skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I invested over 40K with RealtyShares and made over 7K. I will NOT be investing with them any further. Problem is that there is no transparency on the old deals, so you can't see which ones failed or (more likely) locked up your capital many months after they were predicted to end.

I have over 50K with both fundrise.com and realtymogul.com and would consider investing more with both of them.

I also like peerstreet.com as an alternative to lendingclub. I have been slowly draining all my money from lendingclub over the last few years. Returns are simply too low for the risk you take on. Also, with peerstreet your P2P loans are backed by real assets which can be seized and sold to recover your principal if the borrower defaults.

Better than all of these are stock market index funds, which are over 50% of my portfolio.

Any questions? Ask me anything.
If companies are duty-bound to act unethically (if legally) for the sake of share holder profits then I think that speaks to a flaw in the system driving these decisions.
True. I'm not saying this solves the problem, but at least the "outside of your control" part is not absolute.
(No judgement. Just curious) Why does a book need crowdfunding? Between ebooks and print-on-demand it's never been easier or cheaper to self-publish. What would the crowdfunding money be spent on?
Raspberry Pi + surf = Youtube, Netflix, Hulu, Etc. fullscreen with desktop interface.
MIT engineers print sensors onto plant leaves to detect water stress
> "Mandatory non-linear curation of user contributed content."

I always forget how much this bugs me. I get wall posts from friends saying they are going out if anyone wants to join them, 24 hours after they post it.
> Metrics are a tool that take a different approach to logs, once you get beyond small systems you need both. I talked about this earlier in the year:

Quite the opposite - the "some purposes" I'm talking about are precisely the small scale. As scale grows, the use case of logs and metrics converges, and metrics become a strictly better tool.
Are there any alternative servers and Hub/Link firmware out there that we can run ourselves? A quick search isn't turning up anything. I'd rather not give up Harmony remotes; I use my Xbox One as my main media center and the Harmony Remotes are probably the easiest method for controlling it.
> That's why this tech it's still not safe to use.

For many cryptocurrency users, it's not intended to be "safe" - it's intended to be free.

Consider that running `rm -rf "/$APP_ROOT"` in a shell script is unsafe. People writing their own shell scripts are doing so for the power it offers them, and should be aware that this power enables them to shoot themselves in the foot. Likewise, if you choose to "be your own bank" cryptocurrencies give you the power to do that - and the power to shoot yourself in the foot.

> Imagine someone sending $100.000 of his hard earned money and from loans to pay for his daughter operation and this gets lost because of a bug and a developer in panic mode!

Imagine someone bringing $100k in cash to the hospital to pay for that operation, only to have their car catch on fire and consume the cash on the way. The specific mode of failure here is different for cryptocurrencies, sure, but this category of failure is not unique.
No matter. I transcribed that list in a matter of 5 minutes with no knowledge about the application (I haven't used slack in a long time). I'm not going to get it right in 5 minutes. It will obviously take time.

But, this is not the kind of thing that justifies, for example, having 20 engineers to work on this one problem for three weeks.

It's still a simple thing for one person to handle in a couple of days.

I don't get why people use feature lists as an excuse for why things take a long time and require many many engineers.
Lamborghini have had "lifters" as an option (and now stock, I believe) on all their cars since the Diablo in the 1990s. It's a horrendously unreliable hydraulic damper extension system, but it does solve for that issue. Press a button and the front of the car rises 2-3in to clear bumps and especially dips.
I think you are conflating two different things here. I am not debating the first paragraph on how companies treat users but I really doubt the 2nd para.

Not using "open source" doesn't mean what you are implying. There are a lot of considerations companies go through on selecting to work on OSS or not.

