skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Redfin charges 1% for selling the house. They still pay 3% to the buyer's broker. The total fee is therefore 4%, versus the normal 6%, where both sides get 3%.
I've noticed this really interesting phenomenon when people disagree with or dislike someone in academia to label them as a psuedo intellectual.

This happens for people on both sides of the divide. Look at the comments on any potentially controversial academic discussion and the phrase pseudo intellectual comes up an awful lot.

Now, I can't imagine both sides of a debate contain only psuedo intellectuals. Nor can I reasonably say I think the entire of Academia is filled with only so-called psuedo intellectuals.

So how do you delineate who is an actual intellectual vs. who is a psuedo intellectual?

What is your criteria? What is the criteria in general?

Anyone?

Because it seems to me this phenomenon manifests when people either disagree with or dislike an academics conclusions. As such I completely discount the opinion of anyone willing to use the phrase psuedo intellectual.
> Paid products generally tend to be higher quality than open source, for whatever reason.

Putting aside the fact that this isn't true, and that there are quite a few quality open source apps on macOS, it's pretty clear why paid products have higher quality: the bar for people to buy them is much higher, so they generally need to be at least somewhat decent for people to consider paying for them.
Nice site! The template viewer is a great feature, since it gives the user an immediate place to play with the product.

Do people think it's a good idea to include the terms of the raise you are seeking in your pitch deck ("The Ask")? Wouldn't it be better to let the VC say the first number? IIRC this is the advice given in Venture Deals by Brad Feld and Jason Mendelson.
this is not completely true because a seller can negotiate on behalf of themselves for their own home and a buyer can negotiate for themselves as well. Which I suppose is obvious.

You can also have an attorney negotiate for you, at least in my state, and attorneys only charge a flat fee for handling a transaction in my area. A small percentage of what it costs to use an actual realtor.
Thermodynamics are fulfilled in many ways - exercise is merely one. Burning sugar repairing DNA is another. Show me a thermodynamics in which repairing DNA creates no entropy, no loss of energy.
I actually prefer the hotels to Airbnbs. If price difference is not drastic - hotel. If employer pays - most definitely the hotel! I prefer to have maybe cookie-cutter but more or less reliable set of things and services available and not figure out what to find where, what to do, what not to do, read the goddamn house rules, look for the key under the rug, text some random people where are they with the key, do you have parking, do you not, etc.
And it started in the 50'es long before humans had any impact.
Show of hands. How many people have clicked on an ad and bought something directly related to the ad?

I was researching cameras. I saw very little camera ads in my research. After I bought a camera? Ads for the camera I just bought everywhere, for months afterwards. I have not once clicked on a ad and bought something. I maybe clicked on 10 ads in my lifetime and they were 75% stuff I THOUGHT I had no intrest in. I think targeted ads is the biggest con no of our age.
It really looks like a 99 Designs special.
No, I believe the point was exactly the opposite: that the new logo feels too immediately familiar, because it's so reminiscent of countless other red-amber-green-blue tech logos from Windows 3.0 on.
UPDATE: Fixed now.

FYI - I'm getting a connection timeout.

curl -v http://hndetox.com/v2
* Trying 184.168.131.241...
* connect to 184.168.131.241 port 80 failed: Operation timed out
* Failed to connect to hndetox.com port 80: Operation timed out
* Closing connection 0
curl: (7) Failed to connect to hndetox.com port 80: Operation timed out
No. That's like saying "Why go to the trouble of putting seat belts in cars, since so many people survive car crashes?"

Hopefully you'll see where to start.
>I've bought and sold two other homes FSBO since then, and the process was much easier

Respectfully, I'm curious... How would doing it yourself be easier?
GP is correct, this column is entertaining and informative:

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-01-16/wework...
Who is talking about ignoring it?
Why should we favour the first one?

Imagine our best understanding of cosmology suggested that some interstellar object, which we'll call "foobars" for the sake of this argument, existed in high amounts. However, we weren't totally certain that foobars existed, or exactly what they would look like if they did.

In this case, when we discovered a new, weird and unexplainable phenomenon, would there really much pushback when somebody proposed that foobars might be the cause?

Well, according to the Fermi Paradox[1], there's seems to be a very good chance, statistically speaking, that alien life is common in our galaxy. So, when a phenomenon is observed with highly unusual characteristics, why should an alien origin be considered unlikely or fringe explanation?

I think people dismissing or diminishing the possibility of an alien explanation should also be required to provide a reasonable, evidence-based explanation for the Fermi Paradox.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_paradox
I wonder if there's a good technical writeup on MMS. It seems to be "just another" IP based thing, but I've never really investigated it.
A few more here:
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As others have mentioned, that is after the property has sold. If you are looking to buy a house, that information is not going to help you. However, even for sold information, depending on the county you are in, those public records aren't always accurate. I don't know how frequent that is, but I suggested using public records when we lost access to MLS data a few years ago, and a coworker said they had problems with that data from some counties in the past.

