors that will lose.

The house sellers already got their cash. And it seems very unlikely the taxpayer will end up bailing out a risky startup.
> it just works.

This is what makes Discord so good. Before Discord, when I wanted to play online with a friend for the time, I'd have to convince them to download Mumble or Ventrilo, teach them how to connect to a server, and help them set up their mic. With Discord I just send them a link and we're talking. They can get the client later, and having a persistent chat area is a fun way to build up a sense of community.
how does one achieve this in Celery 4? I remember there was a celery "batch" contrib module that allowed this kind of a batching behavior. But i dont see that in 4
The problem is that many people drop out of high school or college without getting the required math and computer classes to understand how they work. Some people don't study computer science at all but want to get rich quick.

Those of us who learned in high school and college have the passion for programming that drives us to succeed. Not everyone has that passion.

To be honest a lot of people have problems learning how to program. I worked in a college computer lab back in the DOS and Novell Netware days. I've seen people struggle with trying to program or debug. The process is very stressful unless people know how to handle stress.

HN claims fake it till you make it. In a way this is true as you learn and practice programming. It keeps your confidence up and the more you do it the better you get.
"it just runs through here and is a total loss for us"

I was curious if you were right. According to this paper,

http://nobakken.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/ETP-Report.pdf

Iowa will see about $25-$30 million in annual property tax revenue from the pipeline. And that's about it, which is maybe adequate? I don't know. But the report was commissioned by "Dakota Access, LLC", so I suppose we should assume they systematically erred, if at all, by inflating the potential return.

States can also tax income of the owner of the pipeline. But pipelines are usually structured as pass-through entities (e.g. MLP), and there are enough state and federal loopholes--special deductions, deferments, etc--that any income tax is probably minimal. The paper doesn't bother trying to estimate that revenue, AFAICT.

Figures for sales, use, and income taxes in that paper are only for construction and maintenance of the pipeline. It's not tied to actual pipeline throughput. I think it would be unconstitutional for states to directly tax pipeline throughput except for the state where the oil originates. Louisiana does this and the legal issues are really complex AFAIK.

Chapter 7 of that paper also examines accident risk, which is quite interesting.

In case the link disappears, the report heading is

An Assessment of the Economic and Fiscal Impacts
of the Dakota Access Pipeline in
North Dakota, South Dakota, Iowa and Illinois

Prepared for Dakota Access, LLC

Prepared by Harvey Siegelman, Mike Lipsman and Dan Otto
Strategic Economics Group
West Des Moines, Iowa

November 12, 2014
I don't think I made it clear that my main point was that Apple isn't going to invest in the Mac much longer for control and margins issue along with their Post-PC agenda.

It's not very hard to imagine having resource issues when you're trying to do something that is under constant scrutiny and higher standards and you're also doing a bunch of other things while still trying to find the next big thing - I stand by my point on that one, but more so I wanted to allude that it is just too convenient for Apple to not pay much attention to the Mac.
Very nice! This'll look great hung over the microcomputer I've scavanged and fixed up (and hopefully one day my collection of microcomputers I will have scavanged and fixed up).
How BigQuery's data ingest breaks tech norms
Chandler on the Beach
Yeah, classic brokerage biz model. We contract in bulk with asset owners and sell piecemeal.
Hello, may I ask 1) how many engineers do you have right now? 2) What kind of technical challenges are you facing?
> OpenDoor isn't disrupting anything because they're not Airbnb or Uber

Prolonged sales cycles remove liquidity from the markets and generally restrict economic mobility of the population at large, as one needs to sell their current house in order to shop for a new one.

On the buying side having a no-haggle buying experience is also somewhat appealing to modern buyer https://www.opendoor.com/homes

The real estate is currently financed via debt instruments, and issuing debt for a real estate potfolio purchases is a fairly well-travelled path for many financial institutions and investors out there. OpenDoor is likely to spin that out as a short-term residential holding REIT, for better tax treatment, if nothing else.

Macroeconomic risk is always a factor with real estate investments, but the exit options are also well-known. Liquidate at any price, convert it to rentals, or wait it out.
Possibly, but I think the simpler answer is that we have a product with...

- good unit economics in appreciating and depreciating sub-geographies
- customers who love us and great conversion rates
- a sane risk strategy
- a unique product with traditional economies of scale/economic moats that allow people who can't afford two mortgages to sell and buy at the same time, so they can move directly once instead of having to do the dance with short term rentals
- huge opportunities for growth from here, both within and across markets

I don't know why liquidity/trading in homes needs to be "all or nothing" to be a good business... it seems to work well enough for cars and other assets
>Pebble crowdfunded as an alternative to venture capital.
The last time it was out of necessity, because there were no investors interested. And the way they did crowdfunding was basically selling their product at a steep discount, basically leaving a lot of money on the table. I don't know if that was a good strategy.

It's understandable you want to offer attractive perks with your Kickstarter, but at that time the Pebble brand among tech enthousiasts was big enough to limit the discount and stress the early adoper angle. You have several thousands of customers eagerly waiting for your next generation product, in that case there's no need to give steep discounts in the perks.

I guess the Pebble management was too focused to make the last Kickstarter another well-publicized runaway success, so that they could use that success to convince investors once again. But in the process they discounted their product, their brand and ultimately their chances of survival.
Been lurking HN for years, created an account just to say this. I got into GraphQL shortly after the reference implementation through a bit after Relay was released. I was so excited for the technology but unfortunately there was not much out there in terms of middleware, tutorials, support or adaptation. I built a few toy apps with it, but work applications were designed as usual and life went on. It is exciting to see GraphQL picking up speed and I cannot express how happy I am that this exists.
The short answer: Yes, of course.
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Would you elaborate what you mean by this? Does your comment mean anything more than an endorsement of a third-party candidate? Given that it's taking this thread even further off-topic, I hope it does :)
Market making is much closer to how we at Opendoor think of it internally. Flippers buy distressed assets at a huge discount and plow money into renovations and repairs. Not really our business.
this post reeks of wishful thinking and general bullsh*t. "100% owner", "7 figures", "100% retention rate" - some really lazy hyperbole...
Any concerns about adverse selection?

I'd want to use OpenDoor if their pricing model came in above what I could reasonably get in the market, and would be more likely to wait it out if they came in low.
>Also if I remember correctly, Keith Rabois said he was talking with Peter Thiel and Peter mentioned how real estate has rarely changed.

Do you have a source for this conversation? I'd like to read more about Peter's thoughts if they're available.
For the record: I think you were being quite clear.