That said, the quoted example is confusing at best. Companies are made of people and people have biases. You never know what kind of bias or consideration the hiring manager had in mind. Normally, for me if someone makes a statement which I don't agree with - I do make an effort to ask "Why?". I don't simply walk off because someone has a different opinion. But maybe, that is my idea of getting hired - understanding what and why of things I might end up doing.
So, you call the pizza place and say "Do you deliver to X? No? Oh, but your other location does! Thanks!" Or, go to the company's website and figure it out.

People seem to expect Google to hold your hand at every single step along the way.
Subresource integrity is OK, but in this case would have totally broken the site in a different way. If you want to make sure a resource can't change, host it yourself and don't change it.
I agree, in the short term.

In the long term a critical mass of well-behaving self-driving cars may be able to regulate traffic much more efficiently than humans currently can.

In the medium term we may also see dedicated self-driving car lanes with higher speed limits.
Do you have to configure it?

If it's never connected to the network....
Cavium ThunderX Cluster to Crunch Big Data at University of Michigan – InsideHPC
This is vague; inferior panels vs what? Smart TVs? Monitors? Projectors?
Me too, for almost as long. Never a problem with gmail, although I do suppose that's partly luck. If my IP block ever got blacklisted, I would move the mail server to another IP - I'm sure that would be easier than trying to reason with Google. I do get a bounce from Hotmail every couple of years, but my attitude has become "your fault for using Hotmail".
Didn't mean to deceive, sorry. It's been fixed.
I get your point about government intervention, but you spoke about an unelected branch of the government. They are the new media and the media has traditionally been considered an unofficial branch of the government
duplicate, reporting on issue discussed here yesterday https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15642856 (375 points, 271 comments)
That's only for prehistoric record. In times when people were writing stuff down, we got a heck of a lot from what they wrote.
It's Scott Kelly. He recently came back from space and had something on his eye. He it's saying it on his talks.
There's probably already a phrase for this, but I wonder how much of this is due to powerful machines making more room for bad programmers?

This guy is beating on GUIs, but I'm not sure that's the problem. I've used rock-solid GUIs on machines that ran @1MHz with less than 1MB of RAM that absolutely screamed performance and were a joy to work with.
How would that work? In the cases I mentioned, the rules weren’t ambiguous, they just didn’t say what most people thought they said.
That’s why the opportunity shouldnt be there. It’s unfair and leads to further concentration of power. In other words it’s anti competitive.
Besides the equity, that sounds like every other startup around the world.
I agree with this for the most part, but The Big Bang Theory is a bad example imo. It is still laughing at geeks, not with them. I think that's why it rubs a lot of people (myself included) the wrong way.
Dear Mr. Cook,

how you conduct business at home is obviously between you, the American government, and the American people. I said as much in my original letter. But if you're doing business abroad in Germany, it may serve you well to remember that Germany is not a shareholder economy, but a stakeholder [1] economy. Maximizing shareholder profits is not the only thing a corporation is supposed to care about.

As the German Corporate Government Code states, for example: "The Management Board assumes full responsibility for managing the company in the best interests of the company, meaning that it considers the needs of the shareholders, the employees and other stakeholders, with the objective of sustainable value creation." [2]

Obviously, we're talking about largely unenforceable social norms here, though it raises the question as to whether you're really acting within the spirit of the law. More importantly, where social norms are increasingly bypassed and subverted, statutory change tends to follow. For example, corporate tax avoidance mechanisms have revived discussion about the EU's Common Consolidated Corporate Tax Base (CCCTB) [3], which you may find considerably less profitable than your current setup.

Equally obviously, such legislation may not pass. But the more aggressively multinational companies pursue tax avoidance schemes, even if perfectly within the letter of the law, the more support legislators will have for enacting statutes that counter such schemes.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Krach (equally fictitiously)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stakeholder_(corporate)

[2] http://www.dcgk.de/en/code/current-version/management-board....

[3] https://ec.europa.eu/taxation_customs/business/company-tax/c...
I think that the thing we're contrarian on is "using software to design peoples behavior is bad," or "Dopamine (the molecule) is first and foremost about Addiction."

