skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You would think real estate would prove to be one of the few real life fields where machine learning would be able to predict the prices pretty accurately. You have:

1. List price

2. "Favorites" on the MLS.

3. Square footage

4. Bedrooms

5. Bathrooms

6. Sold price for nearby properties

7. Sold price for nearby properties relative to their list price

And the list goes on... Is it that difficult to predict? Literally there are hundreds of other features that have a clear correlation to the sell price (amount of people who attend the open house, crime, proximity to busy street, etc.) that I'm not including. I guess the problem is, there's not any money in having an accurate prediction.
They never lost money at SNAPs rate as a public company.
I do not think that investors are concern about net loss - at least I'm not.

I'm disappointed by anemic growth: Facebook has 18 percent increase year over year. They have ~2B users [1]

This q Snapchat had growth of ~5% which will be about ~20% per year. But they are 10x smaller than Facebook.

[1] Facebook 5/3/17 earning report
On some level it's hard to believe that people say things like this, especially out loud and with women present.

(But I do believe it)
The problem with that is debunked papers continue to be heavily cited.
Not really. Requires to have the CAP_NET_RAW capability, which is pretty rare. (This capability allows you raw access to the network interface, which is usually only given to the root user)
And the offline media build failed, just after 18GB download:

[Exception] System.AggregateException: One or more errors occurred. ---> System.IO.FileNotFoundException: /Users/<username>/Library/Caches/XamarinInstaller/Universal/downloads/repository-10.xml does not exist
Zillow's estimates are famously unreliable.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/where-we-live/wp/2014/06...
Coincidentally I was just using this & Xamarin Studio on mac today. I didn't realize VS Mac had released, I already had the beta.

So far I don't like it as much! Not sure what features are here I actually care about as I'm just using Mono. The pads no longer make sense in VS for Mac. I just have debug pads open all the time. I can't really tell when I've stopped debugging. There's weird buttons on the pads that do nothing. Not sure why all the clutter is here, Xamarin Studio had this stuff figured out.
I'd also be interested in an answer. I'm guessing the answer is "no" based on my reading of the docs, but it'd be nice to confirm that.
I don't really get why you would build a distributed database with dependency on wall time (unless you're Google and can stick atomic clock HW on every node). Why not use vector clocks? Am I missing something?
A classic introduction to SOA
"...the glass itself will come with a warranty for the lifetime of your house, or infinity, whichever comes first."

Cute.
Please excuse my total ignorance, but could part of the reason for this be some kind of personal advertising for the financial industry (e.g. "Look at how smart I am, hire me for your quant fund!")?
Sluggish user growth probably doesn't look much better when Facebook's overt effort to clone their product seems to be working.

Instagram Stories alone already outpaces Snap 200M to 166M. Looks like an uphill battle from here.

http://www.thefader.com/2017/04/14/instagram-stories-more-po...
I too, lost data from this policy.
The last pieces will progressively often become more and more important because of a difference between supply and demand.
When I tried Windows 8 when it came out. I created a Microsoft account because I didn't know that I could use any of my old hotmail/Xbox logins.
ARPU being down q4 to q1 makes sense since a lot of the ad revenue happens in q4. Similar trend with FB.

http://www.cnbc.com/2017/05/03/facebook-average-revenue-per-...
It cant just be the plaintiff proving that Zillow's tool makes her lose money, can it? If that argument was true then you could get sued and lose for reporting on facts that put the company in a bad light, like poor hygiene in a restaurant, or for competing with another company with a better product.
The post said 20 uncorrelated income streams, not random stocks. Random stocks often have high correlations to each other.
Site mentions "Free Lifetime Updates" but Codecanyon sales page says "6 months support from QuipCode" with a paid option to extend to 12 months. That seems somehow misleading and may potentially damage trust and cost customers.
incidents of accidental fire, which can be put out if it happens in the cabin, but can't if they're in the cargo hold

I guess the theory is that a laptop bomb in the cargo hold is less likely to be near a structurally important part of the plane, whereas if you have a laptop bomb in the cabin with you, you can shove it right up against a window...
The Zillow estimate used to be spot on in our neighborhood, for several years even. Recently they all plunged to 10-20% below market value, even though all sales data puts it at the previous mark. The weird thing is that they also went back and recalculated old "Zestimate" data as well. On April 2nd the estimate for our house was $617,453, which is more or less what it would sell for. It had been above $600k since June, 2016.

