skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Have one, and while spacious, I've never felt well organized with it.

These days I'm carrying an eBags Professional - laptop space, center tablet pocket that can be accessed from top, pocket for files/papers, bottom hard compartment for charger, reasonably well organized pockets for pens, usb drives, etc, and most importantly for travel, it has dual carry-on handle pass throughs.
So? Real estate agents aren't appraisers and shouldn't do "official" appraisals because of misaligned incentives (among other reasons).

Appraisals are kind of weird anyways, they are only an somewhat educated guess until someone actually buys the property and they are pretty individually subjective. My friend had 3 different appraisers come to her house and do three different appraisals and they all varied by quite a bit and one was absurdly high, much higher than the others, and extremely unrealistic (IMO). Appraisers also have information that algorithms don't because they actually go to the house and view the property with their own eyes. They can take into account better the condition of the property and "soft," more subjective inputs that you can only tell by actually viewing the property. It's not really directly comparable to an algorithm since there's just a subjective bend to the whole process and there's much more information available to appraisers.

Not only that but when the bank does an appraisal for a mortgage the appraiser's job is only to justify the selling price. They start with the agreed upon selling price and they use data to justify it, they don't go into it blind, they consider and analyze the agreement of sale as part of the valuation. Zillow obviously can't take that info account as Zillow doesn't have that information. So you're comparing apples (a market analysis based on public information) to oranges (a justification of a privately agreed upon sale price).

An appraisal is also cheap, especially compared to a real estate agent. Ours was a flat $425.

https://theappraisercoach.com/why-most-purchase-appraisals-s...
Why do you say 10% is "only"? That's millions of people.

Why do you assume there power imbalance was rare? Before recent years, marrying a boss or a professor was quite common.

FWIW, among famous people in tech: Jeff Bezos married an underling; Bill Gates married one of his employees; Sergey Brin married an employee's sister, and dated an underling; Larry Page dated an underling.
Are those things really comparable in scale?

It looks like the typical ICO with a half-decent execution and product backing it raises a few million dollars.
I think it's more the abandonment of federated protocols in favor of centralized services, than the abandonment of a specific protocol.

An only tangentially related anecdote:
SMTP and later XMPP offered beautifully portable social graphs. In fact, in 2012, I found it so portable that I decided to migrate off the self-hosted postfix/dovecot/ejabberd install I'd run on my own domain for years to GApps. Cue the replacement of GTalk with Hangouts, and now I really don't have much of a choice but to pay Google each month, or discard/re-establish the social connections I've built over the last decade and a half.
In theory you should take a sabbatical but your company doesn't allow that so you should just quit.
That sounds like the Seattle manager is slacking. I had the opposite experience in DC, which makes me wonder how good a handle they have on agent quality.
> This truly is the death of the open web

About as much as music DRM was the death of music players. And as we all know the only way to play a music file today is to buy them in the Microsoft Zune store and squirt them over to your FairPlaysForSure(tm) certified KindlePod.

It's not a good thing; it lets some very big actors hurt themselves and their paying customers by still pretending that people will eventually come around to paying more for inferior service if only they force feed enough "you wouldn't download a car" ads to their dwindling customer base, and it encumbers the browsers to support yet another legacy standard that will be used only by exploit writers in ten years time.

But in the end this is never going to prevent you or anyone born after the sixties from accessing any significant piece of content. It is only going to stop you from going out of your way to pay for it.

I guess if YouTube started putting DRM on everything, that would reach the level of 'annoying'. Is there any indication they would do that?
A qualitative assessment of that factor is hard because Google doesn't hire the people that it doesn't hire.

Another assessment could be that a divergence of opinion among interviewers is itself a positive sign -- programmers with strong controversial opinions who are willing to hold to them even in an interview setting might be better programmers for that.

A less sanguine assessment is that "success at Google" correlates with people who generate controversy around themselves, simply because that is something that creates visibility.
If I understand correctly, it works a little bit like how X11 used to run over the network.

The program UI state and program data is all server side, but the actual rendering happens client side. Instead of sending the client a stream of X11 commands, it sends OpenGL/WebGL drawing instructions, and the client sends input events back to the server.
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This is a very good point - many normal purchasers will be selling a house at the same time that they're buying one, so there's a net zeroing in additional housing demand. Renters who are buying a house will leave a rental unit open, and cause a tiny decrease in rent prices. But investors frequently just take housing off the market, and contribute to a shortage. And as with most life necessities, housing is somewhat inelastic in terms of demand, so shortages cause skyrocketing prices.
Most of the time you can list a FSBO house on the MLS for a small fee. Our MLS has plenty of the FSBO houses listed.

https://fsbo.com/flat-fee-mls

The thing is, a lot of time FSBO houses tend to be overpriced, which is very unfortunate.
This isn't surprising - in fact, it would be surprising if it wasn't the case. This fact says nothing about the ability of Google's hiring bar to distinguish between good and bad hires, except that it is not a perfect signal.
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W3C takes advantage of the ambiguity of what the EME spec and "standard" DRM is. People unfamiliar with the spec may think it's the end of plug-ins and a spec for a DRM that is somehow open, implementable and cross-browser.

