skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was recently a first time homebuyer and my real estate agent was really helpful in basically holding my hand through the process.

He walked me through a contract to buy and sell, since I'd never seen one before. He helped me figure out a competitive offer for the house I wanted. He was able to spend time on things like searching for houses or setting up tours while I was working, it was great.

Just looking at houses online only scratches the surface of the homebuying process, IMO, and frankly with my full-time job it would have taken me much longer to find a house... assuming I would have even known how to get to closing, which I didn't.
sukhoi is a little baby yet, it is built on a good concept in which it permits you to construct all kind of structures from your fetched data easily.
It has a shorter learning curve due to its base concept too. The second example in sukhoi web page is extremely simple and it does something that if you are going to implement using other crawler it may get a bit tricky.
Try conceiving the two examples in sukhoi using those web crawlers it should give you a feeling about how sukhoi makes things easier.
I'm pretty sure purplebricks in the UK are flat-fee.
I downloaded it but I'm currently on mobile. I'll link to it when I get back to my desktop in an hour.
In my most recent homebuying experience, my realtor was able to point out several facts about the house based on the surrounding market that saved me about $40k. It also helps that I don't pay for the realtor on the buy side.

What's your argument against a good realtor who saves you any amount when it's coming out of the seller's fee?

Edit: By the time you've come to visit a home you're buying, the seller has already agreed to the commission percentage with their agent. The money is already spent.
Well, technically the brokers get most of that.
That Think Progress piece was an interesting read, thanks for sharing and giving some more context to this story.
Thus my quotes around "bought" . Again whilst technical people likely know the consequences of buying DRM protected content, I think that a non-technical person who suddenly found their paid for content removed from them due to an automated process locking/deleting their account would be quite upset.

People are, for better or worse, entrusting more and more of their content to cloud services, things like photographs, documents they've created, music etc etc.
Why bother with backdoors when you're running the infrastructure? They can have a barn sized front door.
In the post war years we have tried out a lot of new ideas about how a society should conduct itself. Yegor's ideas, once common place, now are viewed negatively by many.

I wonder, will the pendulum swing back the other way once we have sufficiently teased apart biological versus cultural influences?
There is always the Monsanto conspiracy... That group is very vocal, but hasn't done a very good job of getting real research past peer review (getting their "research" into newspapers is easy and they do that all the time). Monsanto is evil (source: a personal friend employed by Pioneer - about as biased as they get), but getting past peer review is hard, even when you are evil.
What if Facebook (or anyone else) buys data from RescueTime?
>start with this neat and medium-scary site, which our friends at Gizmodo flagged, that shows you everything your browser knows about you the second you open it. (clickclickclick.click)

"Subject has entered the website. Subject has 4 cores..." followed by a bunch of notes about my mouse moving around, or me making the window inactive.

Hardly terrifying.
I agree. I've been waiting for this disruption for a while. In the past 5 years all the realtors I had to interact with had to do was to open the property I found and later prepare the documents and tell me where to sign and who to pay, and obviously collect a good chunk of money every year for rentals and the % for sales. Every time I needed their help for something I wouldn't get.

I can't see how that could not been replaced by a system of some sort.
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My sister is a bright, self-motivated, girl that has taught herself HTML and CSS, but hasn't learned a real programming language yet. She still doesn't grasp the concept of a function, which is understandable at her age. There's lots of books on CS that I'd love to give her, but that she's too young for. Any suggestions?
Does anyone know if those 14k files have any evidence linking to Uber's design? If there is no wrongdoing, Uber should continue to figure out autonomous cars as a service model.
I really hate the excuse "that's how I was raised". If humans only ever behaved how they were raised, then we'd still be living in caves.

Either justify your beliefs or discard them.
Every company I've worked for has required a doctor's note for 3 or more consecutive days of sick leave.

It means that I cannot simply take care of myself, but that I have to go to a doctor and have them tell me that I'm sick and to do the things that I'd have done anyhow, like get plenty of rest and take some Nyquil at night.

The end result is that I almost never take 3 sick days in a row, even if I'm really sick. I end up coming to work, getting others sick, and getting nothing done. (Or worse, doing damage that I later have to repair before I can get work done.)
I started niche scanner reviews blog https://www.scanviews.com but it not working from 10 posts I wrote with my not native English language. It's not working. Idea was to make gsmarena alternative for scanner and digitalization reviews. I'm getting like 1 cent per month from it.
How does a web site get licensed as a real estate broker, anyway?
I'm infinitely more comfortable with functional composition over object composition, but Mobx is still far more intuitive to me. It's because functional composition over a constantly changing global state tree is a huge fucking mess. There's a reasonably objective explanation as to why it is a mess, and more specifically, why Redux suffers from so much boilerplate and painful refactorings.

