skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is exactly my experience sending legit commercial emails to gmail. We jump through every hoop, we implement every suggestion, and they drop our email on the floor every time. I have no problem with deliveries anywhere else. They DGAF.

The idea that their spam filter is particularly good is ridiculous too. I get more spam to my gmail accounts than to my self hosted mail accounts with greylisting and spamassassin.
I bought a house in SF three years ago through Redfin. The realtor that Redfin gave us was prompt, aggressive, and thorough in the bidding/closing process.

What he didn't do is drive us around to open houses or suggest places to us. Which we didn't want anyway.

I suspect that the individual realtor you get through Redfin has a big impact on your experience with the site. It sounds like you got a bad one and were unhappy. We got a good one and were happy.
Is it possible that this is a scheme designed to draw a specific miner out of his/her anonymity?
The connector has at least 1 CAN bus on it, some pins are "manufacturer discretion" meaning the manufacturer may put CAN or other signals on the connector.

Nowadays most vehicles have several CAN and LIN buses and it's unlikely that all traffic gets routed to the OBD2 connector, but some stuff is. Again, it depends on the manufacturer.

There are lots of standardized signals defined that a OBD device can request: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OBD-II_PIDs
Agreed. And iPhones have been around for like a decade and over a billion of them have been produced, so there are plenty of cheap used versions available.
Rich Chinese we're blamed for the housing bubble in Vancouver and Toronto. They finally started tracking it and it was barely above 5% (all foreign purchases). And only if you focused on certain neighborhoods.

95% of purchasers were Canadian citizens or permanent residents. Low interest rates and willingness to take on a lot of debt is what drove the bubble in Canada.
4k cinema vs. 70 mm film
> Too much math teaching consists of "If you see a problem that looks exactly like X, here are the steps you should memorize to solve it."

A significant amount of math testing is basically checking if you've memorized some theorem (and then can solve it), so is that surprising?
In my opinion, based on my and my friends' experience, being good at programming competitions clearly makes you very good at interviewing.

I don't think that being good at contests makes you bad at the job, though. Consider the following scenario: assume that skill of being good at contests is completely orthogonal to being good at the job (so the real correlation coefficient is 0, instead of negative, observed by Norvig). Then, since it's easier to to get hired if you're good at contests, the observed correlation coefficient inside a single company will be negative, due to selection bias. Depending on the effect sizes, the selection bias might even make observed correlation coefficient negative even if it's positive in reality (which I think it is).

For a more intuitive explanation, consider a used car market buyer who has preference for black cars (this corresponds to algorithm-based interview process of companies like Google or Facebook). Even though the color of the car should have no correlation with its quality, the black cars owned by that buyer will more likely be worse quality than non-black ones.
There are a few reasons this is hard.

1) I'd imagine there are significant costs to entering a new city. Uber is a two-sided marketplace so in any new city Uber needs to invest resources and time into acquiring supply/drivers and to a lesser extent users. Combine this with the operational support to maintain that marketplace and the overhead becomes non-negligible.

2) First mover advantage is a real thing so any ride-sharing network that enters a city with an established player is going to have a harder time acquiring the aforementioned supply/demand.

3) When more than one ride-sharing company is in a city it eventually turns into a subsidy war for demand. From what I have read this is what happened to Uber competing with Didi in China and resulted in massive losses for both companies.

TL;DR entering new markets is in fact pretty expensive, and far more so when there is existing competition.
When you use "crypto" as an abbreviation for "cryptocurrency", you promote confusion about what cryptography is.
> where any buyer can view photos of a house for sale online real estate agents still expect to receive 6%

It's not the same as buying a car as you have to gain access to the property to look at it which involves another agent and much work even after an offer has been accepted or negotiated.

The only thing that is 'absurd' is that the commission generally stays the same whether the house is 1.5 million or 150,000. And as others have mentioned that is split between various parties that are needed to sell a house which is a big one time purchase that most people need help with.

The other important thing is this. Agents spend a great deal of time with buyers who don't end up buying anything from them. Driving them around, setting up appointments, dealing with the listing agent and so on. Unless they make a sale they are not paid. Most of the agents in this country are not selling million dollar real estate either. And in the end they aren't really earning that much money either in a typical market.

Just yesterday I requested information on a property from an agent on something that I honestly don't think I have a serious interest in buying. They took time on the phone and I could easily setup an appointment with them to view the property and waste more of their time. In the end unless I buy now or in the future or refer someone to them they will end up eating that time and getting nothing in terms of pay.
The cheap shots are because people are upset they missed out on some of that sweet, sweet bitcoin early on.

Aka, nocoiners. They will always be mad
If only there was some way to increase the space available for transactions!