This month it was $544k, and there's no sign it ever got above $580k in the historic graph. It claims it was $546k on March 31st.

One thing I did notice was a new button underneath the estimate: "I disagree with my Zestimate" which, surprisingly enough, is a lead gen for realtors, not a method to try and get them to change.
It seems to be a civil matter so far.

The problem is, you'll never get to establish a sale price if the seller thinks his house is worth 100k over market or a buyer thinks the seller is asking 100k over market because that's what they saw on Zillow.

Further, when zillow gets the estimate of a house wrong it costs them nothing, but there are real costs to Zillow's bad estimates to buyers and sellers.
> A very key number here is revenue per user [...] this is down from $1.05 (14%) from what it reported for Q4 2016, before its IPO.

I disagree a little with Bloomberg here, the numbers are bad (active users isn't great), but given the same number of users you'd expect advertising revenue (which is what they're driven by) to be down Q1 vs Q4. Ad budgets and spending is cyclical and seasonal, far more money is thrown at the wall during the holiday period than after.
Setting up https://standardjs.com to format on save really helped me overcome my pointless formatting preferences, although gofmt was the catalyst.
> There are entire ecommerce stores built around Wordpress.

WordPress (with WooCommerce) is actually the most popular e-commerce platform in the world and powers around 40% of all online stores.

https://trends.builtwith.com/shop (Click "The Entire Internet" tab)
I have pretty much moved to VS Code from VS Studio..
The tool chain dictated the move, and I could not be happier.
Yeah- also what if you make up a brand new word to ensure people see it's not an estimate. A Pulpstimate or something.
People need both. REST works well for CRUD operations that don't have complex side effects or constraints. What's often missing in this is intent. I just want to do "the thing" to this particular account or whatever.

Personally I like to very selectively add RPC actions on top of the base resource. Tacking an RPC action onto the resource URI allows you to encapsulate the intent of the user's action, handle all the updates required server side, and then return the updated representation.
Seems like a waste of time. I see no evidence that the FCC cares a whit what the public thinks. Just as the EPA raped their own website without public comment and on and on.

Why bother trying to explain a coverup when they don't care what anyone says in the first place?
Cassandra user here in AWS. Clock drift is a big problem on VMs. NTP is not aggressive enough in these environments to keep clocks relatively in sync. We regularly had several hundred milli drifts between nodes. As cassandra is extremely clock sensitive, this is a big problem. We ended up using chrony with very aggressive settings to keep things in the sub-ms range for the most part. But it's still possible to get "hiccups" where time will skip. Especially if you reboot a VM.

Vanilla ntp makes assumptions about the hardware clock (that drift is stable) that don't apply to virtualised clocks. Using tsc clocksource may help as well.
Is it surprising that revenue per user was down on Q4? Q4 is by far the biggest quarter for advertisers, and its typical to see agencies trying to get rid of their budgets before the end of the year. At the company I worked for there was always a Q1 slump.
Interesting! Thank you for your perspective and insight.

Do you think that having some data reported automatically in realtime could minimize surprises such as what we see here? Perhaps then the quarterly reports could be more focused on describing the longterm strategy and market landscape?
This isn't the same thing. This would be you putting up a web site that tracks cars and the ones for sale you'd say how much you think it's worth. Do it once, you're just a guy (or gal) saying something. Do it all the time and you become somewhat of an authority figure. That's the difference.
Please don't—it's just as bad as the bad thing. Worse in fact, because it's smug too.
What problem would that solve for them?
So when are the new AWS instances are coming?
Facebook didn't have a competitor with 20x the market cap doing a great job of rapidly copying their distinguishing features.
This is as ridiculous as suing Nolo for publishing law books without a license.

