skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a lovely consumer-empowering move. Every service should be cancellable without going through a Rentention Specialist.

I will plug a service I use (no other relation): privacy.com. It creates credit cards with pre-set spending limits, one-time or recurring. 1-800-hold-forever? No thanks, I'll just send the email and disengage the money hose.

Hopefully this sort of service becomes widespread, and services become less dependent on high-friction in cancellation.
Because nobody is being forced to fund it, as is the case with the state. And the state would staff the administration of the new construction with pensioned state bureaucrats, whose pensions are already bankrupting California. Unfunded state liabilities from pensions are somewhere between 333 billion and 1 trillion, depending on who you ask.

And then once constructed, there would be forces wholly removed from the natural demands of the population, as represented immediately by the encompassing markets, determining how the housing is to evolve over time.

People should be much more reserved than they are in terms of handing things over to the state, there is much to be lost.
How often do those issues come up and what is the typical recovery? I’d guess under 1% and maybe $25K, implying a value of $250. The commission on my house was over 200 times that figure, making for incredibly overpriced insurance if that’s the primary value the fee brings.
Having bought and sold quite a few houses now I can say I won't go down the FSBO route anymore. I successfully bought my first house this way, but selling it was a train wreck. Not fun dealing with selling your own home at all. I eventually listed it with a realtor and sold it a few weeks later.

Later in life though spending larger amounts of money on a home I would always recommend finding a good realtor. Someone friends/family can recommend. There are just hundreds(if not thousands) of pitfalls to buying or selling a home.

On a different note I did have the opportunity to build several data driven local realtor sites a few years ago. They were deceptively simple looking on the surface, I mean all you do is sort and filter house results right? The process of syncing to the RETS system proved to be really clunky and complex. Imagine building a site on top of a database you have to query to discover the tables, fields, and datatypes, and oh by the way it could CHANGE SCHEMA at any time. If your broker was part of multiple MLS (Multiple Listing Services) then you could have to deal with completely different structured DBs. I handled these issues by building a normalized table for listings I could map the data into. MLS data was pulled into a 1:1 mapping table of the same name upon querying the schema. I had to build a Sql Script generator to create the tables. It was very frustrating dealing with schema updates.

The whole process was interesting to me though as to how your listing data is handled when you list a house for sale and how others can gain access to it. Long story short you have to pay to play. Zillow for example is paying (or should be) to access your for sale listing data once entered in the a regional MLS. This is likely several thousand a year conservatively (per MLS). This gains them the right to access the data, however, many times these agreements are 20-30 page legal documents. My first time seeing one of these was extremely uneasy (I nearly didn't sign it). Again fascinating in the case of Zillow I know for a fact they are violating this agreement in our particular region when they hold onto listing data and images past the duration of a listing (sold or removed). They simply just keep it indefinitely it appears. On the other hand keeping up with 100+ MLS agreements across the US would be impossible as well.
Yes, I suppose that's more accurate. For some reason, your phrasing hasn't yet caught on with the general public.
>OTOH, I'm finding their docs stuff to be pretty good these days.

What do you mean? You’re willing to pay higher because they improved their documentation?
In Texas I was able to lookup the original mortgage amount on a house, but not the actual purchase price.
> that sweet negative space swastika.

It's not facing the same way as the Nazi one, first off, and would you also say that's a problem for Sun, or for Columbia (bikes/outdoors)?
Dockland light railway is completely automated. This train line is in London. I have travelled on it. There is no engine room or train driver. It felt interesting to sit in the very first train cabin which would usually be an engine room in other trains.
> put all portable objects inside the room's wardrobe

I'm sorry, but how does this help?
Because that’s what their constituents want. Why do they have to get Seattleized?
> who doesn’t touch hotel WiFi

Not even with a custom DNS or VPN?
http://www.calibregroup.com/projects/project/autohaul-projec... is the physically largest autonomous system in the world.
Not the OP, but Gatsby works well for sites that rarely change content. For e-commerce sites with >100 SKUs + variants, having to rebuild every single time you make a description update is pretty tedious, and Next.js seems to be the solution in that case.
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There are some ships, small sailing ships for example, that do not get picked up by radar. They often need to get radar reflectors fitted to be visible. You certainly wouldn't want to be on a sailing vessel while an automated cargo ship barrels down on you. Sailing ships get right of way to powered ships as well so detecting the difference between vessels is important and the automation would need to take that into account too. Although I am not sure how it actually plays out in practice. I somehow doubt a tanker is giving way to a cruising sail vessel once it is underway.
Can't get around paywall to read TFA right now, but Vanguard funds are famously cheap in terms of fees.
> teach critical thinking and how to compare sources

I want to say "good plan", but turning everybody into journalists defeats the idea of specialization. We do regulate how to build houses so that you don't need to become an architect, structural engineer, masonry expert etc to judge whether those you paid to do the job did it well.
If you really go deep, you'd need to become a medium expert on lots of topics to judge the accuracy of an article. That doesn't sound feasible.

