skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Beyond pointing out the obvious fact that teenaged girls in the US are living in a society that goes to some lengths to actively obstruct them from using the most reliable forms of contraception, I'm not really interested in digging further into the details here.
That fee could easily be 3-6 months salary. That's a hefty price to pay for culture and piece of mind.
Having completed thousands of home sales at Opendoor, I believe a system will works better for most home sales, but local expertise works better for high-end homes.

An agent always make you feel like their differentiation matters. Redfin advertises their refined process across thousands of homes to sell faster for more money. Your neighbor advertises their local expertise and awareness to get you an edge.

We joke that real estate is like politics – Everyone hates real estate agents, but loves their real estate agent.
You are a bigot.
Yeah I think it's by metro area. I live in DC and the same office handles DC and the Maryland and Virginia DC suburbs, and I think many of the agents are cross-licensed.
Why can't my attorney provide me with that assurance while he's taking me through the closing process? What extra thing is the broker doing?
Add up all the time an agent spends previewing the property before listing, taking calls (especially from crazies) and arranging for showings, showings (including driving to and from), negotiating (writing up offers and counter offers), after acceptance arrangements such as coordinating inspections, final readings, closing arrangements. They only get paid if the deal closes.

The amount of effort is variable and unknown upfront (high risk, high reward).

Would you be willing to pay an hourly rate or per service rendered UPFRONT fee? I'm sure there are some brokers that offer such things. Most people don't want to part ways with their money before they know they actually sold their home (another nice thing about not having to pay until closing... the seller only pays if and at closing!)

How much do knowledgeable and experienced consultants make per hour?
No one in the US has contributed more the rise of ISIS than Democrats.

The current situation in northern Iraq is exactly what was predicted would happen if the US withdrew before the Iraqi government was stable enough. In response, Democrats said that the anti-government AQ forces were "freedom fighters" and said that what happened there was "none of our business."

This is the "peace" Democrats wanted.
That's great advice. I recently changed one of my bookmarks from my Twitter feed to my own Twitter profile and experienced the same effect.
TestNG exists because of how inflexible and leaky the abstractions were in Junit 3. Junit 4 exists in large part because of TestNG.

I think that pretty clearly illustrates that Kent and Ward were wrong and Cedric was right. And yet I still listen to both of them about other things.

Nobody has it all figured out. You figure out what things you can trust a person about, and you learn from them, and you move on to someone else for some of the rest.

[edit] But I confess that I have a similar relationship to Josh Bloch that you have to Kent Beck. I can't listen to code advice by someone who wrote 2 collections APIs without understanding the basics of variance or apparently even the Liskov Substitution Principle. Throwing exceptions because you decided not to implement part of a public interface is an unforgivable offense that others have duplicated because if it was good enough for Josh it was good enough for them. He has done next to nothing to atone for that sin. You aren't an effective programmer. I don't want to hear you talk about the subject you so obviously know nothing about for 500 pages.
Why is this on HN lol
Some of the posted chapters have had typos corrected since then. There are other unposted chapters that have been developing somewhat since then.
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comparing https://www.lyft.com/cities to https://www.uber.com/cities/ it seems like there is a huge discrepancy between the cities that have lyft and those that have uber. Uber has a significant international availability.
> an old Roland sampler and a dozen crates of vinyl.

That's conspicuous consumption as well, just of a different flavor.

Tracking down a working vintage sampler and a pile of rare groove records is a large investment in both money and time.
PTO is not the same thing as sick leave. Generally PTO, be design, does not require any justification whatsoever. I don't see how your anecdotal experience is relevant to this discussion.
That if you lose access to all of the 2FA methods you have available, you should just lose access to your account and there be no way to recover it.

If there is a way to recover it, that has to be secured too and, there are only a limited number of ways you can do that (and the more that are enabled, the harder it is to secure). Most services with 2FA offer a set of one-time codes that you can write down and store securely at multiple locations (safes in different places, safe deposit box etc). It is not that hard to avoid losing access if you care. If you don't care enough about the account to do this, just accept losing access, cancel the card payment authorisation and, lose it.

Companies should not grant access to accounts with 2FA by letting you call support unless they at least take proper steps to ensure that you are the account owner, which is pretty impractical in most cases (it is either too costly to be worth it or, too hard to do well enough). Demonstrating that you are the account owner to recover it if you have lost 2FA access should at least require a visit, in person, with photo ID being checked with the relevant authorities (for example the passport service examining your passport to check it is not a forgery) and, multiple people who can attest that you are in fact the person in the photo, to recover an account, for which they would presumably have to charge hundreds of dollars. It seems easier to just not offer recovery in most cases.
Agreed, it's a fine line between investing and gambling, and much of it has to do with the length of time involved.
Many brokerages get nothing except a flat fee per transaction and a "desk fee".

