skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The article is pretty light on details, and doesn't do a good job of separating out the different categories of real estate investing. It's easy for the reader to confuse one category with another.

Turnkey investing - where companies have worked it all out for you and you merely deal with the cash end of it - is usually not profitable for the investor. If you hang out around RE investors, they'll caution you on how it seems very alluring because you don't need much knowledge and someone else is managing everything else. But these companies need to make a profit, and so you'll get less of the pie - and they have every incentive to make a deal look better than it is.

The exception is in up and coming neighborhoods.

The article mentions this, but doesn't go into detail: Many of the houses being sold were never on the market. Aggressive marketers contact existing owners and ask if they want to sell, and some small percentage of owners will agree (need cash quickly, etc). Had this not happened, the houses would still not be available as the owner did not intend to put them on the market. It's like complaining that I am screwing up the used car market by asking people if they want to sell their car.

When someone makes $40K+ on a flip, it's almost always the case that the house was in a bad enough shape that a bank wouldn't finance it. So once again, had they not bought and flipped the house, none of the people profiled in the article would have been able to buy it anyway (nor would they want to, being in bad shape and all). They're not stealing houses to make a good profit. They are making it easier for people to buy that house, while they make a profit. It's not a zero sum game.

Almost all flippers hope to sell at market price, and probably at least half list the house at slightly below market price as they need to sell fast. Why? Because most flippers are not using much of their own money. They'll get a hard money loan at, say, 10 or 12% interest to buy the property, and possibly also to fund the repair. Every month they have the house is costing them big bucks. They aim to fix and sell fast to minimize their interest payments. So it's not a case that they are aiming to inflate housing prices. Quite the contrary, it often works out better for them to sell it quicker at a slightly lower than market price.

Now when it comes to investors sweeping up houses and renting them - yeah, that could be a long term problem.

But really: As someone who has an idea on how real estate investing works, my criticism is that one can read this whole article and still not have much of an idea.
If you look at all of the decisions that ICANN has made over the years, it's been quite obvious that ICANN has always acted in the interests of domain registrars rather than the Internet community as a whole.
Doing this fairly seems really difficult, when there are people who didn't go to college (but may have wanted to), and people who did go and paid off their debt.
Cool. Congrats on the launch. What's plus going to cost?
I get helping those who are legitimately low income. But this is much broader than that.

Please explain how this is not rewarding those who chose to spend their money on luxuries instead of paying their debt. What about those of us who paid off our debt by living frugally?

As someone in favor of universal health care, subsidizing college, etc, I'm still against this particular policy decision. It's badly-thought-out populist candy.
When any part of the program stops earning its keep, delete it. Feel proud of every deleted line. Deleting code adds as much value as writing code, but costs much less.
The greatest threat to human survival comes from the political and economic clout of petrochemical companies. Buying gasoline powered cars perpetuates that. Using electricity as an energy source for transportation means that wealth is no longer being sent to Saudi Aramco, ExxonMobil, Rosneft, etc. This decreases the ability of those companies to fund anti-global warming propaganda, bribe, encourage/wage war, undermine democracies, and cause humanity's eventual extinction.

So yes, I firmly believe that purchasing EVs is not just a heroic act, but one that is unquestionably necessary.
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They are dedicated and spend monthes/years not only perfecting the method (most serious candidates always pick the same one) but talking about themselves about these problems:

- how can I minimize at most the damage done to my close ones? Yes suicide is a transfer of pain, but only a partial transfer. Full transfer would make their life unlivable

- what do I do if I'm saved and everyone knows? -

- Is there a hell waiting for suicidal persons? Is reincarnation real, and if so will this hellish life begin again?

- What's the best way to minimize the trauma inflicted to the persons discovering your body?
Maybe in your social/family circle, but up here in Portland and in my observable social circles, it's a topic that you can't discuss except for with people you know really well. Or rather, you can, and the person on the other side might not call you racist to your face, but they'll entertain no discussion of the topic other than suggestions that you are a bad person for not being compassionate enough. The fact that you have to give a disclaimer along the lines of "Don't get me wrong, I think Trump is an idiot and I have voted Democratic since I could vote..." to even have anyone participate in the conversation, is telling.

