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As much as I enjoy working with Qt, I wouldn't bet on it for the future. QML support still seems a bit iffy and being told QWidgets are being phased out is disheartening. The framework is in a sort of limbo stage where newcomers don't really know how to proceed. The lack of popularity (outside of some niches) doesn't help either.

I hate working with web frameworks but the network effect is real and not in favor of Qt. Perhaps there was a time when Qt was thriving and innovating, but right now it seems like it's just a bunch of fortune 500 companies paying 1-2 Qt developers to maintain legacy software.

Sometimes I wonder if there is an alternate universe where Qt won "the battle" and made the world a better place. Sadly for us, that didn't happen here.
People love to complain about realtors. Companies like Redfin have been trying to disrupt this market for years. People on HN and other places like to complain that realtors are pointless and that the only reason they exist is they are entrenched.

I posit a different theory, which may well be controversial here, and that is that realtors continue to exist--and charge large commissions doing so--because they provide a service that most people want.

I think of it like advertising. "I never watch ads" is a common catchphrase when decrying ads but again, ads exist because they work.

The job of a realtor, and what they are incentivized to do, is to facilitate a transaction. People might point out that a selling realtor isn't incentivized directly to get the best sales price. They are correct. Why show a house 100 times in the hopes of getting $550k when you can flip it tomorrow for $520k and your work is done?

Thing is: that's what most sellers actually want, even though they might say they want the best price. Most of them are selling for a reason and they just need to sell it and move on with their lives.

Likewise, when it comes to buyers, they too are buying for a reason, typically because they need somewhere to live or they want to establish (more) permanent roots in a given community. The best thing for most of them is to pull the trigger, move in and get on with their lives. It's not to get the best deal. It's not to wait 2 years for the perfect property.

Realtors facilitate both sides of this equation.

Have you ever deal with a For Sale By Owner? I have. I refuse. I won't even go and look at a listing FSBO. It's a nightmare. Those owners tend to be cheap (hence not paying commission), have unrealistic expectations of their property's value, overvalue whatever "improvements" they've done and, worst of all, are emotionally invested so they re more likely to take a lower offer personally rather than as a negotiating tactic.

It's worth noting too that with negotiating in general, it's often better to have someone else do it for you. If you're the guy who can say yes or no you have no fallback. If you represent that guy you now have the position of "my client won't accept that". Think about the psychological difference of rejecting someone personally or just being the messenger.

So add fixed-fee home sales to the other startup traps like dating sites, travel sites and anything to do with "fixing recruitment" (you'd be surprised how many cold call emails I get about this one in particular). Hell, let's add blockchain to that list too, but I digress.
>> In terms of sample distribution - let's say that you have an online model serving traffic (and the outcomes of that traffic are logged as your training & holdout data). Then, when you train a wildly different model, it may start picking other things to serve that the original model never served - and therefore, there was no training data. This is a pretty fundamental and hard problem.

I think we're talking about the same thing here, that the real world can be very different than your training sample. Sorry, I think I contacted the jargon flu this week :)
> Don’t you pay TurboTax?

Yes, but the cost is significantly less. When I first moved to the US I used a tax accountant because I didn't know any better and it cost me ~$500 a year (this was in New York). I now file using either TurboTax or TaxAct and my costs are typically in the $60-70 range depending on which tier of service I select.

Is it more work? Arguably yes, but I enjoy the freedom of being able to do it all from the comfort of my sofa and the tools have improved to such an extent that it rarely takes me more than half an hour start-to-finish.

Real estate is obviously a very different proposition to tax filing, but if disruptors can cut out some of the fat/overhead to bring the costs down I think it would be appealing to a wide range of people.
I don't eat seafood, but a lot of people around the world rely on it as a primary food source. Warm water cannot hold as much oxygen as cold water. We can already see that seafood populations are plummeting dramatically.
The Outline link works just fine: https://outline.com/cdUx8n
It's exactly what you would want to do if you didn't want someone who found it to be able to tell where it came from
That's good to hear! It's probably my own fault for having fairly complicated TeX code for my files, but it's still frustrating.
Yeah interesting to see how much complexity is introduced by the PSTN--impacting deliver-ability and making things like broadcasting a challenge. Also found the SMS from SIM to Cell Tower in the article eye-opening. Will check out your link...
I think it's supposed to look like little message bubbles, but I get kind of a "squirt emoji" vibe from it.

Edit: apparently HN doesn't support emojis. https://emojipedia.org/splashing-sweat-symbol/
Shouldn't this issue self-regulate by the HN ranking algorithm?
Wow, the hovering rapid image preview are really annoying.
Changing the logo doesn't help our team. I wish they'd used that money to get group calls working on iOS, speed up app on MacOS etc.
It was a software engineer role. I did get an offer but in the end I didn’t take it.
>> "A lawyer shall not form a partnership with a nonlawyer if any of the activities of the partnership consist of the practice of law."

