skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Those are specific module names, in the case of JS at least. Not really comparable with framework-specific jargon. A better comparison would be redux concepts like "action", "store", and "reducer".
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14291577 and marked it off-topic.
SNAP may already be a Camera Company, but you can never have too much Camera Company.
I have always been a huge fan of a quick transition to sustainable energy sources. There is just one little thing I don't understand.

Why they expect people to make electricity at their homes? You can buy a little piece of land in a dessert, put solar panels there and distribute the electricity to other places. And you don't have to climb on any roof during the installation or the maintenance.

It is not profitable today in a free market to bake your own bread or to plant your own vegetables. Because if it is done in a large scale by professionals, it can be made much cheaper while keeping the good quality. So I don't understand, how the home-made electricity could economically compete with the professional energy farms of the future.
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I think the difficulty is scaling the "art" of estimating prices. Any single home I could sit down and give a good estimate but to come up with a fully automated way to do that seems pretty tough still. I'm also not sure that the really hard parts are solved with ML as well.
Snap stock is tanking after its first-ever earnings report missed expectations
You're right. I didn't want to mention precision because it's a whole other can of worms, but one worth knowing how to deal with. I was looking at it from a mathematician's point of view, using rational numbers.
If you ever hover over the URLs, Zillow is using a 3rd-party service for the forclosure potential properties. It's lead gen, and you have to become a customer to get actionable data.
SQL Server Management studio is the entire reason I am running a Windows VM. I would love SSMS on Mac.
> feigning this absurd obtuseness

Please don't post uncivilly, regardless of how disagreeable you find another comment.
Decentralized Summer Program
Yeah there's a pretty legitimate possibility of Tesla/SolarCity collapsing if their stock had a long bad run, don't think your warranty is worth much at the back of the line in bankruptcy court.
Ask HN: What are the best acronyms that programmers should know?
I just discovered YAGNI — "You aren't gonna need it" — and facepalmed at all the time I would've saved if I'd really internalized that lesson sooner. Apparently, it's a frequent enough problem that it's now an acronym.

What else should I be liberally referring to as I try to improve my practices?
Apprenticeships and other jobs you can start quickly
2 self driving Teslas in the garage (making money when not used) $150,000

1 power wall battery pack $7,000

1 Solar Roof $80,000

Subtract

$15,000 in Federal tax credits for both cars

$5,000 in California tax credits for both cars

30% of 80,000 = $24,000 Solar Investment tax credit

$237,000 - $44,000

Grand Total $193,000

Calculate savings

$240 per month in gas

$100-$300 per month in electricity

$1000 - $2000 earned by the cars while not used by owner (10 years into the future)

$1340 to $2540 per month

$193,000/1340 = 144 months = 12 years to recover costs

$193,000/2540 = 76 months = 6.33 years to recover costs

Take away the income from the cars

$193,000/540 = 357 months = 30 years to recover costs

If PGE gives you money for putting excess electricity into the grid then you can recover costs faster.
The estimate for my house dropped by 25% in one month when the market was still rising. I'm assuming that the cause was the house next door which was in poor condition and was sold for about 20% below market value. The buyer put $100k into the house and is now selling it above market value ($200k more). It will be interesting to see what the zestimate for my house will be when the other house sells again. (It will probably sell within a month.)
um, property graphs are basically document databases with a special "relationships" property. Then you add the graph algorithms.

Key-value is a reduction of document storage.
I think he was specifically referring to slate and/or clay roofs, not asphalt shingle roofs.
I found Multitrack Studio to have better UI than rest of DAWs, but it's not so geared towards eletronic music. They also have pretty good support for touch-screens. Too bad there's no Linux version, but that's hardly surprising for multimedia software.
There's unnamed sources inside DHS that told the Daily Beast that the official decision is going to be made Thursday.

The official statement is short enough that they wouldn't technically be lying if they then came out Thursday with a laptop ban.

