skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Redfin's Valuation Requires Viewing It as Tech Firm, Not Brokerage
Sure ok. Clearly when we think of "having boys bake" we're talking about Dutch ovens and not baking cookies. Yup.
It is highly likely that there are sound business reasons that local investors have not acquired those properties. On the other hand, for a person who has longed to live and work in Montgomery Alabama, it might be an opportunity. But probably not.
Hopefully their newly unionized cafeteria workers can extract a bit more from them, then Google would have to do the same to Google Express drivers, then Apple to its coach drivers, and this trickle down effect to non-tech jobs may actually work. http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/07/24/hundreds-of-facebook-c...
Isn't that the definition of an array? Chunk of contiguous memory plus a notion of how to subdivide it into equal parts?
>This whole late stage capitalism transition is going to be painful.

Still preferable to the cannibalism and human rights abuse currently occurring due to late stage socialism in Venezuela.
I very much doubt it. This is akin to "hoping" that there would be renaissance of of VPS/Dedicated hosting.

Open Source typically requires people to manage everything themselves, including update.

For those who see IT as cost-center/necessary evil, they want to have as less investment and as short-term as possible.
That's how I felt about all of the ratings. Just arbitrary numbers. I have one out of two ports open? Or do two or more open ports automatically go red? No clue, it doesn't say.

6/6 on HTTP with SSL. Again, six what? Total open HTTP connections? Couldn't I have more than six, and wouldn't that data be important? No clue, it doesn't say.

Trying the site with my VPN connection enabled is amusing.
Interestingly, Twitter's problem is not monetization, it's cost vs scale.

They managed to do $2.5 billion in sales with about 300 million monthly actives for 2016 (the 300m is wonky, I don't know what the avg was for the year etc, but they were near that anyway).

If you scaled them to Facebook's size, they'd be at an equivalent $16.5 billion annually. Account for the benefits of scale that Facebook derives, and it's reasonable to say they're monetizing OK given their 300x million users.

The problem? Their costs are well out of line. When Facebook had $2 billion in sales (2010), they generated $600 million in net income. Instead, at that scale, Twitter is bleeding half a billion dollars on the net income line; they've basically got a billion dollar profit imbalance vs what Facebook was doing at the same scale.

Also worth noting, Facebook hit around 500 million users in July 2010 (the year they did $2b in sales). Twitter is monetizing better than Facebook was at the same user scale. The negative comparison of course, is that Facebook had far more users, and still generated $600m in net income (radically better cost management).
> Broadpwn is a fully remote attack against Broadcom’s BCM43xx family of WiFi chipsets, which allows for code execution on the main application processor in both Android and iOS.

This implies they have code execution on the application processor just from broadpwn (and not additional safari/ios exploits). Hijacking internet traffic is indeed serious but tech blog sites are already picking up on this and blowing it up. Example: https://9to5mac.com/2017/07/20/broadpwn-wifi-vulnerability-i...

> PSA: Update to iOS 10.3.3 to fix serious wifi vulnerability allowing attacker complete control
Yep, good question, I should have mentioned it. I even tried a really thick one. It definitely helps, but standing still is what kills my feet, I have to shift my weight so often to keep my feet from hurting that it starts to feel like walking in place.
I got a few coworkers into balance boards for standing desks. The FluidStance works well for this. My Goofboard is fun for surf training, but too distracting to use while trying to GSD. https://fluidstance.com we just ended up doing a group order for a few more interested coworkers.
In trading environments we have a thing called drop copy that is a real-tine feed of what the street thinks the house's trades are. This is constantly compared to what tree house's own view is. This way trade breaks (discrepancies) are caught immediately.

The analogy would be scanning the block chain looking for tree firm's account numbers to verify all transactions are accounted for.