If you are buying a house, the MLS is the place you need to go. And that is mediated by a Realtor or Broker in most cases.
You're welcome, and what a pleasant surprise, it's rare to find people who know about ILP in the industry :)
Meh (I tried to come up with a more insightful critique, but let's be honest...)
author here, that'd be great!
>I rented a place and was told that I could check-in whenever. When I got there, the key wasn't available and I wasn't able to contact the host.

This. This happened to me one time and from there on, I will not bother with it again. My time and my travel logistics plus standing around with luggage or whatever else, is worth paying for a proper hotel to never have to deal with that ever again.
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still one of my favorites
>> is proper enforcement of our laws

11 million illegal/undocumented in the USA, what does enforcement even mean at this point?

If you punish the employers then the immigrants have to rely on the welfare system.
Yes and the best way to do that is to make poor nations richer which requires growth which will require more energy and thus more emission of CO2.
It seems contradictory to me that author learned to "deliberately assess cutting edge technologies, bias towards conservative choices," yet he regrets not using react-native-web and Next.js.
Because look how well the Syria thing has worked out?

I think you have a problem seeing the scale of humanity that could be affected, and the scale of engineering and infrastructure effort would be required to support relocating 30 million people. Bangladesh doesn't have the money to do it, and the US will be too busy working on the Mexico wall.

Unless of course you're only concerned about the species surviving, rather than a large percentage of the population surviving.

Even if we know what a solution is, there's an ocean separating knowing a solution from implementing a solution.
Reading this without context, it's actually completely unclear to me whether it's satire or serious.
> mean everybody should get a free pass to say B.S., right?
yes, but you should accept that this is not a purposeful action and it is because of a mental state condition.
I know what you are getting out but I would like to remind you that US corruption is nothing compared to parts of the world where it is expected to have to give the police cash when they pull you over.
I disagree a bit as when you’re buying the realtor doesn’t care which home you buy. So the incentive seems to demonstrate max value to you.

I think a realtor is not incentived to get you the best price once you select a home and are in negotiation because a few thousand doesn’t matter if the deal is skunked.

I’ve bought 3 properties and every time my realtor was really good about showing value and basis for valuation on tons of houses before we visited or offered.

I think it’s very different for selling because you only have one house to sell.
Then I don't get Mongo's beef here - with AGPL, AWS would have had to open source any changes to MongoDB, hence potentially leading to improvements in MongoDB, and "giving back to the community".

Why would they think it was a good idea to make orgs open source their whole stack? Wouldn't this obviously result in companies moving away wholesale?
* I'd like to know if I got my numbers wrong.*

What you got wrong is that, to get to an aircraft carrier, you need a lot of science, and applied science.

Granted, it's not a collider. But it's not a zero contribution either.
What do founders do for health insurance during batch?
Which are both hard to get to without public transport that one sees in Chicago proper (PACE barely counts). A lot of folks in the city don’t own a car. At the same time those same folks are probably smarter than to spend money at gambling parlors.
That’s definitely not wrong. But at what cost?
> What about the $1.7 billion in cash Obama gave to Iran??

The trouble with playing `whataboutism` political arguments is that nothing gets really resolved. What about what Abraham Lincon did ..... how historic and how obtuse do we need to be, to avoid focusing on current and future problems.
Meh, it depends.

Large companies often do it. Microsoft has rebranded their visual assets a bunch of times. Doesn't seem like it was particularly ominous. Some companies in very competitive verticals are often built on their branding.

Some companies do waste a lot of money on debatable rebranding efforts (Uber / HP, etc.). It's a mixed bag.
Those are his views. I didn't misrepresent them, I stated them plainly. As a result, it sounds like a stupid idea. That is my contribution to the discussion. Not liking this contribution, or not agreeing with it, doesn't mean it's not a contribution. The downvotes are because people don't like it.
Yes it's more complicated than a single variable something you too should keep in mind.
Potential employer flew me out for interview, cancels return flight
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Don't assume that insider trading laws make sense...
I just finished reading "The Bogleheads' Guide to Investing", which opened my eyes up to how investing _really_ works -- turns out it's much simpler than I thought, which was an exciting realization to have. I'm sad to see him go.
That's a function of him being the CEO of Amazon, though, yeah?
Bogle is the reason a lot of bad investing decisions are passively avoided.
That certainly depends on what you are going to do to prevent it.
As a counterpoint to all the flack that you're getting here, I admire the way that you're trying to create a license that is still in the spirit of reciprocity of Free Software and Open Source (if "maximally viral", beyond the limits of copyleft as it was initially envisioned), but compatible with what you perceive the economic realities to be, and how you're maintaining a dialogue with the community (at OSI).
Maybe if it was for a company named Splat . . .