The only reason why the government needs to have an appraisal license at all is because the government handles the loan for the house. The goal is to mitigate the risk to the government, not to help consumers decide how much they want to pay.
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Way to expensive, as always, too much hype and then nothing...
I'm sure he meant only western Christian "rights" which are of course not rights at all.
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12k for asphalt shingles, or slate / terracotta / etc? They're going to be targetting people who are looking for slate or terracotta aka more expensive than asphalt shingles like most of us have. Prices likely will come down with more volume. We can hope at least!
Under "costs and expenses":

General and administrative
Q1 2017: 1,174,476
Q1 2016: 24,011

Am I reading this right? $1.2B? Is this because of the IPO?
the section on lock-free distributed transactions on our design document[1] should answer your question, specifically the sub-section on hybrid logical clocks.

[1]: https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/blob/master/docs/de...
DuckDuckGo is great. It's gotten so much better in recent years, that I can't stand the poor results that Google yields recently.

TBH, if I can't find something on DDG, google won't have anything useful either.
Someone fighting back against Silicon's Valley nonsensical idea of ignoring laws?

This will totally end well! /s
And that's my point. You're only offended because it's in english (and that's fair). But no matter what name you use, it will offend someone. CucarachaDB will fly under the radar.

Maybe you have to be culturally immersed to know those things. Mongo, mongol and mongólico are the terms you should research.
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If you want to try it, there are a few data sets kicking around, including

a) https://www.kaggle.com/c/house-prices-advanced-regression-te...

b) http://www.bis.org/statistics/pp_detailed.htm

c) https://archive.ics.uci.edu/ml/datasets/housing

If you had a really great model, you might be able to make some money with it--find underpriced (per the model) houses, buy them, and then try to sell them at the model's price.
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org-mode is what makes me stop and go "Hmmmm" about finally throwing in the towel and using it. I really hate the key combos though.
But! SNAP is doing AR, Spectacles are a stroke of marketing genius, distributed to cool influencers, instead of boring geeks like Google Glass or HoloLens. \s

Guess you can't fool all people all the time.
So, let me get this straight: they expect to able to be a viable advertising outlet for brands, despite having no demographic targeting besides a rough guess at geolocation?

Hey, cool.

Good thing you're paying Google and Amazon about $200 million a year while your user growth plateaus!
Surely most regulations are in place because someone at some point in time tried to take advantage of someone, yes?
You're right, I shouldn't have phrased it that way. I meant to say I don't think the government should be involved.

Although, I'm not sure why the plaintiff should be awarded anything, even if Zillow causes her to "lose money". Unless Zillow is doing something specifically to her home estimate, then it's merely offering a differing opinion on what they think the home is worth.
Right so if it's bad don't move there. I don't see what the issue is.
I think you're assuming way more thoroughness in the typical assessment of a property than is warranted by the practices. At least with respect to real estate taxes, in my experience assessments are pretty mechanical with respect to square footage and standard house features (number of bathrooms, etc.)

Assessments are different from inspections.

I don't really disagree with you though. There would seem to be a difference between someone being directly paid to assess something, perhaps largely based on standard formulas and practices and a web company providing housing estimates with no contractual relationship.
It's the east cost "pricks" that put the land into National Monuments, specifically presidents like Obama.

Unless you mean you want the land to be raped for the profit of your local pricks?
> It seems to be a civil matter so far.

A "civil matter" is where the courts—a part of government—apply law—created by government—to non-crimes disputes, often (as in this case) between private parties.

