skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am not sure there are a lot of folks who will spend 70k on a roof. Even if it reduces or eliminates their electricity costs.

For this to succeed it is going to have to cost the home owner at least what a shingled roof would cost with the additional cost of the power-wall and the infrastructure that is required to to set that up. I can understand paying a slight premium but 70k?

You would be better off using a high performance insulation like spray foam, 3 pane windows, and even installing a Geo Thermal System (around 20-25k) instead of this solar roof.
how these shingles connect to each other? And how are they affixed to the roof? You can't just nail them right?
A better interpolation would do the premultiply for you automatically to get the proper result. Since that requires a couple of extra multiplies and a divide, it gets skipped most of the time.
Might get the attention of the Borg
In my case I'm pretty sure a horrible yellow-brown shag carpet was the reason I paid less than list for my house (I removed it as soon as I got the key and was delighted to find hardwood floors underneath).
It's misleading from the Codecanyon side unfortunately. You do get all updates forever on items bought through Codecanyon regardless of if your support has run out. The support part refers to answering questions and the like and it's defined by Codecanyon.

I used to have other plugins that were sold directly, plus a couple in development which I may sell directly as well. When selling directly I have full control over the updates but through Codecanyon I do not have that benefit.

My preferred option would be to add support forever (helping people with the product, questions and so on) but actually limiting updates for a certain period, perhaps 1 year. That way I am paid for continually developing and improving the plugin but customer support is included always, which I think is important as a small business.
It what sense is that "kompromat"? It sounds more like straight forward fraud, at least if the article is accurate.
It cost them $2.3 billion to generate $149 million in revenue. Wow.
The bubble is bursting.
Competitive sales teams in the enterprise sales world would be all over that data to try to spin a narrative and for competitive intel. Agree that it wouldn't be massively helpful.
my sincerest condolences
GoPro has problems of their own. Xiaomi Yi and other sport cams from China.
"Unknown item in the bagging area."
I Created SocialDJ – Aggregate FB, Twitter, Insta, Reddit Posts in One Feed
Slightly off topic, but I'm curious what is the common use of JS charting libraries these days? Is it for making dashboards with simple graphs or complex data visualizations?

I'm an author of a JS charting library myself, so here is something I'm proud of -
https://worldoscope.cxjs.io/8nhpbo6
The measures of volatility are backwards looking, and useless for the Buffetts of the world, who view volatility as opportunity, not risk.
"Break the rules. Max out your credit. Just get your product in front of people."

Do this at your own risk.
UK availability?
Warning: This website started to play a random video in the upper left corner for me. With audio.
huh? have you read the article?
In my experience, Emacs is excellent if you take the time to set it up to do as much as possible. Manage work with OrgMode, read email with any number of packages, edit code in one of the supported languages, send and receive messages. The less you have to leave the application, the more productive you are. There are 2 issues with this, the first is the sheer number of packages you need to install. Packages are a mixed blessing because they add so much, but if the person who wrote it stops working on it, you now need to take over or find something else. The second is the configuration. If you're willing to do all that work and keep it running, that's awesome.
The percentage change is "not meaningful": net income increased by 2100%! (non_sequitur commented on that point a few minutes before you asked, by the way)
Do you still take an Uber to the airport?
Prepare for a New Supercycle of Innovation
Opening counts as active.
If you wear your Apple watch while you sleep, when do you charge it?
you can't find safety in diversifying if it's also loading up on higher layers of fees.
Absolutely! The post mentions a little bit how pip is definitely used for distributing command-line applications, from fab to pex to ansible. So much so that pipsi[0] is a thing. Even the tiny static site generator used to generate the post is a CLI app that leans on PyPI for distribution[1]. The origins and designs for the tools listed are primarily for libraries. Entrypoints[2] and other features came much later. Use of these techniques is overextended when developer distribute nontrivial code on PyPI with a non-developer audience. People get a buggy install and conclude that Python packaging is the problem :)

As for the package manager crosstalk, I feel you. That's definitely a source of the demand for tools that create self-contained artifacts.