> We’ll not bore you with the design thinking

With a logo like that, you had better at least link to it. Oh, you did. But the link's label was just "Pentagram," so I thought it was to the company's home page, not its specific story about this work.

I understand their complaint about the complexity of color, though I disagree. I thought it was beautiful, maybe worth the complexity.

Regardless, they seem not to know that the new logo is more complex, and therefore harder to be distinctive. They have traded complexity of color for complexity of shape. If you concentrate on the logo in outline, you can see that it has so many lines going so many different ways, all tightly packed, that the overall impression is a drop of rain after hitting the pavement.

It's hard to make good logos. For people whose only job is to make logos, it might in fact be harder. They're tempted to overthink it. They go through 40 revisions. The first two or three are often the best. This was the case here too, based on Pentagram's development artifacts. After a while your secret reasons behind each jot and hook overwhelm your judgment.

Maybe the best thing is to take a month off after you think you've got it, to get a fresh pair of eyes. All those fancy reasons you came up with to justify it fade away. Like, what are those raindrops around it? Oh, you say they're supposed to be speech bubbles. Well, they kind of look like speech bubbles now that you mention it. But not really, because speech bubbles are shaped differently when they contain actual speech. These look like drops. Scattered around the logo like that, it looks like what happens when you drop something.
I watched the vox video what's wrong with it?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LY_Yiu2U2Ts
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18921714
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What alternative career options are you considering?
in most cases the seller has already agreed to pay 6% to the agent for the sale of their home - then that selling agent agrees to split it with the agent that brings a buyer. If you come in off the sign you're basically handing the seller's agent another 3% commission - even if you "negotiate" 3% off the top of the house the seller is still paying that 3% to the listing agent.

In the eyes of the buyer it might not matter if you got your 3% off... but that seller probably isn't saving any money on his/her end.
I worked at a startup that used RethinkDB too.

Change feeds sounded cool, but we never used them in the end, because of the latency.

I didn't use react-native-web, because back in the days it was alpha and later there was react-native-dom, which seemed like a better approach, but I have the feeling it doesn't have much pace to get anywhere any time soon :(
Look at the graphic on Wikipedia from 1926. There were virtually no virgin forests in Indiana left at that time.
> There is an even bigger chance of you dying when driving in a car. Does that mean you don't drive the car?

No, but I am not actively going around saying that self-driving technology is useless because the fatality rate is going down already.
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> It's definitely something that we've discussed.

This is something Cloud Native Buildpacks (buildpacks.io) are intended to make easy. We hang out on buildpacks.slack.com, if you'd like to come pick our brains.
Very sad. Millions of people will live comfortable, dignified retirements thanks to him. Mr. Bogle will be remembered as the Patron Saint of retirement investing.
Good real estate agents are worth their weight in gold, but there are plenty of bad ones.
Can you provide some examples where you believe we have become better at dealing with the potential consequences of climate change.
It looks like a google product now. If I could stop seeing you the swastika, it'd be better.

The # at least was related to the channels and showed some relation to chat programs because of IRC channels.

I'm sure they had their reason for this change, I'm just not sure if it was a good reason.
I think giving things away for "free" was the initial sin. It warped customer expectations and created bad business models.
A non-paywalled alternative story: https://www.cnbc.com/2018/12/14/jack-bogle-founder-of-vangua...

Reaching 89 seems pretty good for someone who had his "first of a half-dozen heart attacks at age 31" and got a heart transplant at 65.

"If a statue is ever erected to honor the person who has done the most for American investors, the hands down choice should be Jack Bogle," billionaire investor Warren Buffett wrote in his annual letter in March 2017.
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He could've been a billionaire. Instead he made hundreds of thousands of us investors millionaires. Thank you, Jack! RIP
Ohhhhh, message bubbles! That explains so much.

Except Slack's UI doesn't use message bubbles. I wonder, is this a signal that that's about to change, or is it just artistic license?
Sure, but my malicious "two weeks from now, suddenly turn left if the car is traveling faster than 80kph" firmware will give the same message.

I'm just not a fan of OTA updates for cars. Needing to have physical access raises the bar.

Remote updates just increases the attack surface, and makes RCE possible - and RCE on an entire fleet of 2 ton vehicles that can go 200kph is a nightmare scenario.

They could even use the gps in the car to target specific locations!

I believe a state actor or motivated team would have the resources to make this possible, and it would kill more than 9/11. The poor country's cruise missile!

I'd be OK with doing updates via usb or direct connection however.

Honestly, it's a little worrying to me that a car would need updates so often.
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Heh. I think Linux on desktop it is like that, at least a bit; frequently, by the time someone could write a friendly GUI (or friendly CLI for that matter), they have little use for it.
Also known as Son of Svengoolie. The original Svengoolie retired in the 70s. I don't recall BERWIN being a bit back then (though that was terribly long ago).

