skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Now I know that the PyPA guys do a ton of work to make all this stuff less brittle, and indeed, Python packaging has improved a lot over the years. But overall it's still brittle, complex, difficult to debug and reproduce, and generally falls apart randomly with a frequency that does not inspire trust.
At least in the Bay Area, Zillow et al. are decent for getting a decently accurate ballpark figure in mind. A lot of sale prices are clearly put up below market to grab attention, knowing that the sale price is very likely to exceed it by a wide margin.

Here in many parts of the Bay, you'll get laughed at and promptly ignored if you try and use these "zestimates" to try and put downward pressure on the price. Sellers here have many offers to chose from, leading buyers to compete not just on price, but even dropping certain contingencies to push the deal through.
It didn't include Signal? Not as good a comparison as I'd like to see.
Not sure why all the negative energy.

They are going after the portion of the market that would replace their roof with a high end material, and are interested in solar.

If you are a home owner in this situation, you could consider investing into your home. The roof will pay dividends over the next 30 years, and is attractive and durable.

I think it will do extremely well. Perhaps the best opportunity is in new construction. Imagine having 50k more baked into your mortgage, but having your roof lower your ongoing energy costs! Great potential in that market, could also optimize the roof designs for power generation.
> At the event, Musk said Tesla's roof would price competitively with normal roofs and could even cost less.

I think we may need to start applying a "multiplier" to any costs or delivery dates that Elon mentions. I love him to death but he does have quite a history of underestimating these things.
While it's far better than other competitors, my asphalt roof was 7k, 30 year warranty rated to 120mph winds. Still a long way to go on the pricing part.

Super happy this is even a thing, 10 years ago this would have seemed like science fiction.
I think it requires having respect for your co-workers as human beings.
Nice, starting new project and this looks like the way to go for us. Postgres <3 Need to check if available in Japan yet
Submitted post title is deliberately misleading. Should end with "It is the present".
I'm so absolutely excited for solar power. Tesla's Solar Roof, their PowerWall batteries, electric cars. It's all just painting such a bright future. Certainly Tesla has no monopoly on it, but they've made it sexy and are pushing the bleeding edge forward. Props to them.

We recently signed a contract to do an installation on our house (with a local contractor, not SolarCity). It can't happen soon enough! We'll have enough panels and batteries to be 100% off-grid throughout the entire year, plus get a good chunk of change back from the Net Metering every year. Pay off is only 8 years!

That installation is enough to cover our normal electric usage. Longer term I want to replace our gas appliances with electric and replace the car with a Tesla. Then we can double our solar installation to keep pace and BAM we will be 100% clean energy and off-grid. All while saving a bucket of money.

The thought of running off grid in the middle of a Southern California suburb? People might think me crazy, but guess what? At least we're doing our small part to save the planet, and saving money doing it. So who's the crazy one?
How to create a serverless microservice with AWS Lambda
The express train of irrationality that is this administration has finally & thoroughly plowed indiscriminately through partisans of all stripes.
I live in a hot real estate market (L.A.), and I've spent about 5 minutes (no exaggeration) looking online at the prices of houses in my neighborhood, knowing the actual closing price of recent sales, and my first thought was that prices were about 10-20% below market value.

It's funny that this is obvious to someone like myself who has spent virtually no time dealing with real estate, let alone people heavily entrenched in the process.
40% of Android Devices at Risk of Screen Hijack Exploit
Do you see Redfin eating a traditional realtor's lunch?
No, this hasn't ever been a thing. This is just stupidity on the side of the developers.

