skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They are hired by the agent

You can and absolutely should hire one yourself. Additionally, if you have a buyer's agent, don't make the mistake of using theirs either -- the buyer's agent has the same conflict of interest that the seller's does, despite the fact that in most cases they have a fiduciary responsibility to you, the buyer.

Another complication to be aware of: Inspectors can face "blackballing" by banks or realtors if they scuttle too many deals by finding bad things. If you find an independent inspector, don't balk at paying a little more -- they may need it to make up for business lost from being honest.
Woah, I thought the PICO-8 was a fictional game console within the Celeste universe!
Having just done similar at a smaller scale, that's plausible. A solar charge controller for that capacity is $600-1000 on its own, and the Victron control panel mentioned is north of $500.
Redid mine a few weeks ago (with a new domain that I've been pining after), thoughts?

https://nmn.gl/
Yep, exactly this. The bank needs to see a number so they can certify the mortgage. Unless it's something absurd, they generally just agree with whatever the sale price is. Which, if we're being serious, is fair market value by definition...but it's still pretty weird.
I know some of the Duo folks and they are serious security nerds and I don't think they would make this up. That said, I don't have any knowledge of the implementation. I did find this[1]:

> Duo Push technology employs asymmetric encryption to sign and verify communications between Duo's servers and a smartphone running the Duo Push app

I'm thinking this is saying something like they sign the contents of the push notification with a key that the app knows and that the man in the middle wouldn't have. So, they're not just relying on the provider of the push notification service.

[1]: https://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/answer/Do-two-factor-a...
>>>>>>> If government-directed job creation is the desired goal, why not just hand the preferred companies cash? That would be a lot more transparent and targeted than subsidizing utilities Venezuela-style.

>>>>> Money is fungible. Whether they're saving it by having cheaper electricity or getting cut a check is irrelevant.

> Tie the subsidy to electricity consumption. This really isn't hard.

So you're conceding the point that there are important differences between "having cheaper electricity or getting cut a check," then? What you suggest is nearly indistinguishable from just having lower-priced electricity. The only difference is some extra paperwork and administration to get the lower price.
Right. And that particular Wikipedian has a long and sordid history, including repeated formal admonishments, for doing precisely _not that_:

* http://wikipediareview.com/index.php?showforum=44
Google has an office in Kirkland, where I live, and I understand some folks work on Google Maps. The data in and around Kirkland is not great. I realized that people that live and work in Kirkland would probably have no reason to discover how bad the directions are - who would dogfood driving directions to the local office?

For years, several dozen points of interest in downtown Seattle were transposed into downtown Kirkland. It totally broke routing - if you tried to map a bus route from Kirkland to the Seattle Federal Building, it would give you a route that dumped you in a residential neighborhood in Kirkland.
"Extroverts thrive at stand-ups, planning, and retros."

As if to insinuate that extroverts like to increase technical debt and introverts are the quiet ones that toil away. Nah.
No reports of anything like that before. DomTerm.org is hosted under my DreamHost account, which also hosts my personal stuff, including bothner.com.
Yeah, comparing GDP to market cap doesn't really make any sense. Revenue to GPD would be a bit closer, but still really apples to oranges.
Home inspection cannot uncover everything, but without one, nothing will be uncovered before moving in. Besides, home inspection report can also be used to negotiate price, of course YMMV.
What does ICE mean?

The generator is part of the whole power system. In most implementations solar is not reliable enough on its own. You need a backup. In my case that's the generator and the bus' alternator.

Right now I'm running the generator all day to power my AC. I'm not running it most nights. It could be cycled on and off but I haven't setup an auto start system for it yet.
It also has the advantage of being capable of generating a family of independent hash functions. There are a lot of algorithms which require multiple hash functions to work correctly.
Entirely true.

I bought i super unique house, 100 years old out in the country. While talking to the appraiser asking him if the house was worth what i had offered, he said somthing like 'well if thats what your offering thats what it's worth'.

In hindsight, the market would tell me the house definately was not worth it.

Really i think the appraiser is there to prevent simple fraud.
> Relative wealth is very important because it distorts the market.

No, that's not correct. What distorts the market are artificial constraints on the market. You mention Bay area housing prices, but you fail to point out that those prices are skyrocketing because of enforced scarcity: the supply of housing in the Bay area is not being allowed to grow in response to growing demand, but instead is held fixed by local laws and regulations. That is what is distorting the market.

