skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I purchased a house last July without a buyers or sellers agent. I was very happy to work through lawyers (normal and mandatory in New York) and aside from my first purchase with agents in Virginia I do not plan to recommend an agent ever again. their biggest value is getting you a key to do a walk through and see if you like the pictures of a house previously found on line.

just my two cents -- seems like others see more value than I do, but the knowledge that a buyers agent gave my in New York in an area I grew up in was flatly useless. I think they are a bad middleman whose interest is not yours, just theirs to collect a percentage of the sale.

on a side note, to sell my house i used Redfin after I moved out of state, my experience was very positive with their support for selling the house. I still personally believe that the agent really provided someone to answer some of my questions, had I been less lazy I could have answered the questions myself.

final notes: as house price goes up some agents stop collecting a percentage and do a 'flat fee' -- it may be worth searching for one of those.
Yes, or maybe a couple of standard licenses from which a company may choose.
ISP's have a possibility of competition but they don't. The possibility of something happening can not be the end all for legislation
Yes, until more supply is created to meet the increased demand.
Neither should the possession of drugs.
Some, but enough to entirely eat it up provided that there are lots of unsubsidized renters.
An Introduction to LIDAR: The Key Self-Driving Car Sensor
> make depersonalized unoriginal loop music

Seems like the art fits the times, then. We live in a society where it's easier to "like" something on Facebook, or "friend" someone on Instagram rather than talking in person to another human.

In any case, I disagree with almost all of that. Almost all music you hear today is digital, filtered through electronics, and coming out of mass-produced speakers. Often in some giant shopping complex, in Your Town, USA.

Why write on Hacker News using a computer when you should be writing with quill and ink to your local newspaper? Assuming you aren't against Johannes Gutenberg and his heretical ideas.
The Octatrack is a fun box that can basically replace Ableton: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjavTXRvZBE
We razed something like 80% of SROs in the 60s and 70s when the Baby Boomers were coming of age. They came from this bizarrely large "middle class" created by WW2 and most of them didn't need nor want cheap entry level housing. Their expectations set expectations and standards that we are still suffering from.

It is time to wake up, recognize that SROs and the like are needed and recreate the societal fabric we tore out and never replaced.
I think it's quite easy to identify if in a given situation it is possible for an enterprising competitor to appear, or if there is some artificial distortion that prevents such competition from appearing such as in your example.

In your example, the real problem isn't that they're charging artificially high prices for water; it's that they're not allowing water to be brought in and then surprising attendees with high prices.

If you want to fix that problem, fix it there. You could either require people to be allowed to bring water in (for obvious public health reasons, for example), or require the event organisers to prominently include the price of water in any advertising that includes the event ticket price, or require them to provide free water (again for public health reasons) and include the cost of supplying that in the ticket price.
I don't get how anyone (that are somewhat computer savvy) can live without one. Sure, webmail is an awesome backup for when you don't use your main device. But seriously, gmail and the like are absolutely horrible to use compared to a real client.

I guess the sad state of affair in regards to email syncing protocols (POP3 and IMAP) are partly to blame, JMAP might help a little but I guess it's too late.
"The Katowice club overlooked Frédéric Chopin Street; its coat of arms is an eagle and an ice pick. Many dozens of climbers each night talked mountains, life, and more mountains, and sang songs and drank vodka. To gain admission at that time, a young climber had to demonstrate technical prowess, sleep outside on a mountain ledge (known as a bivouac), pass written tests and show a command of mountaineering history, art and literature."
Perhaps section 8 tenants are treated as "subhuman garbage" (quite an exaggeration, I'd say) because they are more likely to miss payments and destroy property?

These evil landlords are not running charities. Maintnence is probably sub par because, as you mentioned, the rent is generally far below market.
Ah, thanks, I spend a lot of time trying to get those little elements correct. It makes it worthwhile when people appreciate those touches!
I have plenty of personal experience trying to do things at compile time that are simply not available, and while I haven't looked up the details in a while, I do recall there being such a limit, but perhaps you have to make some settings on the compiler to get around. Macro expansion has relatively small limits in Clojure for things like memory usage.
The blog post is... not so much misleading, but it doesn't clearly communicate the impact of this. It's a press release that's light on facts and is worded such that the reader will assume the best.

A better source is the OpenStreetMap Wiki page on DigitalGlobe [1], which is linked from the article, and has been updated by DigitalGlobe with new info.

As of May 9th 2017, DigitalGlobe has just announced availability of satellite imagery directly through a newly launched imagery service. http://blog.digitalglobe.com/news/digitalglobe-satellite-ima...