I even made a throwaway because I am scared of being viewed as a racist in my workplace.
This can go either way, though. It's just as easy to argue that cancelling student debt is a highly effective form of economic stimulation. There are droves of people who are actively putting off large purchases like houses and cars, and delaying having children, almost entirely because of student loan debt. Removing a huge ongoing monetary obligation from a massive section of people who want to spend is a lot more likely to help the economy than more tax cuts for the already wealthy who are probably going to hoard that wealth away.
HabitRPG also exists, for the full gamification effect.
Free funny traffic pics to brighten your day. And tips to beat traffic court.
In Chrome, F12 to open dev tools. Go to the Application header. Click on Clear Storage on the left pane. Click the clear site data button. Reload the page
finally decent gigabit and USB C power.
Maybe, another theory I've heard from Chris Hedges is that minorities never believed in the myth of the American Dream.

White americans have been told as kids that if you go to college, and then work hard, you'll be rewarded with a good life. This generation of people are finding this to be a con. Look at the lack of wage increases since the 70s even though productivity has increased a lot or look at the student debt crisis for some proof that it was.

Minorities, on the otherhand, were never taught to believe in the American dream, because they haven't really had it in the past.

Now that white people are figuring out it was a myth, and that they are going to likely end up with a worse life then their parents they are commiting suicide, commiting mass shootings, etc.

Here's the article. There's some stuff in there I'm not so sure about it, but I think the general idea has some merit. https://www.truthdig.com/articles/american-anomie/
It is absolutely not semantics, though. You should correct and update your mental model here. A corporation is not its shareholders.

As you're the one who advanced an argument against disengaging from tax avoidance based on the incorrect assertion that a corporation is obligated to act in the best interest of its shareholders, I'm not sure how to respond to your final question. If you accept that a corporation is not, neither by law nor by charter, obligated to act in the best interest of its shareholders, then what is your argument about paying or avoiding taxes? There is no legal obligation for directors to find every opportunity, creative method, and loophole to avoid paying corporate taxes. The directors of a corporation could absolutely, as the parent commenter suggested, "disengage from tax avoidance schemes". Nothing prohibits them from doing so. So ... what is your argument?
Granted that some of the regulations are legacy but some have a utility. And what makes you think advanced countries in Europe or the US is playing a fair game. In the case of Huawei, the minute a non-western company challenges the dominance of western companies, free and fair trade goes into a shell. The rules of engagement like that of the WTO were written when countries like India and China were weak, and they were pretty much written by the west to serve themselves. Let us not even pretend it was some kind of charity. Hoping to rewrite it today and thinking that the terms might be better for the west is insane. India unlike China has a long way to go before it can stand US pressure, but bullying a potential partner like India will make the US regret a decade or two from now. Personally I like Trumpistan, I am tiered of pro-western economists literally selling the country piecemeal.
Definitely learned my lesson. My two machines now have expensive, highly-rated PSUs that I clean out several times a year. Saving $40-60 isn't worth the potential fire.
FoundationDB Record Layer uses protocol buffers out of the box. They leverage the fact that you can evolve protobuf messages in a sane way. That's their equivalent of doing database schema migrations.
中国人他不用邮件交流啊，凭啥日本有自己的文化中国就没有呢。中国的失物招领处很少联系失主，为什么作者不考虑呢？到底是有多傲慢？14亿人口大国就没有自己的文化了？
I used to feel the same until I discovered BetterTouchTool which lets you completely customize it yourself, contextualized by app.

This made me actually really like it.