> Does anyone know the motivations and publicly stated reasons for this absurd restriction?

Total speculation, but maybe it's to keep the profession controlled by its practitioners and not financiers? The exclusion of paralegals, etc. could just be a side effect of keeping investors out.

I do see some benefits for that kind of restriction. If your profession is bound by a code of ethics, it would help with compliance if all the top leadership were bound by it too. If they're just owners from outside the profession, there will always be pressure to compromise ethics to benefit the owner.
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So will we ever have tiny cell phones like Zoolander?
Did a company hire you? That's pretty cool. I'd love to do that.
Purplebricks have done quite a good job of disrupting the UK property market.
That's actually a great suggestion!

Please, all Europeans: consider pressing the "flag" link on this and every other latimes articles you see until they are readable to us.
What exactly is the security concern by using Electron?

Accessibility is only achieved by the creator's intention.
Why would they chose a swastika for a logo?
Seems like they would open themselves up to some sort of liability if that happens.
I'm hoping the difference is that Fedex actually meant to do that ;)
VPN providers never keep your private data... since when are IP addresses considered private data? Gotcha.
Yup, basically, Monsanto does the study, writes the report, then give the Professor thousands of dollars to put his name on it.

He doesn't have to lift a finger and gets credit for a study plus thousands of dollars.

Corruption at it's most efficient.
They are, I just opened some junkmail from opendoor and there was something about OpenDoor Brokerage <MYSTATE> LLC.
Most hotel we stayed at, cost about $120-150 a night. And these were in Manhattan, SF, Austin, Vegas etc. I would def. stay in AirBnB to save $80-100 a night.

Not sure how I missed such options, perhaps we have bias towards hotels that made us ignore these.

Trying out our first AirBnB with a few friends in Austin next month. It will cost each couple $175 per night for one room in 4Bed/4Bath house . In the same general area, we could have gotten hotel for $150 but thought house would be more fun.
Nobody has mentioned anything about other brackets between the current upper end and $10 million.

To make statements that a 70% bracket above $10 million would negatively affect professions that are typically upper-middle class (not $10 mil/year) is misleading at a minimum.
Only the solar sail shape could explain how the object accelerated without outgassing
An agent is incentivized to put in twice as much work (i.e. spending more time with the client, making the place much more presentable, etc).
Talkative homebuyers beware, the seller might be listening
If it was so simple to collect, process and train with (very) large amounts of data, everyone woudl be doing it. Instead, it's just a few very large companies that can do that, Google, Facebook et al.

Anyway, the cost per example doesn't have to be astronomical. If you need a few millinos of those, you can pay a fraction of a penny and still have a big black hole in your budget, unless you can significantly improve performance.
Aeropress + an electric kettle == pretty good coffee with roughly the hassle factor of instant.

Honestly, I think it's even decent with coffee that's ground ahead of time if it's stored well. Alternatively you can use it to make coffee concentrate that will keep for a few days in a fridge.
Exactly, it's quite literally and deliberately a swastika. I've been trying to comment this, but FascistHackerNews keeps flagging my comments.
> Having said that, I'm constantly surprised by how bad Google is at targeted advertising. For example, today when I visit nytimes.com I see an ad from Google with the ad text in French. Hey Google, despite my recent visit to Paris I don't speak French - maybe your AI experts could analyse my 13 years of Gmail and search history to figure that out!

No, they literally could not, because the data flow between Gmail and Ads has ben severed a while ago:

https://blog.google/products/gmail/g-suite-gains-traction-in...

These kind of things are treated pretty seriously. There are teams whose job is literally making sure that your data does not leak from one Google product to another in a way that would violate your privacy. Source: I'm an engineer in Google, but in none of the mentioned teams.
> This is a perfect example of the original article's conclusion: you simply don't know what you're talking about.

I do know what I'm talking about. If you think you can talk a hybrid seed and plant a viable crop for the next year, you are mistaken.

> But! You're confusing this with sterile or semi-sterile inter-species hybrids like mules, or perhaps sterile triploids like banana. These are completely different phenomena that have nothing to do with 'hybrid corn'.

Have you ever purchased a seedless watermelon? How are you going to replant that?

> if you make your transgene products terminate, the transgenes can't spread into the environment. Unfortunately this technology was never commercialized because of reactionaries like yourself.

You use the term 'reactionary' obviously to denigrate me. Should there be genes that contaminate other's crops that would potentially lead to nonviable seeds? Of course not, that's got to be even worse for the planet.

