skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Part of the problem is that most realtors want it that way. I live in Austin, and the push for a few years now has been to have a "silent market" where a buyer picks a "full service" realtor (AKA full commission), and gets a week or so jump on properties being listed in the MLS. This gives them a better chance to get the property before the MLS hordes descend and start bidding it up.

The part I've never understood is, as a seller, why wouldn't I want my property to have the largest exposure and the most interested buyers. Presumably, having people getting into bidding wars for something i'm selling is a benefit.
It was an explicit goal to protect the sustainability of MongoDB's R&D investment in addition to encouraging community contributions.

Source (original announcement): https://www.mongodb.com/press/mongodb-issues-new-server-side...
Ask HN: Do you program in a language that you feel indifferent towards?
Maybe you don't have a choice in the language you use at work. Or maybe you chose a language for its features or performance even though you neither like or dislike the language. Does this sound like a familiar scenario? If so, what are your thoughts? How have you found the experience of using a language that you have no liking for?
https://imgur.com/MIg6FpN
>So you've just written off internship, apprenticeship, or the possibility of any on-the-job training, because?

Nope, didn't wrote off any of those. In fact I encouraged them, saying programmers should educate themselves (and all of those are ways to do that).

What I did write off was letting selling ineffective staff by interns, apprentices, on-the-job trainees ship to customers...

Do customers pay for a quality product or to have whatever done by cheap or unpaid internets shipped to them?
> The water in your tap is not free.

But it sure is a lot cheaper than trying to desalinate the ocean water next to me.

> Please try and stop just for a minute and rethink your position.

On what? I am struggling to see your argument here. We have an issue that you are claiming doesn't need to be solved, and are trying to convince people to ignore, and I am repeatedly providing you with evidence that there is this is a real issue that at the very least would have some impact on us. Trying to "fix" the issues we cause 50 years in the future is going to be much, much more difficult than trying to improve today.
A good realtor will tell you if you're overpaying, because they want repeat business and referrals. Same for selling.
> moderate Democrats were prevented from voting for it by minority leader Chuck Schumer.

The US doesn't have the kind of political system where the Senate minorty leader can prevent members from voting for or against things.

The majority leader, sure, by just not bringing them to a vote, so no one will vote either way. The minority leader, well, he can ask members not to, just like anyone else inside or outside the Senate.
And for those not familiar with early Twitter, the hashtag was not a feature of the platform, but a shorthand way to indicate a topic. This of course was recognized and formalized by Twitter soon after, but I find it fascinating that it was a feature essentially developed by the users and more simply recognized by the platform later.
Highly recommend listening to the bogleheads podcast ep 1 that interviews John Bogle. He turned out to be much more interesting than I thought:

https://s134.podbean.com/pb/2e4222a012edece84e321989ac0c4095...
nonsense of this nature is why the DSM was devalued, and psychiatry in general was delt a black eye

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2013/05/the-real-...
i'm a bit rusty on the details, but happy to help how i can. we were looking at the auction model as a potentially viable alternative to the commission model predominant in the US. we found this stranglehold by NAR & it's MLS network to be a key barrier to entry.
> I don't think there is anything wrong in principle with Ubuntu collecting user data if they openly communicate it to their users.

As long as it's opt-in, I agree.

> I do not agree with this Stallman-esque usage of the term spyware, if the exchange of data is voluntary

Being truly voluntary is key. If that's the case, then I agree with this. However, if data is being collected about me or the hardware/software that I'm using without my affirmative consent, that completely qualifies as "spying".
Here is the 2014 paper mentioned in the article:

https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&q=classifying+corru...
I agree with sjburt when he says "I think once you understand the graph, then looking at what the graph looks like and what you want it to look like usually leads you to being able to figure out what operation you want." When I was first getting in to Git ~10 years ago, I remember that I found the PeepCode "Git Internals" book[1] very helpful for getting that understanding of the graph.

Once you have the better understanding of the graph, it's hard to find resources on how to improve from there; most resources focus on beginner stuff, or function more as a technical reference without really talking about use-cases. I've found following Mark Dominus' blog[2] for his posts about Git to be the single best thing to "level up" my Git usage once already being at a high-level.

[1]: At the time, I had to pay money for the eBook, now they have the whole thing on GitHub: https://github.com/pluralsight/git-internals-pdf

[2]: https://blog.plover.com/
Probably hookers and blow for one of their parties...
> If you punish the employers then the immigrants have to rely on the welfare system.

What? An undocumented immigrant by definition is missing their passport (or other papers). How exactly are they going to collect food-stamps, medicaid, or social security without documentation?

You CAN'T collect food stamps ("SNAP" program) without a social security number. IIRC, green-card holders can apply, but you have to have all your documents in order.

