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That is a UX problem, though. The comparable problem in the 'old' financial system is legislative and cultural. I have tremendous faith that the rough UX edges of cryptocurrencies will get smoothed out by designers and coders looking to make a buck on-boarding people. I don't have the same faith regarding the vested interests of the existing financial infrastructure.
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It does. I use heroku dataclips to get data out of a database and import it into google sheets using importdata. It's really simple and for my use case incredibly useful.
>In general learning to code is up there with learning to read and write and math

I think most people only need to read and write. Many skip writing. In many intellectual circles it is even regarded as slightly charming to be innumerate. These are people who take pride in their knowledge. How can math and coding be applied to a retail job? A shift worker at Zara isn't going to be allowed to integrate their code with the Inditex backend.
What about an addon that participates in a BTC mining pool and expends dividends to websites you visit?
Shouldn't realtors just be forced to compete?
> 450,000 cents is about 5 thousand a month.

Assume that one person works full time on it. $5,000 a month is $60,000 a year. Subtract hosting costs and it's a relatively low income for one person who has the skills necessary to build and administer such a web site.

> not too shabby

It is actually a little shabby.
Mark my words: This will be the basis for legitimizing out-of-band popups from publishers on Chrome asking you to disable your non-Chrome ad blocker.
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Some of us see P2P cryptocurrencies as a way to opt out of government regulation. Governments can't regulate entities that maintain strong anonymity. Most vulnerable are asset movements to and from meatspace. But there are well-known methods for dealing with that.
Why would you make this assumption instead of just read the Better Ad Standards page to see what it's about?
So shops inflate prices just to make it harder to ddos. Oh, shi~
The UI somehow reminds me the Tableau https://www.tableau.com/new-features/10.0 but much more keyboard friendly by leveraging *inx command line. BTW, Tableau is a $6B industry.

I too agree with putting up a screencast or a free lite version.
But that's not the subtext of how it's being used when journalist/political people/noncoders use it. They specifically are saying a vast majority of people should just learn to program, do it full time, and it will solve all our economic woes. Computer skills are useful, no doubt. But they are not a universal panacea for everyone in the workforce. That inspires a new word for these blurts people mak: Friedmanism, in honor of Tom Friedman of the NYT.
Not quite. If you had income generating assets before rates were reduced, you benefited greatly.

And credit can still be tight when rates are zero (or negative). Low rates as they stand hurt those that are trying to save.
Barcelona has had a huge market for apartment sharing since long before Airbnb. I travelled there in 2000 and remember stepping off the train into the train station and being bombarded with people offering a room to stay in their place for a reasonable fee. As I knew from research this was going to happen that's exactly what I planned on doing. I picked the most trustworthy-seeming person I could find and stayed in their place for a week. Had an amazing time.

Full credit to Airbnb for bringing this process into the digital/smartphone age, but the roots for this in some cities, like Barcelona, was always there.
I dropped in on a physics class at my uni and i was surprised at how poor the students understanding of physics was. These are super sharp people and they struggled with simple problems. Its because they learn in this testing way. They dont actually understand the material. Thats the most direct example of this problem that ive seen. In order to fully understand things like you ought to, you have to take the initiative yourseld on top of studying for tests that are often made arbitrarily hard with memorization and other things of that nature. Most of the college kids i know dont really know anything. And just like this article said, they are only good at gaming the system and advancing their own self interests. There is no big picture. They never wonder how they might be changing society and they never wonder how they might want to shape society. Even my 40 year old room mates dont. Its a death scentence for this country. An absolutely lethal development. I think the recent political developments are only the beginning of things to come due to this problem of apathy.
Bitcoin does much more than that though. It gives you sovereignty. If you've ever tried to get illegitimate bank fees refunded, you may recognize the value of this. When you and the bank disagree about whether or not a fee was appropriate, you have no recourse. Your account balance is what they say it is, and they may choose to deduct what they like from it. This is not possible in Bitcoin. In Bitcoin, nobody else can originate a transaction from your account. Only the holder of your private key may do that.

The existing money/payment ecosystem is pull. Vendors, merchants, and banks pull money from your account. Bitcoin and other cryptos are push. You push money to others. Push is obviously the right underlying architecture for a financial system. Pull architectures are singularly responsible for basically all credit card fraud, for instance.
I think they figure that those who fell for "don't be evil" outnumber those of us who saw through it from the start.
Interesting site, especially when comparing neighboring countries. France and Germany, the Scandinavian countries, or Chile and Argentina. Chile for example has less than half the population of Argentina but burn 800% more coal in total during 2014. Germany has 30% more population than France but burn 1500% more coal. Denmark is half the population than Sweden but burn 500% more coal.