Dopamine is about learning, and learning only matter because it changes us. The same brain mechanisms and technologies that make facebook captivating and can be used to make fitness, a good diet, and spending time with people who love you engaging too. When we're done building this tech-stack, it will be possible for people to learn themselves in to whoever they want to be.

Disclaimer - I'm the CEO of Dopamine
heh i take vyvanse and have to burn a morning once a month to get my refill. It's so infuriating i wrote a telemed system based on webrtc and am selling it to my doctor so i can see my NP and get my rx snail mailed to me without leaving the office.
This is one of the largest transfer of money from individuals & small businesses to corporate sector. Since notes were denotified, people had no choice but to move to businesses which could support digital payments. This led to huge loss of business for smaller players who were dealing in cash and a drop in economic activity. And the small businesses are the ones which employ highest number of people, so the subsequent job loss. Additional domino effects is loss of man hours spent in exchanging the notes and the general anxiety it caused amongst people. Moreover data shows [1], the whole exercise only caused a temporary change in behaviour & cash in back in vogue, so essentially a pointless & damaging exercise.

[1] -
http://www.livemint.com/Industry/S0AwBRAYuGbJw0SoXOaUaO/One-...
Nothing to do with downtrodden, this is how people behave when they get power. Loss of core values when you get power suggests you didn't have any values to begin with.

Those with integrity behave with integrity. This is the biggest betrayal of the people by those who spent the first 10-20 years incessantly posturing about freedom and liberty, at least the bankers are not hypocrites.
Several of them might require the expenditure of money (or a temporary decrease in revenue) and such solutions are difficult because they make investors nervous.
> I'm not sure if it fits for printed type.

No, there is no contrast issue with printed type. The problems with displays isn't their high contrast but overall poor ergonomics and usually completely moronic default brightnesses.
The Fallacy of DRY
This makes so much more sense. People are so lazy to type in their location that Google had to spend millions/billions of dollars on technology to stalk you and figure it out for you? I don't buy it.
Yes, my reaction too is that it means I can't trust my Harmony Hub won't get similarly ditched, so I'll be looking for non-Logitech alternatives. Even if it ends up never being affected by the same, they've ensured I don't trust them any more.
ah, thanks.

If you have that many tabs, one should use tab tree style anyway, i guess: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15652124
The article makes it clear that this is a German military planning exercise, and not something Angela Merkel's govt is doing. No significant political player is planning for it AFAIK. Similar to US military "invasion by Canada" planning exercises. However, the Euro elite - Merkel, Macron, Djisselbloen, Juncker et al - frequently assert that the EU and European integration is the only way forward. When people assert something so frequently and in such strong terms, one can infer that they're worried it may not be the case.
Money is taxed every time it changes hands or moves around. When I get my paycheck, I pay taxes on it. Then, when I buy a ham sandwich, the shop owner pays taxes on it. Is that unfair "double taxation?"
Most people would say that transporting $100,000 in cash in a normal car is a really, really bad idea. If that’s the analogy for cryptocurrency, it seems to be an unflattering one.
I have not looked at and do not know these companies and have no comment on these companies.
I have been involved in real estate for a long time and these thoughts only relate to commercial real estate generally, not these companies.

Where to start? I'll just fire off some thoughts as they come to mind. Real estate is a long term asset. It is complicated and everyone is different, like your apps, but long term. For example, you could make returns look better by using short term loans (where interest rates could rise). A rise in rates would expose this term structure imbalance/risk. On the other hand, single family production compared to population growth looks good (opposite of when real estate crashed in 2007 or so), so housing looks good generally (every market is different). Retail is getting crushed by Amazon, etc. Office is hard to analyze as it is expensive to replace tenants. Industrial can be made to look good by building more office space in it, but then getting crushed if that tenant leaves. Oh, and winning buyers of commercial real estate have to make the most aggressive assumptions in their models. Every buyer has basically the same information.

