skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed. The surprisingly bespoke nature of home translations definitely provides an opportunity for this to be a win/win.

Zillow wins by buying an asset it has more information on the true market value of, then providing an easier, economies of scale on the associated services (inspection, legal, repair, etc), then being able to offer a standardized product to home buyers.

Buyers win from taking a lot of the uncertainty out of a transaction. And from possibly lower fees if Zillow decides to rebate a portion.

Let's not forget there's a standard 6% commission in US real estate transactions... most retail would kill to start with a 3% margin.

If Zillow has high confidence a home is underpriced, it makes sense to time arb that into profit when it can match with a buyer.
It's just what I'm used to. Any reason why to pick PostCSS over SASS?
I'd like to take a stab.

We all carry around a default metaphysics -- a deep belief structure about the nature of reality. It is possible to transcend these beliefs in a way that allows you to grok (not just understand) that they're not supported in the way we normally assume. That transcendence is often accompanied by an overwhelming gratitude, joy, awe, and wonder that are normally inaccessible.

Of course, our belief structures almost always come rushing right back, and so we interpret the experience in terms of our metaphysics ("oh, it was just brain chemicals"), but part of us understands the sense in which this is just a story.
I really wish https://areweslimyet.com/ was still updated (and more comprehensive, ala https://arewefastyet.com/).
I suspect part of the reason is that SV "unicorn" Opendoor (https://www.opendoor.com/) is doing this and it wants a piece of the pie.

Question I have is if whatever "pie" Opendoor is grabbing is actually sustainable in a recession/down market...seems like the worse case scenario is that they are left holding a bunch of illiquid inventory of declining value they can't get rid of.
In the US it is more likely that there is a fire department close to any particular residence (in fact they are usually spaced out to minimize response time over the entire area) while ambulances tend to be dispatched from hospitals or ambulance services and so their response time is more varied. Fire department paramedics and ambulances may both be dispatched for emergencies, but ambulances also cover things like non-emergency patient transfers and other medical transport scenarios. It is often the case that the role of the FD paramedic is to be first on scene and try to stabilize the patient if possible so that once the ambulance arrives they can scoop and go if needed.
Both Chrome and Firefox seem to use slightly more battery than Safari on my 2016 MBP. When I say slightly more, I mean that according to Activity Monitor, they both have ~3x more "energy impact", however in practice I haven't noticed a difference in my battery life.

The major difference with Firefox is that on some websites (namely Google Maps, Youtube, Twitch, sometimes Gmail), Firefox spikes my CPU usage/temperature/energy usage to absurd levels (I'm talking 90+ degrees celsius), so much so that I find Firefox unusable because I don't enjoy having a brick of near-molten aluminum in my lap whenever I watch a Youtube video. Chrome and Safari don't seem to have this problem.
this is what I see every time I try to switch to FF on my daily driver

- increased hard drive thrashing

- using more memory for less tabs and less addons

I can use chrome all day, open hundreds of tabs, with 6 addons and the system is stable. But after 5min FF is using just as much ram and slowing down my system.

I will use FF more when it can compete with Chrome. Not because some stupid article told me it's time to give it a chance again.

People want you to switch to FF because they are in love with it. I'll love it when the performance can at least match Chrome.

ALSO - the FF addon process takes weeks for approval, which is pathetic. Chrome addons approved in 1 hr.
Yea it could be cool to have different themes or configurations depending on what people want it to look like.
I know there was some controversy when Firefox integrated (and then acquired) Pocket, but I don't quite understand why people were so upset. My understanding (from having talked with folks at Mozilla) is that the suggested stories are personalized on the client side—so any info used to customize the stories for you isn't flowing back to Mozilla. Instead, they deliver a bunch of stories to the client, then the client sorts out which ones will be recommended. From a privacy perspective, this seems like a good way to do things. And I personally find the suggested stories to be interesting sometimes, and never creepy/inappropriate.

