skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree. Blue Apron's operation can be reproduced, and Amazon is probably one of the best companies to do it now that they have Whole Foods.

I don't see a coffee subscription type service going to IPO, unless it's part of a larger business. However, total spend on groceries/food will always be higher than coffee, so it's not an equal comparison exactly.
Perhaps before diving into FFI, you could write a small runtime library with the basic I/O you need (`readline` and `puts`, perhaps?)
Yes, yes, yes, this is so true.

When I was buying my house every time I asked a seller's agent a question about a house their answer was "I don't know." Every single damn time! If it wasn't written on the MLS they don't have a clue. That's even assuming the seller's agent was even physically there for the showing, only a few were.

My loan agent also told us that the taxes listed on the MLS were almost always flat out wrong so he always has to ignore the MLS and call the town when drafting up mortgages. I can't help but wonder if that's not so accidental. The taxes listed on the MLS for the house I ended up buying were wrong, for what its worth. Two municipals tax my house and the MLS only listed the tax for one of them.
The goal of the graph is to generalize large scale income distributions/gains on a large sample size of hundreds of millions of people.

Not to go into every single micro sub group of income earners and divorced neurologists with company sponsored health insurance who have more income than an tech worker homeowner with 6 cats.

The graph is perfectly valid for what it represents. The share on a large sample size of hundreds of millions of people of historical income gains and results can be interpreted thusly.
off-topic - I was always wondering if they have a life those heroes who spend enormous amount of time helping other people in reddit, stack overflow and github..
I thought the issue with current wireless technology was getting the latency down, in order to work with true ~90hz refresh (so when you tilt your head looking at the horizon, or move your head quickly the display updates in seemingly real-time, not showing you one or two frames of old data).

Is this still not an issue?
>but I wasn't aware that offers could dictate changes to the terms of a pre-existing listing agreement between the seller and their agent.

Exactly. Sounds like this borders on interference. The seller can't sign such an offer without breaking a previous contract. It may have worked for him because the broker was amendable to changing their agreement but by not having representation the person above may still have overpaid by 2%. What if the pricing strategy was to price 5% over what the seller really wanted knowing people would negotiate down.

Additionally the previous the buyer doesn't know what the co-broke fee, if any, is being offered to an agent that procures a buyer.
It's a bit tough to argue we should keep computers insecure and hope people get annoyed and change their minds. Keeping people's computers safe is a primary goal of browser vendors, and this improves that state of affairs. Sure, DRM sucks, but at least the vendors can't root your machine and install keyloggers now.
It boils down to what is more important for user: will they change browser to play DRMed videos or switch video provider to one without DRM.
Not supporting EME in browser with falling usage (Firefox) is likely suicide, but W3C doesn't make browsers and can take any ideological position without consequences.
CS:APP covers compilers? My school runs a clone of that course where we do a selection of the labs (malloc, shell, bomb, etc), but we didn't touch anything like compilers. Maybe I'll have to go look through that book again!
Please add MakerSights, Inc to the list of companies hiring. (https://www.makersights.com)

- Hiring engineering, UI/product design (in SF, will consider remote).
The "rules" against this sort of behavior exist because people can't be trusted to maintain objectivity in these sorts of situations. "Oh but I really like her." is not an excuse to do whatever you want.

Lets take a more common and less obvious situation; dating coworkers: If things don't work out, often one of the pair will need to leave their job - probably her.

A considerate person would realize that "Would you like to get drinks tonight?" really means "Hey, lets see if we have some chemistry and if it doesn't work out, I'm OK with you losing your job."
I don't "bat an eye", but I always ask about any gap longer than a month to see whether the candidate has an answer and how they explain it. The question is never about the truth for the gap and more to see how they handle the situation.
Australian Made Crumpler Backpacks are awesome.
They come with a lifetime guarantee because they literally stitch them from canvas. Strong bags with great design that really last.

https://www.crumpler.com/au/dry-red-no-5/

https://www.crumpler.com/au/about-us/

> The first Crumpler bag was made in the early 90s when Stuart Crumpler couldn’t find a bag that let him cycle home with a slab of beer on his back.

