skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: Would a decentralised home sale network work?
Right now the way homes get sold in the UK is through aggregators - Rightmove, Zoopla, Onthemarket are where all buyers start their home purchase journey from.

But this is a rigged system, in the sense that it gives brokers immense power and makes them essentially indispensable.

I've been thinking about a different way of doing this - totally decentralised.

Each property has its own website (like this: 110bcamdenstreet.com).
Each property website has a messenger bot ('Drift') where buyers can chat with sellers.

It turns out direct property websites (like 110bcamdenstreet.com) actually get really good SEO - and its a great way to stay 'on the market' all the time. When things get serious you can get an actual, fixed price broker to take over to close the deal.

Would you pay £500 to get a property website built for your place? Would such a decentralised system work? Would love to get your thoughts
When I cycled to work in LA people seemed more keen on terrorizing me on the roads, or joking about killing me in the office, than on copying me.
Essential factors to know about Mobile App Development
Is there any hdmi e-ink screen? Preferably with the possibility to power from USB :)
I agree very much with the interviewee that Facebook is a cultural wasteland, that provides one of the most enervating experiences on the internet.

I think as a young person he doesn’t realize how it was a cultural anomaly that small time content producers could make money through independent production of mass media.

Historically, from the development of mass media as an actual business category, getting your content distributed at all was tightly controlled by corporate “gate keepers” and was frankly a far more limiting situation for content creators of all stripes.

I do find it remarkable that Facebook has figured out a way to obtain the vast majority of the add revenue for the content that streams through their platform.

There are some unique aspects to the current structure, compared to earlier media business structures, that come from the incredible scope these advertising driven platforms have built.

Ultimately, I do think it’s a “tragedy of the commons”situation, or at least a variation, where the market structure prevents optimal payments flowing to the creators, who are in fact appreciated by many. The only way around this would be some form of class organization by creators, a syndicate, Union, coop, cartel, something.

The problem is that such a structure will be worked around by the many hungry and talented people out there who will sacrifice far more than you can believe for the chance to practice their craft.
War against the Dog-Heads
What is causing Bitcoin price to drop from the start of 2018?
They can pay foreign nationals to hack for them.
Clion will choke on anything that touches boost.
shudder that reminds me that you can't Control+F "üõöä" properly in Chromium, both "uooa" and "üõöä" are matched, that's for me far more infuriating that breaking filename encoding.
Many developer laptops probably live on a desk most of the time, so these two things are easy to sacrifice for many.
Not even remotely true: the keyboard is again a simple replace, unlike the in the X240-X270 line. Yes, the RAM is soldered, but that's all.
In my observations, "fair use" is often misunderstood. People violate copyrights thinking theirs is a fair use when it's not.
[...] as long as MS does a good job keeping this abstraction layer stable OS upgrades don't concern you much.

The problem is that you have to keep them stable to a much higher degree than you might think at first. Obviously you have to maintain the functionality as described in the API documentation but that is far from enough. If the implementation has a bug, you can not simply fix it because there might be software either relying on the wrong behavior or having implemented workarounds that you might break with the fix. And no matter how often the API documentation states that this or that is not supported or undefined behavior there will be software doing it anyway or relying on what ever undefined behavior meant in the version they developed against. You return a list of something and say nothing about the ordering in the documentation but as an implementation detail it happens to be in some specific order, if you wait just long enough there will be a program critically depending on the ordering you choose. This is an endless nightmare especially if your APIs have as many different consumers as the Windows APIs.
The article fails to distinguish the web from the Internet

To us geeks that is a fundamental thing but the target market for this content doesn’t know or care - they think “the Internet” is FB/Google/ YouTube/Twitter and that’s it
Clojure-based CMS is outperforming the competition
Byuu – FPGAs Aren't Magic
Interestingly, this link works properly on both mobile and desktop. Wonder why the original link is even needed.
Apparently the 20180108 version is faulty, so they rolled it back to 20171117. I have Manjaro on one of my laptops where the auto update mechanism keeps failing to complete the rollback because the installed version is newer. Good thing the only thing I use that for is to watch videos.
This. Performance is superb, and the connections are direct. Stable, super simple.

Highly underrated and too much under the radar afaik
Is "fair use" on software even a thing?

(I know some jurisdictions have basic exceptions like "if you own software you can do what's needed to run it", but modifications?)
Just as a link in the footer. Substack is also in the domain name, though. Thanks for the advice!
As a fellow colour-blind person (protanomally): you're reading implications that are not in the article.
Only applies if there are significant bugs. Presumably Linux has fewer of them than Windows, but it's hard to say as Windows gets a lot of attention.
Yes, thank you, we love this feedback. We are trying to keep the product as simple as possible.
Embark’s self-driving semi completes trip from California to Florida
> last I heard they banned brooms with directional bristles as they provided too much of an advantage.