It absolutely does not indicate the absence of government involvement, even if the government isn't a party to the litigation.
When the value of your $100000, $200000, $300000, or more home can be greatly affected by a someone else's declared valuation of your home, its how you get regulations.
And if it were really like coin flipping, wouldn't the average industry profit be zero?
Yeah, that's what I'm doing atm in a new project :) I just wish I could make it a JToken or whatever and give EF a db serializer. Can do similar with getters / setters I guess?
> Can we please stop bike shedding

Unfortunately this is a version of the thing it's trying to stop, as is plain from the below. These balls of mud are immune to negation; they laugh at it and grow stronger.
>or the scientific community would be flooded with massive amounts of papers that are way below acceptable quality or even entirely false, not the speak of the dangers of pseudo-science and fake scientists or even paid shills.

All problems that exist even with peer review.

>For example, forcing every submitter to anonymously score 5 papers before his/her own submission is accepted

This leads to low quality reviews.

>a karma system, a good meta-moderation system,

On the whole Internet, I have yet to see a system of karma/moderation that lasts. They are always gamed in the end.

And I'm not even sure what you mean here. What will high karma provide to the researcher?
> It is a design jewel

Then I need to ask... why is it so bloated and slow?
Or it is to minimize the number of cases that go to court with people squabling over how much something is worth.
Sure, there are some lesser-known political news items that belong on HN. But this story is on the front page of ever news site in America.

From the submission guidelines: "If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic."
http://ergoemacs.org/emacs/emacs.html

And down the Xah Lee rabbit hole we go. If you have a question of the form "how do i <very complicated one-liner>", xah has almost certainly written a post about it.
Zillow does/did record that information, though for my house it hasn't been updated (at least on the public website) since 2014.
I wonder what the impact on number of flights will be. It is starting to become less and less appealing to fly to the US.
After reading a little more I think this is stock compensation mostly.
Smog? did you commit violence against me?

Government property? Parks?

Taxes? how does the court system run without funds?

Excessive profits? Aren't monopolies a form of coercion?

billboards with porn?
It's showing my house as $1,961,232. I think that's way too high.
>If it's not correct, then the sale price will reflect that and Zillow's reputation will take a hit.

Perhaps with that buyer and seller. I believe, though, that Zillow rewrites historical estimates when they get new data. So you can't really see how wrong they were after a sale.
Facebook at least had incredible growth.

This report shows Snapchat missing on that mark too.
Also typicallt the whole roof wouldn't have solarpanels. Only the side in the sun. And the dummy shingles will presumably be alot cheaper.
Not really; you don't observe too much.

Note you have two problems:
1 - features that you can't observe (sentiment / how much someone likes the house or area);
2 - features that are too expensive to observe

Have a view of the ocean? In CA, that can be worth another $X00k or maybe even millions. Have ocean view rights, ie nobody can build between you and ocean? Even more. The neighboring property with a blocked view can be worth far less. That's going to be really hard to observe at scale.

Does the backyard, if any, get full sun? What is the soil like?

Have reasonable suspicions there's asbestos in the building, even if not formally acknowledged, and a $50k+ remediate would be required?

How much sunlight does it get, and from what side?

How old is the interior woodworking and how well has it been cared for?

How good is the internal soundproofing?

How much renovation is required? Do you still have knob & tube?

Even silly things like how good is the cell service. Which can vary just by moving 30 feet.

How good is the water pressure and how much $$ would it cost to upgrade it.

etc etc
I don't know, one hand I feel that exposes risk of versatile trading, on the other hand it doesn't seem like anyone would care, because growth/number is micro by seconds, and it takes days to see real spike.
They are of course entitled to their feelings, but saying that Spotify was doing something nefarious is unreasonable. Being able to send a receive information is part of how the Internet is supposed to work. That's what's makes it different from other things like cable TV.