[0]: https://github.com/mitsuhiko/pipsi
[1]: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/chert
[2]: http://setuptools.readthedocs.io/en/latest/setuptools.html#a...
A "Run in Insomnia" button would be great which I could add to the API documentation of my project (like this insomnia://run?method=post&url=example.com%2Fapi%2F)
New study reveals which messaging app saves you the most data
You should have him sign some sort of work-for-hire / IP agreement. Absent such as an agreement, all of the work he does is owned by him, not your company.

Likely, he will refuse to sign such an agreement without compensation.
You also have a similar problem when you render opaque, rectangular images without the clamp edge mode, and the renderer is in tiling mode, so the borders wrap around when your picture is halfway between pixels and become a mix between the top/bottom or left/right colour, corrupting the edges. Easy to fix, but annoying until you get what it is that corrupts your edges.

Also: "The original color can still be retrieved easily: dividing by alpha will reverse the transformation."

C'mon, you can't say that and then make an example with alpha=0. Do you want me to divide by zero? The ability to store values in completely transparent pixels is lost.
Yes his talk was a big inspiration. We actually have an interview with his partner at Mule Design, Erika Hall.
> I'm guessing the big issue is the miss on Daily active users.

I'm guessing the big issue here is their losses doubled while only a small % of active users increased.

Just a guess tho.
>If a homeowner or homebuyer is paying someone to assess the value of a property, requiring expertise and training in inspection of a house such as materials, build quality, plumbing and whatnot, I could understand needing government approval.

I've seen how appraisers appraise, and this comment brought out a laugh.

Their estimate is really no better than Zillow's.

They spend about 15-20 minutes looking at the property. They primarily measure dimensions and look at cosmetic stuff (no "inspection" whatsoever). Then they look at comparables and make an appraisal.

I asked one of them how they handle various items in their appraisal (solar panels, etc). The answer? "I have no idea what to do with those things, so I just ignore them."

The reality is many buyers will value stuff that the appraiser just plain ignores. This causes problems because the seller cannot increase their price due to those items - when it comes time for the buyer to get a loan, the appraisal will come out lower than the sale price and the bank won't approve.

I recall when I bought my house, the real estate agent had access to the appraiser.

Lots and lots of problems with the appraisal business. I don't know how much they make, but it's a good racket to get into that requires minimal work and pays well ($400-800 per appraisal - they spend more time driving to houses than examining them).
I'm 21, thus I have no idea what roofs normally cost. I assume they're very very heavily below ~80k? For a "regular" house, what would a roof cost? 4k? 10k? 500?
Fintech let Australians use Bitcoin to pay $5M worth of everyday bills
You obviously haven't spent time in internet security! /s
It's interesting, I've done a lot of work on SQL Server in the past and agree with you (better query planner, better partitioning support etc). But I mostly work on Postgres day to date now though, and have been pretty productive.

I actually prefer T-SQL's MERGE, partly because it's easier to get the ID out of the matched row than with Postgres, which ignores a RETURNING clause if nothing changed, and if you _force_ an UPDATE creates a new row version and increments any sequences involved. So I suppose I've been annoyed by both.

Mostly agree on the rest though. In addition to the language support, just being able to create an aggregate in SQL is a bonus for me inside Postgres, without having to do it on the CLR in SQL Server.

I think if MS are quick to support 10.0 when it's out, I agree this'll be a intriguing platform.
They do have an Excel sheet that indicates their accuracy for each county. Eye opening.
Ben Graham and Buffett think diversifying increases risk. How well can you know one girl if your harem has thirty?

Statistical models are just models, not the real world.
> Microsoft is the worst at naming things.

My favourite example has to be Groove.