Regardless, it's good to know this can be turned off.
Apparently there is a use for 吃 in Japanese, 吃 is a sound used to represent a tile being discarded in a game, in compounds such as 吃驚, to be surprised. I think this compound is also used in Mandarin with the same meaning. Quick check of my Chinese dictionary indicates yes, they are a shared character compound / meaning.

Edit: fixing up my Japanese
Or Zillow has access or insight to data that general property investors do not, thus driving abnormal returns.
How did you scrape using applescript?

What's your blog?
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So I was actually wondering if I was correct after seeing some comments here. This is what my quick benchmarking says:

I made a postgres table with two columns, id and num. I filled it with 1000000 rows in sequential order (just a generate_series()), so the first row was (1,1), the second was (2,2) etc.

I ran two queries to update the first 1000 'num' columns with random values. The first was as described above:

UPDATE test SET num = (CASE WHEN id = 1 THEN 123 CASE WHEN id = 2 THEN 356 ...) WHERE id IN ...

This took about 1.5 seconds (on my completely un-optimized postgres instance)

The second uses 1,000 individual queries in a transaction (BEGIN, COMMIT):

BEGIN
UPDATE test set num = 123 WHERE id = 1
....
COMMIT

This is still running, so it's taken over 3 minutes so far.

I'm guessing it's because even though the statements are in a single transaction the database still issues 1,000 individual table scans for a single record, and does 1,000 individual updates. Doing 1,000 updates using a single CASE statement seems to take the same time as updating a single one with the traditional way.

Edit: Query returned successfully in 21 min 39 secs.
Have you tried doing them?

Other users have already described healthy code review processes that improve code quality while helping all participants to grow individually and as a team.

How does review treat programmers like cogs in a machine?
I would 100% recommend pair programming. Its baked right in!
Isn't Amazon's marketplace similar in that regard? They compete with other sellers using Amazon's platform all the time.

Ethically, it seems a bit fuzzy for me given that one of Zillow's big features is there zEstimate. How can they demonstrably prove they aren't tweaking that somehow for their own gain?
Can you list some of the addons? I too have been using Firefox since it was called Firebird and had a whole host of addons. Interestingly I just continued using Firefox and now don't miss them much. Addons I used to use include FireFTP, FireSSH and the SQLite addon. I now just use other applications. I am guessing the Vim addon is one the ones you need?
They do prefund pensions - they just prefund them using an unrealistic rate of return. Their Is nothing wrong with funding present level of liability based on the expected future value as long as it's not based on an unrealistic rate of return.
The person who wrote this EIP works for Parity.

If we're going to be fixing shit like this, can we also restore funds to the poor guy who got robbed of 41k ether?

https://medium.com/taptrust/frozen-the-story-of-the-largest-...

https://www.coindesk.com/35-million-refund-developer-appeals...
The problem seems to be that any homeowner getting an offer from Zillow would immediately know they had mispriced their listing and not accept.

Unless Zillow has some new efficiency that no one else has (super contractors that can fix up cheaper than other investors, low cost capital) I don’t know how they will be able to outbid the market consistently as there aren’t enough dumb sellers with dumb agents out there.

But maybe I’m missing a way how they could use analysis to identify “bargains” without the seller getting clued in and upping their price.
If I may make a suggestion, the part that's of interest to me is what went into the making. I also wouldn't have taken special note of the old submission, because it doesn't tell me anything about how it works or how it came to be, and I have no actual need to translate to or from Chinese. It seems you've been very thoughtful and done a lot of work, which I think would be of interest to people, should you feel the inclination to describe it. All the best :)
>You should read the article and take a course in biology.

You have proved my point for me. The everyday person has never once in their life, ever, heard that viruses are good.

I'm an educated and well read, and I have only recently started hearing this, and only because of genetic manipulation. This is a _new_ idea in the last 20 years, and even today, it appears to be all talk about something in the future, and not a single instance I've ever heard of where you could get a virus treatment that was good for you today.