Odd, could they not just give everyone brooms with directional bristles? then it would no longer be an advantage.
Thank you very much. Yes, good suggestion. We are thinking about how to do something like this. Any ideas?
None of your ifixit links disprove my claim that "People are upgrading to new iPhones because their glued-in battery is end-of-life".

> The public is misinformed about many things.

No, this is different. There is a conflict of interest here, it is not in Apples interest to promote battery replacement.

> For example, up until now, you were among those people.

Please try to debate with politeness and good manners.
Well, climate scientists have been predicting it for years, but the evidence is finally in: the mercury is definitely rising.
Unlike others here, I don't sympathise with this at all, so this may be unpopular with some people.

The complaint however seems to be: "we wanted Facebook to serve our interests, but Facebook wanted to serve their own interests for some inexplicable reason, so they suck".

I loathe Facebook and think the internet and the world would be a better place without it. I also - for that reason - don't fucking use it (support it) and certainly don't work on content and then put it on Facebook, because it's bleedin' obvious you don't get to 1.5 billion users by supporting other sites.

To cap it all, after all his whining, he's still a Facebook user to this day, simply kidding himself that he's sticking it to the man by impotently criticising it. As if anyone at Facebook cares what you do, so long as you do it on Facebook.

Facebook is - still - not the internet. If you don't like Facebook, don't use it, and definitely don't put your hard work there.

Meanwhile, if people stop visiting your site, maybe look closer to home instead of trying to lay the blame elsewhere.

He's basically a million other dinosaurs who had early success with something and is now reduced to self-pity about the 'good old days' because his 15 minutes are up, and people have moved on to something else.

Funny or die? Adapt or die.
I just buy my Cinnabons at the Cinnabar.
Sorry, but they are indeed evil. Although maybe Linus is right and they're simply insane.
We may have a different notion of "user-replaceable". I'd only consider a battery that can be swapped without opening up the laptop user-replaceable.
Soldering the components to the board is the same kind of trade-off: It saves weight, space and increases battery lifetime. You also compare the relatively new X1 with an outdated (though still sold) Macbook that was designed and built at a time when no laptop even got close to the size, weight and battery life of a MacBook Air, especially the 11" version. There were other laptops just as small, but they'd compromise on battery life, others that had the same battery life, but weighted more.
Granted, it's certainly an extreme compromise, but I know more than a handful of people that would never trade their 11" Air for anything else.
You can, btw., have the SSD changed, it's not soldered to the board for Airs. It's just an uncommon form factor that few vendors sell. See https://everymac.com/systems/apple/macbook-air/macbook-air-f... for example
So why bother with this new tech? Obviously so they can do it more.
I always install Sublime on a new Machine.
Also, Cygwin is a must for be because I have to connect with X and ssh to remote computers.

I don't know if the Linux subsystemd for Windows (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/install-win10) would work instead of Cygwin but looks quite good.
The solution for colleges was to only allow a limited number of admissions at one point in the year. Perhaps that could work again, have some number of spots to be filled that is a fraction of the current population and prioritize applicants based on their ability to perform some action such as writing a coherent essay or proving some stake in the community.
Ask HN: Are state sponsored ads on YouTube a new thing?
Over the past couple of days I was subjected to ads on youtube of a new kind - at least to me.
None of those ads clearly displayed who ran them, and both were of political/diplomatic nature.
The small link underneath the video showed that the first one came from the Polish Prime Minister's office and the second one came from the Turkish public broadcasting company.
I'm wondering whether this is a new trend or I just missed those up until now. Also, shouldn't youtube make it clear when it runs state sponsored ads? I mean it seems a bit hypocritical to vow to go against fake news and then not implement some sort of guidelines when monetising states' official discourse.
As a colour-blind person, this article both makes sense to me, and at the same time it doesn't.

I have often wondered why human colour vision is not evenly distributed across the spectrum of visible light. This seems like a decent enough model for why that might be the case.

However, that makes it very peculiar that there are so many people with colour-blindness like me, especially if it would be such a strong evolutionary advantage. One would expect selection pressure to have removed those genes from the gene pool by now.

My own pet hypothesis is that it has to do with humans being a social species. For us, individual specialisation has much bigger evolutionary benefit, since it is shared, and a lower evolutionary cost, because other members of the group can compensate for shortcomings.

To give an overly simplified "economic" model of it: when we collaborate properly, the net performance of a group is not the average performance of all members, but the sum of the maximum performance of individuals.