You may be thinking about DNS hijacking by ISPS, but not non-200 issues. There are bound to be some terrible apps out there that respond badly as well, but that's really no excuse.
Not true, anyone could take them to a sleep lab and compare to Polysomnograph-based sleep scoring. I'd love to see a large, independent study on this for a couple of the leading trackers.
Government and Finance Are the Most Targeted Sectors of CyberAttacks
Mentioning just "two diagrams", instead of pounding the point more abundantly, reminded me of the just-right factor highlighted by a saying I saw quoted elsewhere:

“A martini is like women’s breasts. One is not enough, and three is too many.”
Adding even further to your point, Facebook is actually #5 over Berkshire.
Sure it's the point. If they don't actually hit a $35,000 price then it is a bit much to credit them for bringing the price down to $35,000.
Git-stacktrace: Easily figure out which Git commit caused a given stacktrace
Might want to try (disclaimer: mine) https://github.com/amark/gun then, it is a cross-browser graph database (that supports relational/table based data) and has live streaming updates like Firebase. Plus, a SQL query engine is in the works for it too. And it currently does 15M+ ops/sec so it won't be slow.

I've made quite a bit of effort to make error reporting as intuitive as possible, but admittedly this always needs to be improved. But the community is pretty active and always around to help if there are problems. :)
Is that a significant amount?
I had to do a similar thing with the Gitlab logo[0] (and it's still messed up on their marketing sites). There are limitations to the SVG renderers in browsers (and elsewhere), it is kinda sad that we don't have AGG-quality rendering as a standard feature of browsers these days. :- (

[0]: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/merge_requests/2741
>And 20% is a huge error. Even 10% off is huge for most people.

Found a screenshot that on nerdwallet that shows some of that for Zestimates in a few large cities:
https://assets.nerdwallet.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/1...

Basically showing they are only within 20% of the actual sales prices ~80% of the time. That's pretty lousy.
Where is the finance option?
Sadly the "I worked st google, give me money" angle seems to work pretty well since there's a lot of dumb money in the valley lately? (Small upstart seed funds with partners with very little track record / weak deal flow)
Considering how long Tesla has been in existence and how financially leveraged Tesla is I would take discount warranty value (lifetime of house or infinity whatever comes first).

Can't project finances much more than 10 years max. At the moment cost of capital is low but that may well change in that time-frame. Things have to make sense in a decade or so also considering that this new technology that is obsoleted by incremental innovation.
"Magician"? Works for all genders, too!
Dell EMC Upgrades Flash in High-End Storage While Eyeing NVMe
Nonsense. For the judge to award your money to a complainant, they need to have a loss and you need to be legally liable for the loss. The fact that they have a loss is not itself a cause of action. The fact that you caused the loss is still not a cause of action.
Impatient for Fabrics, Micron Forges Its Own NVM-Express Arrays
Zillow is a Seattle company, or are all tech companies just considered to be part of Silicon Valley now?
Aww, just checked my Paint Shop Pro 4.12 (Build Date: Dec 21 1996) and it doesn't yet have these picture frames :/
I don't find it controversial, and it isn't altogether interesting, but I would like it if it were better communicated. I've cleaned up code that dogmatically followed a interface-per-class policy.
I'd love to use emacs as my primary editor. But it's too slow compared to sublime.
"Magician" is gender-neutral and ideal, but not "typically female".
She probably interacts with the sponsored filters and graphics if nothing else.
I don't see anything about safety for dynamic, memory management in that link. It just talks about correctness. I'm specifically wanting affine types and ownership system that let SPARK go from static to dynamic.

I do like them splitting it into several levels, though. That worked under Orange Book for security.
Tell that to the $300k earners in SV who feel that they are not doing okay because they cannot afford to buy a nice house in a nice area.
It would be more accurate to say that the original color can be approximated. The approximation quality goes down as the transparency goes up, until at zero it gets lost entirely.
Business travellers with stateside offices will probably be told to leave their data on the intranet and their laptop at home, they'll get a loaner in the US. There's a market here for someone to start a rental laptop business (just like rental cars at airports), but any intelligent business would never allow their employees to touch such a laptop..
Hopeful about having more Daydream content, as well as content for other VR setups.