Stu’s solution to this common problem was a tough, handmade messenger bag – he sourced the best materials he could find and even sought the expertise of a local parachute maker who pulled the prototype apart and showed him stronger methods of stitching.

During this time, Will Miller and Dave Roper ran a courier business and needed quality bags for their riders. Seeing the potential in Stu’s bags, the three of them founded Crumpler with a handshake and the rest is history.
Ask HN: Larry Page livestream?
https://www.recode.net/2017/7/7/15938486/uber-larry-page-deposition-alphabet-waymo-lawsuit

Will it likely be possible to watch a live stream of this?

Or how would I attend in person?
751 domains were hijacked and traffic was forwarded to a malicious site
Aha! I knew I wasn't crazy... I had told multiple people that Open Listings was the true incarnation of "this should be a fixed fee, not percent of transaction" only to be proven wrong by your current pricing page.

Maybe like Vanguard you could do a sliding scale as the home price goes up? That is, instead of doing 50% off at all points (and I know you're focused on CA, but bear with me) you could increase the discount at higher price points. That way a $2.5M home on OpenListings is suddenly really attractive to the high end, while you'd still be the best option at the lower end (your pricing comparison to Redfin is genius, since I believed they did a 50/50 split).

Did different portions of California respond differently to your pricing? I'm seriously sad that people buying a home wouldn't do the math to see that your flat fee was drastically lower than any percentage.
Without looking through the responses (yet) I can guarantee the vast majority of any failed projects here can be contributed to a lack of focus on sales and marketing.

For us techies (and I include myself in this although I do sales and marketing for a living, so I've beat it out of me) it is far too easy and safe to return to what we know...AKA the technology.
What if it was legally bound that a securing tech (enforcing users not to abuse content) HAS to be opened in case of future demise of the author company ?

If Apple and iTunes suddenly crash, they have to make a tiny effort into releasing a conversion/stripping tool and/or open source the system so that ex-customers can at least attempt to help themselves.
Was it Kenny? I, too, bought a house in the Bay Area a bit less than 3 years ago, and your experience is exact to what mine was. It was really pleasant, especially compared to the times I had gone along with my parents when they were house shopping with a traditional realtor.
It wasn't a malicious event, nor was the 2003 sequel. They were able to get the grid back online bit by bit by coordinating between power generation companies using other infrastructure.

Imagine if not only is the grid down, but the phones are down, the water's down, and air travel is grounded because the control towers operators have been shut out of their systems.

Plus, as you're trying to restore the systems with what limited communications you have someone is actively trying to prevent you from doing your job, or there's enough booby-traps in the system that you basically need to re-install everything from scratch and reconfigure everything.

This also presumes no critical equipment was damaged in the attacks, which it probably will be. North Korea would want to wreck as much of everything as they possibly can if they're fearing a regime-ending invasion.
Slightly tangential, but it reminds me a bit of the viva_la_AIsistance episode of the Partially Derivative podcast (34 minute mark, discussion starting around 22 minutes in) where they talk about children growing up telling digital assistants like Alexa and Siri to do things for them.

http://partiallyderivative.com/podcast/2017/06/20/viva_la_AI...
For doing without to work, all browsers must agree to do without. As soon as one browser ships it and people prefer browsers that can stream Netflix, everyone else must follow suit or wallow in obscurity.

Microsoft and Google make CDMs; no one else had a chance in this fight.
Because those features are generally safe and unsurprising, people don't need to understand them.
Amazon wasn’t the only company that tried to buy Whole Foods
What impact does the other 95% of Canadians who now hold record levels of real estate debt have?