Groove Music [1] (formerly known as Xbox Music, Zune Music and Microsoft Groove), Groove Music Maker [2] (an unreleased Windows 10 app), Office Groove [3] (a.k.a. SharePoint Workspace) or Groove (now known as OneDrive for Business - the service formerly known as SkyDrive Pro) [4].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groove_Music

[2] https://www.thurrott.com/windows/windows-10/107963/creators-...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_SharePoint_Workspace

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OneDrive#OneDrive_for_Business
this should be. it's a market with few sales at high costs heavily interwinded with the mortgage market.

having a de facto monopoly on what's considered a fair value, rightly or wrongly, opens up bank people and real estate agents to all kind of manipulation.

by manipulating their equation they can help lowball the sales price of an entire area, they can both profit directly out of this, indirectly through stock manipulation and even cause trouble to the whole banking sector devaluing mortgadget properties

the housing sector is very, very delicate.
Here is a company that is focusing on just that - estimating real estate values (and selling those estimates): https://www.housecanary.com/
> How much social media activity/growth is not human?

As much as I agree with you, that kind of activity especially by first party or those related is called market manipulation. SEC and investors won't take lightly to it.
Ouch. That's not what I expected.
That great! The PyPA works hard to make pip+pypi behave intuitively. That said, a lot of more applications need more machinery, yielding utilities like pip-tools[0] and conda.

[0]: https://github.com/jazzband/pip-tools
the buzzword you want is Mathiness

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathiness
> Monopolies are problem ONLY IF their operations causes negative economic effects to consumers - typically by raising prices.

The more I think about it, the more it seems as thought we need to put a price tag on the data companies collect about users. Google may be raising prices all the time by tracking more and more data about you, but this is completely opaque because even though information is "the new oil" no one puts a real price tag on it.
Portfolio theory is useless for the rare skilled investors. In fact it's dead wrong. If you are skilled you want to concentrate in your best ideas, and you want high variance to improve your purchase and sale prices.

If you leverage though, you better know portfolio theory math and your risk of ruin.
>Facebook has 18 percent increase year over year. They have ~2B users.

That's nearly 2/3 of people on the planet with Internet connections, according to estimates by the ITU (approx 3B internet users by the end of 2016) [0]. Even if I believed that user figure, which I dont, there is no way Facebook can grow at the same rate for much longer.

[0] http://www.itu.int/en/ITU-D/Statistics/Documents/facts/ICTFa...
Very happy to see the Global Explorer ROV still out there, hard at work. This vehicle was Chris Nicholson's baby and it looks like the crew at Oceaneering are keeping his legacy going.

Chris was one of the early inventors / developers of ROV technology and he was famous in the ocean engineering world. He passed away suddenly in 2015.

Some background:

http://www.rovexchange.com/nc_interviews.php

http://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/explorations/15biolum/backgrou...

http://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/explorations/16arctic/logs/jul...

http://www.capenews.net/falmouth/obituaries/christopher-j-ni...
One of the Worlds First Physics Books Just Sold for Just Over $790,000
>And that's my point. You're only offended because it's in english (and that's fair).

I specifically said I would be sensitive to the offense it would cause in other languages, at least the major ones.
That would be awesome. I just added a (still undocumented) protocol handler to import remote files (like insomnia://app/import?uri=https://foo.bar/file.json).

Putting the data right in the URL would be awesome as well, though.
>The search for "significant" p-values with comparing precise predictions to data.

Problems:

1. Not sure we have a decent alternative.

2. While p-values are heavily used in some fields (social sciences, medicine, etc) they are not in others (e.g. physics). Yet those other disciplines still have similar problems.
Did you take into account the 30% federal tax credit on that 30k?

EDIT: That's sort of the kicker. A regular roof does not get a 30% federal tax credit (plus possible state incentives), nor does it produce power for 30+ years, nor does it have a lifetime warranty. If you can obtain low cost financing, you almost always come out ahead.
I bet he does, because Uber subsidizes over 50% of the ride. If they didn't, no one would take Uber.

It's not difficult to know how that particular story is going to end.
Where I live $80k is a significant portion of the cost of most houses. The price will be a significant barrier to entry for houses outside of hot real estate markets.
"Network appliances" were a big market for this kind of thing. We've also found it worked for us in the point-of-sale business.
When you put it like that, you have to wonder how they have any chance at all, save some crazy pivot.

