skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I quite agree with your first line, but downvoted your comment for the second line. That's personal commentary, and HN strives to keep discussion at the level of ideas.
Where I'm at it's 6% of the selling price, but either way, I guess my answer would be, absolutely it was worth it.

Even if you disagree (and the answer would be different for everyone I imagine), it still doesn't indicate that the realtor brought _no_ value to the table, which was the statement I was responding to.

EDIT: Also, I should clarify, where I'm at it's 6% _total_, split 3% each between the buying and selling agent. So, on the other hand, was it worth it to the sellers to pay 3% to their selling agent, who screwed up pretty much every part of the process and didn't seem to do much from what we saw? Probably not.

EDIT 2: I'd probably realistically downgrade my "absolutely it was worth it" answer to, "eh, it was definitely worth something". If I had to put a value on what they brought to the table, it'd be hard to say, but maybe they were overpaid by ~30-50%. Again though, saying they didn't add _any_ value certainly wasn't the case for us.
Not trying to be a hater. I understand what is pictured may be prototypes.. if they are you shouldn't be showing them unless you have that caveat in the picture. Both the design is poor, and the craftsmanship is low. If this is past the prototype stage, and this is what you will actually be selling. Then you really don't understand the pre-fab space nor the price points of the pre-fab space.
ReadWrite Starts Their Own SF Bay Incubator
Adium vulnerable to remote code execution via libpurple
It's not intermittent for me. I can't log in at all, despite repeated attempts.
Your Calendrical Fallacy Is
Ask HN: Tech interviews gone crazy
I've given a handful of tech interview in the last few weeks. The interviewers either ask hard DP problems or questions with named algorithms as solutions. I get some of them absolutely correct and showed good approached to the others. I've still got all rejections. I am an Indian wrapping up my Masters in CS in the US with 4 years of prior experience. Is there a pattern or fact that I am missing?
The idea of a standardized API documentation format is great. However, the community that surrounds it can't mature with this amount of churn in the standard. Who is going to write a language-specific client generator if the work is obsolete a few weeks later? It would be interesting to know what was so wrong with Swagger2 that we need a new standard.
Upstart Switch Chip Maker Tears Up the Ethernet Roadmap
Does Boxhouse handle acquiring potable water and sanitary sewer on behalf of the owner?
Start too early and you'll sound like an end of the world preacher. You need to time it so that you look cutting edge rather than paranoid.
And we end on the "maximize shareholder value" argument, the be-all end-all cop-out non-argument when a company is behaving harmfully.

You're correct, of course, and given the general libertarian mindset of HN, this is not a logically unreasonable stance to take. I don't even have a snarky "you'll be sorry in the future"-type parting shot to make because this is a niche of a niche we're talking about here.

I will just strike Heroku from the list of companies I will ever support and suggest my company and colleagues do the same. The same way I struck Startcom from that list after Heartbleed.

Hopefully, I change a few minds. Really all I can do.
"The only situation I've seen where that's remotely true is applying for student aid where if you're parents saved money they're expected to pony it up, but if they spent it all on flat screen TVs and new cars (and hence are "cash poor") they're not expected to do so."

Are you suggesting that everyone falls into this (false?) binary?
Show HN: Europa – An Open Source Self Hosted Container Registry
Russian bank threatens researcher with CFAA suit over DNS request data
> then all the sudden - you have a month to decide to relocate to NY state

Is that actually happening to you? pm90 below indicated that IBM wasn't doing this.
New business to help business's
Except the small potatoes capitalists mentioned in the article have zero control or influence over the larger political system.
U.S. Limits Devices for Passengers on Foreign Airlines from Eight Countries
Counterfeiting is a huge problem across Amazon. Since they started commingling inventory, it's been used by bad actors to launder counterfeit goods.

It's even worse for the Fulfilled by Amazon people-- there have been DVD resellers selling >$40k/mo legitimately getting banned because pirated items are being shipped to fulfill the same listings.

I've chosen to buy from smaller sites to be more assured of quality-- especially for commonly faked items like batteries and replacement parts.
The article kind of makes it sound like telnet is somehow necessary and that disabling it hasn't been a best practice for years.