The government promoting certain news organizations does sound like a bad idea to me. And are there even many that don't have any ads? The Guardian certainly has, and they sell user data.
Could contain a battery powered camera
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Here's the NTSB animation of the flight, synchronized with the recording of the pilot's communications with Air Traffic Control:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWpSAfF6elI

I've listened to this many times and am always surprised by how calm and matter-of-fact everyone sounds.
Minivans get a bad rap IMO. The covered transport space inside when you fold the seats down is insane.
(Not affiliated with, just a happy user of) 1Password does a pretty good job at this, you can find all HIBP-passwords in a single location: https://support.1password.com/watchtower/
That much have been for relatively expensive land. I have seen 10% commissions for land under $50k
Ask HN: How to get rid of poverty and get in Upper class
Hi

My whole life I saw the poverty and I want to get in state where I do not have to think about money.

Going from middle class to upper class is huge run. I see around myself and people making shitload of money.

How do I get there and How can be part of upper class where I do not have to worry about money.

Why is it so hard to pass that leap from middle class to upper class?
Apps like Venmo and square cash have a “card” option you can turn on and off. I turn it on for a minute so the auth will work, then turn it back off.
I guess it depends on the cost of your house. Everything is relative.

You can always negotiate a flat rate with a realtor too.
I'd just get to know your local title company and list it as for sale by owner on the various real-estate sites.

In the US the title company does _all_ the actual work in a sale. And takes _all_ the liability. Everyone else is a middle man.
Evidence? This was a relatively recent decision. If what you say is true, there should be mountains of relatively recent evidence for it in the US. Otherwise you're just promoting a groundless personal theory.
If you think this is cynical, you don't understand modern advertising.
"Google Docs" (docs.google.com) not "Google documentation"
The California situation is different, perhaps more similar to Arizona than to the Great Plains. IMHO, Arizonans should realize that they have built huge cities in the desert, and consequently should cease irrigated agriculture completely. That would allow some dairy to return to the Midwest where it belongs, but that's a mere aesthetic preference of mine.

My thoughts about California are not quite so drastic because the most intensively farmed areas did not start out as deserts. Still, ISTM a proper pricing structure for irrigation water would not result in almonds dominating the southern Central Valley as they do.
They also broadcast the Bitcoin blockchain over satellite which makes some sense since the blockchain is public and all full nodes need copies of it. In theory this could reduce the cost of running a full node in places where bandwidth is very expensive. Of course in practice this a zeroth world problem.
Microphones can be hidden completely out of sight. A long enough lens barrel can put the heat generating electronics far enough from any visible surfaces that the heat signature may become unnoticeable. Also the heat camera is the most expensive method.
yes, I used iframe + worker at the beginning. I gave up worker for the above reason. I also don't want users to change dom actually.
Isn’t a mere 51% effective ownership?
Not to mention the opening of Beethoven's Op. 130
I’ve started stopping charges from my card rather than dealing with that kind of “customer service” ever again. When the company finds they literally can’t charge you, suddenly they have the time to call you. If you’ve tried to cancel a service, stopped using it, and stop payment... well, the rest is their problem.
2) employment is not trade. So neither of your examples prove that EU members can negotiate side trade deal.
Nearly all of the regional variation in construction costs is attributable to differences in labor costs. This can create a self-reinforcing upward spiral in home prices [0]:

> Inasmuch as it means that those working in the construction trades are better off, construction wage growth in the expensive coastal cities is a welcome development, which ought to be celebrated.

> However, construction wage growth could also be part of a dangerous, self-reinforcing cycle. Rising construction costs tend to reduce the supply of new housing because they shift marginally-worthwhile residential development into the red.8 This helps raise housing costs, which in turn feeds back into construction wage growth for at least three reasons:

> - When housing prices rise, workers require greater compensation to subsist.

> -When housing prices rise and the supply of homes is smaller than it would be otherwise, it is harder for people to find suitable homes for sale (and to afford them). This creates a greater incentive for renovation, which exerts upward pressure on labor costs as suggested earlier.

> -When housing prices rise, the pool of potential home buyers becomes more financially select, which likely corresponds to higher expectations with respect to homes’ level of finish.9 Once again, this means that more renovation is bound to take place (including home-flipping), exerting even more upward pressure on labor costs.

A one-off influx of affordable housing could potentially break that cycle by enabling tradespeople to move to the area. I'm not sure that Microsoft's investment is significant enough to have that effect given the existing deficit in affordable housing in the Seattle area, but the theory's there.