So back to colour-blindness. It is fairly well-established that dichromatic colour-blindness helps see through certain types of camouflage. In a hunter/gatherer society, having one member of the group who is good at spotting prey animals (or dangerous predators, for that matter) is a huge advantage for the group, and your friends can assist you with getting ripe berries.
Universities must prepare students for a technology-enabled future
The next step for suffrage: give all immigrants the right to vote
Man, the interview was kinda hard to read, but that statement destroyed me. What a moving tale. Makes me want to believe in the afterlife just so he could be reunited with her
I admit my ignorance of not knowing about him previous to reading this. Also admit a sad feeling of retroactive loss now that I have learned a bit more about him. Hope he'll be a role model to others that follow.
To add to this, open sourcing your code also provides a bit of insurance policy if your company ever goes out of business. This is especially helpful in infrastructure markets; businesses don’t want to build their foundation around proprietary dependencies that might disappear when their creator company goes belly-up. If the code is open sourced, then even in the event of you going out of business, your customers can find a way to recover.

There is also the nice bonus that open sourcing your code means you’ll get a bunch of “free” contributions, bug fixes and security reviews.
In the US, many counties/cites have license plate readers installed already... Not quite as bad as facial recognition but....
Benefits of SaaS Based Online Travel Agency Software Over Managed Software
It's going to be biological mercury - from bioaccumulation in top predator tissue which ends up frozen and inert in the permafrost when the top predators die.

The thing that makes this really nasty is that biological mercury is most commonly methylmercury - which makes free mercury look like delicious gravy. It's very readily absorbed by tissues, and doesn't leave.

God help us if it's acquired a second methyl group through tens of thousands of years of incredibly slow decomposition - dimethylmercury is pretty much the most toxic thing we know of.
It started in the 80s when a friend brought me into a department store to type quickly into a computer "10 PRINT 'HELLO'; 20 GOTO 10" and then he pressed return. Magic! I was hooked from that moment on forward.
So, basically, "stop using twitter".
Valentine's Day Sarcastic video
Yes, because the performance impact of a single string creation in an Exception handler is important.
The way I see it isn't Facebook that's killing comedy, it's the internet itself killing ways to monetize online comedy.

The guy considers memes to be the future of internet comedy, well there are millions of people making them for free. And that just makes it harder for someone to monetize comedy. Additionally, all this free content being consumed by peoples is eating in the market share of more serious (professional?) sites like Funny or Die and the Onion.
right, I have a T460s and the extra back battery doesn't exist for that model any more.
I would actually prefer a world where the TLD in a domain name had actual semantical value, but except .gov, .edu and a couple others that opportunity is lost.
How–and why–is the duopoly shifting toward local news?
We are the only people who care so much about speed-skating - everyone in our country knows what a clap skate[0] is, I doubt that is true anywhere else.

Makes me wonder how many hyper-specialised niches of technology like this exist out there.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clap_skate
Hurry – Early Bird Ends in 1 Week – Code BEAM SF
I find it’s much easier to contribute to a new codebase than it is to a large, mature one. When a project is in alpha stages, it’s usually mostly coded by one person, so you can clone it and easily understand the code just from a quick read. On the other hand, mature projects have many contributors and have evolved to an increased complexity due to many disparate abstraction layers, testing and build processes that need to account for the larger number of contributors.

I would recommend finding open source projects on Show HN and contributing to them early. This way you’ll make a big impact without too much cognitive overhead, and you might even eventually become a core contributor.
Dead predators (seals, cats, etc.), which fed on other predators - probably fish - which accumulate mercury through eating other aquatic organisms. This is why tuna has relatively high levels of mercury, and humans moreso - once it's in you, it tends not to leave. The higher up the food chain you are, the more mercury you consume and retain.

The reason there's such an accumulation in the permafrost is that predators which die up there don't decompose, they just freeze. Sure, they might get snacked on by scavengers before they freeze, but those scavengers then get eaten by predators, resulting in the vast majority of organic tissue and therefore mercury in the arctic ending up as frozen organic matter. The permafrost comprises incredibly vast quantities of organic material, animal and plant, and not much else. Elsewhere on earth, decomposition happens, flies eat the rotting meat, the mercury gets scattered to the four winds, and goes back into the food chain.

It's also the same reason for the vast quantities of methane that are beginning to be released - huge quantities of organic matter that's been in the deep freeze, decomposing.

The arctic is going to be the biggest charnel pit the earth has ever seen.
Why Trust Matters
For those of us who are separated by a common language, apparently a wife beater is a singlet.

I was initially surprised because the last time I wore a wife beater was when Daly scored against Wales and the chap behind me in the pub got over excited and poured his pint over me.

Doesn't happen in the office very often.
Wikipedia has a list of whistled languages:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whistled_language#List_of_whis...
Thanks for that info.
The article would have been more interesting if they addressed the peculiar fact that half of all women and all of spiders are tetrachromats. It would be interesting to add the cones for additional frequencies into a genetically engineered monkey. I can imagine that having vision in the infrared and UV would make animals better predators (like Predator)
If you want to do something pretty fucking cool
Look, most people don't consciously use algebra at all! When they do intentionally use algebra I would be very surprised indeed if they did use something else than the standard field of real numbers.