Maybe there are still old devices that don't support SSH and you literally have no option, but really, what other reason is there to have telnet enabled?
Stealing Messenger.com Login Nonces
And inside Marin, the town of Tiburon does this as well - stoplight cameras at every entry/exit point.
I'm the founder at Distelli and we just launched a new container registry. For more checkout https://www.distelli.com/europa

I'm happy to answer any questions and get your feedback.
Startup Idea! A service that provides an 18-wheeler to drive into with your vehicle that gets you into the city without being tagged (so basically it's the truck from Spy Hunter but with a phone app).
Quick tips for reducing the cognitive load of your code
Is there any plan to expand the support for runtime polymorphism in 3.0?
What Is Referrer Spam in Analytics and How Do You Block It?
I agree. Not only can you get low-end mobile homes or build a tiny home but in much of the world you can get a reasonable apartment.
Its ridiculous the amount of energy and effort you have to waste in order to find a product that you don't suspect as being counterfeit on Amazon these days. The other day, I wanted a super bright flashlight that ran on AAA batteries and was of decent quality and price. I had to pour over the millions of listed flashlights, most looking physically identical, with the exception of the brand name printed on the flashlight itself. Then I read about how these flashlights are all mass produced by the same manufacturer and re-branded after distribution, so essentially 100 different flashlight brands are essentially the same flashlight (sorry, did a google search on this, don't remember exact link).

Anyways, I used Fakespot on a lot of these listings and it was pretty interesting to see just how many had questionable and outright blatantly fake reviews. Found the one I wanted, almost $20 and a couple of hours later. The flashlight definitely lived up to what it promised but I can't help but wonder if it would've just been easier to do this at a brick and mortar retail spot, like Fry's Electronics.
Well, this is Project Zero, the security researchers working there are highly competent, but I do agree this guy is amazing. I wonder what kind of methodology do they use to even come up with these attacks.
I went to work for a utility company blocks away from Puppet HQ, New Relic, Tripwire, Simple, and many others. There are tradeoffs but it has been one of the best decisions that I've made for my work-life balance in years. Perks are basically non-existent, but they ring hollow if the work isn't enjoyable or rewarding enough on its own.
Also outlook seems to be down
https://portal.office.com/servicestatus

Start time: Tuesday, March 21, 2017, at 5:15 PM UTC
false.
in PG triggers are either for each row OR for each statement.
The authors of the PVS-Studio analyzer invite you to test your attentiveness
AI that can feel bad for you – Robots with empathy
Probably. I apologise. Just reading so many negative comments it's (slightly) frustrating.

Maybe 'profitable' should have been in quotes instead of startup.

I never tried to wow anyone with my final results, but rather show what could happen if you just take action :)
The idea is to make it easier for the average person. Those involved with subchapter S corporations are probably not amateurs and are not the target audience.
See, the thing is I don't see the shell/tmux/screen/tiling window manager as the tough option. It's not depriving you of anything any more. There's no pain.

If I wanted pain, I'd use a desktop environment.
Ahh, ok thanks.
And that's without the iPad Mini…
I look at these previews as an example of things to come 3 years from now.

I keep hoping that Google will figure out a solution to that (restrict access to Play Services, say). Until then, I guess I'll continue targeting API 16.
Senator Warren has introduced bills in the past to simplify the tax filing process. I'll let you do the homework to figure out for which party you should vote to help this kind of legislation pass.

https://www.boston.com/news/politics/2016/04/13/elizabeth-wa...
Right, this line of reasoning sounds vaguely like the broken-window fallacy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of_the_broken_window

That is, if people being fired from these miserable startups is good for the economy, wouldn't them not having worked there at all have been even better?
We have more transparency than we've ever had. Transparency isn't the magic bullet. Many people are aware of the problem. We know who they special interests are and how much they contribute to each representative.

What's the plan on censuring representatives that don't represent us? This information isn't helping us change our behavior.

The problem is our representatives have developed a sixth sense that is fine tuned to be aware how their vote affects their donors. Special interests are outspending and out-strategizing us. They are organized and disciplined and we are divided and hopelessly emotional. They have full-time policy wonks that understand the issues, and most of us don't even understand the premises behind the issues.

Even with full transparency, most of us drown in the amount of information we have to process. Something has to come after transparency and most of us are clueless as to what we really need to do.
Not me personally, definitely to others I work with - there's been hints of no enforcement until later this year but nothing official.

Edit: And as PM90 said, it does seem to be only some departments. PM90 said the article creates FUD, but I think you could argue IBM is doing that to its employees with this.
I don't think anyone necessarily expects that less money = more options, but I don't think people realize how many options you lose as you get poorer. The way that people talk about poverty, people seem to think that being poor is needing to tighten your belt and be more frugal and creative, maybe not getting an iPhone, maybe downsize your house.

The reality of the situation is a bit less glamorous than that, where you can't actually find standard housing at all because of lack of credit and consistent income, resulting in needing to stay at motels for the long-haul (for example). This higher proportional cost puts a pretty severe strain on your cash-flow, maybe meaning that you have to optimize for getting money NOW, instead of two weeks from now. Being unable to get to a bank regularly means you either have to carry cash on-hand (which makes you a target) or you have to use check cashing services and other value storage methods (which provide poor return).

Being poor isn't just like cutting costs and expenses, it's in fact an entirely different game from making ends meet for most middle-class people.
(To addon to parent poster)

Unfortunately fuzzing ultimately has a random component

An instruction which accepts 2 registers and returns 1 register has a 192bit problem space to validate. This complexity is present in an instruction as simple as `add`.