But your overall point is well taken: Bitcoin is sociopathic software where "sorry for your loss" is considered a feature, not a bug. Nonstandard hand-rolled transaction? Fuck you, you deserve to get robbed.
The solution is for users to not use monospaced, pre-formatted text for things other than code snippets.
I switch between mobile and multiple desktops frequently unfortunately, appreciate the suggestion but I don't think that would work for me
My family kept a large garden for the duration of my childhood. I was made to weed it. It was absolutely that big of a job. It took a couple hours. Every day.
Frontier airlines absolutely does this. I think it's only during hours when there are not agents working, because I was able to reach an agent when I called again during more normal business hours.

But it did feel really weird hearing the automated system say "that is not a valid option. goodbye" and hang up on me. No indication that I could call back during certain hours to reach a human.
I'm curious what responsibility you lay at the feet of Republicans who invaded and destabilized Iraq for manufactured reasons?
It'll be impossible to get such data, but it's probably a huge amount, coming in different sources:

- direct purchase of RE by Chinese nationals

- international trade disproportionately benefiting coastal cities and major metros, attracting more people to those regions and making them richer

- money channeled from China into investment funds, which in turn invest in mortgages, and collectively with other hot money, drives down mortgage rates thus making it cheaper for people to invest in RE.
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In my case, there was always a lawyer involved in the contract with a fixed for dealing with documentation, as part of the closing costs. I never explicitly involved a lawyer but have always been intrigued by the idea of doing a FSBO deal with a lawyer generating all of the real estate contracts for a fixed fee.
>Some people create massive transactions just to mess with the bitcoin network, too.

Why?
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Please suggest some interesting C++ links to update the existing outdated list
I am with you on this one. BTC is supposed to solve the problems current systems have, the key ones being; high tx fees and slow tx.
the upfront cost to clean coal is very large, but it reduces the usable energy by less than 30%. That's much less than an order of magnitude, especially given how cheap it is to burn coal.

Upfront costs also generally go down over time. The infrastructure required to perform carbon sequestration is extremely nascent. There's a lot of specialty equipment, and drilling to sufficient limestone deposits. These things will scale well though. Especially with government funding.
Would suck big time but also be entirely predictable for employees with options/golden-handcuffs who end up with nothing.
Could the number be spoofed?
The trick usually can't be told. I used to make money with adsense writing "high quality blog posts". The trick was to pingback Google own blogs, and when I do, they add a link to my blog post just right below their blog post. This would drive high quality traffic (probably because these users are already signed up to google and get targeted ads).

The trick now is no longer of use, and I did this like 6 or 7 years ago. So now I'm sharing it. I've been involved in the SEO industry from when it was young, and I'd make a 9.5/10 bet that this guy is doing something grey/black hat to generate that kind of volume/conversion/money.

Those who doesn't use grey/black hat tricks have probably built a page rank valuable enough. You can't rebuild that virtual SEO estate in a couple days, maybe a few 3 or 4 years of hard work and maintenance. So you are back at square one when you need money today.
Ultimately, the actual standard of the web is the behavior implemented by major browser vendors.

Assuming the W3C committee voted down the EME standard, at this late point in the game and with no competing standard to satisfy the use case, what stops Google, Mozilla, Apple, and Microsoft from just implementing the standard as-drafted without the W3C's sign-off?

At that point, the browsers will be enabling functionality that browsers that don't implement EME support can't enable, media channels can take advantage of EME-supported encryption modules, users will see less functionality in other browsers and therefore have soft incentive to migrate away from other browsers, and it becomes incumbent upon the W3C to either release documentation describing already-existing browser functionality (as they've so often had to do) or be ever-so-slightly inaccurate as an authoritative source for describing web standards.
I've looked at it a bit! Got interest from 1 local arcade.

Cabinets are expensive to build + take effort to maintain (replacing parts) so it would have to be calculated.

I've done a little bit of prototyping in "play games on a shared screen with your cellphone" that I think might be more conducive to the barcade scene. Something I might look into further; right now my next focus is on a GPS-based ChooseYourOwnAdventure + some tools for indie developers.
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I spent a grand or two building Icanpriceit.com, but never launched/promoted it.

If I did it again, I would set aside a lot of time promoting it and focusing on it. Eventually it just took away from my main business and even though I love the idea I stopped thinking about it. Maybe I'll go back one day.
Due to a bizarre series of accidents one of my hobbies is taking picture of escorts, for their websites. (Getting paid as a photographer is hard, and they're a consistent and reliable group of people who are willing & able to do so.)

If you're not averse to the niche scheduling appointments for such people could be an interesting thing to work on. That could cover both men/women working "at home", and those who are going on tours to various cities (something that is pretty common).