[0] https://www.buildzoom.com/blog/whats-up-with-construction-co...
Because the Eastside doesn't exist in a vacuum?
What’s Causing the Rise of Hoarding Disorder?
You might be able to knock 'em out with a laser battery.
I've lived in WA all my life. I know where seatac is. The problem isn't in seatac, it is in Seattle proper. Seatac isn't the correct choice of words. Seattle is. The Tac' of seatac refers to Tacoma and yes I'm playing a game with etymology. The problem is in Seattle, but not if you go south.
I dunno. I’ve got a lot of bags.

The kernel of truth in that: stores are required to charge for bags here (East Bay outside of SF). We have a bag of shopping bags - the “meta bag” - in our trunk so that we always have plenty available.
Absolutely. This isolated charitable act does not undo the concentration of power arising from structural advantages benefiting corporations. It is merely a corporation granting a largesse.
The Chicken Tax was going to be repealed as part of the TPP, but that obviously imploded.
I see these sort of free trials as subsidies for non-lazy people by lazy people. If you want to put in the effort -- you can get value, free of charge.

If merchants can't use that method any longer, I fear this will no longer be an option for people willing to put the work in.

Then again... I am definitely a lazy one.
Let me summarize further.
If you come from 20 years of application development and
network design/administration in 'real' LAN and IGRP networks with 'real' hardware you are going to be learning everything again.

These cloud end user environments are fake eggs and saccharine sweetener.
It is worse, it is just propaganda from Blockstream. I don't know why HN continues to fall for Samson Mow's and Adam Back's nonsense.

adam3us, you and your company are the absolute worst thing to ever to have happened to Bitcoin. Being the single greatest force push for a 1 mb block size, you almost single handedly caused the alt-coin boom as users scrambled to find a usable crypto-CURRENCY.
You, Sir are and will be remembered as absolute scum and an enemy of digital peer-to-peer cash.
What's the latest consensus on the best password manager these days. I see he is recommending 1Password, but I recently found Bitwarden which looks quite good.
The human can look out of the front window and notice that e.g. the cliff above has fallen onto the track, or cows have broken through a fence and are now standing on the track.

Something like the DLR normally operates autonomously, there's a member of staff trained to drive it on every train but it's actually slower and more dangerous if they have to. But that's a completely grade separated system, cows on the DLR is about as likely as cows up the Empire State. And still the first train every morning is manual because maintenance teams are forgetful and a passenger sat at the front doesn't want a metal pry bar in the face when some idiot left it on the track despite checking it off as recovered.
Oh, the things in the room. I thought the comment was talking about putting your own portable devices in the wardrobe.
> as it addresses most of your questions.

Vaguely suggesting that three different companies are separately attacking different parts of the problem in a very narrow area of the world with special permits and no collective breakdown of their efforts, their progress or their potential benefits didn't seem to effectively address anything nor does it support it's own headline.

The headline was my main beef; but, we could get into the fact that the two most common maritime insurance claims are for weather damage and theft.. striking submerged objects is also a very common one, which is why harbors require skilled pilots with continual testing to bring boats in and out of those waters.

I'm still very much suspicious of these "bolt-on" AI businesses and all the uncritical hype that surrounds them.
I'd also recommend
http://matthew-brett.github.io/pydagogue/rebase_without_tear...
You could monitor your AWS Spectrum and data enrichment Spectrum with Spectrum by CA Technologies.
I keep a small (and cheap) separate router for my IoT devices. If I wanted to spy on someone, I'd definitely use one of those, with a USB powerbank acting as a UPS.
Here's another take: possibly the loans are not just below market rate but loans that traditional lenders wouldn't make at all. "Affordable housing" is high risk housing because the buyers/tenants are lower income. If this fund will make possible projects that could not get financed otherwise, then it's a good deal for everyone.
I'm working on a new DAW of sorts. Check it out if you are interested, I'm hoping to make your workflow really fast