DigitalGlobe-Premium is a mosaic composed of DigitalGlobe basemap with select regions filled with +Vivid or custom area of interest imagery, 50cm resolution or better, and refreshed more frequently with ongoing updates
DigitalGlobe-Standard is a curated set of imagery covering 86% of the earth's landmass, with 30-60cm or resolution where available, backfilled by Landsat. Average age is 2.31 years, with some areas updated 2x year.

DigitalGlobe Satellite EULA: DigitalGlobe, Inc. is pleased to provide its high resolution satellite imagery to OpenStreetMap in support of its mapping initiatives. By using our imagery in the OSM editor, you understand and agree that you may only use our imagery to trace, and validate edits that must be contributed back to OSM. You cannot download our imagery or use our imagery for any other purpose. We retain all right, title and interest in and to our imagery. We provide our imagery “as is,” with all faults and as available; we disclaim all warranties, express or implied, to the extent permitted by applicable law. You can recover from us only direct damages up to an amount equal to the fees you have paid to us to use our imagery on OSM, if any. We are not liable for any other damages, including consequential, lost profits, special, indirect, incidental or punitive damages. Happy mapping!

Still, this is beautiful and recent imagery and will help greatly for OpenStreetMap contributors to trace up-to-date features.

[1] https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/DigitalGlobe
Not really. Both Japan and western European countries are much better at doing big infrastructure affordably.
I'm sad that this explains so many issues I've had with transit in my community.
Do you take the classes at night and work full time during the day? That sounds tough considering you also have kids. Congratulations!
Your terminology seems a bit strange to me, the way I've seen these discussed:

CoDel is an AQM (Active Queue Management) algorithm - it decides what packets to drop and when to drop them as a packet queue fills. This is most relevant at the hop with a bottle neck link.

BBR and reno etc are TCP congestion control algorithms or less frequently called congestion avoidance algorithms - they manipulate the window size and attempt to avoid congestion using different takes on congestion signaling (i.e.loss based reno, delay based for vegas, model based for bbr). This is most relevant from the sender side.

Scheduling would be more advanced queuing disciplines (for QoS or flow based fair queuing) and packet pacers. Queuing disciplines can apply to any bottle neck link, pacing is most useful sender side.
> This seems like the wrong place to start. This seems like the place to start learning a DAW and snapping together samples

I agree that it makes sense, in a lot of cases, to start with learning an instrument, I do not think that replaces the information on this website. This is more about composing than anything. Sure, the first page introduces the user to "snapping together samples", but the next page introduces the user to what a drum beat is. Going through these pages I can learn to compose music, not just triggering samples. Nobody says that a site like this is a replacement for an instrument, rather, it's something additional that anyone could gain some insights from.

While there's an option to use patterns from the site in Ableton Live, this information is completely DAW agnostic, and could also be completely useful for people that have no interest in creating music with a computer.
I will check it out. You can also use R notebooks to embed SQL code in notebook format.

https://blog.rstudio.org/2016/10/05/r-notebooks/
(scroll down to "Batteries included")

I was playing around a bit with it:

https://carlosror.github.io/baseball_mysql/
>by the time I've got my DAW going and found some synths I like, the tune in my head has evaporated

That's where music theory pays off. Learning to name chords, scales and arpeggios gives your brain a framework to reason about and remember musical ideas. It allows you to break the music into a more concise abstract representation, rather than holding it in your head as sound. If you understand the structure of music, it's far easier to make connections between different pieces of music.
I don't think it breaks hardly anything except for those using many deprecated or internal items anyways. And if there are BC incompat concerns, they should be addressed specifically but they don't seem to be the primary reasons for "no". Sure we can agree that Jigsaw is not necessarily required for JVM modularization. But surely we could also agree that dogfooding a feature available to all is much better than an internal-only set of jmod files with their own internal-only way of being used. We all want the benefits of modularity especially wrt access restrictions across modules.
You're almost speaking to my point, Apple did create one of the best and widely adopted computing platforms out there with the Smart Phone. And yet... even you describe it as a 'computing device'.

Echo/Alexa is the first step to that ubiquitous IoT future, where computing is sort of removed from the terminology and services are just available on demand in the most natural of human interfaces -- voice.

Similar to that first moment of watching a 5 year old ( or 60 year old ) accessing YouTube on an Ipad ( simplified touch interface ) when the first i-devices came out. The voice interface will be just as transformative, if not more so.

The moment for me was when my 2 year old niece screamed, "Alexa, play the gummy bear song"... and it started playing, and she started dancing. That was a game changing moment for me, to realize that this device opens the doors for the young, the old, the impaired, and even the tech averse to access all kinds of cool tech that we take for granted. Hell even for me, "Alexa, play the latest 'how I built this' podcast"

Don't get me wrong, typing and touch is infinitely more efficient and powerful, but voice will be infinitely more accessible. Touch devices, as simple as they are, still require a mental model of which icons provide which services, clicking through and typing out requests and looking at results, versus what my 2 year old niece was able to do with Alexa.
I'm sure you realise you're in the minority here.