In UI programming you are managing state, full stop. Almost any UI can be described as a state machine. Not just GUIs, but any UI: digital, analog, mechanical, whatever. And since you are basically managing state machines, any refactoring of the functionality of your UI is fundamentally a refactoring of your state. Rendering is a functional refactoring (state doesn't change), but if you are building a UI and not just a simple landing page, you are far more likely to refactor functionality over rendering...meaning your data is more likely to change than your functions. In other words, UI programming via functional composition over a frequently changing global state tree falls on the wrong side of the Expression Problem [0].

Every time you change your data, you have to modify every functional pipeline, from beginning to end, that touches that changed section of your state tree. That is where all the boilerplate comes from, and that is why Redux is consistently criticized as a system that becomes more and more unwieldy as your UI complexity grows. It is a bad abstraction for the problem at hand.

Mobx is a far better pattern IMO, and I feel entirely comfortable saying that is an objective position to take as long as your functionality is more likely to change than your rendering. It isn't that Mobx is a superior idea, it's just the fact that it embraced object composition for a use case that is perfect for it.

[0] http://wiki.c2.com/?ExpressionProblem
>I run my email through google for my domain

Well, here's your problem. Have you thought about self hosting?
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I store my 2FA in 4 different authenticator apps on my phone just in case.

Google Authenticator has never restored these properly, ever. Encrypted backups or not.
That's exactly what the article quoted from Murray. How does that make anything wrong or "bull"?
apologies for sounding flippant, but my opinion can be summarised as follows:

TensorFlow is Python/C++. Nice! Beam is Python/Java. Not nice.
Man, buffalo and pittsburgh must be doing something special compared to the rest of the rust belt? I wonder what's going on there.
Unless you live in Kansas, Iowa, Maine, Alaska, or Louisiana, you won't be charged over $10.
How Amazon Came to Buy Whole Foods
In my experience a good realtor will either save you 3% when buying or get you an extra 3% when selling by knowing the area, knowing the right improvements to make, home staging, and negotiating.
Isn't that basically what SaaS is? Companies that would have had to hire engineers to do bespoke work can contract out to a SaaS vendor and get what they need for a fixed fee.

SaaS doesn't make sense every case, just like Redfin doesn't, but it's still valid.
Is the issue ad targeting, or data collection?

For me it's the latter. This is what Google thinks I like: http://imgur.com/a/g8Q7l - reasonably accurate, and I don't care if it's public or used for targeting non-intrusive ads. I like those topics, I buy things, go ahead and show me your products.

My objection is over the data used to learn those interests. I don't want Google tracking my search and page views across the internet, I don't want my credit card company tracking my purchase history, and I certainly don't want my ISP/phone provider tracking my "metadata".

I feel like this article glossed over that aspect. Google's "Ad Personalization" page controls what Google uses, not what it knows. In this age of state, corporate, and foreign surveillance/hacking, I'm far more concerned about the latter.
They are backed by a substantial insurance company

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AXA

definitely a good partner to have for this kind of venture.
Bought my house via redfin and very satisfied with the process. It's also a bonus for buyers, they send you a refund check for a portion of the commission that normally all goes to agents.

Their agents may have less experience or knowledge, but as long as you get highly rated/reviewed service providers (lawyer/inspector/etc), that's all that matters. When I sell my current house it will definitely be via redfin. So much is now done online, why pay high commission to traditional realty companies?

This is indeed an industry ripe for change, and redfin is definitely doing just that.
All I can say is finally. Such a shame that the default malloc on most Linux systems was so far behind in terms of performance (jemalloc/tcmalloc) for more then a decade now.

I wonder how long it'll take for this implementation to shake out the many bugs (fragmentation issues / worse case behavior) the early version of jemalloc/tcmalloc suffered from.
Wait until they discover fasting..
I think buyers could brave buying a home without a realtor. It's a little crazy but doable.

Selling is another matter entirely. If you would like the peace of mind to know that your home is actually in your past once the money is in your bank account, use a broker. Having your past home haunt your future can be a miserable prospect.
>I'm still waiting for someone to completely eliminate the realtor [...] Why do we need realtors at this point? Everyone finds houses themselves online nowadays.

The need for realtors comes mostly from the sellers not the buyers. (Yes, some buyers also contract a "buyer's agent" but the point remains that realtors are still desirable to help market and show a home.)