http://ngrid.io
Definitely. Our users aren't as tech-savvy, so we wanted to have some basic WYSIWYG functionality instead of educating them on markdown.
They address how a tailgate affects efficiency, not how the overall efficiency of a pickup is abysmal.
If you’re building your application on Linux and complaining that other make money off it (in accordance with your license), then yes, I absolutely expect that you better be supporting all the people whose work you’re building off of.
Presumably, the merchant I'm dealing with gets enough information about me to identify me. Couldn't they maintain a "blacklist" of people who use Privacy cards?
I wasn't thinking of trawl, in my mind trawling is a method of fishing, such as "Trawling for shrimp". Interestingly, the second definition on that page references "Troll". Following that link, it says down the page "SEARCH, LOOK; trolling for sponsors" and "to search in or at;
trolls flea markets for bargains". Perhaps both would work in the above context, however I would prefer trolling over trawling.
...and free trials stop accepting MasterCard, maybe?
Engineers of the Soul:
I completely agree. However, Microsoft can't pour money into changing zoning (at least, not in a direct way like this). We absolutely do need to be fixing our zoning, both in Seattle and on the Eastside. The problem is, it can't just be one city or a few cities doing it. We need the region to pull together. Right now, there's a huge gulf between people who want this to happen and people who are, for their own reasons, vehemently opposed. You can see some of this divide in this very thread, with words like "Seattlized" being thrown around.
Lentils with a side of rice: The save-the-world diet?
Came here to say the same. I may wait it out a bit to see/hear how it will work in real life, but assuming it will, I think I'll get one for using on-line.

My second thought was that I hope sites won't stop accepting Master Cards because of this, but I can only assume that they have large enough market share to make this risk negligent.
focusing on the right thing
I totally agree. I’m convinced of it. The license shenanigans are just the means to that end.
Same. I build a project in my free time and I was pretty surprised to see my bill was 99% NAT Gateways and a few hundred dollars.

A free tier for NAT gateways would go a very long way. I wonder why they wouldn't have one.
If it brings the price of housing down, then it’s good. If it gets a bunch of people into loans they can’t afford at the top of a record bull market, then it’s bad
Difference between a profession and a trade
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STEM Subjects Emphasis Has Undermined Recognition of Soft Skills
Kind of impressive that they built Spectrum with just three people. Nice write up.
My dad taught me something when I was 16 that I didn't understand until I was 41.
> Although I am not sure how it actually plays out in practice.

There are exceptions, in established shipping (and a few other types of) channels, the sailboat does _not_ have right of way. Also, when sailboats are using their motors for power they are considered motorboats and the special right of way no longer applies. It is also very rare to see a sailboat under sail power in a harbor and large commercial ships are always manually piloted in a harbor.
I say it's usually good. I think government is usually the most expensive, highest overhead, least competent, and lowest quality way to get anything done.
Has anyone considered these pieces of equipment?

http://aitproducts.com/products/fiberscopes/micro-fiberscope...

They are very hard to spot. you have to inspect the area of concern for tack holes or raised features in the wallpaper.
As far as price is concerned, there is a fair bit of profit that will be realized short term from the disgusting type of porn that could be generated. Im sure there is some gaurded position regarding sales of these devices, if not there should be.
Motorola’s RAZR is returning as a $1,500 folding smartphone
Things You Need to Know of Bypassing CAPTCHA for Web Scraping
Even a plugin electric hybrid would be a big in my opinion (30-60 mile range). We have owned a Volt now for over a year and it has been great. Since owning it we average 75 mpg. My wife can nearly drive to work and back on all electric.

I have an F-150, a ~50 mile range hybrid would cover nearly all of my driving.
Your development process should not allow someone to merge a change that fails the test suite, nor one that is too large to reason about.
Nah it definitely does. It doesn't take much, just four things rotated at a 90 degree angle

the whole thing looks sorta swastikaey but its especially the negative space that jumps out.
They aren't giving out mortgages for single family homes...

> The loans could go to private or nonprofit developers, or to governmental groups like the King County Housing Authority. As the loans are repaid, Mr. Smith said, Microsoft plans to lend the money out again to support additional projects.
If anyone is interested in proofs without words, my undergrad advisor has published a bunch of them

https://community.plu.edu/~edgartj/#pwws
But when a good part of your company involves marketing, blogging, content marketing, qualifying leads, talking to potential customers, supporting customers, dealing with advertising, going to conferences (where your target customer is,) that’s a huge amount of “non-technical” work that has to get done. Many technical founders consider a non-technical founder as somehow “less important” that the tech, but it’s definitely is the opposite. All the great tech in the world doesn’t mean jack if you can’t sell it.
You have a choice. Boycott especially egregious offenders and packet filter and deny service to any suspicious device on _your_ home network.

Years ago sticking these types of devices on a trusted home LAN would have been unthinkable.
Add WI and KS to the list.

(Although I suppose Kansas is already long part the "getting worse" part. They've got serious financial issues.)

That said, I do think that moorhosj is right. Moving somewhere and expecting there to be no corruption is a bit of a fool's errand. I could move away from Wisconsin. Lots of people do, even a lot of childhood friends. Here's the thing though, there really is no other place that will allow me completely corruption free living. Maybe they don't steal as much from you when you're in Nebraska or Washington state as they do when you're in Wisconsin, but I find it difficult to believe that no corruption at all is happening in other places.

(And the laments of my childhood friends who have moved, kind of validate that view for me.)