Depending on where you're based this might be an immediate non-starter, but I've talked to a lot of people who hate the established publishing platforms, and scheduling is a recurring source of pain I hear about.
clean coal is basically as clean as solar, but the fact that it's on demand energy means that's it's not really competing with solar.
Triple-leveraged ETFs
2-4% APY High Interest Savings Account
I built gpsheatmap as a starter django project -

http://www.gpsheatmap.com/

I think bad SEO and the website not being polished is the issue

Currently thinking of either selling it, or redeveloping it as a wordpress plugin for sports clubs
Amazon threatened to kill its Whole Foods deal
I wanted to practice a little more more with nodejs. To me it's pointless to learning a programming language without a project. Eventually, I will convert it from PHP (codeigniter) to angular 4 so that I can learn angular 4.

I also was banned from adsense, for machine generated content. Regardless, I really like amazon and my product you can't really use adblock, so I put together a website that monitors amazon daily prices.

I get most of my hits on facebook feed. Regardless I don't make as much money as I would like, but it gives me something to do when my regular job is annoying me. Plus I got some nodejs programming experience and database construction experience as well. So all is not lost.

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I might be looking for a growth hacker...
Winning the dunk competition does not make your team be an NBA champion...
I don't care if he personally reads them or not but it worked for me in January. I was locked out and phone/email support ignored me or sent me in circles. One email to jeff@amazon.com and my account was restored in a few hours.
Also important to remember that good at programming does not necessarily equal good at job.

Excelling as a communicator, being an empathetic person, and having great interpersonal skills are just as (perhaps more) important than how well you can code.
Have I been pwned[0] is missing from this list, and is an awesome tool to check whether some of your information have leaked in the past.

Passwords are, in my opinion, way more valuable than browser history.

[0]: https://haveibeenpwned.com/
To provide a little more detail on davidw's comment: In several US states, your property tax is locked in when you buy a house.

So you could have two identical houses next door to each other, one last sold in 1975, the other 2015, and their property taxes would likely differ by a factor of at least 30x.
Presumably because that only happens when it crosses a threshold dollar amount, and $0.80/month isn't enough to get it over that threshold.

(That price is too small for there to be a running instance; it's most likely for storage belonging to an instance that was shut down, such as a 16GB EBS snapshot. It is reasonable that Amazon would be very careful about deleting that.)
Have you tried ADD medication? It is legalized speed, all of it. Try taking that for ten years and see how your health and life ends up. Come back and reread this post.

Antipsychotics stop schizophrenics from going psychotic by shutting down dopamine receptors, essentially lobotomizing the brain. Patients are brain dead after 15 to 20 years of taking those.

Opiod addiction doesnt need much introduction.

Adderall/Ritalin/Concerta/Dexedrine are all cocaine analogs that force the brain to overuse dopamine. Results in long term structure of neurons that irreversible. The evidence of this is ampheatmine tolerance that does not reverse (the brain is forever fried/changed).

The jist of the matter is that what goes up must come down, there is no free lunch with drugs. The brain adjusts and down/upregualtes receptors.
You can add Sprout Social in Chicago to this list (assuming OP has write access).

Sprout Social | Chicago | ONSITE | https://sproutsocial.com/careers/open-positions

We are hiring people in all engineering and product roles. We are looking for Python engineers, React.js engineers, SREs, QA, Mobile (iOS, Android, and React Native), etc.

Also, if you would like to add our resident recruitment lead to the list on the "recruiters" tab, here is their contact info (and info for the columns in the sheet):

Amy Wolcott | amy@sproutsocial.com | Sprout Social | Talent Lead
http://www.righto.com/2014/02/bitcoins-hard-way-using-raw-bi...
It continues to surprise and frustrate me that as an industry we continue to highly prize proxy signals for engineering skill, when engineering skill is so directly measurable.

Why even bother with measuring things that are N-degrees removed from actual engineering, when you can just get people to engineer things?

I know others on HN have been hammering this point home for years, but until something changes it deserves to be repeated ad nauseum: work samples work samples work samples work samples.

Stop with the trivia questions. Stop with the contrived algorithms questions. Ask people to design systems, ask people to defend their designs, ask people to write real runnable code that directly relates to the work they will be doing at your job, ask people to review a real piece of code written at your company, ask people to critique real design produced at your company. Anything but what we're doing right now.
I do a variation of 5x5! It's awesome, and their iPhone app is great for tracking progress.
RE agents in most of the rest of the world charge 1-2%. 6% is insane, and the buyers agent I really dont think adds value.
I can empathise with this, I've tried to build a better evernote too, and I suspect its quite common. Everyone has their own way to take notes. The catch is, in this context at least, trying to make money from it. That's something even evernote have struggled with
I'm currently working on solving this problem, hoping to launch in the next year. The truth is the average real estate agent doesn't have a college degree and has been in the business for less than 3 years. And in a hot market, when houses sell in a week, the agent is worth even less. What marketing plan is going to sell a house in a week? None at market value.Furthermore, buyers are walking into transactions thinking they aren't paying for a realtor when they are paying for both sides in the price of the house.
I tweeted this link this morning (apparently the first time it's been posted to Twitter, so perhaps how it ended up here on HN).