It's DRM, data caps and walled gardens that have convinced people otherwise. The next logical step is separating clients and servers altogether. Why should I pay for data if I'm only a consumer? In that case we might as well let youtube and netflix pay to deliver the content. And then it's back to cable TV again.

PS. You also have to remember that Spotify is 10 years old. Internet infrastructure and things like cloud offerings wasn't as good. It wasn't just a move to save bandwidth, but to actually be able to offer a good service (low latency, high throughput, for free). Which still isn't easy.
Berkeley. But never let the Truth stand in the way of a good story, especially on hacker news.
This is odd for NVIDIA.
They usually push out revised versions in the second year, not change the entire architecture to the new one.

Feels like they're feeling AMD breathing down their necks with their VEGA architecture, which should be very interesting.

AMD have also stepped up their game with ROCm which might take a chunk out of CUDA.
Run it in a VM, that way you can keep your main machine on 10.9 and experiment in the VM with things like this.

I guess you already know that 10.9 is no longer supported, so you might want to consider to at least update to 10.10.
Thanks! Interesting. http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/tech-reports/2014-04.pdf is the relevant paper on hybrid logical clocks, linked in the faq.
Tesla acquired SolarCity in November in a deal worth $2.1 billion.

At the event, Musk said Tesla's roof would price competitively with normal roofs and could even cost less.

"It's looking quite promising that a solar roof will actually cost less than a normal roof before you even take the value of electricity into account,"
Musk said at the event.
"So the basic proposition would be: 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?"
Ok different issue. Still don't see how it's an issue. The estimates they provide are very obviously different from actual ratings. I don't see how they would confuse.
There's plenty of money in it. Imagine if you could price the house correctly out of the gate, reducing the amount of time the home stays on the market. It is indeed a hard problem to solve using ML.

You'd need a few other things:

8. Floor count

9. Size and location of the bedrooms, bathrooms, kitchen

10. In-unit laundry (mostly for condos)

11. Proximity to neighbors

12. Existing tree coverage and other landscaping

13. Proximity to trails, transit, and other mostly-fixed landmarks

... I'm sure I'm missing many more.
There were also the various custom "systolic array" processor designs in the 1980s (the ALVINN vehicle, and earlier projects which led to it, used these for early neural-network based self-driving experiments).
But just because you're an authority figure, doesn't mean you have to be licensed.

I can have a website where I give financial advice. If I set up a business to give individual advice I may need some sort of certification.
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They never saw the huge dropoff in YoY DAU increase that Snap is seeing either.
None of them are independent. Members of W3C / WHATWG / etc work for Google or competitors. They all have to agree on something because with Chrome market share anything can be enforced anyway.

If there feature video on YouTube / Netflix won't play without everyone going to implement it anyway.
why is net loss tagged as "not meaningful"?
I just know every time there's an HN post about Emacs/Vi there's gonna be a fight ;)
The Bell System wasn't a natural monopoly.

AT&T had a monopoly on long distance service. The natural monopoly is the last mile. Even after Ma Bell was broken up, all the local natural monopolies were still there. Bell Atlantic (now Verizon) didn't serve the same territory as Southwestern Bell (now "AT&T").

The way that Ma Bell became a national monopoly is that nobody originally prevented them from leveraging their last mile monopolies. If your network is the only way to reach millions of telephone customers in your service area, a smaller provider has no choice but to deal with you, and so absent regulation the bigger telco can charge whatever they want for interconnection. They can also show up with an offer to buy your network for cost in one hand and a bankruptcy-inducing interconnection bill in the other. If this sounds to you anything like the current debate over network neutrality, well spotted.

Google isn't AT&T, they're IBM.
If Zillow gets the estimate wrong, then people will stop using their estimates, costing them in reputation and perhaps dollars down the line.

There are so many sources of info for house value that I don't see how Zillow could single handedly be manipulating a house's sale price. If it's not selling for what the homeowner thinks it's worth, it's probably not worth that much.
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Is a trade secret a form of coercion?