From a consumer perspective, it's disappointing that Facebook controls itself and now this arena. It's gonna be hard to find innovation when purchasing and cloning are the way to do business.

In some circles, having an Instagram is as expected as having Facebook, which makes abstaining difficult.
Premultiplied alpha is also more "correct" in that it separates how much each pixel covers things behind it (the alpha value) from the amount of light it is reflecting or emitting (the color values). These two values should really be interpolated separately, and that's what premultiplied alpha gives you.
I think that's a dreadful article. We do know how neural networks work; they're a bunch of hierarchical probabilistic calculations that are pipelined. I don't really see how that couldn't work well; it's just hard to find the right probabilities. The difficulty is far more in the training than the working, and that's where the deep learning advances come in - inferring more parameters in a deeper hierarchy.

There's no relationship between a hierarchy of probabilistic estimations and a hierarchical decomposition of the cosmos. The cosmos forms an apparent hierarchy because of the rules that govern matter and the initial expansion of the universe. That a small number of parameters might be listed in describing both is neither here nor there. A small number of parameters describe the vectors in a font file. It doesn't follow that a typeface then has any relationship with my brain or the universe.

The article reads, to me, like this: neural networks are this cool hierarchy thing, the cosmos is this cool hierarchy thing, and both of these things have low Kolmogorov complexity, isn't it amazing that our brains are like this and can understand the universe, wow.
Most of these things require high production amounts which allow refinement and bulk orders.

The first Tesla Roadster's ended up being around $110K.

They're now doing Model 3's for $35K.

I expect the same with the roofs -- they will drop price drastically, but they need to get them out there first.
AFAIK, only the stock and Asuswrt-Merlin firmware builds support Broadcom's proprietary acceleration (ctf.ko). On my RT-N66U, WAN throughput can hit 870 Mbps. Without it, I max out around 170 Mbps.

If there's a way to run OpenWRT / LEDE and get gigabit speeds out of a router, someone please let me know. :)
This is one of the ugliest financial statements I've ever seen. The multi-billion dollar loss is due mostly to stock compensation, but still their COGS or cost of revenues sold was greater than their revenues. That's probably the first time that's been seen for a sizable software company in the history of the industry.

They said their revenue per DAU is $.90 and their server costs per DAU were $.60...so that means server costs were around $100mn while total COGS were $160 mn. So what was that other $60 mn spent on? Admins? But I thought they used the Google App Engine infrastructure to avoid any server admins and such.

Their revenues are exploding with their revenue up nearly 400% from last year, but were below estimates as was user growth which are probably causing the current stock price drop.
From the complaint:

> ... the “Wizards Wanted” section of its website. Indeed, given that a “wizard” generally is defined as “a man who has magical powers,” and virtually without exception images of wizards are male, Magic Leap’s recruiting verbiage contains a not-so-subtle “women-need-not-apply” message.

Ummm... technically there is an equivalent 'typically female' term for a woman with magical powers.

I think Magic Leap would still be in trouble if they had used that term in their recruiting literature.
It's totally fair to just balk at the price.

Someone that doesn't install solar can sell the home without worrying about recovering that cost.
Current accuracy, or full historical accuracy? I am surprised they open that kimono voluntarily.
The software equivalent of limiting pre-fabricated building pieces, wind turbines, space shuttles etc. by the size of the largest bridge they must pass, or other constraints of rail or canal delivery.
I know. Aren't we talking about SNAP's earning?

Edit: Nevermind. I replied to the wrong comment.
You don't really need machine learning to do comps. There are literally dozens of tools to do this accurately.

Zillow just sucks for a variety of reasons that have more to do with Zillow than anything else.
Pwn2Own 2017: UAF in JSC::CachedCall (WebKit)
Microsoft's 'Project Emma' is a wearable for Parkinson's disease sufferers
GUN 0.7, P2P Graph Database That Runs in the Browser with GraphQL
True.

It should not be so hard.