Some take nothing at all if you're a top producer and refer your clients to their title and mortgage operations.

HomeSmart is the largest, I believe
Yes, I like them too, but I'm not sure anybody else had really executed on that model before them, and at any rate they are the strategy to be copied nowadays.
TL;DR

>In just eight years it will be, says Openwater founder Mary Lou Jepsen, thanks to technology her company is working on.
Yes, your loan person was definitely going far beyond what service any normal customer would receive from their loan person.
"seen how little work agents do..."

This is going to sound condescending, but you honestly do not know much about the business you're in.
I haven't looked too closely at this transaction, but here's some info on how normal fees are calculated: http://bitcoinfees.com/ Very new and very small transactions are charged extra to discourage spam.

As noted at the bottom of the article, each miner really gets to set their own fee, below which they will just ignore transactions. But the "satoshi client" is the default and most other clients mimic it.

Edit: one of the comments mentions that "multi-sig" transactions are more expensive, and I don't know how to explain that part.
Even in 1996 there was discussion [1] about the controversy around lenna.jpg and its decline due to its origins and possible copyright issues.

[1] http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~chuck/lennapg/editor.html
Not quite - the Youtube co-founders intentionally kept most of the piracy claims/problems under wraps until after the Google acquisition. Uber may have been trying to do the same with the sexual harassment, except now it's out in the open, pre-acquisition.

https://www.forbes.com/2010/04/21/google-viacom-youtube-medi...
It would be a prospective purchase in regards to autonomous driving software but Uber holds a current dominating market share in ride-sharing. They could potentially single-handedly create fear of an information monopoly and be the impetus for the fed's to look at re-writing anti-trust. It's almost too sexy of an acquisition at a time when governments seem to be losing trust in them. I could be wrong obviously, but that would just seem like a bad idea in the long term, both for the price, and for the microscope it would put on them.
I see. How likely is it that Wix is switching back to pure native?
Location: New York City / NYC

Remote: OK

Willing to relocate: No

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Designer for 10+ years. Specializing in good taste and smart typography.

My portfolio on view is big, beautiful books. However, I’ve done a bit of everything ... whip up a pitch deck, mock up some signage, comp a site. Whatever is needed, I figure it out. I'm FAST and not fussy.

I love marketing as well.
Also, there are lots of people that do IF AND keto :)
As a desktop user with a 30" monitor I also appreciate this reformatting. The other method of quoting renders in monospaced font that looks bad.
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In some states, the small claims limit goes up to $25K. They closed my account in the past and I took them to small claims for the five figures they owed me and I won.

I know of two other people who also took them to small claims and won as well. (both in states with five figure small claims limits)
I can't really speak on the aspect of buying a home, but when we sold my grandmothers home having a solid real estate agent certainly was mutually beneficial. They knew what needed to be done in regards to quick fix repairs that were far cheaper than the value added to the home when sold, and in turn earned a higher commission fee for themselves.

I'm not sure how good redfin is to work with on the sell side of things, but I have a hard time imagining that a flat fee gets you the personal attention needed to be able to sell a home for 10% above what you were hoping to get.
Although very fun. It also grabs way more data as time goes on. And it's a pretty interesting little art project.
Thanks for this. This is the perfect page to link to the next time someone tells me that the GPL is "viral".
The developer's expertise is often not needed, such as Wix, Google Sheets/Excel, Wordpress, etc. Developers will be middlemen less and less as technology progresses, same as realtors.
The social graph is only a small part of it. To make this work would require full federation so that, for example, someone on Facebook could friend someone on G+ and posts would flow in both directions so the timeline would work as normal. Like Ma Bell before them, Facebook will fight this to the death.
Not necessarily. Young people might not have enough money (or income security) to afford a down payment and mortgage, but they do have enough money to split rent for an apartment/condominium/house with 1 or more other people. And the folks migrating to the desirable cities are probably more resourceful than the ones who are not, but their extra earnings are captured by landlords, who can then use the higher rents to justify higher property prices.

Edit: I wonder if it's possible the quantify the role income security, or lack thereof, plays in home prices.
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There's absolutely no point in having this be a cryptocurrency, unless there is some way that all the driving data will be posted to the blockchain and verified not to be fake by the blockchain. And blockchains definitely don't have the storage or computation to do any of that, plus who wants their driving data to be public?