Do foreign purchases have an impact on the market? Sure. Would the market still be crazy overheated and ready to collapse without foreign purchases? I'd bet it would.
Fake news is a war effort humans need to lead
Different social networking applications imply different social contexts. I may follow you back on Twitter, but that doesn't mean that I want to be your friend on Facebook.
> Option 1 is the best because playing DRM content should be Netflix's problem.

By not making it a standard we'll make sure that Neflix never, ever comes to Linux. That guarantees that proprietary operating systems, browsers and hardware will always be prevalent.

> By making it a standard it means that we'll never, ever get rid of it.

<marquee> and <blink> were standards. NPAPI was a quasi-standard.

Black-and-white worldviews are often accurate albeit negligently unrealistic.
In markets where anything can happen and buyers overbid on the order of 100-300k over asking price simply because they want it and will do anything to get it, it is very difficult to accurately estimate the value and/or selling price of a home.

also, ever wonder why the home appraisal comes in right at the offer price during the loan process? its not a coincidence. the appraised price typically has more to do with conducting a business transaction in the interest of all parties involved and less to do with an actual valuation of the home.
The editable link is: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ZP8FNlL0a-SvSpZFflxO...
Second this. PLEASE get rid of the pink and just have content fill. That pink is nauseatingly bright and screams "leave now!"

Not as bad on mobile because it's so thin, but on a desktop with wide screen it is not ok.

I don't usually bikeshed on layout (not a graphic designer), but I am begging you please.
Is tiny Estonia offering a preview of our tech future?
You're right it was my first house.

I do believe it is sometimes more complicated. But is the value of a realtor's time to me, as a buyer or seller, really several hundred dollars per hour? Is buying a 600k house really twice as difficult a transaction than a 300k house? Why are they not paid a flat fee?
I've really enjoyed this backpack from Amazon https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01N7HOVXE
Very nice, but video cuts right when it would have gotten interesting!
I go through a lot of bags trying to find the perfect one. Quite literally one every 3-4 months for the last 4 years.

Finally bought the 30l Peak Design backpack. Best thing ever. Worth every penny.

I can fit:
Two laptops - HP 1040 and Lenovo Thinkpad S12
Two chargers for the laptops
1x 2 port USB charger for phone
8" Tablet
2 Moleskine notebooks
1 camera, either Sigma Dp1 Quattro or Sony RX100
2.5 USB backup drive
Several batteries for the Sigma camera
Audiotechnica m30 headphones
All the infernal RSA tokens I have to carry
USB cables, 2 ethernet cables
10000 mAh battery pack
Other odds and ends... mug, access cards and what not
Can EME prevent people from doing 30fps screengrabs of their screen and dump all into an mp4 file using FFmpeg or such?

As someone else pointed here:

> You can't simultaneously give us the content and not give us the content.
I guess I'm looking for different expertise. I wouldn't trust them to have any building knowledge. I want them to know the local market. I bought a house in Los Angeles a few years ago. Because everything is so expensive we were fairly open to different areas in a radius around our jobs. It was easy to overlook neighborhoods that were a good fit just by looking at a map of house sales. I reached out to a few realtors in different parts of town. They could help answer questions about schools (and charter schools), what was low and high for the neighborhood, and other things I could find out myself, but would take too much time if I did it for a dozen neighborhoods.

They also were really helpful in scheduling walkthroughs before the house would go on the market, and scheduling all of the inspections--they also offered to be on site if I couldn't make it.

I also think they keep the sale rational when either side can get too sentimental. After inspectors found a few, minor things, the seller only offered to address them after adding another 5k onto the price (at no point was 'as-is' mentioned). This was after a few other petty things from the seller and I considered walking away. The house had been in escrow with no backup bids before we showed up. So I wouldn't be surprised if that happened last time, too.
miners mine because they want bitcoin.

you end up on a diff chain if the bitcoin software you run has different consensus rules. Nobody would do this because there is no incentive to be on a brand new network by yourself even if you managed to have enough hash power to survive the difficulty algorithm.