Good luck out there people!
My position on Ethereum is that it will never be a general-use currency for human beings. Logically rigid contracts are not a feature that people really want. We've built entire judicial systems around the idea that contracts are malleable and that judgments are often sought that take more into account than was known at the time of creation.

Ethereum may actually end up really shining as autonomous organizations become a real thing.
J.K Rowling, author of the Harry Potter books and who is fairly wealthy has an interesting moral stance on paying tax:

"... I am indebted to the British welfare state; the very one that Mr. Cameron would like to replace with charity handouts. When my life hit rock bottom, that safety net, threadbare though it had become under John Major’s Government, was there to break the fall. I cannot help feeling, therefore, that it would have been contemptible to scarper for the West Indies at the first sniff of a seven-figure royalty cheque. This, if you like, is my notion of patriotism..."

http://www.taxfairness.ca/en/news/j-k-rowling-paying-taxes-a...
Every house should and likely will have a Home Assistant type appliance in their home that stays with it as homes become 'smarter', a Pi would suffice.

Getting home assistant setup is my xmas project. Kind of want to get rid of my Nest if I can.
Develop Course and Training Materials Using Fruit Punnets
For me, the most important thing about this version is the reduced memory usage. Previously the smallest english model took 1GB of RAM, making it troublesome to run it on any cloud instances. If v2 is to take ~200mb instead, that's a huge improvement.
It isn't just the executives. It's the entire culture. That includes the individuals working there.
Can't you turn a smart TV into a dumb TV?
Who says it's wrong?
Opens the File (german: Datei) menu with German Firefox.
You're going to need to be more specific. Even if there was a TV that did this, you can't generalize and say that all TVs do it.
What a load of bullshit. Imagine getting paid to "work" on this for months.
Abolition of class. Democratic control over the means of production.
That guy davelab6 seems to be exactly the kind of insufferable, pretentious douche I would imagine lording his font-power over people.
Do you have any suggestions for self-hosted analytics?
That's great and I hope there's a fantastic open source community for home automation, especially as I'm getting into it myself this season. But I would wager 99% of home automation consumers won't, don't, or can't do DIY software solutions. So I'm not sure this bonehead move by Logitech really validates the DIY solution, as I don't see one covering the others' market.
The license for an individual developer will be a few hundred dollars --- sorry for the vagueness. We'll be ready to release official pricing soon.

For research students, we think your institution should be covering you! We'll be offering an academic subscription, so research institutions can pay a yearly flat fee to have all staff and students covered.
Could we also say that Bitcoin doesn't really have a limit on the number of coins to be mined?
> ... how dare some people want to use a field they had reserved ahead of time!

Even if they had the permit, maybe they should just play pickup with the neighbourhood kids.

Sounds like a lot more fun than arguing for ten minutes and it would allow them to form bonds with the local community.

That they overlooked this obvious solution is an example of exactly the kind of cluelessness that silicon valley tech workers are bing criticized for.

As tech workers, we are good at creating little sandboxes for others to play in and we really like our rules. Tech workers are actually very conservative in a way despite the proclamations of liberating the masses.

A good opportunity was lost to make friends with he local kids. Sport is a great way of bringing people together.
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Here are a couple of financial blogs that have reviewed RealtyShares. (Note: they may be compensated by companies mentioned through advertising, affiliate programs, or otherwise.)

https://www.financialsamurai.com/realtyshares-review-real-es...

http://nomadcapitalist.com/2015/11/04/my-review-of-realtysha...
> If I search for ruby gems, I probably want code. If someone else does, they may want actual gems.

So they search for "ruby gems" and you search for "ruby gems code." This nails in OP's point:

> Insight: Google does not want you to know or remember. Anything, if at all possible.
I think this is a regional thing; I definitely tried to avoid talking about what I did for work in the last few years I lived in the bay area; it's less of an issue in NYC.
I may have gone too far with the trumpist remark,I just saw a close paralell. I did not mean you were one.