The obstacles to a smooth deploy is most often more related to bureaucracy rather than technical implementation.

I'd say it's possible to automate almost any application update process, if you spend enough time and effort on it.

Our applications also have indirections upon indirections, and the amortised time we have spent on maintaining that mess could easily have funded a one-click deploy and then some...
Who wants to buy a social media platform that's not growing?
We changed the URL from https://blog.google/products/google-vr/welcoming-owlchemy-la... to one with a little more information.
That's a very misleading chart.

(1) The solar tiles aren't actually on the chart. If they were, they'd have to extend the scale more than twice as wide as what's shown, out to past $40 per square foot based on their calculator.

(2) The bar that is on the chart is for their "non-solar" tiles, plain glass squares. That's the one that's twice as long as the bar for asphalt tiles.

The solar glass tiles are actually more like 10x the cost of asphalt shingles, including installation.
That's true. "Any water" is a material necessity (I think I'd argue "any sewer" too, if you plan to not pick up and nomad yourself around every few weeks). If you can self-supply it, that's fine.
This article mentions that Google Plus had a staff of greater than 1,000:

> Plus, by comparison, had upwards of 1,000 [people on staff], sucked up from divisions across the company.

http://mashable.com/2015/08/02/google-plus-history/
> And Patrick Ky, a European safety regulator, told Reuters that his agency wants airlines to avoid placing all the electronic devices in checked baggage being in the same container in the cargo hold.

How on earth are they are going to handle the logistics of that?
I'd love to be super powerful on emacs on Windows behind corporate firewalls... However, emacs doesn't speak NTLM :-(
Thinking about it, we are lucky that Debian used Gandi instead of StartCom too.
Would like to hear more about any software safety course, beta or not.
Does this architecture improve on 64-bit integer performance? Have any of the GPU manufacturers said anything about that? At some point it becomes a necessity for address calculations on large arrays.
The image happens to be in part of the page that on most pages would be occupied by an ad. So I ignored it out of habit.

Put it under the text and I would have found it immediately.
And who will blow the whistle? One person could deploy a bot army to juice numbers.

On a related note, the market itself is controlled by HFT bots. Don't rock the boat too much and no one is the wiser.

Edit: Would love to some actual debate on this rather than downvotes with no context. I have deployed many bots for fun to twitter and reddit. I could easily do the same on Instagram, Snap or Facebook. I could even make them look "Kinda real" with markov chain driven text input. Super, duper easy.
Machine Learning is not the future
Duplicate of front page post...
Video Game Raised $148M from Fans. Now It’s Raising Concerns
Microsoft's social voting brigade is out in force today because of Microsoft's annual convention thing.

Today HN is a safe space for Microsoft supporters.
Looks like these roofs take about 30 years to pay for themselves?
Make sure to take a look at Debezium: http://debezium.io/

It's a really solid CDC framework which has connectors for PostgreSQL, MySQL and MongoDB.
Oh good, so poor people in the ghetto would have to slog their way through checkout themselves more than we privileged people would, shopping as we do in more profitable stores.

Otherwise if you mean that all of a retailer's stores should have self-checkout in equal measure, then we're back to square one: The same places are as less profitable as the more profitable ones. Why impose this deeply unwanted downgrade on your already profitable stores?

I'm not making an argument about market mechanics. I'm just saying that it's dishonest for a retailer to claim self-checkout is about anything other than the obvious.

If providing groceries to food deserts were really a motive for these cost savings, there is one thing they could do to promote self-checkout that would absolutely work where all of those other efforts in the article don't: Offer the tiniest token discount for doing it yourself.

But they don't, and there's the answer.
I'm building a web app for tracking your steam gaming habits. I don't really play games anymore so my profile is boringly empty but here's a page for a guy I know who plays a lot:

http://162.243.163.202/profiles/76561198074712603

I'm using chart.js but since I only have two charts so far I'm free to change my charting library. Maybe even to OP's Britecharts or your library.

Here's the source btw: https://github.com/veggiedefender/steamlog