even if you do mine a lot of bitcoinXfork, good luck trading/selling it.
Having just left a job in this exact field, maybe I can give you an insight I haven't seen on here yet:

There's a huge monopoly present in real estate data right now. At a very high level: The NAR (National Association of Realtors) licenses real estate agents, they pretty much allow you to do business and you cannot sell houses in the US without their approval. MLSes (Multiple Listing Service) are organizations created for a region/state/city, depending on the size/market. These are exclusively permitted by the NAR. All realtors MUST put their house data on an MLS. These realtors are also forced to pay large amounts to access these feeds. All traditional real estate data only lives in these organizations, with high barriers to extracting and manipulating the data since they want to keep their monopoly.

Basically, the real estate world is very entrenched in these monopolistic practices, and we're only now seeing significant efforts to accumulate and dissipate the data in a way that makes it more accessible. Personally, I wouldn't expect any major overhaul as the NAR is a HUGE lobbying group and have gotten a good amount of legislation around real estate on their side.

Hope that helps!
I'd say that Zillow and Redfin are better on average than traditional appraisers.

Traditional appraisers might be better in certain markets or conditions though (probably Zillow and Redfin are more generic).

I've worked on homeowners insurance and I've seen wildly differing appraisals.
You could still have multiple different social networks per social context, which would compete on features, as opposed to lock-in and network effects.
Even Google has a PR department dumbing things down.
Probably relevant, there has been work on converting feed-forward networks to decision trees e.g. [1].

EDIT: why is this relevant to the parent comment? You can learn a neural net, convert it to a tree, and then integrate rules from domain experts.

[1] [PDF] https://www.aaai.org/Papers/FLAIRS/2004/Flairs04-089.pdf
Quite good introduction to modern official way of building DEB packages.
Only a little more work than with FPM, but the results are much, much better,
and package build procedure is not something totally external to the package
itself (FPM has exactly that problem: where to put tools invocations?).
Email really isn't totally abandoned.

People in various compromised situations use it because it doesn't need a phone number (unlike a rapidly growing amount of social networks.) I've set up dates over email, most of my work is done over email. I tell people to email me rather than text me because I am /much/ more likely to get an email (and get it quickly, thanks to IMAP IDLE.) It's the only thing I get notifications for on my laptop and the only thing I reliably get notifications for on my phone.

It's not abandoned, it's just not as hip as snapchat.
Depositions are not public hearings, but are often done in private.
Kara Swisher's main career was been publishing leaked Silicon Valley documents (including Google's) while being married to a Google Vice President. (They are now separated and the VP is no longer at Google)
if you're trying to present to viewers, two monitors will make keeping them focused into a ridiculous chore.

That is like telling a speaker to prepare two slide decks and switch between them during the talk.
The idea that "[a]t its root, this is a design problem" is frankly laughable.
So is murdering adulterers. We should probably do science instead of relying on traditions from illiterate desert dwellers from thousands of years ago.
after I bought a house with an excellent agent I can't imagine how you can't use an agent. at least for your first house it's awesome. pictures online are no substitute for going in person. the agents main value is being correct in paperwork and knowing the neighborhood.

I think they are a great tool but not a replacement. great agents are very useful
Seller's agents aren't paid a flat fee to align their interest with that of the seller; they want the deal to close at the highest price possible.

Why buyer's agents are paid on sale-price-commission is, OTOH, a real question.
Your example is a bad one. I don't see why its anyones business how an investor chooses to spend their money. If they are fools and invest in only people they sleep with who cares?
If anyone from SoundCloud is passionate about podcasts get in touch at hello at zencast dot fm (https://zencast.fm)

I'm currently in Berlin if anyone would like to grab coffee.
Arecibo Message
they were a pain in the ass

I had paid them for more than 5 years to provide a cert for my hobbyist website, then one day on a random subdomain decided that it was an 'organisation' and started demanding more money to verify this organisation, when there was no real organisation at all
If users have to work around server errors, it's not a solution.
A Supercomputer Is Betting on a Market Crash
> Steam is actually somewhat interesting because they've explicitly added a "Family Sharing" feature that allows Steam accounts on the same computer to access each others library of games.