Its about the employers yo. They're a big piece of the puzzle. Undocumented people are generally allergic to going into government offices (they're worried about getting deported). In any case, the welfare system is generally closed to them.

At best: some undocumented migrants rely upon their children (who may have been born in the USA, and are therefore citizens) to get food stamps. But I wouldn't necessarily call the welfare system (SNAP, Social Security, or Medicaid) open to undocumented people.

As I said earlier: if you are serious about the problem, then you need to go after the employers.
I can't imagine a company not mining the info from support for exactly these kind of improvements as a standard operating procedure; it's a gold mine of information, anyone ignoring it doesn't really care about the quality of their product.
I have a question about this survey. Were the participants told that the symbol is typically located on a dashboard, or was it shown without context?
I recently got a smart TV, and I use the netflix app built into it, as well as the general video player for playing files I have on my computer's media server... But I used to just use my Playstation for that before I got a tv with the apps.

As long as the tv has import ports I can use other devices than the TV itself to get content so I'm not really concerned about that.

I bought the TV because it was good at being a TV - that is, it is OLED, high res, good upscaling, etc. The "smart" stuff I could take or leave, but I'm enjoying the convenience of it while it works.
In many developed countries (which aren’t huge), most or all publicly funded research universities form some kind of consortium to negotiate a big deal with Elsevier. The institutions pay for access to print journals as well as online access to the archives of current and past papers.

Elsevier (and other typical big journal publishers) operate on a model of bundling where institutions must subscribe to many journals they do not want to get access to journals which they do want.

The big negotiating consortium will go to Elsevier to negotiate. Elsevier will demand a massive price hike. The consortium will push this down, potentially threatening to not subscribe at all, Elsevier will reduce this to merely a large price hike, with maybe some undesired extra journals bundled in. The consortium will not be happy and will consider not subscribing to any Elsevier journals. They will conclude that this is too scary and potentially bad for science, and grudgingly accept the “deal.”

I understand that in Germany relatively recently such a group did in fact refuse Elsevier’s offer and Elsevier essentially continued their online access for free from fear that they might discover that they do not need Elsevier very much.

Some fields need these subscriptions more than others. For example medicine has lots of journals like this which matter whereas in mathematics or computer science most preprints go up on the arXiv and big results may be expanded on long before the paper is even published. Elsevier seems less necessary there, and the value they provide is almost entirely in the prestige of the journal name and the editors who work on the journals.

Furthermore, many funding groups (eg governments) are requiring more and more open access for published research they fund. One can sometimes pay Elsevier a large fee to make a paper published there open access so they can potentially be paid almost entirely for their current assets (a journal name and board of editors) and not for any services they provide (like printing or typesetting)
Stop and Shop launching self-driving grocery vehicles in Boston area this spring
Is the world ending because of Syria?
Thing is, the very existence of a company benefits society as a whole: it produces and trades goods that people need and want, and also gives stable source of income for sometimes dozen thousands of its employees.

That's why we should be carefull with excessive taxes for bussiness - if some companies go bankrupt, or lay off 20% of their workforce as a result it might be a net loss to society.

And before you start arguing that sometimes companies make money on shady things: yes, they do, but then you don't punish them for that with taxes, there are criminal laws for such things.
The old logo looked like an extension of 23AndMe's logo and the new logo looks like a Google product logo with four ducks in a circle.

I like the old logo better.
> So basically let them starve and freeze so you can feel better about yourself?

This is a strawman argument, and you know it. The rest of the world is hard at work trying to come up with better ways to meet energy needs that have a smaller impact on our climate.
The uniform language is what I like, the rest is not very different on a lot of other platforms. Uniform language I also have with clojure/script and dotnet with Bridge. I created quite a large application with Node and JS (not my choice) recently and I immediately miss types (I usually use dotnet core) (solved by using Typescript but that was not an option) and the tooling I have for dotnet. Also node seems more fragile; this can be maybe because of all the ‘admins’ that set up their system wrongly, but I also sell server monitoring saas and we monitor many php, dotnet (core) and node servers and node servers by far have the most downtime. And my own experience is also that it is brittle.
>That remark clearly puts the onus on individual workers and there is no qualifying statement that anyone who doesn't know this particular thing should be allowed to work, under supervision.

Ever heard of the principle of charity? Programmers should educate themselves, and that includes senior supervision. And they should make sure they used what's best for the job when the ship while still learning -- and if they're unsure, they could check with someone...
30 years ago in the UK 2 or 3% was the norm one has to ask why it was double
Those who are persistent can always eventually find someone willing to sell their property for 3%. That isn't some online discount scam, that's a local realtor with local billboard ads, regular newspaper inserts, and a respectable web presence who is will to take half to do this job. Maybe you're in a hurry, maybe you like gold-plating, maybe you have to use your sister-in-law as a realtor, but if none of those circumstances apply then a 50% discount is well worth pursuing...