As AVX2 instructions which accepts 3 registers and outputs 1 has a 1024bit problem space to validate.

This occurred in FMA3 with a ~512bit problem space.

Repeat for _every_ instruction (HUNDREDS). You can see how a few bugs slip though the cracks. The problem space is as large as some cryptographic functions!! I'm honestly surprised we don't see more of them.
I tried to use their product but fell into a fringe case where I could claim my spouse as an exemption. It's literally one box and a calculation on a tax form, but their support told me I was basically SOL.

It's a nice product from a UX/UI standpoint (so usability issues to solve still), and I look forward to trying it again next year.
Nope, I'm on Windows.
facepalm Thanks.
Yeah, but one of the reasons that the article puts forward to justify the move is to increase "innovation." Surely the hit to innovation from losing your best easily out-sizes any gain from co-locating.
I'm having that experience as well to be honest but I thought I would respect the wording on their status page for the submission title.

There is a parallel thread which mentions Skype as being affected too.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13924838

I guess this across all of Microsoft's offerings.
It's mostly the same in Spain. Our IRS equivalent sends you a draft that you can approve digitally. If you have something to add or change, there is an online form that you can pre-load with the government data and then edit anything you need. You sing it digitally and you're done.

Before that, there was a market for tax advisors that filled taxes for ordinary people, but it's gone. Only rich people or people who own complex business or investments need an advisor to fill their taxes now.
Heh, telnet. Reminds me of:

http://m.slashdot.org/story/80056

"(...) vulnerability in Solaris 10 and 11 telnet that allows anyone to remotely connect as any account, including root, without authentication. Remote access can be gained with nothing more than a telnet client. More information and a Snort signature can be found at riosec.com. Worse, this is almost identical to a bug in AIX and Linux rlogin from way back in 1994." February of 2007
got mine for free from a guy who got 4 for free from a (failed startup) company his hedge fund liquidated.
Bethesda: Fallout 4 VR Will ‘Blow Your Mind’ with New E3 2017 Demo
It was especially hilarious during the hoverboard craze-- there were hundreds of versions of the exact same item, being sold for $200-$1500.
My retirement planning is to work on the Y10K problem. When the year 9997 comes along, everyone is going to start worrying about the rollover to five digit years. In about the year 9995 I will start seriously brushing up on my COBOL.
This hinges a bit on whether "making $400k" means revenues or profits.
I'm personally not a huge fan of Swagger, however I don't think you have to worry. Since 2012, there's only been two new versions. It's not exactly a fast-moving spec that will be out of date in a few weeks.

I do believe that Swagger 3 (and the rename) will splinter the community, however I think fixing some of the fundamental issues with Swagger (many of which are enumerated in the blog post) is very important.
A lot of people will conflate Samsung with Android here (NZ). So Samsung is the iPhone alternative with a different OS, rather than android.
I think the problem here is not that they don't add value, but that since the value is tied to a percentage of cost, and cost has gone way up as a percentage of income, it no longer appears to be worth the value in many cases.

For a $100k home, it's fairly easy for the value added to surpass the amount paid. For a $500k home, the value added needs to be much higher. Then again, if you think of it as less value added and more like insurance (although unfortunately without a specific set of coverage), then what you're paying for is their ability to identify and prevent problems before they happen. Having a realtor notice items before calling in an inspector is useful. Having a realtor apply their knowledge of the market, and what people are generally looking for on both the buying and selling end when making suggestions for how to change the deal (such as requesting fixes prior to sale, or money back for the fixes) is useful. Does that usefulness surpass the cost they get in their fees? It probably depends on the specific deal, the cost of the houses being looked at, and the experience of the realtor. I doubt it's as black and white as being useless though.
It doesn't take a lot of time to learn how to change your oil, but i still pay a guy to do it.
What sucks is that every smooth-scroll implementation is just another copy of "the most popular one" - a simple S-curve, where it accelerates up to a point and then begins to slow down at the midpoint. If they were implemented with a 1/x curve, you'd get the immediate response from input, without that "slow and drunk" feel typical smooth scrolling delivers, in addition to a smooth animation.
> Why not.

Because Europe is liberal, secular, literate, and (consequently) scientifically, technologically, and economically advanced. Africa is none of those things. Whatever your ideals about equality are, you cannot deny that there is something about Africans, whether it's their cultures or their religions or their DNA or some other factor. (In case you reflexively want to accuse me of racism for that last possible cause, if you'd like I can break out the list of high-quality scientific publications demonstrating that intelligence and certain measurable behaviors have been demonstrated to be strongly heritable and that those genes differ substantially across geographically separated populations.)