How valuable is knowing population size in order to predict coal usage?
This app is very cool. Do you have a plan to add projection mode in addition to crosssection?
Good point, but I would argue that people who don't care today might start to care tomorrow when the intelligence they unwittingly provided is used against them. Taking advantage of people's ignorance is not the same as allowing for real informed consent.
Why do you say it's a zero sum game? If I've learnt anything from my time in finance, it's that the market is definitely not zero sum. The prices you see represent sentiment, not a hard valuation, and someone isn't necessarily losing when you gain. If you really think about it, even entire economies aren't really zero sum as our method of valuation is intrinsically subjective!
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being a realtor is a sales job. the good ones know this - they don't care where the listings and the numbers come from, they do the footwork and hit the phones hard, to sellers, to agents, to bankers, to government agencies, to lawyers, to engineers, to appraisers, to everyone involved, which can sometimes be wasted time, in order to get their clients into successful deals first, meaning FAST.

when i was buying my place my realtor was sending me links from zillow, redfin, his MLS, his agency's private listings, even fucking craigslist, everything. he would send me stuff on weekends, after hours, even midnight. i culled the list down and he spent time setting up a viewing on every single one i asked for. the more listings the better, in his eyes. i referred him to 2 of my friends, both of whom bought places through him also.
VueJS is smaller, the API is different (so get your opinions​ ready). React has react native and a year head start on ecosystem maturity.
I use R for almost all quantitative tasks but not as a trading platform. It's great for research and testing though.
I have a friend who does real estate in DC who pays Zillow thousands per month to be on the forefront of all the incoming leads. It reminds me a ton of Yelp.

Seems to me like the realtors are probably right, zillow is throwing their weight around to make more money, but realtors are very incentivized to fight back against zillow.
Is there any credence to the claim that Zillow's "zestimates" are frequently inaccurate? If not, then I don't see any legitimacy behind this movement.

Edit: I ask because the populist-y invective on this site raises red flags for me, but I also don't know anything about this industry.
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It's my feeling they're pissed off because they cannot artificially inflate markets by telling their clients that they have to bid 18% over asking for a house.
Ask HN: Why multiples of 512 of the Cellular Automata panels show dark canvases?
Why do multiples of '512' using the Wolfram alpha Automata panels show dark gray canvases?

(For example, 512,1024,2048, etc...)

https://www.wolframcloud.com/objects/sw-blog/capanels
This isn't a dupe. The previous release was 3132, this is 3133. It fixes regressions and adds new features.
Zillow isn't competing with realtors. It is, however, arguably giving low-ball valuations on homes, which reduces the realtor commission amount.
Wow yeah another one that seems to have rooted itself... There's Coda as well which I forgot about.

It seems that there's the 3 big native editors, sublime the "native" editor, then the electron apps.

I'm visualizing a niche: something with all of the benefits of the electron gang, sublime, and the native performance and stability. I'm sure it's a bit of a project.
All they had to do is to ask you to write down the answer before you heard it. And then compare to the actual answer.
I think it's also a worker quality issue. FedEx has never had an issue finding my apartment, being on time and the package has never "just disappeared but we swear it was delivered!"

UPS or USPS? Not so much. I'm in the Bay Area but I've noticed the same trend in both Vancouver and the Denver area so I do think it could be a widespread thing. The UPS people just don't seem to care as much or be as competent as the FedEx people.
Getting advice from a woman on how to get a woman to date you is like asking a fish how you can catch other fish.

Look at what woman do, not what they say.
More specifically: only if you will be storing/transmitting data in UTF-16. If you're using UTF-8, base85 is much better.
Oh, tell me more, anonymous coward! Your perception knows no bounds.
I'm pretty ambivalent about this. In some sectors you hear the story "he got paid $40 an hour to change light bulbs" but in other sectors (teachers?) workers are still chronically underpaid and mistreated.

In short: you can't make black and white generalizations about these things. In some cases a union still makes sense, in others they've become dead weight or obsolete.
If you are just gambling with math at home, dont bother. If you want to understand finance like the op, better start learning. They have phds and cfas...
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Its not zillow that is buying your house but zillow is acting as a broker to connect you to investors who are making offers. So i'm not sure how the accuracy of zestimates comes into play here.
The last step doesn't work. I mean, you might as well declare the cash as income. You'd be pressed to explain where either came from.