> Final point; you're aware traditional crops have just as much IP protection as transgene crops, right? Plant variety protections last in the 15-20 year range, are respected by most international treaties, and are ubiquitous in crop breeding, ornamental flower breeding, etc. Utility patents provide slightly different protections for transgene crops, but it's not much different. Those trendy apples or 'Sunshine raspberries' at the grocery store? 100% patented. Why is your trendy beer so expensive? Patented hops. It fucking boogles the mind that anyone thinks transgenes have a thing to do with this.

Just because other aspects of agriculture fall under patent law doesn't take away from my argument against GMOs being patentable. In fact, GMOs are even worse a specific gene might be easily identified and used as a patent enforcement tool. Current law allows patent holders to come after end users. EG, if you receive seed from your supplier, and it was at some point (even unknowingly) contaminated with a specific gene through cross contamination, you could be held liable. Especially if you are a farmer and you are considered 'producing' and 'distributing' their patented works (such as selling seed stock or the actual produce).

You fail to see the other side of the issue because you are an apparent GMO zealot.
The parent comment is talking about individuals, not companies:

> Maybe programmers should educate themselves in the basics before working on products people depend on?

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.
I wouldn't call it unlikely. Music services have a history of getting shut down. Sure, Spotify's star is bright now. But it could get acquired tomorrow by a company that decides it doesn't want to support all my use cases. If one of those use cases is something I'm reliant on, then Spotify all of a sudden becomes totally worthless.

Whereas my personal catalog will never stop supporting my use cases.
yes "life" did. Lots didn't. If climate change ends up being the worst end of that reported of what "might" happen. Life would still survive. Millions / billions of humans will not.
Usually. You can also amend and rebase remote commits, but that’s usually a big no-no.
Great piece, deserves an HN submission all its own.

Of course, that has to be weighed against the productivity cost associated with encouraging people to visit Derek Lowe's blog for the first time...
I'll agree on not using `any`, but type errors should cause the build to fail. Otherwise what is the type checker even for?
I noticed that, too. The only actual third-party tooling we use is realize [1] which currently doesn’t work outside of GOPATH. Luckily, we work with Docker anyway so our code is mounted inside GOPATH and we can use modules commands on the host.

1: https://github.com/oxequa/realize
> We're at a WeWork because it's a cheap/easy way to get an office, that we can scale when the company grows with minimal issues since it's month to month

Where is WeWork month to month? Yes the open plan area is month to month, but the instant you try to get a private room they want you to sign a 6 month commitment.

I have not gone to ones in the US, though. This is outside the US. Are they truly, genuinely cancel-any-time month to month? Or "yeah it's month to month but if you cancel before 6 months is up you have to pay 50% of the remaining months"?
UBI is not so attractive that most people will choose to do nothing with their lives. UBI is intended to keep people from starving, but it's not a very pleasant life, devoid of comforts and aspirations. Sure, there will be people who want that, but there will be many others who don't.

The most important tool there is a good education, which is mandatory for even the children of the laziest and most shiftless. That's where they get exposed to the possibilities of what they could do, and be engaged by. They'll be presented with role models in the form of teachers, who do get up and do work every day, and live better lives because of it.

Maybe they'll create nothing more than pointless forms of art. But even so, what would be wrong with that? Movies and video games are both pointless idleness, but they create genuine joy, and there were lots of mis-steps as people learned what forms of them would be worth doing. Similarly, a lot of the most advanced science seemed like navel-gazing until it turned into transistors and lasers and GPS.

I don't mean to be blandly utopian. There are many ways UBI can fail, and we will probably do all of them in varying experiments. But neither would I be so dystopian about people doing nothing at all with their lives. People enjoy comforts and they enjoy having purpose. Between the way our existing technology creates more than enough food and shelter at little cost, and the desire of many people to improve their lot in ways that also continue to move society forward, I think we can afford to experiment with letting some people live lives of complete (but unenviable) idleness.
> If cell waves are 6 to 14 inches, their antennas need to be 3-7 inches. Now stop and think about the average height of a mobile phone, and why they never seem to get much smaller.

Is this actually true? I thought this was mostly because this was a convenient size for phones to be, and that antennas were often internally folded anyways.

> You know that every point of light, like the Christian God or Musketeers (minus d’Artagnan), is always a three-for-one sort of deal. Red, green, and blue combine to form white light in a single pixel.

Doesn't Samsung use PenTile displays, which has the normal number of green subpixels and but with fewer red and blue ones?
> The truly wealthy people do not gain their wealth through income. They get it through capital gains ( stocks, homes, asset value increases ). Capital gains ( long term ) are taxed at 20%.

That just means that the capital gains tax needs to be made progressive like income tax to cover those people.