Otherwise, it's just sending data to Comma in exchange for points. If you have one master account minting tokens (throughout the life of the currency), it's not really decentralized. They could have a SQL database with the same decentralization and security profile.

My guess is that the only use of blockchains here is to jump on the current ICO hype.
> AFAIK no one has built a modern floating point accelerator using opamps and A/D and D/A converters,

This is one of the smartest things i've read on HN. I guess you are correct. Although who knows, perhaps a differential equation solver could be faster using D/A -> analog computer -> A/D?
> Right, I think that WeChat basically exemplifies this too. But at that point, is the user really interacting with a "bot", or is the chat platform just an app delivery mechanism like an OS or a web browser?

I'm assuming the latter. I mostly avoided WeChat as an example because i haven't used it myself. But from what I understand WeChat goes much further than just chat interfaces, which kind of is out of the scope of what I'm really interested in for now (but still curious about).

EDIT: I'd add that many of the advantages that come with using chat-apps as a platform are still there even in apps that don't offer all of what WeChat does.
>Here's a great piece by Ben Thompson discussing the economics and markets of such services:

Most of the article is about OpenDoor. I don't think that quote about Redfin describes the situation very well.

I don't think there is evidence that agents with buyers steer them away from Redfin and it wouldn't work very well since almost all buyers will go to a site with MLS listings and see what is on the market. Redfin takes a lowered commission on their business, they don't lower the commission to the buying agent.

In terms of hiring, they allow agents to get away from the continual cold calling/door knocking and self promotion they need to do to attract the next customer and they offer a stable salary and a support staff to take care of the mundane stuff like arranging inspections, etc. I don't think they have a problem getting job applicants. (Not associated with Redfin, but a happy customer.)
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Mobile phone authenticator apps are not that great anyway. They rely on the security of a phone that is connected to the net to keep the keys secure. If someone can get code running on the phone and exploit a privilege escalation vulnerability to get root, they can read the keys. A hardware token like a Yubikey or similar is probably more secure.

Another problem with the Google authenticator, at least for Google accounts, is that you have to add a phone number to your account to use it I think and, they then allow access by SMS, which is not so hard to circumvent.
Don't you know Bitcoin is a system with really low fees and fast transactions??
As I (very briefly) mentioned, it looks to me like Magma isn't ready for prime-time yet. I've seen reports that, for instance, the LDAP server allows completely insecure configurations (cleartext passwords on the wire) without so much as a warning. That sort of thing should not be possible with a product like this, and makes me think they're gluing together pre-existing code, which is also a little worrisome[1].

Beyond that, I tend to be pretty conservative with things like email. What you currently run, assuming it is configured correctly, is solid; I'd personally be hesitant to replace it until other folks have bled over the inevitable first bugs and it has been in use long enough for people to learn how to operate it, figure out any weirdness, etc. At the least, you'll be skipping what will probably be several point releases right after whenever they actually call it done.

TLDR; if I were you, I'd hold off. (And am personally holding off.) I'm very interested in this, in theory, but even though I am technical, I'm not a cryptographer or a security researcher, and even if I were I don't have the time to audit it. I want those folks to beat it up before I wade in.

[1] Nothing wrong with that in principle, but combined with the jagged edges, it makes me wonder how much attention any grafted code is actually getting.
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So to play devil's advocate if that's how you believe things will play out... what happens to the existing car companies once new car sales start dropping precipitously? There are more car manufacturers that will be fighting over the same shrinking pie of new car sales than there are global TNCs. Their valuations will likely drop to the point where they could become an acquisition target for Uber. The only competitive advantage Tesla has is in batteries, and that will likely become a commodity insofar as TNCs are concerned far before it's a competitive advantage. The daily driving distances a battery needs to support for TNC use is a lot lower than an individual looking to do long road trips.
I assume that's for the entire block. Recent blocks hover somewhere between 1000 and 2000 transactions per 10-minute block, which gives a modest 2.5 USD fee per transaction.
Isn't HTTP already a generic messaging and data synchronisation system for the whole web?

How will Matrix be anything other than another stack in the field of silos?

Genuine question. I'm not trying to be combative.

Edit: After doing some more reading through the matrix docs, it seems that the goal is to make an extremely easy to implement/setup endpoint that any 'silo' can easily include. This Matrix endpoint will automagically connect to the Matrix endpoint on other 'silos' to facilitate message transfers.