I guess we'll find out tomorrow.
My guess would be this: there are large transmission costs associated with utility scale solar, perhaps home generation can be competitive when including those.
Your stuff looks very nice.
Minecraft World from an Angular Application
Yeah, my brother just bought a pretty large house for $100k, but I guess people in rural North Carolina aren't the target buyer of solar roofs anyway.

I wonder on what price home would a $80k roof make sense? >$800k?
I've written a handful of Vim plugins before. I've generally tried to avoid writing Vimscript as much as possible why writing the bulk of my plugin logic in Python and then just exposing the bindings in Vimscript.
sweet, glad to see them moving into the last decade and all those fees are getting put to good use
Real estate markets are rarely liquid. Such models would have to take that into account, of course, and that isn't something I'd think is straightforward at all.
I generally fall into the latter group, but if the documentation on the interface says "See FooImpl for more details" then that's surely a red flag :p
To me, Putting it underneath divorces it from the text and makes me flip up and down, rather than having it immediately there for reference. I've added a comment in the text that the diagram is there on the right, and I'd hope that seeing that would make the reader glance at it, and see that it really is relevant, and not an ad.

Odd, isn't it, how the ubiquitous ads have trained us to ignore parts of a page that would otherwise be a useful part of the reading experience. Thanks for pointing this out to me so I can keep it in mind.
Maybe people will chase innovation somewhere more useful as a result. That'd be some nice silver lining.
ML is the perfect application to this problem.

The big thing Zillow is missing is buyer information. I will personally value a home differently than you will because we have varying desires.

For example, I put a low value on bedrooms past the second and multiple stories, but a high value on a large garage and big kitchen. You might value things completely differently.

What Zillow should do (or maybe I should) is gather information about the buyers and calculate a personalized Zestimate that reflects what the seller thinks the actual value of the home is. As a side-effect, this approach would probably be shielded from lawsuits because it's not an appraisal, but a personalized estimate of premium over market value.
> put that same $40,000 in an index fund that got the stock market's historical 7% average, and waited 30 years, I'd have $308,000.

stock market isn't a very safe investment (that is, risk is much higher than putting in a bank), you can't make a comparison against buying some equipment, which is zero risk. A closer comparison is putting the $40,000 in a bank that guarentees interest (or treasury bonds, which is also pretty much risk free like a bank) - you'd get $99,457, which is $59,457 over your initial investment.
We are in Azure Japan East and Japan West regions today!
/works at Microsoft and managed PostgreSQL service/
It isn't dependent on your browser, which has made testing much more reliable in my use cases. My workplace uses a lot of single-sign-on stuff which makes it hard to authenticate using service accounts and whatnot.
Many states have generous subsidies that only apply to residential/domestic energy production that don't apply to utility/commercial production, specifically there are credits and rebates for the construction cost, and the feed-in tariff system - these really shift the economics completely.

I live in western WA and I had a view to get a solar installation a couple of years ago, because despite our climate and sunshine conditions - and already having the greenest (hydroelectric and wind, mostly) and cheapest electricity in the country ($0.11/kWh) - there was a generous feed-in tariff - which meant my planned $40,000 investment in a solar system would pay itself off after 10-15 years, however in late 2015 the state decided to put an end to that and if I had the system built now it would take 25+ years to pay for itself, at which point the system's warranty would be expiring and I'd need to shell out more money to replace it.
Observations re packet socket exploit
Where was I even subjective there? Of course the way the systems are designed affect how we communicate and how information is made available, whether for good or for bad. Now it's necessary to consider them because hatred has gone viral - Internet 2.0 is one radical solution (whatever it may be), but patching up here and there may be the best realistic solution. Shrugs, I don't know, it's an imagined WIP in my head too. But we have to drop the utopian view in order to get closer to fixing it.

(Apologies if this comes across as a harsh tone - it's not meant at all.)
radar lasers
One of the clearest litmus tests for HN-offtopicness is "is this an announcement of an announcement". The present case is like that, only weaker.

We can turn that around and put it positively: patience till a thing actually happens is good for story quality.
Snapchat and Instagram definitely offer in somewhat similar spaces. All the semi-famous people I follow on instagram have their snapchat username right there in the profile.
I don't believe the article is correct in the definition of appraisals.