I did so in response to the CTO of Kaggle tweeting "Super confused why we still use resumes. Get 100x the signal from domain profiles (GitHub, StackOverflow, Kaggle, etc.) & real work samples", which ... where to start [https://twitter.com/benhamner/status/883137638084956160].
Despite the recent rise in the interest in shooting movies on the 70 mm film, I am not convinced. I saw Tarantino's The Hateful Eight in both incarnations (digital and film-based), and I must say I did not like the film version: the picture was too bright (perhaps, because of snow, as the action takes place in the winter), with a noticeable flicker (probably due to the brightness). It was also distracting to see scratches (however few) and the fact that a mechanical projector is not perfect when it comes to keeping the frame stable.

The digital version, on the other hand, seemed perfect in all respects.
zillow is much more than a website if you're an agent
German-Americans were, for a long time, the largest national-ethnic group in the US. After the World Wars, calling oneself a German-American went out of fashion.

There are some interesting articles on the matter:

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/23/opinion/whatever-happened...

[2] https://www.economist.com/news/united-states/21642222-americ...
Agree. But you are wasting your time on HN arguing those points. On HN (many) people are curious, think they rise to a challenge, and think they have the time and bandwidth to defeat any obstacle or achieve any goal they want. And are additionally willing to DIY it just for sport. The shocking thing is how little they understand how 'normal' folks operate. Wanting simple, easy and not necessarily having either the time, intelligence or desire to cut out a useful middleman.

Also I love when people decide that the way someone else earns a living makes them overpaid and not worth what the market is paying them.

In the end as I said in another comment most people selling real estate aren't making tremendous money doing it with all the time wasted on people who don't end up buying.
I can't wait until this gets used by malware!
The worrying effects of working more and sleeping less
From what I hear, this update make bitcoin no longer decentralized. Is Segwit centralized?
This has happened plenty of times. Examples are in this thread.
This data lumps together suburban and true dense urban as 'urban'. Probably over 50% of the U.S. population is suburban, and that population is not going to be served economically by on-demand ride services.[1]

[1] https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/how-suburban-are-big-am...
"I realized that the purpose of writing is to inflate weak ideas, obscure poor reasoning, and inhibit clarity. With a little practice, writing can be an intimidating and impenetrable fog!"

http://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1993/02/11
I'm also a former ICPC world finalist and I'm willing to believe this is the case in a BigCo because:
1) Top ICPC competitors tend to be extremely socially awkward, and may not work well in groups.
2) Vast majority of engineering work is very algorithmically simple, thus these folks don't get a chance to "shine".

However, I've noticed that they are popular in prop trading firms, where work tends to be in very small teams or individual. I don't know how their performance correlates to fund performance.

If I were hiring, I'd still prefer to hire at least some top ICPC performers. The hard algorithms are rare---but can make or break your product.

I also think the knowledge learned from programming contests is invaluable. I'd like to be able to discuss bipartite matching or min-cut with my colleagues without eliciting a blank look.
One of the founders of Underdog.io (https://underdog.io) here. Almost goes without saying, but we'd be happy to help any SoundClouders looking for something in NYC or SF (our two main markets). We work with ~350 of the best tech companies in those locations.

https://underdog.io/candidates/apply

It takes 60 seconds to apply and we can get you fast-tracked to an upcoming batch. Can also email us with questions -- support[at]underdog[dot]io.
We got, unfortunately, MULTIPLE realtors through redfin; some on our own request, some when they simply would disappear from the company/stop answering our emails. There was neither quality nor consistency, and we had marginal ability to impact that choice on our own, whereas with a personal realtor we went with someone highly recommended from work peers.

I absolutely agree the individual realtor impacts the experience, that's pretty much the crux of my whole issue :) My conclusion was that Redfin doesn't offer as much control/guarantee to ensure this, and in a hot market, this matters quite a bit.

(To be fair, I'd say the same thing about my experience with mortgage lenders, BoA did an abysmal job and very nearly left me in the lurch, whereas a smaller local lender picked up the slack and pulled our asses out of the fire. Perhaps my overarching statement should be to wonder if we (businesses) suck at scaling customer support? (I'm pretty much saying "well duh" to myself as I write this statement, frankly))
I agree (as someone who spends all my time in my garden when I'm not at work). I enjoy being outside, getting fresh air, clearing my head, and tending to my own garden. There is something really refreshing about doing it and I'd have zero interest in automating away any portion of it. Just my 2 cents...
Uber's legal team has done this a couple times recently - really strong tones for things.