I suspect, though I have no proof, that he at least partially inspired the Joe Flaherty SCTV character Count Floyd/Floyd Robinson.
And I'd love to see the Republicans in Congress do that in this instance. But I'm not holding my breath...
John Bogle created the index fund, and along with it a savings philosophy that enabled the average investor to build wealth by taking an appropriate amount of risk (with exposure to stock/bond markets) and minimizing fees.

The Bogleheads Wiki has great resources on topics related to savings, retirement and investing. Here are a couple entry points into what Bogle's method looks like:

https://www.bogleheads.org/wiki/Bogleheads®_investment_philo...

https://www.bogleheads.org/wiki/Three-fund_portfolio
It’s easy to quantify physical health ailments which is a common side effect of physical jobs. Desk jobs can have negative menta health impacts, and their effects can be much more difficult to measure.
I hadn't heard of that book but I've now added it to my list.

Can you summarize the biggest thing you learned from it?
SMS over LTE is RCS [1], isn't it? I'd be happy to use it but my carrier/phone manufacturer have decided to limit the RCS apps I can use.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rich_Communication_Services
I completely agree. I was just trying to avoid getting up on a soapbox :)
For those wondering, it's built with Meteor, Mongo and my jobs queue package: https://github.com/msavin/SteveJobs
IMO, agents are not almost always not acting in buyer's interest. The percentage based commission is twisted in getting the buyer to bid for as much as they can pull.

So, realtors at least for buyers, not such a great value, other than getting you access to lock box to view a property.
Honestly I am not sure. Perhaps if they suspected great mineral value, or perhaps using that as a PoC to prove they can do it for future military contracts, but I don't know.

There are many projects I can't wrap my head around due to the great costs. When I suggest we should not spend trillions on going to mars without having a specific need to do so, people reject that notion.
Only a few big companies can do it because there's a bootstrapping problem. To get large amounts of virtually free data, you need lots of users who have signed up for giving you their data in exchange for a useful service. This was much easier to achieve for companies started between 1995-2005, when the web was young, because the Internet was such a huge leap forwards over what came before it. Existing startups now have to compete with the products of these giants, many of which have been enhanced by years of machine learning. That's challenging.

To give you a sense of how cheap computing power is, my startup regularly processes roughly 2B webpages with some complicated algorithms that need to go node-by-node over the whole DOM tree. That's roughly 77TB of (gzipped) data, and around 100 trillion nodes. It costs me a few hundred bucks of AWS time. That's a rounding error for a big corp; a single data scientist's salary for one day will run you around that much.
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> Isn't this all about to be replaced by serverless containers?

Maybe soon, maybe later, maybe never. But it makes sense for a company of Google's size to keep working on the current things they have. Otherwise you wind up with an Osborne Effect and/or frustrated customers.
What’s your browser language set to? Are you actually in Belgium?

If your browser is sending “Accept-Language: nl-BE, <other stuff>” I wouldn’t be surprised if they showed French ads. It’s one of the official languages of Belgium after all.

They may not have any relevant Dutch inventory to show, or they’re getting more money for the French-language ads which also target Belgium.
Wait until the author hears about react-native-web-native, the go-to solution for using your react-native-web components in a native environment!
I am looking at your claim which was and I repeat "We chopped down most of the forests in the US"

That's factually wrong in so many ways especially seen in the light of your entire comment to me.
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In the initial phase, we can only sell to people who trust us. Becoming a co-founder is a big commitment and a challenge to long-term relationships. Why can't it be something like, get five customers you know using your product/service. I have been through a bad co-founder divorce and I think it is bad advice that co-founder will increase your success chances. I think the mostly one co-founder gets a free(er) ride. Werner Vogels in his startup school lecture says "Have you seen a group with one head monkey and a leiutenant monkey?"
Real estate agents have three things they offer that until recently you could not get on your own. The first is listing on the MLS. The second is the MLS lockbox so other realtors can easily show the listed house. The third is access to the negotiated forms. All of these you can now get from a startup called Savvy Lane for a flat fee. We listed our house in Portland, paid Savvy Lane $495, and it sold 11 days later. I paid a full 3% to the buyer's agent (the buyer's agent actually plays a bigger role in selling your house than your agent), and still saved like $18k. I'm a big fan of Savvy Lane and hope they do well. Realtors are paid way too much for what they do, particularly on the seller's side.
How does one have multiple heart attacks at 31? Congenital defects? Just curious - I'm not too far from 30 and it makes me paranoid...
Uber is/was broken with or without a logo change. Their problem wasn't their logo or the changing of it, it was their people.
I completely agree. And as far as I know, the Clinton balanced budget was kind of a red herring. I'm sorry I can't remember where I had run into that. Doesn't change your point, and at least it was something they considered useful as a political goal. Unlike now.