If we're reforming income tax, there's no reason to not reform the capital gains tax at the same time.
I deleted the album because somebody kindly pointed out it might have revealed more that it should. Feel free to email me if you need any help reproducing the issue.
Why is WeWork any different from a company like Regis, or any number of managed offices in the 80s, which have been doing the same thing for years?
British PM Theresa May survives no-confidence vote after Brexit deal defeat
Only seems to show the first page for me.
Your company as an idea is a really interesting foil to that of Robinhood and the like, but as an aside, having the text on your landing page being unselectable is a strange design choice along with the ominous graph at the bottom of the page that is very nondescript for users outside of the market.
I really hate the way companies abuse the court system to get out of unfavorable deals. If you sold the ticket and didn't explicitly outline exceptions you can't then get mad just because someone is taking advantage of the very same benefits they paid for. The Vroom guy (great name btw) seems to have particularly gotten screwed because at the time he bought his ticket it wasn't illegal to resell seats. He never violated the contract he signed. It's also pretty questionable to call booking two seats and only using one to be fraud. What if he just didn't want a neighbor, or he was overweight and needed the extra room? Either way he technically paid for the seat so AA not being able sell the seat twice is not really his problem.
"Just fine"

I just read the article in its entirety and Outline is missing something like 75% of the article's contents.
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> Practically, the #1 reason to use a realtor is that if there is an issue with the home that should have been known ahead of time, there is a chain of insured entities that provides legal recourse.

Other than title insurance (which is separate from and in addition to the 5-7% commission), what's the insured risk that could possibly be worth that percentage?
Maybe a methane powered jet is a more feasible way to make a greener plane?
Yet at the same time, some of the logos in the Slack work are really bad.

https://pentagram-production.imgix.net/618d5092-a542-4dae-bd...

One is just colons added to the name and the wave emoji. The one beside it looks like it's from a 1997 tech company. The whole bottom row seems like it should be titled "We created these to show what not to do."
Direct-sold contracts will always have more income because they are larger deals, the same way TV buys easily reach into millions, but you have to pay for that sales team which cuts into margins so net net can be very different. Advertisers are getting more into programmatic to consolidate their media teams into a few DSPs and strategies because of the targeting and attribution capabilities of digital.

My sources are the CEOs of major ad exchanges and the internal discussions with their BD and revenue teams, although there are some posts about it [1]. Europe has seen a big drop in liquidity on open-exchanges and while a lot of spend has shifted to private deals, it's still more labor to setup and and manage those deals so spend is now further focused on Goog/FB and large sites.

1. https://digiday.com/media/google-data-protection-regulation-...
Primitive life. We are much better equipped to deal with it, that's the point.

Again what are you basing the claims of millions/billions on cause it's certainly not science?
Why are the democrats so keen on stopping the wall from being built? I heard some of them supported the walls before. Also, what's so immoral about walls? Alot of european countries now have walls against the influx of migrants. Our houses have walls and locks, why not our country?
No, just a few modules changes license (and were removed from distros). Redis itself remains BSD.
Fair enough in regards to the rhetorical device I used, but you still seem to have taken the point I was trying to make.

To your second point, while all addictions have some neurological chemical properties in common, they are not “all the same mechanism.” They vary in their details. Gut flora is the new frontier of neurology. It’s worth studying the phenomenon.
That doesn't preclude us from starting to deal with it now.
How are the shutdown’s effects on the economy being measured? Where did they come up with 0.1% loss every 2 weeks?
Most of the appraisers, inspectors and attorneys are filling a compliance role.

The reality is the real estate person usually drives the process. Good ones know which appraisers to call and which inspectors to avoid. There's no real professional ethics involved, so most of them have arrangements with preferred folks whom they get referral fees from. (It's one of the reasons why home inspectors are almost completely useless.)

Real estate is ultimately a shady business that is about who you know.
Yes! Now make it into a book and take my money!

Or as is frequently mentioned on HN, sell the product before there is a product - to see how many people would become customers.
Hopefully not any female presenting nipples though.
Byju’s buys Osmo for $120M to add blended learning to its education business
You're far more optimistic than I. What changes have humans made in the last 5 years that indicate we're doing to make a massive turn around? When IS it time to panic?
There's lots of political precedent for having a status quo that no one explicitly supports, but no one explicitly supports any realistic alternative to.

For example, the US has, for years, refused to pass any kind of immigration reform, but until recently, also refused to comprehensively enforce the immigration laws already on the books because they were really awful and unfair in places. For another example, neither the People's Republic of China nor the Republic of China (effectively Taiwan) recognize each other, and yet Taiwanese businesses own tons of factories in mainland, PRC-controlled China.
Yeah. I don't have any real numbers on pollution metrics either way, but it is a fact that so-called organic farming requires more land than traditional ag to produce the same output, and thus more tractor fuel burned per food, a direct source of pollution. As far as I know, (atmospheric) pollution isn't a slam dunk argument against roundup.
FSBOs are a dream compared to REOs (bank-owned properties).