Unlike the "dis-intermediation" that happened to travel agents (online flight/hotel booking), and librarians (google searches), or video rental clerks (Netflix), the elimination of realtors to represent the most expensive component in an owner's net worth is not going to happen because of a slick point & click housing website.

Consider that the vast majority of people don't even post their garage items on ebay for sale. Compared to that, selling a house is a much more complicated transaction. There's a categorization in sales called "low touch" and "high touch" transactions. A "low touch" transaction would be buying a loaf of bread from the grocery store. For the forseeable future (at least decades), selling homes will be a "high touch" transaction and sellers will want the reassurance and "warm & fuzzies" from another human middleman to help them fetch the best price. (E.g., the owner would presumably hire the appropriate realtor with the reputation and track record to quickly sell homes similar to his/her property.)

However, that doesn't mean more efficiencies can't be wrung from the system. Many think the typical realtor's commission of ~6% is way too high so it seems inevitable that entrepreneurs will revolutionize the market. Regardless of the new landscape (e.g. maybe no more MLS), the human intermediaries will still be there.
If you want me to have a look and get so thoughts out of seo perspective, let me know.
Have you used TurboTax or an alternative to file your taxes? Would something like that, with step by step and explaining why's and how's not be enough for this purpose?
> What happens if you are sick for more days than what your contract allows?

They threaten to fire you for taking too much sick time, and they don't pay you for the additional days. They complain that you aren't reliable enough and that they need someone who is reliable.
Conditional Random Fields?
What is the purpose of calling police departments?
Your "article" says they were offering it unknowingly. This does not support OP's implication that they dropped it to protest Obamacare.
So I would need to find a company willing to do that for me? It seems like where I'm at now is not willing to work on GCs.
...People will find a new way to game Google.

I mean look at how Google blacklisted a bunch of tor exit nodes over the last 1-2 years, making google through tor all but impossible. Then in the past few months. Some people have started doing auto proxy rotation out of their exit boxes to fool Google.
iPhones are cheap when they are not purchased new.
Seriously, this has been a problem for the longest time. At one point you could get free ones for open source projects I think, from comodo perhaps? But no longer the case, which is tremendously frustrating.
Yeah, I read the title and assumed basically opposite, that this meant soldiers were going to start visiting one of those ridiculous "Secure E-mail Portals" to find out about upcoming deployments, or whatever else the DOD needs to tell them about via e-mail.

I'm a bit surprised they can even get their email delivered today without having implemented TLS.
Useful script. Have uploaded it to SparrowHub - https://sparrowhub.org/info/csvtotable
Is it safer to use an app or a browser for banking?
For me the last big one is longer-lasting certificates. I'd like a three-year cert like letsencrypt.org uses for their site, instead of the 90-day ones they offer.

I much prefer the CA industry practice of, put a meta tag on your frontpage, or add a string to a DNS TXT record, and then download a certificate, then you're done for three years. I understand their security claims (which apparently don't apply to letsencrypt.org), but all CAs offer 2-3 year certs, so it's a feature they have that LE lacks.

certbot raises complexities if you're using a managed hosting solution that doesn't have shell access, or the owner of your machine doesn't want you running code on their box, or you have a weird custom web server setup or something.

But all the same, I'm not sure that avoiding certbot is worth continuing to pay $40 a year for my wildcard certificate from AlphaSSL. I may switch when mine expires.

What I'm even more hopeful for is that prices of wildcard certs from other vendors will drop now that there's a free alternative. I'm super excited that LE are finally offering these for free!
You might be thinking visually without even recognizing, because to call that kind of imagination visual (as in optical) is misleading. A Hydrogen 2 molecule has 6 degrees of freedom already, give that color and you have 8.

There was a story on HN about activity in the "visual" system of blind people. Here is a similar story google spit out:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14720225

Commutative diagrams are a development that has applications in algebra, too. I'm currently reading Physics, Topology, Logic and Computation: A Rosetta Stone (J. C. Baez, M. Stay) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12317525
You're surely paying for the realtor in a pass through fashion on the sale price of the home.
Those SaaS vendors are still paying developers; if a cookie cutter self-service model works for your needs as a customer, more power to you.

Rarely has that appeared to be the case in the dozens of real estate transactions I've been through, and it might explain why Redfin can't grow faster; people want to have their hand held through the largest transaction of their life, and those who can charge more for those services will.
When I was in highschool, I was attempting to corner the market on commodities - specifically wheat!

Every day I would log in and manage my account - I was a commodities broker and I managed to build a pretty powerful little empire with my savvy transactions.

While not as powerful when it came to ore... my wheat holdings were no laughing matter... that was until the day I smoked pot, dialed in and accidentally sold all my wheat holdings as opposed to buying up all the other supply - thus eliminating my monopoly on the galactic wheat trade...