A valuation or an approximation of value by impartial, properly qualified persons; the process of determining the value of an asset or liability, which entails expert opinion rather than express commercial transactions.

http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/appraisal
CA tax credits are gone for those making over 150k.
And this is exactly what the Bannon wing of the admin wants.
https://xkcd.com/1273/
I code in C so can't speak for C++, but I imagine it works well for that too: irony-mode as a backend and company-mode as frontend. It pretty much gives the Xcode auto-complete experience, and I think it works great!
Fair response there.

They have unilateral power to bury someone in search results though. Which can effectively require them to use adsense.

I don't think this is reasonable. Buy our other product or get poor search results. There's a few really good examples on other threads here. The best example I saw involved a hypothetical YouTube competitor facing a large number of DMCA takedowns, they may be complying with the law, but the takedowns will give google an excuse to bury them in search results forever more, while they can "excuse" YouTube.
Where Transgender Is No Longer a Diagnosis
No, I haven't. I don't make a pull request if the project is obviously abandoned, which is trivial to find out: it shows the dates of the most recent updates to each file/directory in the root of the project, you can see the timestamps of the most recent 20ish commits with one click on Github, etc.
I keep trying to tell people that Snap can't grow to targets unless it opens Asia, and no one in Japan (at least in my first hand anecdotal experience) uses it or even knows what it is.
ET deals: Dell Inspiron 15 5000 15.6-inch laptop for $769 – ExtremeTech
Bandwidth of a single link (which is unidirectional) versus aggregate bandwidth of all links.
Should've just gone with Mage.
Why did stanford have to take the videos down?
So when you go to a company and ask for a bank loan secured against a car, or to insure your car against loss, you might want to have some common standards recognized by insurers or loan providers as to what constitutes a 'fair value'. You would be a bit upset if you filed an insurance claim on your car, and the underwriter came back and said 'I asked @lotsofpulp and they said your car is worth $25K instead of $30K'. You might question what credentials @lotsofpulp has to value cars.

Now, you might argue that there are market based or self-regulated solutions to that, and that's reasonable (fact is that a lot of the industry goes off 'de facto' standards for valuing cars, like KBB), but the fact is that sometimes a government regulation is necessary to prevent anticonsumer or anticompetitive practices, especially in the finance industry.
Snapchat will quickly learn than obfuscating growing losses with "Not Meaningful" is swiftly punished by investors...

I know it's not the main reason for the -23% in premarket, but it show a certain culture and disdain for shareholders, in my opinion.
Common deal-breakers around here are
- being on a T intersection
- recent deaths in the home
- Located under a high-tension power line

I don't think these attributes are accounted for in any MLS, Zillow, or Redfin database schema
Well people used to mail USB keys and CD-ROMs and such. It seems less popular now that everyone has gigabit fibre.
Like someone else said in another thread. It is not clear to me that giving out an opinion as to the value of a house is illegal.
I don't get how they can try this again[0] in all seriousness

[0]: First hit, article should give enough facts and keywords, if you don't remember or never heard about bundled IE in Windows in the EU: http://www.pcworld.com/article/166606/how_does_unbundling_ie...
Breaking the Node.js event loop
I have TV in my house, not because I watch any TV programs, but because I like BasketBall. Am I counted as an active user?

Not trying to come across as snarky, but trying to setup an easy analogy :).
impressive timing yo! competent!
It's a good point. But I'm alluding more to budding companies, not established companies. Granted Facebook didn't IPO until 2012.

But, as far as I can tell the software industry has contracted into those big 5 tech firms. The siren call of working at a startup and making it is sounding strident.

Knowing what you know now, what startup, if any, would you have joined 5 years ago?

Would you join any startup now?
> Premultiplied alpha results in less color depth, though.

That doesn't matter unless you color-scale the image (like multiply by 2 to make it brighter) before displaying it. Otherwise, the depth is at the correct resolution for display.