Anyways,you tried to make the story about the media,how this article is some sort of retribution.
Building messaging in Go network clients
How about you give away 50% of tokens recovered to charity to incentive 51% of ethereum community to make hard fork? I see no reason why would whole ethereum community should care about what users of specific contract are doing.
This is a fairly new problem which is caused by the device you buy having a subscription like link to some central server. Older and normal gadgets like a Bluetooth headphone simply don't check-in with a central server to see if they should turn on.

I received a similar email from Scanadu Scout this year (an Indiegogo product that allowed you to scan your body for heart rate, bp and a few other metrics).

However, in their corporate greed they decided that the Bluetooth device you bought should connect to your phone only as a router to their server. If they had stored their algorithms in the app there's no problem if they decide to shutdown analytics servers one day...

They branded it as 'end of beta test' or something like that. I can post the full email if someone wants. Too bad, very useful little device that could have worked for years to come.
Or even the more naive "<script>alert(3)</script>" - which was the second thing I tried.
I use ctrl+tab and ctrl+shift+tab to cycle tabs. Good to know that there are other options.

I also don't see how people have the RAM to have 50 tabs open. If I can't read part of the title of my tab, it's being moved to a new window or closed.
If you look at Z-wave enabled thermostats you’ll have some luck. Z-wave devices form their own local mesh network and can be controlled by offline devices in your home.

The API would be provided by something like Mi Casa Verde running on some hardware in your house.

You can do everything the cloud services enable, locally, such as ‘scenes’ where you press a button and multiple things happen at once.

There are of course some trade-offs with Z-wave. It’s proprietary and expensive (compared to other things) to license. You’ll find a much more limited selection of Z-wave devices compared to BT or WiFi.

They make Z-wave controllers for raspberry pi and such. I’ve seen plenty of projects that used Mi Casa Verde to enable phone support and automation without going to someone else’s cloud.

For what it’s worth, I’ve got z-wave switches for nearly every switch in my house, a few electrical outlets, and a few corded adapters.

The adapters and outlets are great come holiday time. The outlets are paired with light switches in kids’ rooms so when we turn on the switch for their white noise machines some under bed night lights come on.

I used to use a Z-Wave thermostat and it worked just fine, I switched to an Ecobee 3 with room sensors to help better manage hot/cold spots.

I tie it all together with a Wink Hub, so it’s going to someone else’s cloud. I like their app on my phone better and it just works and has no monthly cost. They’ve got an API to integrate with, and have generally been nice to work with.

I specifically chose Z-wave though to give me options if they go under or I decide to cut ties and run my own stuff.
Monkeypox "Symptoms ... closely resemble those of smallpox, and include a febrile prodrome followed by development of a disseminated vesiculo-pustular rash...patients are vulnerable to secondary bacterial infection, dehydration, encephalitis, bronchopneumonia and blindness due to corneal scarring from lesions."

It's closely related to smallpox, so just hearing that, I would hope that most people will realize that becoming infected could be potentially deadly.

source: Presumptive risk factors for monkeypox in rural communities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0168664
Would be interesting to see some photos of such vans.
I made a simple contract that allows two people to exchange tokens trustlessly. After I deployed it, not even I can subvert it.
Interesting comments here, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14724166
The T&Cs aren't clear. They merely say that the rules have an exception for things that are 'newsworthy'. You'll appreciate this is a loophole so wide you could drive a bus through it.
Last mont Fedora had a release in which you could use CSD to merge the title and the tab bars. You only had to set a variable(maybe widget.allow-client-side-decoration?) in about:config to true. They took that option away because some bugs but it may arrive for the next firefox release.

Here is how it looks like
https://twitter.com/Sesivany/status/908628645299748865
Not really. I sometimes use goaccess[1] to analyze log files but I haven't found a good replacement for Google analytics.

[1] https://goaccess.io