Is this accurate?
Bitcoin fees are based on the amount of space that the transaction takes up in the block. A block contains on average 1,000 to 2,000 transactions. The average transaction only has a couple inputs and outputs. But you can make a transaction that has as many inputs and outputs as you want, which increases the size (in bytes) of the transaction. The person who spent the 80BTC on fees in this block used up about half of the space in the block, hence the high fee. It was also spread over several transactions, not a single one.
That's incorrect. Abu Musab al-Zarqawi the father of AQI, Daesh, ISIL, ISIS etc was most certainly in Afghanistan. He was there to fight the Soviets with the mujahideen as well as later on to run a training camp there. It's hard to imagine that without being a member of Al Queda. Anyway:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2006/jun/08/iraq.alqaida1

Also the structure of Al Queda is that of a franchise:

https://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/26/sunday-review/the-franchi...
Ask HN: How do you balance good design with industry norms?
I'm redoing an e-commerce b2b website in the construction industry.
In my opinion, existing websites in this space don't have the best user experience.

However, my clients want something similar to their competitors. Their argument is that customers are familiar with this (unfriendly) design, so keep it the same.

How do you balance this contradiction? Give them what they want? Make the effort to educate them? Learn a little, teach a little?
"Real estate cannot simultaneously be affordable and a good investment."

As soon as someone becomes a homeowner, it becomes in his/her best interests to make sure others cannot become homeowners at anything but a higher price. It's one of the most extreme perverse incentives in modern economies.
So I built bit-bundler as an experiment to achieve configuration ergonomics that I like. Specially around bundle splitting and pattern matching. I also wanted to try parallel file processing, which improved performance dramatically in a pretty large project I am working on. Perhaps others will find this useful.
That is kinda true... but I did notice that once you have a few of such extensions, terminal can get perceivably laggy and slow. If the tools startup / load time is slow, it can make command-line feel unresponsive.
I often create side projects trying to see if a random concept is worth pursuing.

I built a service called "MeetingBetter" with the notion that you would setup your meetings in whatever system you're already using (Google, Exchange) and you'd also invite start@meetingbetter.com

When it got the invitation it would handle some basics around collecting agenda items, followups (if it was a recurring meeting, etc.) I'd thought of it kind of like Calendly. Anyway, not enough of a pain point and no really good traction channels, so I've abandoned it.
Much of middle-America (and Canada) was settled by huge numbers of German immigrants. At the start of WW1, there were similar concerns about German sympathies.

It just doesn't work that way. These people have made their homes here and count themselves as Canadians and Americans. They might have sympathies for the old country (much as many of us in North America do), but the stronger these sympathies are, the less likely we'll go to war in the first place.
Trades on an exchange aren't on-chain, so transaction fees don't apply. The fees are whatever the exchange sets.
The fee is normally proportional to the size of the transaction (i.e. mostly the number of input and output addresses), not the amount of bitcoins you move. That is, it's more expensive to move 1BTC from 10 addresses than 1000BTC from a single one.

So if you make a huge transaction and you want it confirmed quickly it can get quite expensive.
Nitpicking: This is not a good article for a ShowHN. From https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html

> What to Submit

> Show HN is for something you've made that other people can play with. HN users can try it out, give you feedback, and ask questions in the thread.

> Blog posts, sign-up pages, and fundraisers can't be tried out, so they can't be Show HNs.
I bought through Redfin five years ago.

Actually, we offered on two houses, backed out after poor inspections, and then purchased the third house in a competitive multi-bid environment all in a few months. With Redfin I never felt the kind of sales/relationship pressure to close a deal that I did when buying with traditional realtors. The only reason we didn't sell our Condo through Redfin is I wanted someone in the neighborhood who could help coordinate painting, staging, etc in the lead up to the listing.

All and all a great experience.
That's a fair guess. It was more a "maybe some of them want time off without getting above average interview offer spam". Overall I think it's a good thing too.
> It would be a prospective purchase in regards to autonomous driving software but Uber holds a current dominating market share in ride-sharing.

Do they? Specifically, do they have pricing power? Market share (even superficially dominant share) where competitors or substitute services are present and business moves in response to relative price changes isn't market power.
I'd love to see some real data on just how much Chinese and other flight capital being dumped into RE is contributing to these price increases.
As others have pointed out there are a TON of OBDII loggers on the market with price points down to <$10. So maybe they make it slightly more universal by interpreting more codes (?) but that seems to be mostly on the software side, this is really still a device manufactured for probably $5.

It seems the real value for comma.ai is just collecting a huge amount of driver data and then selling it to Autonomous car makers or generating algorithms based or the data themselves. Either way, if that's the case why sell it for $88??? sell it at cost ($5) or even give it away for free and just quickly build a huge user base. Am I way off here?