(Though what I'd really like is a Tilt-Brush, even a "lite" version, on a next gen Pixel or PSVR,
Snapchat Parent Posts $2.2B Loss in First Quarterly Report; Stock Plunges
5 Million / 50K (worse if you use 65K) = 100 Snaps per spectacle over a 90 day period = 1 Snap per spectacle per day. Thats super low engagement. For one its not going to alleviate any growth concerns. I see an Apple buyout looming.
Routers should run open source software so vulnerabilities can be patched by the community.

Routers manufacturers wants to push the latest hardware for profit. The only reason router manufacturers want to patch security vulnerabilities is negative press articles. Negative press would hurt future sales so its better to patch the current product line. When current product line is no longer sold security patches stops but the use of the device by its users Continues.

This is the reason we need to open source everything.

If it can be hacked it will be hacked.
In my mind, they're not as reputable after having given Rony Abovitz a platform to perform that "fudge". Just watch the video, if you can stomach it, all the way through. And read the comments, like this one:

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Nick Steele 2 years ago (edited)

This is a joke. Take it for what it is. They didn't want to say anything so they basically said "are you ready? READY? ... fuck you".

After a completely ridiculous intro which includes nano machines humping blood cells and two crack monkeys worshiping a massive block of "demented space fudge" which takes up 75% of the talk until 4:30, right after 30 seconds of literal silence, a spaceman says "greetings" and introduces today's "keyword" which is "fudge", then a guy plays terrible music out of tune and sings half-way into the mic. Then the lights suddenly go out and the crack moneys and space man simply walk away.

Keep in mind the audience thinks they are about to hear a billionaire explain his new "world changing" virtual/augmented reality technology, then they get this shit.

The best part is the audiences reaction at the end. :)﻿

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And if that's not enough proof that Magic Leap is a fraud, then watch their completely fake demo, that they originally did not truthfully bill as a "concept video" but instead they falsely and deceptively titled it "Just another day in the office at Magic Leap" and described it with the blatantly false claim that "This is a game we’re playing around the office right now". But since then, the title and description have been retroactively amended, AFTER they got busted.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPMHcanq0xM

https://www.theverge.com/2016/12/8/13894000/magic-leap-ar-mi...

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/12/09/magic_leap_neither_...

https://www.slashgear.com/magic-leap-video-may-have-involved...

http://www.techspot.com/news/67342-reality-magic-leap-fake-d...

https://www.theverge.com/2016/12/8/13894000/magic-leap-ar-mi...

http://time.com/3752343/magic-leap-video/

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That last Time article above was written BEFORE they got busted, and it cites a Magic Leap company spokesman (and I'm pretty sure it was a man) mendaciously lying to the rightfully skeptical (and eventually vindicated) Time reporter:

It's unclear whether the video shows an actual game overlaid onto a real-world office space or just an artistic rendering of what the game might look like in the future. The way the gun rests so realistically in the gamer's hand certainly raises suspicions. Still, a company spokesperson confirmed to Gizmodo that the video was authentic.

"This is a game we’re playing around the office right now," Magic Leap wrote on its official YouTube account.

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The game they were playing (and still are) is called FRAUD.
> Civil courts exist to provide monetary damages if damages can be proved to exist.

Civil courts exist to provide remedy for non-criminal violation of the law; award of damages (actual, statutory, punitive, or otherwise) is one form of civil remedy, but not the only one available.
It'll only track your stats if you're signed up, so hit the log in button! Steam doesn't provide any history data (either they don't collect it or they don't share it) so I have to manually request the profile of each user I'm tracking from their API.

relevant logging code: https://github.com/veggiedefender/steamlog/blob/master/steam...
Why don't banks (or even Tesla for that matter) finance such roofs upfront? It seems they can make money out of this.
Beats me. Maybe they have a warehouse full of them they can't get rid of. Maybe they can barely keep up with demand, I don't know. They're very cheap, it's a minimum viable product, but I'm expecting some next gen product from Snap somewhere down the line that may include some sort of HUD if not full on AR, based on their patents.
Machine learning procedures stored inside a SQL server ???