I don't know for the life of me why basic stuff like this isn't implemented. The crypto currency world is like a big joke.
Everyone in my teen sons social circles use snap. Nobody is on Facebook.
If your ethics include reducing human suffering, deciding to conceive is unethical due to the quantity of pain your child is almost certain to endure.
Every GPU has working drivers, but optimizations within them can make huge differences in performance on the same hardware.
Yes, exactly. A chunk of memory. A chunk has an end.

But "arrays" in C aren't a chunk of memory, just the info where it starts and how large elements are.
Just discovered Home Assistant yesterday and I'm really looking forward to diving into it.
Think of it not as "what's their net worth" and more as "what's the biggest cheque they could write today that wouldn't bounce."
Well lets see. If Trump is still willing to sell more agricultural products to China to narrow down the deficit, he needs to play this nicely.
Thanks, that's a nice feature that makes it worth having on my phone. I'll still switch to google maps for the actual navigation because of the cleaner UI, but being able to look this up ahead of time is useful.
My reasoning for loathing snap was their refusal to even allow a snap client for windows phone to exist.
I agree, it is probably the OEM implementation. I have used both Carplay and Android Auto with an aftermarket Pioneer head unit and the phone can be plugged in before the car is turned on.
There's an enormous difference. They wouldn't otherwise pay it because their factory and jobs wouldn't otherwise exist.
It's not an idea that's worth taking seriously, like everything else from Marx.
> hacked together by the last kind of crowd you want working on them

That was neither informative nor necessary, really... (And likely not true)
Milan Enquire About Real Madrid's Cristiano Ronaldo
Using a blockchain doesn’t exempt you from securities regulations
Capital In The Twenty First Century: https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00I2WNYJW/

The Economics Of Inequality: https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B013HZ8U0G/

Debt: The First 5000 Years: https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00Q1HZMCW/

Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World: https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B005CRQ2OE/

The Global Minotaur: America, the True Origins of the Financial Crisis and the Future of the World Economy: https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B010VKP0CQ/

I'm mobile at the moment, but will noodle on further books that I'd consider contributors to the "late stage capitalism" school of thought (IMHO, as an amateur macroeconomic scholar). I am also open to rebuttals!
Malta gets Bitcoin ATM
Absolutely true. I kinda assumed the comedy category was added after the fact, but I haven't seen it, so maybe marketing didn't agree on it being a comedy.
Procreation is unethical; adoption is a moral imperative.
Not that I know of, but I can't say I've ever had my arches evaluated. Maybe it's time! I do hike & run a lot and don't have any issues there. I used running shoes with good insoles & arch support when using the standing desk & treadmill desk. Would there be other symptoms that indicate collapsed arches?
Tell HN: If you're looking for a static site gen, I highly recommend Hugo
Very responsive devs in support and on Github.

Works great.

Customizable but also very lightweight if you don't need to customize.

No major complaints!
>"He is not forced to work this job, he could leave at any moment (he'd have to give up the salary of course)."

A couple points worth mentioning:

1. For most retail clerks, the choice to leave is often "stay in a shitty job I hate" vs. "become homeless and starve (and potentially my family as well) because there is a lack of other jobs, high competition for them, and I live paycheck-to-paycheck because the jobs I can get pay minimum wage with no benefits."

2. It might be different overseas, but in the US at least the vast majority of retail clerks are paid hourly at the minimum wage. In fact, many retail employers do their best to have managers play games with people's scheduled hours to keep them under the amount that triggers benefits and overtime.

So in many (dare I say most?) cases, yes, it is too much to expect some nice disposition by default. That said, I would hope most people, when treated nicely by customers with realistic expectations, would respond in-kind.
3 reasons why hiring a developer is much healthier the startup than freelancers
it is biologically connected and nicely correlates with the falling testosterone levels. In addition to environmental chemicals, testosterone levels are very significantly affected by behavioral/social factors. Given that society becoming more civil is at the same time a result and a cause of lowering testosterone levels, i think that despite temporary setbacks, like the recent success of the "Make the sperm count great again" campaign, the writing is on the wall here. Anyway, given the power of current and future technology, the count of 1 is enough, and may be even that would become too unnecessary big.
Why Are Human Teeth So Messed Up?
Sure you can break Facebook up without destroying the Facebook.com social network. Facebook's dev tools and infrastructure (including Oculus) is spun off into a developer tools focused company. Facebook advertising is spun off into a separate "ad agency." Facebook.com can be this new ad agency's launch customer, but they're free to add their ads to other sites such as Twitter. Instagram and Whatsapp are spun off into separate entities.
Children are complimentary to most endeavors. Maybe with them you won't get as far when measured by some metrics. But with them you will certainly better understand the world at large. That increased knowledge helps no matter what you pursue.