It's nothing like it. It's a small JS API that launches the same old, fully closed, proprietary DRM solutions. The NPAPI has been replaced with DMCA-protected interface, and previously separate DRM plug-ins are now called "modules" and shipped with the browser.

It's as if Chrome, which ships with Flash bundled-in, created a "HTML Multimedia Extensions" spec with just `navigator.launch("com.adobe.flash")` for launching "Multimedia Modules" (details of which are out of scope of the spec), and hailed it as the end of the non-standard Flash and plug-ins.
For one, you can't undo a transaction if you made a mistake. I.e. Put in a wrong amount or sent to an incorrect address. You can't call customer service if you don't see your transaction. I think those are big and come with trade offs. Some others are the huge volatility of the value id bitcoin ..
I love that it's a "will someone please think of the children" piece, but really, adults are just as self absorbed. Being able to see how everyone around you is tuned out to the real world (on their phone, talking to imaginary bluetooth people) it's hard to ignore (especially when it's the person in the car next to you).

> “And I know when I take [technology] away from my kids what happens,” Fadell says. “They literally feel like you’re tearing a piece of their person away from them—they get emotional about it, very emotional. They go through withdrawal for two to three days.”

I mean, you could say the same thing for me and SNES, and that was long before phones. Or TV.

Go watch the movie Network if you haven't seen it. TV was the Facebook of its day.

I think the real question is one of human psychology and development. Now that we have more power, more information at our command, how do we use that? How does society, psychology and individual action need to change in order to let humans use the ever increasing power of technology responsibly? Same goes for climate change, nuclear weapons, poverty, healthcare, etc.
I think it's important to think about power dynamics, if you're in a position where you have authority/power/control in any way over that person it's not appropriate for you to be asking them out, pretty much period. No matter whether it's a man or a woman doing the asking.
I see. Then I don't understand what point you were trying to make. There are lots of different ways of testing understanding of a concept. I presented one way of doing so with students having access to a computer.
Actually it's a response to a response about using libraries to help with redux boilerplate. Depending on your scenario, mobx might reduce your boilerplate and your dependencies at the same time. That's absolutely appropriate context. And again while I appreciate not wanting to see those comments if you already know about mobx, not everyone does. I didn't. And I'll forever appreciate running into those comments myself. This isn't a go rust comparison (languages designed for different problems) -- it's a discussion about state management in a ui. I'm sure mobx won't be the only alternative brought up. Thats IMHO a good thing.
I'm fine with certain kinds of targeted advertising.

For example, if I search for "subaru" on Google, it makes sense for the ads on the page to be for cars and local car dealers.

Other than that, I think the online ad industry is almost entirely built on lies and half-truths. Ads support a lot of sites I visit, but I think what it costs me (in computer resources and loss of privacy) is no longer reasonable. I run with an ad blocker all the time now. Mostly I object to the tracking, not the ads.
As I understand, EME is the only w3c recommendation that forces web browsers to run proprietary black-box code. I am a proponent of the open web, so I view this standard as a big step in the wrong direction.
This is straight up Donald Trump.
Well, I'm not sure it would be as difficult as you think to get the capability.

There are plenty of ORM libraries. I am familiar with python, so sqlalchemy etc for me, but most languages have ORM libraries now.

It could be as simple as some glue to pipe data from the 3rd party into native objects (via ORM) and then use your visualization efforts directly.

Your visualization looks smooth. It may require limiting visualization to certain fields, rather than every attribute as you would want debugging.

In my opinion, though, you've done the hard part.

And volume wise it seems you already have the ability to handle relatively large complex tree structures (I think your examples showed 500+ nodes). If you can hide/show sections dynamically then that should be sufficient for some very large structures.
Two questions ...
1. This is a somewhat odd spreadsheet to find semi-randomly posted to HN. Can anyone speak to its provenance?

2. Is something, not so public, going on at Sound Cloud or is this just normal turn over for a company of there size?
Natural gas requires the same upfront costs to scrub CO2 out of the exhaust for. In particular, it requires CO2 scrubbers.

The most efficient place to capture carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is before it enters the atmosphere.