None of these messaging apps care if you install their product or not because there are so few people who share your views.
I hope people don't think I'm being brusque here, but these comments are a classic case of an outsider looking at the system, admitting to be lazy and wondering why the rest of the world differs from their expectations vs. asking musicians what they think.

At its core, musical notation is succinct: a mixture of logic and unique symbols. Note markers are isomorphic to pitch. Rhythms subdivide with vertical lines. Special symbols and brief phrases denote beginnings, ends and loop points. (They're not usually in English) Geometric figures indicate volume and speed changes.

A competing system in my purview is "tracker" notation. It's vertical and generally only used on machines, but hand writable: It looks like:
C-3
Eb3
G-3
Bb3
That depends if you know calculus, preferably multivariable.
This will just contribute to rising costs spiral, as it's already the case with healthcare and education. Such kind of arrangements are only profitable for existing big players in the market.

The only sustainable way to make something affordable is to push down the prices. The only way to do it is to increase competition — which, in order, requires dramatically lowering the barriers of entry.

But it seems that nobody is actually interested in that, and NIMBY attitude and monetary diversion schemes prevail.
Most of the EU satellite stuff is open licensed, lookup Sentinel II. Various wavelengths and new data every 5 days (so if it's cloudy you can try again).

It's not the most user-friendly though, you have to download large swathes at a time.
I read this post hoping it would articulate the challenges of VR at a high level in an innovative way. After a promising start it turns out only to cover the problems that oculus has addressed — which all deal with the headset. The other problems that remain either unaddressed or poorly addressed aren't even discussed, ie motion tracking and motion in general (walking around), gesture and pose tracking, facial capture, force feedback, and eventually things like true spatial sound. Let's not even discuss olfactory capture and synthesis or temperature or breezes or wetness.

Yes the optics and latency issues are interesting, but Carmack has actually discussed this on stage on several occasions.
Is your internet metered? I'm trying to find what people think is the likely harm to come from Amazon having a microphone in their home.
Software mute/unmute has too much of a potential to be abused by 3rd parties in my opinion.

For your other comment, what kind of command-response skill could be monetized? Surely for the majority of use cases, the Alexa skill should remain free with your purchased/subscribed product on the other side? E.g. the "skill" to read NPR should always be free, but NPR is still monetized via subscription or commercials.

The only example that jumps out at me would be Amazon Echo Games, something like text-based adventures built for voice. Otherwise, skills themselves are just a gateway to an already monetized service, no?
Where ever there is money, there are hands trying to take it.
That's really nice. Sounds like a very experienced team too.
Not sure about your numbers here. A million dollar mortage today represents just under $5k per month or $60k per year. that's well under the recommended 30% for a $500k income. I have a hard time believing "They can barely save for college after paying for childcare costs and the mortgage" - I have no idea what childcare costs are, but I would be shocked if they were in excess of $300K-$400k per year.
Please post civilly and substantively on Hacker News or not at all like we've already asked.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Build more inventory. None of these tricks will solve the problem of fitting X families into Y homes, where X > Y.

The unspoken constraint in every housing debate is to avoid adding new supply and risk devaluing the existing investments made by constituents.
I sincerely doubt you have enough data to state that paying same-skilled remote employees somehow makes the economy non-functional.
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Lean supply chain management and contract manufacturing is likely the big upcoming trend in this space, as it is easier and cheaper than ever to have experts create the thing that you want or source the components or whatever.

I think the QA as well as fit & finish of 3D printing is not high enough yet (and unclear whether the investment to get to that point is worth it) for mass produced consumer goods. More likely it will spawn a big uptick in hardware ventures (already has) since it also massively reduces the cost of prototyping and can reduce the cycle time of early modeling and prototyping.
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_monopoly. ISPs are in an objectively different situation from gas stations and the supply of generators over a distance in a disaster situation.
My guess would be lack of empathy. For some reason, some people don't want to imagine a set of circumstances that would left one in need of aid from the society. Sure, no one I know would deny tax-sponsored help to someone who suffered calamities of biblical Job. But a regularly-looking person receiving help? No, they must be just lazy and trying to steal my hard-earned money!

It's ironical that many such people would nevertheless take all aid they are eligible for.