How ugly can that be?
Were those full-time? Ten days isn't a long time, in any case. Looks pretty nice.
They fell victim to the 3rd classic blunder, never over-estimate the attention span of teens when your core product offering is on the line
This is the same in Seattle, where a house's asking price can be 550, its zestimate (or Redfin estimate) will be around 570, and the price it actually goes for invariably ends up around 700. This has been the case for months, and it can almost seem like some sort of conspiracy between realtors and these meta-agencies to game the market. There are plenty of comps that show prices are WAY above what the 'estimates' show, and yet these professionals are seemingly oblivious. Fear of another 2008? Too much success drumming up bidding wars by underpricing? Whatever the reason, it's pretty infuriating as a buyer because it creates a sort of information asymmetry which makes a major decision really painful.
> Tesla's calculator estimates $40,500 for a roof that generates half our power needs, and should provide $20,400 worth of energy over 30-years.

This depends quite strongly on where you are. Your numbers are very close to the ones I get if I use my correct address, which is in the Puget Sound area of Washington State.

If I keep everything the same except the address, changing that to one in Merced, California, then it says I'd get $75000 worth of energy over 30 years.

PS: it looks like they try to use the address for more than just finding the location in order to estimate how much sun is available. I tried an address that I had lived at in Pasadena, California, and it did not ask me for the house size and number of floors. Instead, it did the calculation using about 6000 sq ft, which is about the size of the apartment building that is at that address. For my Seattle-area and Merced addresses, it did ask me for the house information.
No evidence P.T. Barnum ever said that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There%27s_a_sucker_born_every_...
Add in the various types of metal roofs and the price can double for a similar sized house.
If you were just doing image compositing would this be an issue? I can easily imagine how that would adversely effect a 3d game where the images are used as texture maps and the values of the diffuse texture map may change from other lighting contributions and shaders. It seems like in that case doing some kind of HDR/higher precision texturing would be good right?

Disclaimer: not a graphics programmer just a hobbyist seeking clarification. :)
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14296034 and marked it off-topic.
Lucky for you next generation will accelerate internet. Save your money.
People keep overlooking the objective value of not relying on "grid" power sources. Power goes off, your system keeps going. Gasoline supply stops (I've seen that a few times), you can just power your car at home. Your system fails, grid is likely still up to cover.

Supply-and-demand takes a sharp turn when supply is actually limited and can/does run out. At that point, having pre-paid for your own uninterrupted off-grid supply is worth a whole lot more.
The article suggests why 1:1 won't be adequate, there will still be interpolation when the position isn't on a pixel boundary.

In practical applications the reduced color gamut isn't a problem, your ability to discriminate the colors goes down as the transparency goes up. It would only be a problem if you were trying to convert the pixels to something less transparent than they started.
Hey, maybe this can save the dying tablet market?
That is not how the FTC sees it.
But how does getting an appraisal license protect bank people and real estate agents? Isn't an appraiser subject to the same moral shortcomings as any regular person?

And only allowing state licensed appraisers to give value estimates does exactly what you are trying to avoid. It creates a state owned monopoly on housing estimates.

Zillow would lose credibility and it would hurt the core of their business if it was found that they company was purposely deceiving people about the value of their homes so that they could directly profit from it. They might also open themselves up to legal repercussions in that case for just plain old fraud as well.
Interesting to see this as Oculus is dumping their content generators (defunding Oculus Story Studio)
It seems so: https://github.com/cpitclaudel/emacs/blob/master/lisp/net/nt...
Or use cntlmproxy.
witch. wizardess? sorceress is born with powers, without the need for historical documents slash knowledge or training and practice. they can coast through life.
it's a fork! https://github.com/pinterest/git-stacktrace
American browser with access to all my data I visit during surfing? No thanks.

Especially because I live in America.
This is why each property is valued on a sq. foot cost. It naturally includes the "depreciation" of the structure and the land cost.