Another perspective is when should you start a 20+ year endeavor? There is no a priori optimal time so long as you are baseline ready for the financial and emotional responsibility.
Up to 13,000 jobs.
Two fields? Why not just go for "full stack" and take out management, PMs, QA, DBAs, designers, UI engineers, architects, operations, support, and release engineers? Maybe call it "senior full stack engineer", then hire 10 of them. I'm sure they'll figure it out.
You can even swap it a[b] equivalent to b[a].
Automated new factories here in the homeland is still better for us than empty factories.
Not really. Mainly because apps designed for desktop suck to use on touchscreens.
Well, one person was already fired for buying this kind of IBM, but that was just the director general of the authority that leaked the data. The thing most swedes have an issue with is that the government tried to silence the leak for like two years (people really dislike being actively lied to). If they had owned it, I don't think it would have been such a big deal.
No idea the other ones came out so fast :)
This reminds me of the 1B apple datacenter announcement in 2011 that ultimately created 50 jobs. Reality sux.

http://www.businessinsider.com/apple-new-data-center-north-c...
That's what I thought as well. All the latest versions are here:

http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer.html
Coinbase?
that seems pretty doable. on phones there's qualcomm chipsets, and on desktops/laptops there's atheros, intel, and realtek (of the vendors i know of).
I'm 50 and have never used Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, Twitter, Google+, Myspace, or any of it.
D3: https://bost.ocks.org/mike/sankey/
Except that it doesn't work like that.

What happens is that the jobs up and move as soon as the subsidy ends.

There has been quite a bit of research done on these kinds of tax subsidies and they almost always cost more than doing nothing and not getting the jobs.
Thanks! I confused Parrot with Pugs. I wasn't watching it at that point, so all just a history lesson to me. I appreciate the correction!
yes, i am missing that...why must all coins be traded? why not just have a coin that is issued once and then spent by the owner?

where does it say that exchanges and trading are required? (serious question...is there any such requirement?)
I love it! So clean and well thought out. Great job as always, React team.
I suppose you meant 6*N? Which is a lot better, but still intractable. And anyway, we don't exactly resolve molecules in e.g. turbulent flow simulations, yet they still take tens, even hundreds of millions of CPU-hours.
No injuries thankfully, but yes the people that witnessed me walking off the treadmill quite enjoyed it. I learned pretty quickly to step off or turn off the treadmill before launching a build.
This should be the top comment. I was checking the post on the white house facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/WhiteHouse/posts/1385876754833387) and everyone is so skeptical. 10 billion investment + 13k people employed + discounted taxes - the sum total is a net positive for Wisconsin and a good deal.
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AI leads to reward function engineering
That's not capitalism.

The outsourcing and automation and optimizing away of blue collar American jobs was already capitalism working as intended. Somehow, Trump and the Republicans have sold middle America a bill of goods and convinced them that globalism and capitalism are opposed to one another, when they are the same.

What's happening here is very much anti-capitalist.
Do you really think that exception would allow a driver to avoid a fine? Without going to traffic court and discovering that the judge is a close relative?
There is also DCCP [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datagram_Congestion_Control_Pr...
This argument neglects that net suffering might be reduced by having children. Humans judge the time-value of suffering weirdly. That's part of why few save enough for retirement.
Anything can happen because the compiler will assume it doesn't happen. "Undefined behavior" essentially means, "If you try to do this, you have written a program that is not C, and you should not be handing it to a C compiler expecting it to do anything correctly."