Relative wealth does give an advantage in this kind of situation, but that doesn't mean fixing the wealth disparity will fix the market. It won't; it will just mean that the scare Bay area housing gets rationed by some other method than who has the most money. It will still have to be rationed because demand far outstrips supply; and no matter how it is rationed, many people will be left out and will complain that the system is unfair. The only long term fixes for that are to either expand the supply of housing (by letting it respond normally to market forces), or for a lot of people to stop feeding the monster and abandon the Bay area for someplace that offers them better opportunities--which again is a normal response to market forces. And what empowers people to make those choices is absolute wealth, not relative wealth.
Standup just before lunch might work better. That’s my experience.
https://www.cnet.com/news/apples-jobs-gets-jet-shares-in-bon...
hahahaah, man you're hilarious! You should consider writing comedy blogs! I was chuckling all through out the article

"I bet you wear y-fronts" hahahaha - it is something that I heard a lot growing up in the UK (and for the record, yes..no, I didn't wear them)
That's comparing apples to oranges. GDP measures production/income, not really comparable to market value.
Zipf’s Law in Passwords (2014) [pdf]
brand influence for a little compensation
The paid an effective tax rate of 25% over the last 9 months.

Also, I fail to see how it would diminish the achievement even if they weren't paying taxes. $1 trillion is extraordinarily valuable. There is zero chance you could create a company that big even if all your taxes were waived.
Been using this for a while in beta stage... it's been great.
I love the motivation bursts I get when opening a new tab.

Keep it up Mubaris!
I always find these 401k contributions to extremely high paid executives as kind of comical. That’s an effective match of 0.12% or, to really put it in perspective, the equivalent of a $72 yearly match for an average American making 60k.
In the UK renting makes very little sense for most people, due to low interest rates, mortgage payments are lower than the equivalent rent.

Renters have very little security, landlords are often unscrupulous with minimal regulation. Us Brits like to say that renting a house is money down the drain.
Awesome, thanks for the report. I had someone report that before and couldn't reproduce. Looks like I should have tested in base Firefox, not just Firefox Developer Edition :)
> it still adds value over a purely legal approach as at least ownership and transfer of it is transparent

It adds dubious value over a shared database.
The comment you're replying to proves that Apple gives them way more than a little.
ICE?
Besides not smoking, what are scientifically justified steps one can take while young to reduce the risk of cancer?
Not exactly a logo, but check out the "Hitler kettle", which was disturbing and funny at the same time.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/...
Hello :) The apps are coming in the next few weeks. iOS is almost done at the moment, but still tweaking a few things.
I bet you would find that his report is worded carefully to not include anything that would be expensive to repair.

And really, the most expensive repairs are on things you can't see. Wiring. Plumbing. Damage to the structure of the house.

Even then I wouldn't be surprised if they tried to weasel out of for example your roof started leaking 2 months after you move in. The inspector will point out that there was no water damage when he inspected it so the issue developed after the inspection.
Sure, but a main point of a crypto currency is realizing there's no reason to back a monetary currency with anything. It's just a shared hallucination. There's no rational reason a new currency would be "based" on btc holdings. That's just silly.

My view is that the upper end of btc viability is taking over some fraction of why people want gold. The system is way too expensive for a viable txn network (a la cash or Visa) and will never become one.
Fantastic typography feedback, thanks.
They were very fragile and burned in extremely quickly. They were also massively power hungry! Not surprising that there are none left.

I'm not at all sad to have traded them in for even lousy LCD. But don't sweat it, OLED is a worthy replacement!
Glad you loved it
Oddly I find myself pleased with the idea of living in the city centre, _or_ in the country (though only for an extremely specific set of circumstances), but the suburbs seem like the worst of both worlds. They're still pretty expensive, but they're dangerous places to walk, cycle, or (paradoxically) even drive. I got screamed at a hell of a lot more cycling around Fremont than I did Berkeley.

Also, I can get a cheap place in the country with the deposit I saved up for a house in the city and not have a mortgage, OR I can take on a mortgage, live city centre, and have better access to employment in the event my remote job disappears, but taking on a mortgage and still being a crappy commute away from potential <other job> is not a pleasant thought.

Edit: Should mention that the specific circumstances I referred to are:
* work 100% remote

* happen to be looking at a house near a train station 90 minutes from the city (in many US cities this would _be_ a suburb)

* Interested in intensively cultivating an acre or so of land to be a bit more self reliant w.r.t food.
'Uber for Poop' Aims to Break Up Senegal's Toilet Cartel
This. I once had a friend on an admissions committee at my alma mater look at my old application to see if I could get it. That was seven years after I was admitted and the answer was "No".
ICE = Internal Combustion Engine
Do people still think about "starter" homes?

The first house I bought was tiny. Two small bedrooms, a bathroom with a sink, tub, and toilet, a living room and a kitchen. Carport in back on a small lot.

I knew it wasn't what I wanted forever, but it was adequate at the time (no kids when we bought it, one when we sold it) and the payment was lower than rent on a similar sized apartment.

Gave me a tax deduction, and though it didn't appreciate a lot I didn't lose money on it either. When I sold it, I parlayed the original down payment, the small increase in equity, plus additional savings into buying a bigger house.