Therefore, any attempt to lower the amount of carbon in the atmosphere should necessarily start with removing the carbon dioxide from exhaust.

All fossil fuel plants should have scrubbers, it is by far the most cost effective measure that we can take to dramatically reduce increases to atmospheric CO2. The argument that "clean coal is no coal" is assuming that there should be no similar requirement on natural gas.
I hadn't really considered that; I was only vaguely aware it was possible. Yes, that's a problem.

I'm inclined to think of Bitcoin as the beta for widespread adoption of cryptocurrency. It has some issues, including this one that mean it will probably never be what most people use for everyday money. Whatever succeeds it and eventually assumes that role will avoid those problems.
I built https://geolua.com. It's a geocaching like system that runs server-side Lua scripts in a VM that control user interfaces on in one or many browsers. I guess it's best explained if you just have a look at the website and try this "adventure": https://geolua.com/adventure/all-widgets-demo-132. Just click on the "Start this adventure" button.

It never had a real monetization strategy, so I never made any money from it. But it was fun developing and I learned a few things I could use for my current product https://info-beamer.com. So it's still a win.
"User agents" serve the market. The market wanted ActiveX. There were many companies and government institutions requiring ActiveX for their interfaces.

Mozilla could have implemented ActiveX btw, but they took a stand against it.

So by your definition, what does "many" mean? Is it more than one? More than two perhaps? Should it be all of them?

What if I create a browser and announce that it will not support DRM. If market share isn't important, shouldn't this proposal be dropped?

Yes, web standards are about interoperability, but the problem is that DRM being fundamentally broken it means that open source browsers running on open platforms won't be able to "interoperate", which in my book means that this can't be a standard.
As well as the long multi-part documentaries, Adam Curtis wrote short five minute clips for the show NewsWipe, which are also worth watching, e.g. his talk about news reporting and "oh dearism" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8moePxHpvok
Recall that one of the reasons Web SQL was rejected was lack of variation in implementations - pretty much every browser implementation was based on SQLite.
> These super anti banking activists want banks when shit really hits the fan, surprise surprise.

Not all Bitcoiners are "super anti-banking activists".

> BTC will never be a currency for anything legal.

It already is.
> you could have argued that ActiveX needs to be a web standard.

Yep, it is called WebAssembly.
Server-side history storage, optional end to end encryption, mobile clients with push notifications (the client doesn't have to maintain a persistent connection), voice/video chat, file uploads (and embeds for certain filetypes)... among other things.
The interview process would indicate the opposite.
Just going off the summary of part 1, I'm not sure what I'm supposed to make of this. Every cultural voice in the US -- except a few eccentric Greens -- was pro-computer-revolution; the Left wanted decentralization and freedom, while the Right wanted prosperity and anti-Communism. Neither major side in the US saw surveillance capitalism coming. If the author's trying to absolve the Left of responsibility for surveillance capitalism, he's wasting his time -- think of Apple Computer, the Free Software Foundation, 37signals.com, and the whole close association of computers (especially personal computers) with the counterculture...

He also enumerates the following goals that the personal-computing revolution was after:

* No economic risk or failure

* No boom-bust cycle

* Decentralized political power

* Democracy

* Connectedness

* Non-hierarchy

* Pursuit of self-interest

* Desire to improve the world

Which of these does he think we shouldn't have pursued? Which of them does he think are bad? If you oppose all of them, you're asking to live in the Egypt of the Pharaohs, and not even the neo-reactionaries want _that_.
Any rules of thumb/advice you can offer on evaluating home quality from your experience?
Can't find the link now but there was a post yesterday about them laying off a lot of staff. The layoffs weren't based on performance so a lot of good quality engineers will be looking new jobs quickly.
>I also rsync my entire home directory to an external drive every other week or so.

This is what I do as well, just not quite as often. Sometimes I wonder if I should switch to something like rdiff-backup to get snapshots, but that would only really be useful if I accidentally deleted a file and didn't notice for a while, for instance, which in practice is not a serious problem.

If I had more time and inclination, I might set up a small 2-drive RAIDed NAS box, and do automated regular backups to that. But for my laptop PC, just doing regular syncs to an external HD seems to be fine for now.
My installation of Ubuntu is so standard that I'm one apt install and rsync (of the home directory) away from the same result and don't have to manually configure LVM, encryption, etc.
I think that there are personal traits that make people perform good in most situations, but perhaps not all extremes. As continuity is normally good, you try to find those, and change only if you really have to.

A programming competition evaluates almost none of the traits thats doing a marathon run as a highly preforming team.
Such as, for instance, pornography.