I honestly have no idea what meaning you put into the word "algebra"; on reflection it's pretty weird to bring it to a discussion of percentages and their interpretation.

In the same vein, what do you wish to prove by bringing up the example of the nurse and the doctor? They seem to do the sensible thing and communicate in absolute quantities rather than rations. Still patients do die to mistakes in the drug administration every now and then, and often from the rather banal mistake of missing a decimal point.
Nobody said ReactOS was an easy project. In fact it’s probably one of the most impressive feats of reverse engineering in open source. I would rank its complexity and effort required on the same level as the Dolphin GameCube emulator.
How do I start an Ola and Uber car business?
How do I start an Ola and Uber car business?
You do realize this guy basically did the bottle flip with two fucking rockets in unison?

Then again he calculated it, which is more than we can say for the countless teenagers trying to flip bottles in on their tables for views.
On the X1 Carbon, you will have to remove some screws, but Lenovo provide a guide to the process: https://support.lenovo.com/gb/en/solutions/pd103715

I believe the latest X1 Carbon weighs significantly less than a MacBook Pro.
The first step up people generally make from the webchat is something simple like hexchat, although I don't know what the state of windows binaries is these days. Used to be that you could only get precompiled windows binaries by paying.
If it makes things too easy then it can compress results to the point where the luck vs. skill balance in any sport is tilted too heavily towards luck. A lot of these improvements also have an impact downstream from the top-tier competitors; a $2000 broom may be nothing compared to the cost of fielding a top team, but can become pay-to-win at amateur levels and be something the governing bodies of a sport may want to avoid.
TL;DR: another way how global warming is going to kill civilization as we know it.

Or as Republicans - the selective amish of today's political scenario - call it: 'fake [might I add scientific] news' - they kinda believe in some of the science, the one that sprouted the technology they have, but not the one that they are paid not to believe in
They did it now -> https://github.com/h1x0rz3r0/iBoot
Yes, that is a bit annoying as well, but I made my peace with that (Probably also because I'm not affected by it directly). But the "ton" is a constant companion, and when it then gets to "kilo-tons" it just breaks the entire SI-prefix system to bits.
> What sort of games are you playing? Latency sensitive genres like FPS, or more RTS / turn-based games?

Not me really, but my kid likes to play latency sensitive stuff. Platformers and some FPS style.

> Also, I find it hard to believe that the refresh latency of a TV is greater than Internet network latency.

2017 TV models have input latency between 12 and 69 ms in "game mode" according to [0].

The situation seems to have improved considerably, some older models I've tested were up to 100-140 ms.

When I tried to ping google.com, I generally got about 16 ms avg.

$ ping google.com
PING google.com (172.217.21.174): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 172.217.21.174: icmp_seq=0 ttl=54 time=16.403 ms
64 bytes from 172.217.21.174: icmp_seq=1 ttl=54 time=15.492 ms
64 bytes from 172.217.21.174: icmp_seq=2 ttl=54 time=16.880 ms
64 bytes from 172.217.21.174: icmp_seq=3 ttl=54 time=16.249 ms

> And even if it’s true, wouldn’t that only exacerbate the problem if you’re playing a cloud game streamed to your TV?

Well, in this particular case I was using a laptop instead when playing remotely. So it kind of offsets it.

[0] https://www.rtings.com/tv/tests/inputs/input-lag
Were that the case, there's unlikely to be the resources to act on every crime. However, having some 'dirt' on everyone means that it'd be easy to take action on any particular 'problem' person.
5 Best Event Apps for Event Planners to Try
There are two parts that you need to consider: Technical framework (software) and Commercial Framework ( Business model and Partners) While its easy to figure our business model and get the partners on board if you have good grips on selling things, what could be a challenge is software part. You can hire team to build the software or you can go with readily available software and use it for your business startup.

There are number of clone script available for Uber like Marketplace and they are very useful to start a business But according to me I suggest Taxi Booking App like YouRide, which is available with more features. I think it will be very useful to you, there they can provide not only the good script but also best after sales service. They also offer Android source and IOS source code for starting a marketplace app.

Understanding market demand and spotting market trend, a high-quality YouRide Uber clone script has been developed by Das infomedia. Using this app script, it would be fast and economical way of launching an On-demand marketplace app for both iOS and Android devices.

Youride is a on Demand Marketplace Script which has all the features like uber app. Youride is an advanced solution for building any marketplace like plumber, electrician, garage, beautician, roofer or cook.

So, Instead of you trying to build all this from scratch ( which would easily take more than many months of development effort & spending )....

I would suggest you to go with an existing solution like: YouRide uber clone script : Android source and IOS source code for starting a marketplace app where you can save a lot of time & money.

If someone needs to build Uber like Marketplace, Do check http://www.uberclone.co.uk/

Thank You.