More useful would be to buy Bitcoin with cash, mix, and then invest assets somewhere anonymously. But it's a hard problem, because wherever assets appear in meatspace, there's typically the need to explain their origin. That's where many people get caught. Such as Tomáš Jiříkovský of Sheep Marketplace infamy.
I don't have a lot of confidence in the skills of a real estate agent over whatever it is that Zillow does to determine the price of homes. From what I've seen real estate agents barely have the skills required to take photos and fill in descriptive fields.
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That is "pay to block ads" and doesn't cover the OP's use case of "pay to use this site" (afaik, I could be wrong). That use case is important for sites that don't want to use ads in the first place.
The whole reason we need bitcoin is to circumvent these unjust and immoral laws. If the united states wants to maintain the predominance of the US Dollar as a medium of exchange and a reserve currency, the best thing it could do is repeal the Bank Secrecy Act and dismantle FinCEN.
I managed 4 by stacking vertically as quickly as possible and then trying to fill out horizontally.

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> Despite the overwhelming negative reaction in that discussion thread, Google decided to go ahead with it. What does that really say about Google and friends?

It says "Google is a very large corporation employing tens of thousands of people which does not make decisions based on discussions by a few individuals posting anonymously on a web forum".
>It is actually a little shabby.

Perhaps in many parts of the US, but plenty of places elsewhere in the world, this is a really attractive salary.
This is half the price of Backblaze B2 for the actual storage and supports SFTP and rsync. Unlike Backblaze and Amazon Glacier, incoming traffic is not free and is priced at $0.011/GB. (~$1 per 100GB)
One application of these projections would be a point light source in the 4-th Dimension that would be obscured by solid 4-D toys and subsequently cast 4-D shadow "voxel maps" into the 3-D cube space. Having shadows and radiosity illumination would absolutely help with the "disappearing" cubes problem during game play. But it represents a substantial calculation for real-time physics and rendering engines.
I like your escrow idea as well. Sort of a decentralized crowdfunder for software projects.

Hell that idea could be scaled up to include anything, really
Scalability is part of TensorFlow's claimed advantages. If someone adopts TF on their own cluster, would they get the same scalability story as marketed?

Disclaimer: I work at Microsoft.
FIY, I have seen this ad several times. I have sent an email asking for more info and never got any response. I'm wondering how serious they are
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Just because Zillow facilitates a connection between the buyer/seller doesn't mean the seller isn't going to have an attorney. Heck, in NY even the lending bank has an attorney (which the buyer pays for).
It's hosted on Medium and that's the app it's talking about. I still don't know why anyone would do that though.

I was confused by this a while back on the Slack engineering blog - "why would I want to open this in Slack??"
One thing I learned on a trip to Kerala is that most people in the region actually burn their garbage - the government doesn't provide disposal service. While I'm sure the particulate and chemical emissions of this practice are awful, I'm curious about this carbon implications.
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Regarding the arxiv link on verification methods, I'd be careful reading too much into the summary tables. The authors don't appear to have done their homework there (they overstate the C&A accomplishments of the company I work at and our competitors).

On an unrelated note, I'm pleasantly surprised to see a tech report I contributed to as an undergrad cited - How on earth did they find it?
> Unions annoy me. Working conditions 75 years ago were truly deadly, and unions served a major purpose to humanize the work force.

Just because a company isn't literally trying to kill you or introduce hazardous conditions for the sake of maximizing profits doesn't mean that unions aren't useful. In a lot of cases, their very presence is inhibitory to regressions in the rights of employees.

Do unions have problems? Yes, absolutely, and we shouldn't neglect those either. At the same time, scrapping them would be a very bad idea.
In some domains this is absolutely true. If you're lucky, you have options to explore outside of those domains.
Yes. I sold my house without a broker in Oct 2016. The zestimate for the house was 640k at the time I listed on MLS. This was a stupid estimate based on comparable properties on the same block.

I sold my house for 750k. Today, months after the sale was recorded, the zestimate shows 657k.

I think buyers in competitive markets who rely on zillow will lose several times before they learn the market. I think sellers in competitive markets can just ignore it.

That said, I have never had good experiences with real estate agents. I didn't use one to sell 2 properties, and I havent used one when buying either (instead, asking to split 3% commission).
I suspect you can go higher than what I was thinking, but not necessarily with the same sized cubes and picturing 3 cubes without pencil an paper is very mind bending.

Anyway, cubes have 8 corners, but I am having trouble visualizing them coming out of the six faces like your describing while sectioning the inner parts into 3 sections. Can you describe the relative size and orientation your thinking of?

PS: It's easy to be thinking of an Octahedron not a cube inside like so: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dual_Cube-Octahedron...
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> I change my behavior to stop going to useless sites.

But how would you know if a site is useless or not unless you visit it and read its content? So you will be paying to view a site that you have never seen before, this will limit discoverability of new sites imo
Charging money isn't a great solution as it's too complicated and fee-ridden to be of value to low income users.

P2P CDNs are one solution, but they aren't perfect either. They may be a lot easier to adopt than monetary roadblocks though.