If you were to try to write a program that accurately detected whether the given input is a meaningful C program, you'd have to solve the Halting Problem (and more, once you take IO into account.) Thus undefined behavior must exist in the places where your program is syntactically valid but has no definite semantics. (And you can't enumerate all of these places in a Turing complete language.)

Not even a C compiler will be able to tell you if it actually has been given C code; all it can say is "I parsed it, and here're some semantics for it."
Follow-up question (and I'm happy to create a different Ask HN, since this is kind of hijacking): How do you find, evaluate and purchase a good rental property remotely?
This is what happened for me too. I have clicked on 3 Facebook ads in the past year (and made two purchases), and prior to that I think I've clicked on perhaps three other ads in the past 15 years and made zero purchases from any of those companies.
Your response exactly proves my point and show that you are not really trying to understand the author’s perspective.

> “Street vernacular aside, my guess is the article would have been better received if the author weren't "one of the world’s greatest software developers" who "paid a substantial price to achieve my high level of greatness".

I agree. It’s damn obvious that he’s not the best programmer in the world. But man, he made it out of a poverty-stricken environment. Don’t you think he’s allow to brag? I think so. Him being arrogant still doesn’t mean you should disregards his perspective.

> It's that extreme arrogance coupled with calling all these coworkers bitches and hos that makes me "uncomfortable”.”

Calling people bitches and hoes is definitely part of street vernacular in a poor black community. He had to adapt. I’m sure if he used proper english, he’d probably be called out for trying to be white. It’s one of the vicious cycle that most black communities are trying to combat within their own communities. So yeah, he’s gonna call people bitches and hoes.

> “Also being broadly racist against white people isn't strengthening the message.”

Again, you refuse to understand his perspective. He’s black. He grew up in a poor black community and based on history, white communities haven’t really been nice to them. So yeah, dealing with “white” is a big social issue for him. He tells you this at the beginning of his post.

All I’m saying is why is everyone disregarding this guy’s perspective just because he used street vernacular that’s consistent with his upbringing and character? Why is his perspective less than any one else? Sure he called some people bitches and hoes. Sure he has an ego almost as big as Kanye. It still doesn’t discredit his point.

I mean, have you never experience what he pointed out about ‘uncomfortable’? I have definitely experience what he’s saying. I have even used the same excuse as well in the past. I’ve seen colleagues use the same excuse. He’s not wrong.

It’s just fucking disappointing that everyone here is so privilege that they can’t even conceive his perspective.
What is a real alternative?

What tech can do what Flash does and is as easy and approachable as Flash for non-developers?

I mean sure with WebGL and mad computer graphic skills no problem, but with out?
>to the extent where it's platform can distort the very perception it's citizens have of themselves

yes. and that's why it has to fall.

some power can't be used responsibly, and facebook has shown that they don't give a single care about their users so long as they are producing money, as evinced by their non-consensual experimentation a couple years back.
In the early days, Bitcoin exchanges weren't making enough money to pay for "real" engineering. Then things tended to take off so fast that just keeping the site up consumed all its resources.

There were one or two exchanges that did things "right" (e.g. TradeHill) and were immediately driven out of business by their own high costs.
Comparing a Wifi chipset to a video card is like comparing a bicycle to a sports car.
It doesn't sound to me like those pseudo IPv4 addresses would be useful for geolocation.
The problem with the rent-a-server approach over buying AWS is that, in many cases, your engineering team will need to implement a ton of APIs, tooling, monitoring, alerting, etc. to get the same quality of service that you get from a public cloud vendor "for free." Which is great for us engineers since it's interesting problems that need solving, but not so much for the PMs that need to justify that spend.

Also, when your web service scales to millions of requests per second from millions of requests a month or week or whatever, having elastic compute that can scale with that is a blessing. Because nobody wants to wait for page loads:
They do that because interest rates are low and much of their cash hasn't been repatriated (taxed) to the USA.
like when carrier said they wouldnt outsource jobs and then almost immediately outsourced the jobs?

promises to the president are meaningless. He cant take away their factories or force them to hire people.