Of course it's because of all the efficiencies you mention. Their job is significantly easier than it used to be. They can afford to charge less; they just forgot to tell the general public about that.
Jack Bogle is a legend and I have the majority of my money in Vanguard investment funds, but did you know that its corporate structure just might be a tax scam?

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/07/your-money/vanguard-a-cha...

It sounds crazy at first, but after reading it's hard not to come away agreeing with the thesis.
Possibly an extrapolation from Kepler data, which can only see planets orbiting at the right angle. If it were to be looking at an extra-solar system "top down" then it wouldn't find any planets.

For astronomers "earth like" is just about anything within an order of magnitude of earths size and within the very vague habitable zone, it doesn't say anything about it's surface conditions.
Note that this is a 6 year old article. So we really should be discussing how that PR move worked for them. :-)

Also note that a lot of agents, at least in our area, HATE Zillow. I guess I haven't been to a Realtor conference in a couple years, but there were well-attended talks about "how to keep your property out of Zillow". Some Realtors wanted to work with Zillow, but quite a few were trying to keep Zillow out.
I wonder why they're using SDR instead of a standard like DVB-S2.
> especially since they embrace systemd

I will never forgive Red Hat for SystemD, and even more than that, I will never forgive Debian for adopting it. But that's off-topic.
I'm about to embark on a nomadic trip so I will be depending on AirBnBs and hotels a lot. Can I just ask: If the host has not disclosed security/surveillance but such equipment is present am I allowed to run de-auth attacks against the cameras so I can 'disable' them temporarily?
You have to squint to make it out, but there is a resemblance: https://i.imgur.com/mqEs2MQ.png

I'm not sure if it's enough to call it a mistake though. (My mistake for not spotting the entire thread discussing this...)
Climber Alex Honnold on iconic male loners: Nobody really operates in isolation
I read that as him having his first heart attack at 31 and many more later in life.

Aside from congenital issues, heart attacks at that age are typically complications of other issues.
Infrastructure as (real) code
I saw your website last year and thought your projects were intriguing. Congrats on being able to do it full time!
> I found Debian to be moving at a glacial pace.

I view this as a feature, not a bug!
I think it means the first of his lifetime six heart attacks was at 31.

I'm 38 and equally paranoid :)
Is there any truth to the fact that in order to be covered by medical insurance in the USA, mental disorders have to have a DSM entry for medical coding practices, and that this has created a plethora of acronyms, or other labels for phenomenon that haven't really been sussed out as actual disorders?
I have heard many people over the years reference the DSM as some way validating a phenomenon or label applied to themselves by their therapist or self-diagnosed.
'We're going to electrify the F-Series,' Ford exec says
>Congenital defects?

Almost certainly. If your diet and lifestyle are even remotely healthy, and you don’t have a history of heart disease in your family, it’s very unlikely you have anything to worry about.

Otherwise, a visit to a cardiologist should put your mind at ease.
Unfortunately, given that the cartels have tunneling down to a science, I wouldn't really call the wall "reliable".
As a realtor for the past 6 years I can say a couple of quick things as to why I don't see the real estate industry going anywhere, even though I think that real estate brokers are extremely overpaid.

- selling your house, at the end of the day, is quite the undertaking. A lot goes into it, it can get emotional, messy, and sometimes quite complicated. Having someone that does it on a daily basis can be nice and really smooth things out.

- people are too attached to their homes emotionally. More often than not, when trying to sell on their home without a realtor they will not have it in a saleable condition and price it too high for the marketplace. It will sit and not sell, or they will get an offer that is appropriate and be offended and not sell it. A GOOD broker will bring facts, data, and logic to the table so that a person that is actually committed to selling their home will get the job done.

If people saw their homes for what they were when they decided to sell them, a product or a piece of property and nothing more, the real estate industry would die in no time at all.

Then again, there are a lot of swindlers out there too, so it's nice to have someone as back-up to watch out for those types of things as well.
In terraform you should never be using IDs directly unless it's in a variable or, preferably, a data source. The reference should look like aws_something.mything.id.
Hold a two- (or three-) fund portfolio of low cost index funds; invest in it regularly and stay the course. It's OK to invest in individual stocks, but do it for fun, not as (or with) your retirement savings.

I like Bogle's "Little Book of Common Sense Investing"[0] a little more than the Bogleheads Guide, but they're both good :)

[0] https://www.powells.com/book/-9781119404507
If you don't mind me asking why did you migrate from Neo4j to OrientDB?
congrats to them. I have nothing but good things to say about Osmo, its a quality product that teaches very well and doesn't have many (any?) dark patterns to drive reoccurring revenue.