And premultiplied alpha should be used for final display, not just for the halo-ing reasons demonstrated here, but for lots of reasons.

Artists should generally be working in un-premultiplied alpha though, and the premultiplication is something that should happen right before an artist image is used. Artists shouldn't work in premultiplied images (and they generally don't) because of the color depth issue, and because it's crazy to paint premultiplied transparency manually.
You build a solar farm out in the desert it is up to you to maintain it and the supporting infrastructure (transmission lines).

Put a solar roof on a home and it is the homeowner's responsibility to maintain it.
Realtors have always hated the Zestimate with a passion [0]. When they publicly called out Zillow CEO for selling his own home for 40% less than the Zestimate on it, Zillow magically released a superior algorithm [2].

[0] Inaccurate Zillow 'Zestimates' a source of conflict over home prices | Feb 8, 2015 | http://www.latimes.com/business/realestate/la-fi-harney-2015...

[1] Zillow CEO sold his home for 40% less than Zestimate | May 18, 2016 | http://www.inman.com/2016/05/18/zillow-ceo-spencer-rascoff-s...

[2] Zillow Boosts Accuracy with Update to Zestimate Algorithm | June 8, 2016 | http://zillow.mediaroom.com/2016-06-08-Zillow-Boosts-Accurac...
Snap made $8MM from spectacle sales
Simple Way to HTTPS All Laravel Routes
That's pretty interesting. Does it mean it allows escaping Docker containers if you compromise a service ran as root in it?
CYBERSECURITY AND APPLICATIONS
I take Uber or Lyft, whichever is cheapest. The ride "sharing" industry is a brilliant innovation, but I seriously doubt it can support Uber's valuation.
When you tried Postman were you using the web app version (eg, in the Chrome store) or the native version (eg, in the Mac App Store)?
you have to also show up and defend yourself.

many summary judgements on flaky arguments are made just because the defendant didn't respond. the judgements are collected from you bank in any jurisdiction that will reciprocate
It's still a price anchor.

If an engineer at Zillow manipulated the Zestimate on a home they were trying to buy or sell, would they succeed in driving the price of the home in the desired direction? I think so.

Clearly real estate agents have the same feeling or they wouldn't be suing.
Lots of tech companies are making serious money.
ChromeBooks Persist Network Settings in Guest Mode
The Case for Black English
FUBAR, WTF, SOL, SSDD, STFU, FML
Guess the unfortunate thing about trying to solve big problems* with the Silicon Valley startup model is that the pressure to get disruptive overnight to satisfy VC ROI expectations is that you get companies like this or Theranos that promise groundbreaking advances and do them in complete Apple-like secrecy without oversight.

* https://www.technologyreview.com/s/429690/why-we-cant-solve-...
I wonder if they're hobbling their user growth by not having some alternative lite app. I've come to associate their app with poor performance and battery drain while Facebook apps are relatively fine, perhaps with the exception of Messenger which they're slowly releasing Messenger Lite as an alternative.
Ask HN: How much work do you put into MVP?
Wondering how much work you've put into MVP to validate your idea, and how did you do it: mockup, video, prototype, doing stuff by hand with a primitive system.
They are using Google's Project Sunroof[1] to do the modeling. The tool uses satellite images of your roof to create the estimates, and accounts for orientation, shading from trees, etc...