In the future, a combination of mandatory P2P CDN participation and a monetary P2P CDN opt-out fee may be the best compromise. No ads, and everyone is actually helping host the website (be it through their own personal bandwidth and storage or through monetary means).
I really don't see this going down well.

The ad networks that aren't Google aren't going to be happy. They may admit that this could reduce the use of full ad blockers but they're going to loathe that they had no say. Plus, these experiences were shitty for the user but they must have worked.

From a publisher point of view, on the one hand, this is likely to bring reduced revenue from the folks who don't use ad blockers, that will be bad for the publishers. On the other hand, there's the hope that users will stop installing ad blockers and revenue should finally stabilise somewhat. Like the ad networks, I think many publishers will be upset about not having a choice.

And finally, from a user perspective, this doesn't go far enough. Many users will install ad blockers to get rid of the ads on YouTube alone and there are a ton of other unacceptable ad formats that the "Better Ads Standards" don't cover (like animated ads, small sticky ads, ads that look like download buttons).

It seems to me like Google's desperately trying to plug the leak on a sinking boat with a straw. It might mitigate things for a while but it won't do anything to solve the actual problem.
It varies a lot in quality. In the case of my own home, which is an urban home on a block with different housing types, it varies 6-7% from one month to another, over relies on tax assessment data, and doesn't understand neighborhoods. Even a cheap paid tool will generate a better value estimate.

It's pretty good in subdivisions. Then again, anyone can figure that out.

"Instant offers" is the online equivalent of those "we buy houses" signs that you see in some areas. It's a borderline predatory practice and makes you question the real reasoning behind doing it. They probably built it for some real estate state investment pool that bought up distressed property during the recession.
Rural people in the first world often do this as well. It's very common.
Isn't this more like replaced instead of bypassed?
Well it depends on which part you are interested in.

The Neuroscience book by Mark Bear gives a nice introductory overview of the biology behind a lot of neural processes:
https://www.amazon.com/Neuroscience-Exploring-Mark-F-Bear/dp...

If you're interested in computational neural models, I would highly recommend Wolfgram Gerstner's recent book (available for free online): http://neuronaldynamics.epfl.ch

The book by Dayan and Abbot on theoretical neuroscience is quite nice too: https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/theoretical-neuroscience

After this, you'll probably want to read new review papers, since it's a field that's moving quite fast now. (Especially with new measurement techniques in the past few years)
do morons ask themselves questions so they can attempt a stale point in reverse? you're all idiots.
Simple ad-free news service?
What I'm looking for is simple: quality current news, available online, mostly text, nothing fancy. I'm willing to pay for it, but I want no ads at all.

Does such a thing even exist?
Dang, I thought for sure I could get more than 4 with that tactic. ꉌ𤆻遜𣪻𤇇ꎷ𣹋郇ꎹ𠱋𣻅𤅡𡚻𤆻𤆒𠚻絀㬌ꊂ𣺻㣅𤮻𤪺𤂻𤇄肬𤆬𥆺𥆺𤪠𤄋𤆣𠚻胁𣚻𡫁𣚻𤇀𤙛𡚻𣛋𡛋𤇂㾺𣾔弌𣽋脧𡉫灛𤶻炼点冸𣈛䁛𠝋𠟋𤋁ᖠ
Recently Matt Taylor from numenta had a reddit AMA (https://www.reddit.com/r/artificial/comments/6beeqj/5182017_...). I was disappointed to find out that numenta does not really have collaborations with neuroscientists to test or adapt their theories. Their theories in general are not well known to computational neuroscientists either. In that sense, i m not even sure about the authority of numenta on neocortical theories.

For example, the article mentions the ability of clustered synapses to act independently, but , on the one hand, it has been shown independent dendrites can be approximated as an extra neural network layer (so they ARE covered by today's ANN approximation) , and OTOH there s a number of papers showing that synaptic clustering does not exist in sensory areas. And learning by rewiring is basically the introduction of random connections which persist only if their weight increases enough (roughly corresponds the continuous formation of filopodia and the fact that large spines persist longer).

Machine learning at the moment is an empirical science that has made great strides without consulting neuroscience for it. I think that has been a good thing: without having to bend towars some biological plausibility researchers have been more exploratory and creative, which has led to the creation of an empirical body of knowledge from which neuroscience could benefit in the future. OTOH, having watched the field of computational neuroscience there has not been a lot of progress since , basically the 80s. So i believe it would be best to leave each of the two fields go their own way.
While carbon is carbon wherever, I'm not talking about rural. Trash fires were a regular sight on the streets of Thiruvananthapuram.
This seems like a big step forward for TMS technology. Without this fancy interference based method it was previously impossible to stimulate deep brain regions without a significant focality tradeoff.
The post says they'd block ads from their own network that violate the standard as well
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