But the vanilla Touch Bar? Totally agree it’s pretty near useless or worse.
Huh? https://www.revolut.com/exchange-cryptocurrency
"Instantly exchange any of our 29 currencies directly into Bitcoin, Litecoin, Ethereum, Bitcoin Cash and XRP, and all without breaking a sweat."
Don't you guys think that they really care about how reliable the method is? They are just trying to put China to the bottom in the rank. That is how western world does all the time. It is real shame.
Its sort of amazing that anyone can still openly advocate that raising taxes on the rich "only ends up hurting middle class" or for "no minimum wage" slavery, without getting the shit kicked out of them. The really crazy thing is they think they are good people, not at all rotten and viscous as they truly are. The cliff between rich and poor is ever more increasing, and you think giving the rich more is going to stop this, you deserve whatever is coming to you when the poor have reached their limit and come knocking on your door.

Maybe at least you will realize, that the poor that is going to kick your head in, is not reading Hacker News.
For most of us "the web" = "the internet"
This is a completely ineffective experimental method. First of all, China is very developed. Almost no one uses e-mail to communicate, but mainly uses WeChat and telephone. Secondly, lost items in China, the police station and the Lost and Found Center will not contact the owner, but it does not mean it was taken away by others. Such junk articles can be published in the science magazine, it is really shameful.
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>This is welfare for upper middle class people.

Maybe more lower class people would go into this if they could afford it?
I paid off roughly $70k in student loans. Can I have that back? Because if you're going to support the government paying off your student loans, surely you wouldn't deny me a check from the government to reimburse me for mine? Do you think it's better to not pay back the loans and just let it default with the hopes that someone with rescue me?
sure, but a hybrid Miata (if such a thing existed) would be even more efficient than the hybrid RAV4. I think that's all GP is trying to say.
For civic investigations such as this one, a well-designed poll and a case-specific research would be a better approach. This experiment is not adequate in addressing such a complex, multidimensional cultural problem.
This sort of philosophy could be useful when designing a public-facing API though. In that case you need a well-formed implementation-unaware API documentation and mapping it out upfront by hand could save you lots of trouble.
> One is running a custom Hue automation I built to shift the color temperature of the lights throughout the day.

Ooooh do you have the code up somewhere for this? I would love to set it up at home :)
Philadelphia perilously close to experiencing industrial accident
I would have thought this is pretty obvious. Fully self-driving cars are such an impossibly hard problem it makes no sense to try to jump straight there. It's much more logical to start with easier problems, like driver-assist, motorway-only, whitelisted roads, etc.
‘We Didn’t Understand the Risks’: Neil Armstrong’s Sons Remember Apollo 11
The recent tax cuts are a side show. The main effect was to bring U.S. corporate tax rates in line with Randian hell-holes like... Sweden: https://tradingeconomics.com/sweden/corporate-tax-rate; https://www.oecd.org/tax/revenue-statistics-sweden.pdf (Sweden - 6% of revenue from corporate taxes); https://www.oecd.org/tax/revenue-statistics-united-states.pd... (US - 8% of revenue from corporate taxes).

If we want to help people, we need to raise taxes on the middle and upper middle class and spend it on safety net services, like everyone else in the developed world: https://taxfoundation.org/how-scandinavian-countries-pay-the... https://www.oecd.org/tax/revenue-statistics-sweden.pdf (Sweden - 61 % of revenue from from middle class taxes: payroll, social insurance, and goods and services); https://www.oecd.org/tax/revenue-statistics-united-states.pd... (USA - 41% of revenue from same sources).
I recently connected a midi keyboard to our Pi3 and ran Timidity for synthesis. It worked, but unfortunately the notes happen about half a second after you press a key, making it rather useless. Strange, since if you dump the midi events themselves to the console they appear to happen immediately.

I tried teaking alsa and pulseaudio settings, no luck. Also installed jack but never got sound from it. Eight hours on the weekend wasted with nothing to show for it. Any ideas on how to fix this?
People Built an Illegal $5M Airbnb Empire in New York
The full plan isn’t out but they’ve implied it would be public & private debt as well as making community & public colleges tuition free going forward.
No, shopping mall is not the right analogy. Amazon is much closer to a consignment store in this regard -- doubly so for the "fulfilled by Amazon" stuff. You've walked into Amazon's store; the stuff on the shelves happens to be owned by someone else, but Amazon is displaying it, handling the transaction, providing customer service, and so on. And while a (large enough) consignment store can't police everything, I think for egregious enough problems they can't have their cake and eat it too.