If you start off with a big house at the very upper end of what you can afford, you have a hard time saving more money and can be really hurt by unexpected maintenance and repairs.
You're correct that if they have a conflict of interest, they are definitely useless.

Don't hire the agent's inspector. Likewise, make sure you have your own agent, don't use the seller's. And if you're in court someday, don't expect one lawyer to represent both parties. Simple stuff.

It's similar to buying a car: don't ask the dealer's maintenance department whether it's a good car. Drive it to your independent mechanic on the test drive and ask them to take an unbiased look at it.

If you don't know a reputable home inspector, you could ask your painter, contractor, or handyman if you have a good relationship with someone who knows houses to take a look.
If they didn't have the cashflow to save 20% down, they will likely run into issues affording the PMI on the FHA loan.
> In years past, young homeowners got gifts or loans from family to help assemble a down payment for a home. This really is no different, although it signals that the millenials' parents have no free cash to loan their children.

Or they're just (financial) idiots and decided to spend the same cash on a lavish wedding. It's hilarious (in a black comedy sort of way) how many people complain about not being able to afford a down payment yet spent more than enough for the down payment of an FHA loan on their weddings.
There isn't anything particularly innovative about Duo Beyond. Inspect the Docker containers and you'll see they simply rebranded simplesamlphp and wrote a custom ngx_http_auth_request_module handler for NGINX for their authenticated reverse proxy product.

If Cisco paid 2 billion dollars for this, my mind is really blown. I'm struggling to figure out how they ended up at 2 billion because I don't see it in anything material -- perhaps the patents or a play against Okta for recurring revenue from smaller companies which might not have Cisco gear?
I've always had on-site appraisals where the appraiser did need to see the inside of the house.

An appraisal without visiting the property does sound like a scam, how do they know the inside of the house is not gutted?

I can understand why the bank requires an appraisal, so it's not purely a scam, but I don't think it's an accident that most appraisals come in exactly at the selling price. The bank needs some independent 3rd party to verify that the house really exists and is not completely trashed. I assume the appraisers usually just take the selling price and work backwards to find comps and adjustments to support it rather than starting with the comps to come up with a fair selling price.

Though that's not always the case, I did have an appraiser save me $20K once -- the appraisal came in at $25K under the accepted offer price, the seller asked me to kick in an extra $25K on the loan, I said I couldn't. They asked me to meet them half way, and I said I couldn't, but I'd offer an extra $5K. They accepted and the deal went through.

The seller appealed the appraisal (the comps weren't perfectly comparable), but they already had a property lined up to purchase and didn't want me to walk, so they finally accepted the lower price. A month later an identical property in my complex sold for $50K higher than my original offered price (so $70K higher than what I paid). The SF Bay Area is a weird market.
Hmm, so... SMS is not that good, why not try this https://www.typingdna.com/ ( I am not working / affiliate with them)
Sorry that they are unsubstantive to you, would have expected more from an admin than a comment like that.

Edit: your comment got me thinking, what is substantive to you? Is it just the general hivemind of HN that's only allowed here?
>SAT scores among admitted students is the highest it's ever been.

And the GDP of Venezuela as measured in bolívar
is the highest it's ever been!

"More comparisons on new SAT scores versus critical reading and math scores on the old SAT:

A new 1200 corresponds to an old 1130.
A new 1300 corresponds to an old 1230.
A new 1400 corresponds to an old 1340.
A new 1500 corresponds to an old 1460.
But a new 1600 is just as perfect as an old 1600."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/grade-point/wp/2016/05/1...
This is fantastic. I always loved retro arcade gaming, and I'm sad that there are not a lot of games out there that interest me. So these days I came to a conclusion that I have to build my own games.

Where can learn about general game physics? How are the games designed? How do we make the games tough so as to make sure it doesn't bore players? Basically on "how" I should go about building my game.
A View to the Cloud
Internal combustion engine
How exciting! How exciting!
Isn't pretty much that caveat right under the title?

"Notice: Below represents my PERSONAL beliefs about agile and team organization. Your results may vary."
> The article did suggest that you should get your home inspected before you buy it like pretty much every bank doesn't already require that.

Banks require appraisals, not inspections. While the two things seem descriptively similar, they are functionally radically different: an appraisal tells the bank a number that represents the market value of the house (used to determine if the value of home combined with the requested loan amount fits within the maximum loan-to-value ratio the bank is willing to accept—or allowed, for programs with mandatory limits), an inspection identifies specific problems and recommended corrections/mitigations.