I read the article, I am talking about average people, not scientists who read journals.

It's shocking to me that people have such short memory. Maybe you are a teenager, but there was no virus manipulation 50 years ago that was considered a benefit to humans. And if there was, it certainly wasn't advertised to the masses.
Parallelism is always possible UNIX old style, use multiple processes.

It is anyway the trend we are getting back to, after we have learned our lesson how threads and plugins can bring whole processes down, while being good vehicles for security exploits.
But how is this scalable? You need manual labor. This is a bigger headache than hiring agents as full time employees like Redfin.
Firefox on Android last time I tried it had completely fucked up scrolling physics, the scroll had too much inertia on acceleration and fast flings did not result in the expected scroll speed. Also, as a left handed person I just couldn't use the tab switcher as there were no gestures like Chrome.
Why? What's wrong with Quantum?
I use both Firefox and Chrome and find that the most noticeable difference is the time to open a new tab. Chrome is always fast, but Firefox sometimes lags.

On the other hand, I find that when my fan is spinning up, it's usually because of tabs in Chrome.
Hey HN. I've found myself wearing the recruiter hat a lot at my current position. I noticed that many devs (especially junior developers) don't really know how to right a good, technical resume and as such don't get a follow up interview. My goal with Debug My Resume is to share my tips and what I look for when I review a resume, while keeping the price in a range that's affordable to students. (I also have a free email list where I'll share some of my best advice!) Would appreciate any and all feedback!
Why did your security classify Firefox as a risk?
I was hoping this would be an elaborate side channel where the data was exfiltrated bit by bit over a few weeks by inducing temperature fluctuations that were picked up by the thermometer that was visible through a window from the building next door. But it's just another "IoT" device. These things should be considered backdoors until proven otherwise.
Would you be willing to pay for this and how much?
Shit like this will kill eth. If anyone seriously working on this (any anyone with any vested interest in shit like this not happening) wants to have an informal chat about fixing this, I think I have some ideas on fixing this. It's quite legit, if I can say so. Check my profile for email.
Isn’t that a huge red flag to your conclusion, though? Generally (legal) avenues for outsize returns don’t just sit around waiting to be exploited cheaply. Look at how much VC money is chasing below market returns. We’re supposed to believe that lobbying yields huge returns but megacorps like Yahoo are investing just $10-20 million a year on it?
I would simply guess that that's two different skills, and very few people are great at both, so I don't feel bad about it. :-)
Postico is nice but gives me anxiety. I don't like the metaphor of browser-style back/forward yet hoping the software remembers the state of a window when you go back to it.
Its common in the US for basic life support to be delivered by private or hospital ambulances, or municipal EMS services by cheap EMTs. Sometimes they are just drivers. Usually advanced life support is done by paramedics or others who work for municipal EMS or fire departments.

Bigger paid departments have a split between engine companies and rescue companies. Rescue companies have fancy tools for all sorts of situations and usually have more trained medical capability. That’s why you’ll see ladder trucks dispatched to medical emergencies in the US.
It is not vanity at all.

It takes out of the table the typical argument that the language is not serious enough because it is written in C or something.

The usual old time joke "my compiler compiles your language".
The family (CRT) TV in the 80s came with a fold out schematic tucked in a pocket on the inside of the back cover.

And a CRT is not something to take lightly, as there is a sizable transformer in there to drive the electron gun and the magnets that deflect the beam.

What happened, imo, is the increasing used of ICs (first standardized ones, and later ASICs). This made it much harder to troubleshoot a device without access to an oscilloscope and the ability to order up OEM parts.

Before that a multimeter and some basic understanding of electric circuits could get you a long way.
Can someone explain where the balance is?

https://etherscan.io/address/0x863df6bfa4469f3ead0be8f9f2aae...
Have been on Firefox for 5 or so months now, whenever they first released the beta version of Quantum.