Privacy issues aside, many people don't trust porn sites. Bitcoin enables them to pay with absolutely zero chance of them being stuck with a recurring subscription.
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I didn't know you can do that, I thought it generates device (app) hashed codes that are synced with first code or some other magic, just today I learned it's just based on this initial code (presented as qr usually) so you can do as you say, just record it in multiple places, great idea, especially that there are even command line tools for it. I'll replicate it on my desktop next time. For now I have to go to notary and send signed docs to amazon, hopefully that'll work to get back access.
Your comment explains something crucial about targeted advertising that other people often fail to understand. The ad tech companies provide a platform for advertising, but it is up to the user (the advertiser) to configure and use the platform correctly. Often, advertisers may configure their targeting in ways that are suboptimal. Or, their e-commerce platform may not be properly set up to record conversions and associate them with targets. (Depending on the platform, they may not even have that option.)

Poorly configured ad targeting happens just as often as poorly configured firewalls, servers, Wordpress installs, cloud deployments, etc... probably more often since the consequences aren't as dire.

(Not a fan of targeted ads either, but I often see people complaining about post-purchase targeted ads as if this is a universal problem. So much depends on the specific platforms involved, the skill levels and intentions of the many different ad buyers on each platform, and so on. Results will vary.)
Though with applications not already designed to act as thin clients, it could potentially be useful.

It doesn't take much horsepower to just open an application like Blender, but it might be useful to run it on a powerful server and access it from a lighter more power-efficient laptop.
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Rightmove is a property portal, Redfin is an online residential estate agency.
Well, "doing without" is certainly the principled stand. But there is a lot of (almost certain, moderate) pleasure hiding behind one of door #1 (EME) or door #2 (torrent), and it is difficult indeed to go through door #3, (not this pleasure).
We're trying to provide multiple platforms here for those who wish to use other mechanisms (e.g. liberapay and BTC); although interested to know what the concern is with Patreon? We're thinking of adding BountySource too.
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And yet, because it's not "integrated with the operating system", Netflix content providers do not trust Chrome's implementation and thus Chrome users are intentionally given lower-quality video.
That might be worth giving a try. I've always just tried to eat whole foods (and lots of them) but never noticed much of a difference between eating just enough, and eating a TON. Always would feel sapped of energy for the next day(s).
regarding (2), I would say while energy use gets smarter, that will be offset by the greater number of electronic devices. I would also wouldn't be suprised once a large number devices start depending on ambient RF, then cities might deliberately dump ambient RF energy around their cities to power the potentially millions of legacy devices that might rely on ambient back-scatter.
"A comparison of the two first revolutions [American and French], whose beginnings were so similar and whose ends so tremendously different, demonstrates clearly, I think, not only that the conquest of poverty is a prerequisite for the foundation of freedom, but also that liberation from poverty cannot be dealt with in the same way as liberation from political oppression. For if violence pitted against violence leads to war, foreign or civil, violence pitted against social conditions has always led to terror. Terror rather than mere violence, terror let loose after the old regime has been dissolved and the new regime installed, is what either sends revolutions to their doom, or deforms them so decisively that they lapse into tyranny and despotism."

That's... not encouraging. I found myself thinking of the "Black Block" protesters as I read that.

More broadly, the American Revolution (per her thesis) succeeded the way it did because the people were not in deep poverty and misery at the start of it; instead, they had substantial experience of governing their own towns. Those are not easy conditions to export. The American experience is therefore not likely to be applicable very many other places.
This doesn't really address anything I mentioned.

The database is fine; and it was nice to work with when it was just 2 engineers. For us, it didn't scale with # of engineers, business needs like BI, ETLs of large amount of healthcare data into Datomic; then needing to delete said data. We spent a lot of time reinventing the wheel around schema management and building a declarative query interface as well.

> few queries
> take weeks

Godspeed.
From the NYT:

> “If I couldn’t meet with my boss one on one, I don’t get that face time to show what I can do to get that next promotion”

That's a fascinating perspective.

> Any rule about avoiding meetings that applied only to one sex, even if unspoken, would most likely be illegal,

But rules that applied without regard to sex would be legal.

Note that, for all their flaws, heterosexual single-sex workplaces do cleanly avoid the problem of mixing sex with work.
I've been doing 5x5 consistently for about 1.5 years (until I achieved my target goals, then I scaled back), without being a morning person. The soreness essentially disappears after the first month and the biggest challenge was actually eating enough calories not to negate the progress.

Instead of exercising in the morning I did it after work, ~7pm. A cup of coffee and an energy bar made you good to go.

Slight difficulties falling asleep sometimes, but other than that, a massive increase in overall health and energy levels, despite having a respiratory condition.