In Poland, there's this recent government program called "500+", which wants to encourage families to have more children by offering them 500 PLN (around 125 USD) per month, tax-free, for every child after the first one. When it was introduced, I found myself surprised by all the hate from almost every one I know. For instance, the typical opinion of my cow-orkers is that the primary users of this program are pathological, lazy people who will breed more pathological, lazy people. Note that at the same time, those same cow-orkers admit that if they were eligible for it, they'd obviously take the handout.

I just don't understand where all that hate towards other people comes from. And don't get me started on immigration...
Current launches a Visa debit card for kids that parents control with an app
No, Americans would not invest the 80,000 persons over 8 years that it took to plan this feat.

Closest thing that comes to mind is the last span of the new Bay Bridge in San Francisco:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbHFR557nrA
Agree with all your points... I really hope these are addressed because Julia would actually make a fantastic general-purpose language.

I really wish there was something like a high-performance Elixir out there... which is basically lisp with modern syntax and package management.
The current system is 800 years old, and over that time it has won over hundreds of different systems. A new system is proposed every now and then, and even though they might be better in a specific problem domain (say, microtonal music), but they always fall apart.

I have thought a lot about the problem (worked as a professional bassoon player for a very long time), and I can't say I have had many good ideas. There are some ideas for simplified music notation (with different shapes for flats and sharps) which work _very_ well for making sight reading easier. Until it doesn't: It can't express enharmonics (different ways of writing the same note), which makes tonality analysis harder, and can actually hamper readability since most people that are fluent in reading music usually "stay in key" when reading music.

A quick google gave me this: http://musicnotation.org/ and I can't say I am very impressed by anything I see there. But as you notice, most systems are oriented by lines. I don't think that is because people lack fantasy, but because it is a pretty good way to write music.
You're kind of proving my point.

- Your first link is about the unroll.me debacle. Perfect example to me of a completely overblown story. They used receipt data to produce an anonymized sum (probably broken down by things like region, etc) of total ride-sharing spend, which they sold to Uber. I guess that kinda sucks for Lyft if they weren't expecting Uber to have such an easy time getting at that number, but it's hardly destructive. In most other industries, there are dozens of well-respected, very rich firms who's whole job it is to use similar tricks to estimate market share, Nielsen being the best example. Is Uber getting Lyft's numbers this way really that different from Wal-Mart getting Target's numbers by getting Nielsen to pay shoppers to scan their Target purchases and give that data to them? (That's called the Nielsen HomeScan Program, by the way). I understand that HomeScan users are volunteering for this in a more explicit way than unroll.me users are, but again, this is a philosophical distinction. Absolutely 0 harm was done to me as an unroll.me user by them giving Uber this number.

- Your second link is the one good argument that I already acknowledged. The insurance industry is 100% built around developing a good statistical model of risk so they can price premiums appropriately for that risk. Nobody bats an eye that insurance rates are different for women vs men, which is after all a genetic difference like the ones in the article. The only difference is that it's an obvious one. It's a complicated question and I can see why this is a good question for courts to consider, but it's not a foregone conclusion to me that insurance companies shouldn't be able to factor these things into their models. Either way, 99.99% of the things people on HN (or in this thread) complain about with regards to privacy has nothing to do with your genome.

- Your other mess of points are all movie-plot conspiracies that are already illegal in other ways. This doesn't convince me at all. I'm not seriously weighing the risk of some international political scandal being played out with me as the scapegoat as a result of Facebook knowing what movies I like. Neither will the vast majority of people. This does not make them irrational.
IMO, classical notation is the Vim of music - it looks bizarre to outsiders, it's totally unintuitive, it requires a lot of memorisation and practice to use effectively, but it's extraordinarily efficient in the hands of an expert user.
Email and phone spam also works everywhere. It's time someone did something about it with a whole new system. Calls that are not pre-whitelisted should be blocked and logged. Then at the end of the day, you should get an email summarizing all the blocked calls so you can whitelist the ones you want.
Note that in most cases TCP congestion control only really matters from the sender side. Windows has a fairly nice algorithm called Compound TCP if you are sending from Windows https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compound_TCP
It was my understanding that C++ was being abandoned in the embedded world in favor of C due to the failure of UML. See for example, the intro of this (possibly outdated) article: http://embeddedgurus.com/state-space/2008/01/object-based-pr...

Is this changing now?
Maybe no one has succeeded with a general replacement, but there are different notations for guitar. I assume some other instruments have their own notation too. When electric music kicked off, to reproduce sound you have to trade setups / circuit diagrams, old music notation can't encode that! I kind of think of it like x86 assembly. It's here to stay, for better or worse, but that doesn't mean you can't have nicer things on top, and there are still things that don't make any sense at all in the x86 world (like FPGAs for one).
seems like a blatant clone of iMaschine?