It's been fine, really can't fault it. I don't really think about it to be quite honest, it just works.
I think you mean not a lot of transparency.
"This is exactly how the World Wide Web works: the HTML files are the pithy description on the paper tape, and your Web browser is Ronald Reagan"

already worth the read
I'd argue that Amazon's customers are the buyers of the products, not the sellers using Amazon's platform.
Some news in the past 5 months:

Crystal is now %100 funded for a full-time developer working on core - https://twitter.com/CrystalLanguage/status/98229223882167500...

Crystal Automated Release towards 1.0 - https://crystal-lang.org/2018/03/09/crystal-automated-releas...

A summary of why vs. why not - https://medium.com/@DuroSoft/why-crystal-is-the-most-promisi...

Web Frameworks Status:

Rails inspired (with Influence from Phoenix):

Amber - https://github.com/amberframework/amber

Lucky - https://github.com/luckyframework/lucky

Both look healthy in terms of community and updates but Amber seems to have a slight edge.

Sinatra inspired:

Kemal - https://github.com/kemalcr/kemal
I started using firefox back in march of last year. It has gotten way better. There are few annoying bugs I found(like this, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mywhU2zu87c). I have not been able to replicate them consistently, So they are pending on bugzilla.

There are also some cases when websites like thepiratebay.org refuse to open, At first, I thought this might be some Mitm or DNS based block set by the ISP but then chrome opens it just fine, Don't know what happened there.. :/

There are also some lazy developers like the one at Mashape who most likely don't test their website on Firefox because if they did, They'd know there Login/Signup system is broken on firefox for the last 7 months!

Ignoring few third party related issues, It's pretty good and I use it on both Android, Linux and windows.
this post breaks hacker news mobile page to scroll horizontal
As far as I know, Brandenburg requires actual intent, not just a reasonable person test of likelihood.
From diving in, it looks like the contract backing a smart wallet implementation had a vulnerability/bug/design flaw allowing an arbitrary actor to kill it[0]. It looks like these contracts are treated as a shared library so the contract being killed means any wallet depending on it is bricked.

The solution here seems to be a hard fork of Ethereum to allow revival of that problem contract. This seems unpalatable as, well, avoiding extensive human intervention is a key idea in cryptocoins.

Disclaimer: I got off the cryptocoin train awhile back so if I've mistaken anything, please point it out.

[0] https://github.com/paritytech/parity/issues/6995
That 911 calls aren't actually evenly distributed throughout the population, but instead tend to come from people with bad health and lack of access to health care? I'd call it obvious.

I don't know how the distribution resembles wealth distribution; wealth distribution follows a power rule, because wealth is reflexive i.e. the more wealth, the faster the rate of wealth accumulation.
This is a really important issue that I’ve never seen addressed well...

We measure numbers that are easy to measure, like GDP or GDP PPP according to some basket, or unemployment rate.

But how much of it is real?

We have a ~18t GDP, but how much is actual productivity vs rent seeking?

We’re at 4% “unemployment”, but how many people have busywork jobs that don’t fundamentally need to be done? How many have crappy jobs / bad bosses / no security/ need a second or third job to make rent?

Without digging deeper, I think the top line numbers are misleading and lead to optimizing the wrong things.

I think the things we care about most are the things we aren’t measuring yet.
> The moment I first sat. . . well, here is the type of sound they pump in: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqEWTlaweaM

It would be torture if I were forced to listen to this. Apart from all the religious baggage involved, the vocals are incredibly pitchy. For the minute I tried listening to this, I twitched at each phrase. This won't be calming for the soul at all.
I would literally rather be unemployed than have to interact with someone for the full 8 hours every day.
Patrick McKenzie – “Leveling Up” (2014) [video]
It is interesting they even choose the same cities to start in.
That's an interesting point you bring up. By holding their cards to their chest, the IRS ensures there is significant risk in tax evasion. If they were to send out a pre-prepared return, any mistake the IRS made there in a filer's favor would be much less likely to be caught as long as the filer went along with it. By not revealing in advance what they know they incentivize the filer to be honest and thorough.
I had no idea it was all clientside! That makes me significantly less worried about it. I guess I'm so used to recommendations being done serverside that I'm jaded by default.
Can you provide the definition of "decant" you're using? I'm having trouble finding one that fits the context.
Not that I agree with the GP, but non-determinism doesn’t imply free will in the usual strong sense of the phrase (e.g. that there is some intrinsic notion that humans can directly dictate their own actions). Non-determinism (as in QM non-determinism) still has deterministic evolution, since specifying the wave-function at any one point in time is enough to specify it for all of time via evolution by the Schrödinger equation.