This is the same crap that Uber tries: if you want the power to control the (work|sale) experience to such a degree, then you have to take responsibility when it goes wrong.
Finally, a clear idiot proof, transparent policy proposal. I love it.
It’s more about the ridiculously favorable tax treatment which is the subsidy that makes your business possible.
Correction: it seems like RPi4 doesn't boot from USB or Ethernet yet; they will release a firmware update to turn it on.

"Support for these additional bootmodes will be added in the future via optional bootloader updates. The current schedule is to release PXE boot first, then USB boot."

https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/hardware/raspberry...
Manufacturer's brands are meaningful. White label brands are not. "Rolex" means a watch made by a specific manufacturer. If instead Rolex just bought arbitrary Chinese watches and put their logo on them, the brand would mean almost nothing.

This is the difference between manufacturer's brands and white label brands.
fix-and-flip loans have extremely short terms meaning of course they have to be refinanced/paid off typically within a year. This represents relatively low risk but also yielding minimal returns.

It's an interesting securitization to be sure, but I don't know about this doom and gloom crisis scenario you are speaking about.

Long term buy and hold type loans meant for investors are typically based the on debt service coverage ratio meaning the tenant's rents need to cover the mortgage payment by a certain %. These are hovering around ~%8 which usually makes for a pretty thin margin on a cash flow basis. As with any investment, if you are banking on appreciation and that is all you've got, I'd worry. Perhaps not so much so in the booming area this article references - UNLESS funding dries up for all the hot commodities coming in.
Ransomware cyber-attacks are targeting large companies and demanding payments
Interest, dividends, and rent are all taxed in the U.S.

While we're on the topic of fairness...what about those people who will not go to college or send their kids there? Is it fair that they're forced to pay for other people's education?
Equilibrium in Fee Markets with Externalities
Get to learn more about logist plz. Do not judge the others by ur narrow horizon absurdly
"What do we really have to look forward to? "

More extreme weather, less water, more migration from countries where people have it worse than you, rise in political parties suggesting protectionism and anti-immigrant policies to combat the above, lower quality goods that don't last as long as people chase that margin down, less interesting and interest in art as people lack the spare time to come up with anything remotely non-mainstream, increasingly censored internet, rise in "tropical" diseases such as dengue fever & ebola in non-tropical countries due to climate change, more religion, more random civilian deaths at the hands of marginalised people and the police, people being prevented from travel/shop/work due to unchallengeable blacklisting by corporate CCTV networks with face/gait recognition resulting in homelessness.

Yep, there's a storm comin' alright.

The only solution I see to this is the richest 1% or so paying everyone else to have no children. It would sort out just about every problem in about 50 years. I don't see another solution.
I'd kind of expect richer people to be more likely to go to college, and also be more likely to have the contacts to get a well paying job.

On that basis I would expect this to benefit the lower middle class, they accrued the debt without accruing the earning potential.
Maybe it's a new formal scientific observation as an entry for plastic in to the food chain; or you have an early citation for it?
When you are really allergic to peanuts, it can be an issue just to sit at a table where someone eats peanuts. A waiter should know this. Unlike many other things they deal with, it's literally a matter of life and death.
I tried a recent one and it's definitely better, but still not nearly as good as the old ones.
It's the perfect recipe for a clickbait headline (unusual, widest possible audience - everyone "gets" accents, a bit controversial). Not that it doesn't have any value.