> It also failed to mention that home inspections are largely useless

On both homes I've been involved in purchasing from the buyers side, the home inspection has been quite useful (though less critically so in the one that was new construction, though there's no guarantee that that is the case.)
Nobel Prize Winner Joins Blockchain Startup to Fix Smart Contracts
That squishing grey thing in your skull is pulling something in the vicinity of a petaflop of computation in a 10 watt thermal budget. Biological nanotech is a hull of a drug!

https://hips.seas.harvard.edu/blog/2013/01/30/what-is-the-co...
Author here. AMA!
ah! https://hugodaniel.pt :D
I've run my team's stand-ups for several years now. I find without going person by person there is less communication. I still restrict each person's comments to blockers and their agenda for the time until the next standup (not daily). It's not uncommon for "no blockers, tickets X, Y, Z for next day or two" to be it for a report. It's not common but occasionally this will remind someone else of a blocker they have which they can chime in with during their update or else at the end if they've already gone.
You typically need PMI then? That's money down the drain.
Public funding is needed for any research with long timescales and no quick route to monetisation. It has given you and Apple, for example, the internet, the world-wide-web, GPS and touch-screen displays.
The Wirecutter noise-cancelling headphone guide [1] is pretty good.

The Bose QC35 is commonly recommended for open office work. They recently released a new Series II ($350). They aren't too different from the Series I which is discontinued but you may still be able to find some places for less.

Bose also has variants on this model, such as a wired one, as well as their top end in-ear headphones that are similarly recommended.

One thing to note is that active noise-cancelling in general isn't super great for conversation type noise. You'll probably have to combine active noise cancellation and/or noise isolation with some sort of audio playing to really not hear the office talk.

Anker also just came out with an ANC over-ears that look competitive for our use case for $100. I haven't tried them myself yet but am planning to.

[1]: https://thewirecutter.com/reviews/best-noise-cancelling-head...

[2]: https://www.amazon.com/Soundcore-Wireless-Cancelling-Headpho...
Sure, but do you know which one is going to do his job properly? This is knowledge that very few personal home buyers have. Professional house flippers/real estate speculators might have guys they know, but shopping around as an individual there is precious little information available on how good a particular inspector is.
In the US, at least, inspectors are liable for issues not uncovered during the initial inspection. Seller-hired inspector missed a malfunctioning AC unit? It's on the inspector - or their insurance - to cover the cost of a fix.
I'm so in alignment with this. I've always hated standups. As a night owl, it's a morning meeting I have to make every single day and I hate it. I also don't understand how I can't just communicate in Slack to say "hey this is what I'm working on, this is what I worked on. Here are the questions I have." And move on. And if the PM prioritizes the backlog, always pick from the top just makes sense. And yes, retros feel like a place for extroverts to own the conversation (and I know, I'm an extrovert).
Inside Larry Page and Sergey Brin's Exclusive Conference in Italy
This article flies in the face of everything. I love articles that fly in the face of everything.
Are there any Bay Area web site building consultancies that would be willing to bid on a very simple layout for both a company site and a support site that needs to maintain a user database ? Contact is in my profile.
TensorFlow 1.9 Officially Supports the Raspberry Pi
Yeah, I believe this is in comparison to SMS-based 2FA.
Hum. Don't tell your kid, but I don't think that's legal :)
The huge lawsuit risk is mostly bs.

I investigated suing a doctor due to a medical error. Unless it cripples you for life or kills you no regular person would be able to win a malpractice lawsuit. It is insanely expensive. Another medical professional would need to speak against the other doctor or pharma company. Speaking against pharmaceutical companies is pretty risky for doctors.

I think the cost of healthcare is expensive due to high education debt, lack of price regulation, and very little consumer protection as far as pricing goes.
The Peace prize was given to a man who was actively bombing people, I don't think the Nobel organization's prestige is anywhere near what it was a few decades ago. Sad that it departed from what it once was.
The total market cap for the Toronto Stock Exchange is $2.2 trillion, for example.

As an American, I would love Canada to become even better off economically than they are today, which is pretty comparable to the US on a per capita basis.
As pixelbash said. You have to keep looking at new inspiration, and your subconscious mind will ruminate on it to give you interesting new combinations & ideas.
> So you're conceding the point that there are important differences between "having cheaper electricity or getting cut a check," then?

No.

> What you suggest is nearly indistinguishable from just having lower-priced electricity. The only difference is some extra paperwork and administration to get the lower price.

Nearly indistinguishable, except along the criteria in question. If you price electricity below market, you get free riders like the Bitcoin miners. They're certainly not the only ones either, just the biggest. If you instead subsidize the thing you actually want then you will get more of that thing, without the free rider problem. If you want to subsidize job creation, then do that, don't just have cheap electricity and then whine when people take you up on it.
well I always thought that it was gifted to him, since he actually worked for 1 symbolic dollar over a certain period of time?
Yea, even if you have cash on hand for a 20% down payment it's useful to funnel it through the 401k. As long as you would be saving less than the annual limit per year in your 401k the difference works as a free loan from the government.
You might once your manager sees that you haven't watched the last 4 weeks worth of standups....