No matter the cause, Europe can not hope to sustain its preeminence in these matters if it gets blasted full of people who are culturally antithetical to them. You can't hope to have a functioning scientific community if certain ascientific beliefs are legally mandated, for example.

The simplest explanation for why America is successful in the exact same way as Europe is that all the people who colonized North America come from Europe, and share whatever European je ne sais quoi is conducive to that success, whether it's cultural, religious, genetic, or any other heritable condition.

I'm fairly sure this post will be shocking to you and you'll react angrily to it, but I ask you to just take a moment to consider where you think my argument falls apart factually rather than just automatically labelling it as "colonialist" or "xenophobic" or something and then completely ignoring its contents. The fact of the matter is that Africa really sucks and is really backwards, whereas Europe doesn't and isn't, and when people move somewhere they take a little bit of where they came from with them. Do you really think America would be the same, in any respect, as it is today if it was never settled by Europeans?
I had a Surface Pro for a couple months last year and I don't recall it really having a Name. It was just "the stylus" or "the pen" or "this goddamn NTrig piece of shit that doesn't talk to Illustrator properly".
That would be a Genius idea!

https://genius.com
In my area, there were tons of mortgage companies going under left and right back then. Definately lots of people lost their jobs but the glut of cheap office furniture allowed my dad's cost-conscious company consistently upgrade for a while. Since they were a descent-sized firm, buying a lot of chairs or monitors was easy but I wonder how often for someone like myself interested in just a single desk or chair could compete with someone interested in buying a lot.
HN strives, but fails. The quality of posts has massively declined over the last 5 years or so. One more for the pile.

However, another commenter does make the same point but worded better: The person I'm responding to is over-generalizing toy models to the real world, then demanding that it's the world that is wrong, not them. It's a common reasoning fault in humans, and also one that seems to be common to republican supreme court justices. The insistence that the toy model of the world is appropriate, and applies and holds true even in the face of evidence that it is not.

Along with personification of systems, as if a system has a conscious mind. eg: capitalist system writ large prefers people to make 40k a years, rather than 20k a year. Not only is this a unsubstantiated remark, it's even false, since we have a ream of evidence that our American capitalist system, writ large, does not seem to be good at turning 20k earners into 40k earners.

Anyways, I wasn't even referring to any specific person, republican supreme court justices is a group of individuals, and not a single person in specific.
What does 'OpenAPI 3 now specifics YAML is 1.2' mean?
Are you hiring any SWE ? :-p
This sucks, doubly so because it's No Starch Press. They've got some great stuff and their books have a better feel than a lot of other tech books. Something about the cover, binding, and the paper they use feels really nice.
look, friend, this is the most sedentary line of work there is. if you don't have a good chair you're in for a world of hurt.
Why are all the traces in the thumbnail overlapping? That's not how circuit boards work.
Google 'Family Link' gives parents a way to monitor preteens' accounts
All those rebrands are coming from alibaba. Just go to ali express and buy direct if you want one. The "entrepreneurs" using jungle scout are flooding amazon with rebranded alibaba stuff.
Apple launches red iPhone 7
Do you want to be extraordinary or ordinary?

Ordinary is easy pick a goal find, some one that is were you want to be and do what they did. You might not get the exact same results but usually pretty close.

extraordinary is harder you need to pick the biggest goal you can. be prepared to fail a lot, look for others to accomplish your goal with you, find intermediate milestones and accomplish them.

basically run at that brick wall with your face until you knock it down.
Yes it's one line, but it has two versions with big differences. I could be wrong but it's not just the screen size, it's also the screen resolution and camera resolution as well. They might as well be two different products. Everyone thought that the smaller iPad Pro was the successor to the iPad.
To clarify, Snowflake doesn't charge for processing per-TB like BigQuery, but for the (fully elastic) compute time.

(disclaimer: I work at Snowflake)
What really gets me is one dog grieving the death of another.

I knew a stray who was like a protective (but respectfully distant) shadow to another female dog. Then the female dog died.

I think I learned a thing or two about relationships from these two.
Build a “Serverless” Slack Bot in 9 Minutes
I've worked on financial systems still running on mainframes from the 80s. The Y2K compatibility commit messages are there in the logs.

Airline reservation systems run on software written in the 50s and 60s

Your views on evergreen this and disposable up to date that are very naive.

Embedded systems and business systems live for a VERY long time.
How and Why to Use Story Types
Interesting! This should be renamed to Paxos Pseudo-code in 25 lines.
That is certainly more labour intensive. I transcribed a couple of lectures from youtube (ok they were mathematical) and it is quite time consuming and I made a lot of mistakes too.
Swagger 2 was either YAML or JSON. Since YAML is an evolving standard, OpenAPI 3 just specifies that your YAML should be in YAML 1.2.

Likely a change that won't affect anyone; it's just a clarification.