[1] https://www.google.com/get/sunroof
I'm not sure what you use it for, but I have been really happy with jet brains datagrip product on the mac talking to SQL Server. I know SSMS does a lot of stuff, but for querying, DDL, ETC DataGrip works great.
Consider credit scores in the neighborhood as well...
No, Docker usually drops CAP_NET_RAW within the container. But you can change that and other container technologies definitely keep CAP_NET_RAW within the container.
No, the problem discussed in the article can occur with any image format (that supports alpha) and occurs later in the pipeline so it really doesn't matter how the texture was stored on disc. Or even whether it was stored - this could happen with procedurally generated textures.
$6000 per transaction? It's usually 6%, split between the two realtors.
The market isn't the economy for starters. Furthermore, you can't talk about the market without talking about the FED, do you want to include that?
I see where you're coming from (and your comment is very funny) however my experience with Google Fiber as an ISP and Google's Project Fi as an MVNO is pretty much the opposite. They've been great, including customer service. And those are utilities, essentially, no? That's the whole argument behind Net Neutrality, that ISPs are providing a utility.
Material Components are now open source (Matías Duarte on Twitter)
US to ban latpops on all inbound flights from Europe
The page does not actually tell what is it.
Would it maybe be useful to have some framework for creating tutorials inside emacs? In that case, the tutorial could just check which shortcut(s) are defined for a given command, and update the tutorial text to reflect that.
I had my (very boxy and boring) 1800 sq ft house reroofed with 30 year asphalt shingles for ~$7k, including tearing off both previous layers of shingles.

I looked at getting a metal roof, and standing seam was going to cost about $16k.

Edited to add: The cost of living is cheap where I am.
Owlchemy Labs and Google join forces for the future of VR
On a three node cluster will it survive two nodes going down?
It must be named for the airport, which I always associate with the Kennedy assassination but it has a long history aside from that.
But then you can do additive blending without changing blend modes - or even some additive and some standard transparency modes in the same sprite!
is this fully managed autoscale like cloud datastore?
A local power company in my town does this (New Zealand) You buy a 'solar panel' and they add it to their solar farm while giving you the equivalent discount. The best thing is that if you move house the discount follows you.
BTW: Depending on the configuration you can create a new namespace within Docker to gain CAP_NET_RAW since namespaces can nest.
I mean come on, is an article with pictures such as:

https://lisacharlotterost.github.io/pic/170509_Republica_Tal...

worth discussing? What's next, the right-wing field sharing articles of IQ across racial groups?
MVP is minimum measurable product. When you have analytics set up, you are ready to launch. (mailing list)
Yes, I was hoping he would come through when he said:

“Would you like a roof that looks better than a normal roof, lasts twice as long, costs less, and, by the way, generates electricity? It's like, why would you get anything else?”

I guess technically "generates electricity" is the part I got hung up on, it only needs to generate 1 milliwatt hour to be true. But much of the statement still isn't true - it's more expensive than a regular roof.
What? I said pip works great in my environment, not that it works great in yours. By all means, if you're concerned about those cases, use native packages or whatever you like.
> It's gonna be hard to find innovation when purchasing and cloning are the way to do business.

Welcome to Microsoft circa 1990. People forget how much oxygen Microsoft could suck out of a space simply by mentioning they were going to develop something.
It's because local photovoltaics can save a lot of infrastructure and can require nearly no labor.

You don't buy cold air piped from across the city, you make it locally. Why?
I'm surprised they didn't team up more with Google's Project Sunroof or Zillow or create their own version of those projects, so that you could just put in your home address and get all the relevant details. Had to check Zillow to find out my own square footage.
I've done it for exactly two months, I am a remote contractor and had started a new contract when I already had one running, did not think it was something I could've kept doing for long but I'm happy I tried it.

I was working two full time jobs in two different startups. Scheduling meetings between different parties was not an issue at all, I did scrum meetings in the morning in the first contract which happened every other day on the same hour, and I would make sure to schedule the other meetings in the other contract towards the end of the day. What I did notice is that, although I could pull it off if I really wanted to and needed both jobs, and although I love working, I had to trade off creativity in my work, as in I couldn't pull an all-nighter working on new idea for an aggregation framework or try to get ahead and impress anymore, and only felt like working to get the work done and get through the day. I believe that the quality of my work remained the same, but I lost all the fun in it, and strongly felt that my time wasn't my own anymore. Needless to say, it kills all your time and [depending on the nature of your job] you gravitate towards robot-like behaviour and lifestyle.

Wouldn't do it again, I can afford to make less, but happy I got a glimpse of what was humanly possible for me to do, even if it's only for a span of two months!
...for single filers

and $300,000 for joint filers