1. empty buildable lot (with zoning restrictions on max # buildable sq. feet)
2. tear down (add demo fees and maybe requirement to retain existing foundation to avoid extra taxes).
3. rehab
4. new construction

Which is normalized by location... rehab may cost more then new construction depending on the location and if it was a flip.

A $1m tear down can become a $2m+ house, or 4-5 $500k condos.
The current headline, "Stanford adopts JavaScript, drops Java for its intro to CS curriculum" is incorrect. Stanford is piloting two new classes one in JavaScript and the other in Python to determine the effort, benefits, and downsides of moving the introductory class away from Java[1]. The main introductory class, CS106A, is still being taught in Java[2].

[1] From a Facebook comment posted by one of the CS106* instructors: "We are running some experimental CS1 offerings. One of them is "106J" in JavaScript. Another, likely in Python, will be tried next winter. None of these replaces 106A; they're offered concurrently as smaller experimental classes because instructors wanted to try out other approaches. If one of these approaches proves to be really awesome, maybe someday we'd consider switching A to it. But we have no plans to do such right now. There are some rumors about this based on one misquoted news article, but they are false."

[2] http://explorecourses.stanford.edu/search?view=catalog&filte...
Blueshirt associates at Firstround, aka the Yale rowing team.
This is an obsession of mine, but I'm not a professional. I dated/ lived with a Realtor for ~20mo, and I asked lots of questions about the workflow of the business.

I don't think Redfin has much of an edge in go-to-market strategy. Redfin's allows for more comprehensive data (MLS access because of membership), and Zillow's allows for scalability. Sales data sometimes show 3 months lag from time of transaction and entry into the county clerk's records which gives the MLS quite an edge itself.
It's not really a lifetime warranty though. If you click through to the Tesla purchasing page, there is (only) a 30 years Power Warranty and Weatherization Warranty... which in my mind renders calling it a lifetime warranty sort of silly, as the purpose of the shingles (power generation) is not covered by the lifetime portion of the warranty. 30 years still seems like a significant warranty for a product like this though.
I wonder how much VC money you could raise for a block chain based consent app. Basically, it allows two or people to agree on consent for specific acts then at the end of the encounter everybody can verify nothing nonconsensual occurred. If anybody disagrees, it automatically calls the police so everything can get sorted out while evidence and memories are fresh. Everything is saved to the block chain so it cannot be modified.
That's because 4.12 didn't have partial transparency.
haven't come across this idea before, interesting - will definitely have to give it some more thought. our 'distributed joins', so to speak, run through our distributed query execution model (distsql) setting up incremental 'stages' of computation with the results pipelined and plumbed through individual computes. viewing it through this model our implementation more closely resembles the Grace Hash Join[1] algorithm. you might be interested in the PR[2] that landed this changeset, there's a cool visualization in one of the comments[3] showing the query execution plan.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hash_join#Grace_hash_join

[2]: https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/pull/12221

[3]: https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/pull/12221#issuecom...
No, Mac. Since this is, after all, a story about VS on Mac, and you didn't make it clear in your comment, it was an inferrence I made.
Did you just assume that there are only two genders?
> You clearly should do your research first.

Personal swipes are not welcome on Hacker News. This kind of thing degrades discussions rapidly, so please edit it out of your posts here.

We detached this subthread from
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14290895 and marked it off-topic.
Just last month, Google also (acqui)hired the Soundstage VR developer: https://www.theverge.com/2017/4/7/15216720/soundstage-vr-dev...
I assumed she was referring to the ones with the overlay text of "Shot directly through Magic Leap technology..." Maybe you're right though.
>If I 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.

Are you doing the math all in present dollars? Because the return is 7% after inflation but >10% before. So you'd have >500.000 in 2047 dollars. In this case it's important to do that adjustment because you're doing an investment upfront for payoffs over 30 years so the value of money adjustment is extremely important. It should only make your case stronger though if you haven't done that yet.
It depends on the person's post history...
No, because we simply don't compare elephants with fruits, we also don't compare a text editor with an operating system.