Huh, didn't know that, thanks
Adversaries only know what you let them. But this article does little more than rehash well-known clickbait. And it offers little useful coaching.
Redfin has agents who walk you through houses, help you with paperwork, and live in the neighborhood... (And you still save thousands over a traditional agent)
There are some other pretty cool scripts on his site as well...

http://aem1k.com/

"We need to write beautiful beautiful code for the world!"

=====

Edit 1:

found another collection of code bearing a similar style...

https://github.com/MinhasKamal/CreepyCodeCollection
That seems targeted at .gov employees, which is a little different.
I think you use a narrow definition of a backlink which is "asking a link to weak content". Asking to add a new app to somebody's "Useful tools for ..." list is link building too.

> Google wants good content, not back links

Google relies on "dofollow" backlinks from big sites more than anything, check different researches on ranking and backlink count correlation.
I built https://callmom.pro/ this year in anticipation of a Mother's day rush. The idea is that we'll call you and your mom once a week at a set day/time in such a way that your phones both ring and when you pick up, you're talking to each other.

The site is janky AF because I'm still in the neophyte stages of front-end/css. I do still think it's a good a idea, so I'm planning a revamp of the sales site in time for a big push at the holidays.
My theory is that it's because simply operating in the social hierarchy is sickening. There are many things that you want that are totally not under your control but under the control of other people often for no good reason. So it's best never ever to interact with the social hierarchy unless you absolutely have to and specifically for money. And even then force your own rules to get the money. Dave Chapelle is an excellent example of how to deal with the entertainment industry.

This article is a good example of how participating in the social hierarchy and letting them tell you what your needs are and how to behave is ludicrous. It's mostly just bullshit sold by leaders because of their esteemed status in the hierarchy.

In the past leaders sometimes deformed their skulls from childhood to differentiate themselves from the masses, this is an example of that same sort of behavior.
Facebook is building an offline community
Facebook announces plan for housing at new Menlo Park campus
I believe that it would be better if all CAs disappeared and a new system such as public-keys-as-urls/hashes-as-urls (like tor/i2p/gnunet/etc) or a web-of-trust based solution was adopted.

> Issuing certificates cost money

Making a post on HN probably costs more money than issuing certificates.
Knowledgeable and experienced consultants typically don't make more than maybe 250 per hour (as a cost the client) that I've seen. That's pretty high at that.
Exactly. Stay hungry. Hunt outside your comfort zone. Break through your fears. Abandon that which does not serve you. Give it your all. Don't save any energy for the return trip. No bold knights can flourish in a peaceful country.

You know the song.
To Raldi's point.. Two random houses near Pacific Heights:

https://i.imgur.com/kltiDm4.png?1

But at least people with $10 million houses are spared the indignity of paying for local services.
I've been trying a similar approach. I developed an Electron app called First Novel App which is supposed to help writers silence their inner editors.

It's available free to download at http://www.firstnovelapp.com which redirects to a Gumroad store.
Do agents even write up most of the paperwork? I was under the impression that they just contract that out to a lawyer.
> Fasting is preserved as a commandment in all the major world religions.

Fasting is not a “commandment” in Christianity, nor is it even an obligatory discipline in many major subgroups of Protestant Christianity.
Klingon isn't the language of warriors. It's the language of scholars
I still don't understand how PDF could become one of the standards for publishing documents. Well structured content gets converted into PDF which loses most of that structure. And then a lot of work is done to guess that structure from PDF and convert it back to a better file format. It just shows that successful solutions don't have to be technically good.
I want to thank you for this - it is not only instructive, but I find it very inspiring.
Thank goodness! And thanks for correcting me.

He must just dilligently clean up the wires.
Please add to the list of companies hiring :)

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