And promises like foxconn's frequently turn out to be the most optimistic number they can think up, to drum up good press and subsidies from politicians looking to show results to their voters.
Thanks. Adding sounds is on my list :)
>Point being, there is no reason to hold any of these chemicals to a standard higher than that of a strawberry - that is, we can give people a bunch of strawberries and say any negative effect is below some acceptable level.

ah yes, the logic that brought us Silent Spring and the children happily playing and breathing in clouds of "safe" DDT gas.

if it's from a plant or animal, it can still be plenty harmful, but at least there's a history of use without major effects. not the case with industrial chemicals...
Amazon has secret health care team focused on medical records virtual doc visits
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14860950
Just for historical reasons, it's good to have the source out there. Fifty or a hundred years from now, someone may want very badly to recover some old .swf file.
I'm not rooting for Snap to fail, any negative comments I made (and have seen here) were because I thought their IPO price was absurd. I think they can carve out a niche and be profitable but the expectation that they grow to the size of FB / GOOGL I just don't see it, and the IPO seemed to be priced based on that.

I also thought their stock set up with zero voting rights was crazy but that's a separate issue.
Really? That has numbers, too. There are several examples with numbers in the paper.

In the paper McCarthy mentions also:

'6. A ``program feature'' allows programs containing assignment and go to statements in the style of ALGOL.'

'7. Computation with floating point numbers is possible in the system'

Basically the paper is more a collections of ideas around various ways to describe parts of LISP. The actual LISP language is described somewhere else. See the LISP I Programmer's manual linked earlier, which gives a complete overview of the state of the LISP language in 1960.
Some exchanges compete to support the most tokens (I guess to earn fees on the trading). If it's possible to transfer a token, exchanges will starting trading it immediately.
38 states require single party consent and the rest requires two party consent. Since it is quite complicated, we advice our users to always inform everyone that the conversation is being recorded. Users can later delete recordings from their account if they desire. When users delete a recording, it will be permanently deleted from our database.
I find the tidbit that he moved the coins back to MtGox to be hilarious, and that being his downfall oddly poetic.

It's like robbing a bank, just to waltz in with their money the following week and deposit it into that same bank.
Yeah I agree. There's also a general proclivity to discount boring, but effective solutions to problems.

I'm writing a hotel property management system right now for a hotel chain. In its first year, it will move more money than most startups will make in their lifetimes. Somehow, that isn't "cool", though.
The Rise of Dystopian Fiction
>You expect them to prove a negative? How do you propose they do that?

they do this all the time in the pharma space.

just arrange experiments on mice where they're subjected to higher and higher levels of whatever chemical until they're subjected to a level several orders of magnitude beyond any realistic hypothetical human exposure. then you cut up all the mice and see if they're different from unexposed mice.
Peaceful nuclear explosion
About [2], I couldn't really tell the color of the graph and was confused about its story. But if you scroll down, it is revealed that there is no operator available for the data on the field of economics, because it hasn't been collected, and that is why there is no bimodal for economics. The quote is:

"It's confounding with the meta-analysis the data comes from: Brodeur 2016 is the only one that did econ; didn't collect <= or >= from papers"
How Microsoft Has Become the Surprise Innovator in PCs
No, undefined behavior is still valid C (if it wasn't, it would be an invalid construct, not a valid conatruct with UB.)

It's just C whose actual behavior is unspecified (and, because the standard is outright perverse, makes the entire program's behavior undefined) by the standard and, if you are especially lucky, explicitly defined by the particular C implementation. But maybe not even then.
Thanks Dan and React team!

Question: Will this resolve these cases: https://twitter.com/dan_abramov/status/770917958713544704? or we should keep catching immediately after an ajax request?
Apparently US labor is cheaper then Chinese.

Wow!