So, this notion would require something stronger than QM non-determinism, or a different definition of free will.
I know it's not a very popular opinion but I think this is a good idea (disclaimer: i am not affected by this issue).
The tech is there for the people, not the other way round.
God we need this. The packaging part is dearly needed, even without qt.
> Bookmarks sync well (yay!) but don't always retain the same ordering on each device, which gets a bit confusing. I can work around this easily enough, but it's not quite as smooth as the same feature on Chrome.

I have never had an issue with bookmark sync on Firefox. I did with Chrome-my bookmarks order would be rearranged every time I changed something, other devices would be messed up. It is one of the biggest reasons why I stuck with Firefox all these years.
It's not free.
Grant money means someone's paid for it (us, taxes). Volunteer is about credit, not fiat, but still costs something (gpl restrictions).

Jupyter is great, it's revolutionized online education for example. But it's not as full featured as Mathematica, and like most Foss projects, slower to fix bugs, aka you get what you pay for. Both have a place unless you have hired, 100% dedicated help on juptyer. This is much like public radio vs corporate. Together they do the market needs.
Tangentially related question: do Chinese website use higher font size (especially for traditional script) ? I find those character hardly readable on hackernews at default font size.
I don't think using a prepared statement 100 times will have anywhere close to the same performance improvement as sending one concatenated bulk update or one update set case.
Author thinks Chrome is the best browser so whatever.

I've been using Firefox for the past 4 years and while the latest version is certainly the best thus far, even when Chrome performed "better" I'd still not use it for a myriad of reasons mostly revolving around the fact that everything Google does these days is crooked.

Author mentions the built in ad-blocker. Did you know Google also banned AdNauseum from the play store for no reason other than it is _too disruptive_ to the online advertising marketplace?

If I wasn't a professional web developer I wouldn't even have Chrome installed. Google can DIAF.
Only those connected to Vitalik get fixes, everyone else is shit out of luck.
My Airplay speakers have become obsolete b/c the company hasn’t updated its app
How can zestimate be trusted if zillow is in the business of buying and selling homes? There's a reason why banks separate advisory business from the trading business.
I would just drop the phrase "that actually looks good". That's purely your opinion. It also leads the reader to expect something which differs noticeably from other frameworks, and this does not. You clearly want to differentiate your framework, but this approach makes you seem arrogant.
What I'm saying is, there is a sharp difference between saying in 1895 when the young Picasso was still in training, to have taken a signed sketch he had thrown away and said "this is a work of art by an up and coming artist named Picasso - he's going to be one of the most renowned artists in the next century. I'll let you have it at a great deal", and making your own sketch last week with a forged Picasso's signature and saying "this is a genuine early work of Picasso". I don't see any ambiguity about the latter.
Well, I was a regular Hugi reader, Nectarine, Assembly, Flipcode, AmiNet...
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Yes, this is my only fault with Firefox. I'll open a tab and start typing, then (when I guess the tab is ready) the url bar resets and I've lost everything I've typed. This is super frustrating!
love it...mostly

But some videoa won't be played.

Also the scrolling on Android ia rather sluggish
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One thing you're missing:
Smaller size before compression does not necessarily imply smaller size after compression.
For instance, /O2 has a tendency to generate code that is difficult to compress. So it is always better to keep in mind how you achieve smaller file sizes after compression, and not worry so much about data sizes before compression.