To me it sounds like an Australian accent mixed with an American south: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7MvtQp2-UA

I'm sure the people from the UK are far more opinionated about the matter.
That's why they are called _transactions_. They are an immutable journal of amounts coming in and going out.
凭啥日本就有自己的文化，中国就没有呢？14亿人口的大国几千年来是靠跪舔你们活下来的？滑天下之大稽¯\_(ツ)_/¯。在中国做调查之前能不能先搞清楚国情再动手？
1. 中国人很多人都有邮箱，但这个仅用来注册账号，传送文件，没谁会用这东西交流，大家用微信
2. 中国的失物招领处几乎不会联系失主，都是等失主自己过来找
This was my last free article :D

You can afford a free VPN or Firefox Focus or ignonito mode :) One is these should work :P
I don't know much about Python programing. In Java though I deal with ludicrous amount of indirection and 'design pattern' turdlets which deeply hurt code comprehension everyday.

Just last week I was handed a project with single functionality: 'Doing ldap bind on receiving userid/password over http and return success/failure'. This project has about 40 Java files in 18 directories. As far as enterprise projects go it follows all best practices of Java and Micro services etc. But I find this project absolute turd and hopeless to refactor. A clean rewrite would be only sane thing.
A Google whistleblower today released internal documents and helped Project Veritas obtain camera footage:

> Google Exec Says Don’t Break Us Up: “smaller companies don’t have the resources” to “prevent next Trump situation”

If a single company believes they have the informational monopoly needed to control national politics, isn't that an admission of anti-trust liability?

https://www.projectveritas.com/2019/06/24/insider-blows-whis...
There's literally hippy communes that operate this way. You don't need to be conservative to see the benefit of everyone having a place in society.

This sounds a lot like public work programs like the Green New Deal is proposing, lots of high-paying opportunities for skilled labor and training to become a skilled laborer. There's lot of able people wasting their potential in call centers and retail jobs. Everyone wants manufacturing back in America but no one wants to pay for the costs of educating a new generation of tradesmen.
This will not fix the problem with colleges pumping out useless degrees. They got their money up-front, don't have any consequences, and the taxpayers get to foot the bill.

Why not fix the root of the problem? This solution will only serve to enrich the universities and not get them to change their behavior.
What's to prevent people from going to 'study' and amass huge amounts of student debt and then say "But it was cancelled for them" ?
In which of Google's markets does Oracle compete?
Public transit? Functioning infrastructure? Lowering taxes and letting people keep their hard earned money? Paying for other people's entertainment is pretty much the lowest item on my list and I dare say it should be self funded 100% of the time.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/zackfriedman/2018/09/24/public-...

Except that 99% of the people that attempt to do this via public service are rejected. Effectively, this program does not realistically exist for 99 of 100 people that try to do it.
So true. When I served, the occasional crap job would come around and everyone was expected to chip in.

We had to field day the barracks every Thursday night. There was no liberty until it was done and inspection complete. As an NCO, I made sure that myself and other NCOs took turns on the buffers, mops/buckets right alongside the Privates and Lance Corporals. There is no "I" in team. This is one thing about the Marine Corps I miss. A very few people could move mountains. The Corps is able to do so much with very little.
Hybrid Planning for Dynamic Multimodal Stochastic Shortest Paths
Yes I have. The full sentence, emphasis added:

> No employee is breaking laws in an effort to further the objectives of a company in a vacuum.

In other words: "in a vacuum" (i.e. without any influence or incentives from the company), employees will not break the law for the benefit of the company (as opposed to their own benefit). It's describing their behavior, not absolving them of guilt.
That doesn't appear particularly lisp-like.
在一个母语非英语国家用英文资料测试诚实程度，联系方式为最不常用的email,且完全不考虑风土人情，得出了诚实程度倒数第一的结论，太荒谬了。我知道有人会翻译这段话，因为你们不是每个人都看得懂中文，就像不是每个中国人都可以读写英文一样。
In case someone wants to watch a video about the same topic, Everest: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bchx0mS7XOY
We moved to Turkey from San Francisco to continue working on our startup
I don’t disagree my point is student loan debt forgiveness is an extremely regressive tax policy. That the left most of the Democratic Party is arguing for it is pretty concerning. Especially when the right most of the Republican Party is coming after the social safety net.
SCIENCE is not scientific at all for publishing this kind of bull shit