Whats in the box is what it is, and whether its the creative stuff which my kid loves or the math/spelling it keeps him engaged and uses technology to augment physical world learning very well.
Power off, swap cards, power on? That's a multi-second task, even if SDRAM didn't reset during boot stages.
As people are sharing resources related to John, the Freakonomics podcast, where John makes an appearance, on investing I found was informative as well.

http://freakonomics.com/podcast/stupidest-money/
I think your hugely underestimating the impact of a single paycheck. Some huge percentage of American's live paycheck to paycheck (78% according to career builder http://press.careerbuilder.com/2017-08-24-Living-Paycheck-to...).

Missing that paycheck means potentially missing rent (which could get you evicted), having to decide between keeping the lights on or buying food. The more paychecks people miss the worse this is going to get for some people.
No, they did change it for the sake of change. The new logo is pretty ugly.
Russian Roulette is often depicted as being played with a six-shooter.

The only reason driving a car is more dangerous is because people don't routinely play Russian Roulette.

Which surely isn't an argument you actually want to make?
The purpose of unit tests is to lock down the project's source code once it's essentially completed; to avoid regressions when making minor changes.

This is only true for development environments which have particular weaknesses. If your tools for code changes and refactoring easily cover changing your unit tests while you are refactoring, then you can use unit tests for rapid development. The use of Unit Tests in present day "agile" methods actually originates in an environment where this was the norm. (Extreme Programming, as developed at the Chrysler C3 project in VisualWorks Smalltalk, using the phenomenal Refactoring Browser.)

Your statement above would be 180 degrees turned around in an environment like that.

If you start writing unit tests too early in the project, you're effecively locking down units of code which haven't yet proved themseves to be useful to your project.

Reading this just makes me sigh. Not all environments have the same cost/benefit factors in all parts of the edit/test/debug cycle. Not all environments and languages have the same costs for doing similar development operations. As a matter of fact, these are generally very, very different, even across projects using the same language. Change those cost/benefit factors, and the pronouncements you are making become more valid or less valid, depending.

Not understanding that those cost/benefit factors can change and change exactly what your best practices are -- this is one of the most pervasive big misunderstandings that fosters poor management of programming projects.

(EDIT: I think a lot of the annoyance many people have with "agile" methods, stems from practices which work well in one environment migrated to another environment where they don't work well at all!)
That's sounds pretty great and you could probably replace yourself, leaving you with some nice residual income.
I had been having great experiences until I got this place in NYC that when I just got in, the host started sending me messages on I could and couldn't do.

He told me to get rid of the shoes because I was hurting the floor, that I shouldn't leave heavy stuff on the sofa because it was brand new (my bag was on it). For a moment I thought that maybe he told this to everyone and then I found the camera. It was a 1 bedroom so the camera gave him a full view of the whole apartment. I covered the camera and decided not to communicate Airbnb because it was only for a week and I would be barely in the apartment during the day (it's NYC!). He gave me a great review but I decided to go back to hotels ever since.
To be fair, the migration of a few thousand people was treated like a national crisis because it behooves both the people in power and the news media for the world to perpetually be in a state of crisis.
There's also an engineering trade magazine called Spectrum. It's everywhere.
Energy equals mass times the square of the speed of light.
I wish I learned about Index Funds when I was younger. Thanks, Jack! I'm a happy Vanguard customer holding a single Index Fund fund.
Perhaps a pocket listing isn’t paying the Buyers Agent half of the fee, so saving 3% right there. Depending on the market that may be worth it versus going to the broad market and having to pay both sides of the commission.
> were it not for the halting problem, we could automatically prove programs to be correct!

But we actually can do this for a huge subset of programs — as long we we’re okay with false negatives, ie programs which are correct but that we can’t prove using our system.

Precisely what I’m trying to call out is your mistake here: the existence of programs (in theory) which we can’t analyze (eg because of the halting problem) doesn’t imply anything at all about the programs we’re likely to encounter in practice. Those programs live in the subset of programs for which automatic reasoning does work.

The correct interpretation of “it’s not possible to prove all programs” is “there exists some programs we can’t prove correctness of”, not “there are no programs we can prove the correctness of”.

Show me that the programs we find useful overlap with the ones we can’t automatically prove — because in my experience, things like the halting problem are an abstract concern, and the programs we want to verify live solidly in the subset of programs we can automatically reason about.

For any program we’re likely to encounter in practice, we’re in the subset of programs we can automatically prove correct, if we spent the effort to do so. (And I have done so before.)
I must be the only one but it resembles CNBC...

http://wcontest.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/1529781727_;w...
https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/five-wealth... ? Does the cfp mandate that quota be tradeable?
Kubernetes translated to AWS
QWidgets are being phased out? What???