Man, Trade Wars was a blast in the early nineties.
Misleading title. Makes it sound like they were wrong and are backing off. The patents being dropped are those which Uber is no longer using but was using at some point in their prototypes. There remains one key patent that Uber is still using and Alphabet is still suing them for it.
It's not a data problem

There's no way it's a data problem

It was a data problem
If you’re still using ifconfig, you’re living in the past
> "power gathered from ambient radio signals transmitted by a base station up to 31 feet away"

Seems pretty useless. Better would be to use capacitor and crank handle.

And first GSM phones were also battery free. It was van stuffed with equipment powered by a generator ;-)
There are a few that surprise me here -- declines for Indianapolis, Columbus -- these first two are really odd, but also Columbia, Augusta, and almost all of Alabama.

I know none of these places have the draw of the coasts, but are solid metros that have seen some growth since the recession.

Is it just that they're being outcompeted by larger regional neighbors, like Atlanta, Charlotte, and Charleston?

Why is all of Indiana and Ohio so blue when the two state capitals and their suburbs have been recovering much better than that region's other cities?
Cardiologist-Level Arrhythmia Detection with Convolutional Neural Networks
> It's hard, it requires a lot of rigid logical thinking, it's rather boring, and it's a constant war against machines and against other programmers who produce unmaintainable and unreadable code.

> I don't feel good about sending women, who I was raised to protect and respect, into this war.

I don't think war means what you think it means.

I was also raised to be a "gentleman". Funny thing though, what I took from it was that it was about respect. Respect for what makes people special. Unique. Respect for their beliefs and choices.

Oh and protection should be reserved for the vulnerable. In my experience vulnerability and the format of ones sexual organs are somewhat orthogonal concepts.
I agree. Realtors won't get killed- they'll just have their commissions reduced. I've bought a house through Redfin which was easy enough, but used an agent who agreed to Redfin level fees, but was much more knowledgeable and better at selling my house. From dressing up the house, doing open houses to following up with buyers, to negotiating. Redfin couldn't match him with their inexperienced agents/helpers, high volume and cookie cutter methods that are more suited to hot real estate markets where there's not much for realtors to do.
"The team designed a custom base station to transmit and receive the radio signals. But that technology conceivably could be integrated into standard cellular network infrastructure or Wi-Fi routers now commonly used to make calls."

This is not a cellphone. It is not groundbreaking or new technology. They've made a radio.
I do think that random forests (and Inductive Logic Programming) seem easier to connect to rule-based "human-written" logic.

It does seem though that Neural Networks are the main ML story, at least for now, by a wide margin.
UCLA grabs the top spot among 225 universities in business creation
You just barely trained your spam filter and are surprised that you got another spam? Why are you giving up so early? The spam filter only gets better over time, and you're quitting without giving it a chance.

Also note that you can tweak your spam preferences. For example, I have mine set to mark things at spam at a score of 4.0 instead of the default score of 5.0.
That doesn't explain why they should earn a percentage of the purchase price, and not a flat fee.
These companies know "more about your life than you do", but yet the targeted ads continue to be pretty useless. The ad on this site was an Amazon ad for a pool filter I bought on Amazon about a week ago. It should know that I don't need these for like another year now. The other was for a cruise which I just got back from last week. Maybe some after-sun lotion or something vehicle related for the fact I drove 6 hours each way? The ads I always see just never seem that smart given the terabytes of data that everyone supposedly has on me. They really just seem to reflect my search history.
Crime in the area, for one.
It seems to me, that Waymo/Google has no real interest in their self-driving car program.

Anthony Levandowski went to Uber because he is interested in furthering self-driving car technology into practical applications and Uber offered to actually, really prioritize his project and make his dreams a reality. That's the only logical explanation of his actions; he thought Uber would be a better technology and business partner.

Setting aside the legal issues of whether what he did was right or not, I don't think Google would be the right custodian of this project anyway. For the greater good of the world, we need self-driving cars to become a reality.

And Google just isn't going to do it. They are invested in self-driving cars like they are invested in contact lenses, or drones, or robots, or go-playing AI, and half-dozen other things. Uber was/is a far more logical choice for a company that is going to be both motivated and pragmatic enough to bring this technology to market.

Google has been working on it for ages and we have yet to see a serious attempt at a non-academic implementation.
You can pay Amazon for that level of support.
See: greece.
Who downvoted you for saying one shouldn't be surprised when an account gets shut down after not paying for 3 years?

On that note: why hasn't the account been shut down for nonpayment?