skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The local county government can put a lien on your real property for failing to pay your property taxes, in some places, even for not mowing your lawn (an exaggeration of property maint. codes). In Texas, investors can buy a "Tax Deed" at auction. The property owner has two years to buy the lien back, for a defined price, IIRC the taxes owed + 50% for each year. After the 2 yr repayment window, the purchaser of the tax lien gets the title to the property.

http://www.nuwireinvestor.com/articles/how-texas-tax-sales-w...

http://www.dallascounty.org/department/pubworks/documents/St...
Can you run a test with the code in the article?
I even said: "And that's still not ideal. We should be able to do: [code]".

I don't ever advise using map, but you can't setup your own for loop in coffeescript. Actually, in the code shown, map isn't used at all. Just .filter and .forEach.

Here is my version: http://jsperf.com/no-coffeescript-orig

The 'manual' is what I would write myself.
I agree. It was late at night and I couldn't think of a shorter headline. I apologize.
"Reverting this commit seems like a sound technical decision to me."

Well, the commit message says:

Ordered-by: The Management.

But I'm not sure what exactly means.
Its quite mind blowing isn't it? Never heard anything like it.
Well, in Texas the liens are sold at auction. But yeah.
I have a hard time believing this story. If it actually is true, the local government in DC is beyond corrupt.
They could disallow that host from listing their space. Small revenue loss to AirBnB. Big revenue loss to the host. Not really worth the few bucks to not be able to use airbnb.
Good advice. I heard somewhere that they did have this ability but it was a very pricey add-on. It was just a rumor though. I'll check with IT.
I took this class in person back in the winter. I was under the impression that this class would help me hone my web dev skills a bit, but it really turned out to be very focused on business dev.

That said, Balaji provided some excellent advice, and the course itself is great for anyone interested in the startup process. Just don't expect to come out of the class as some web dev master.
You raised a very good point. The thing about tutoring is that it is a very personal service. Good tutors are hard to find, and a lot of the time it's about how well a tutor can relate/communicate with a particular student; nevertheless, once the fit is established, then the relationship is quite steady and last a while.

For the tutor as well, once they find a good client, they may get many other referrals from the same client. For example, if Jimmy's math grades all of a sudden improved, his parents may attribute it to the tutor, which gets the tutor a lot more calls for work within that community.

All of the above means that beyond a finders fee, there isn't too much of an ongoing role for Tutorspree.
I hardly think citing prisons and hospitals is a ringing endorsement of the profit motive.
I think the tutoring industry is a readily attackable problem. It might not be just like BnB inns, but there are plenty of varied markets that companies have cracked. Freelancing markets, used good auction sites, and all sorts of other examples abound. The fact that the tutoring industry has its own really tricky wrinkles just means that it takes a team uniquely attuned to the market to pull it off. Maybe they just didn't have the right ideas or execution. As a founder, if you're not bringing your own runway, you only get so many missteps. I'd bet on someone breaking this market open sooner or later.
... You must be kidding me. Where have we gone as a civilization ;_; HN STOP, JUST STOP, YOU'VE GONE TOO FAR
Does YC have a collection if post mortems for their failed startups? I would find that very interesting.
I also advocate this "useless" use of cat, but you can write the redirection before the command:

<"$1" pv >"$2"
DARPA is trying it:

http://www.crash-safe.org/node/9
Non-US citizen here. I bounce off a Linode in the US (which I require for other purposes anyway; there are surely cheaper options).

SSH has a baked-in SOCKS proxy. Example: I SSH into my VPS with the "-D 55555" commandline option, configure my browser to use a SOCKS proxy at localhost:55555, and visit www.netflix.com. That HTTP traffic is tunneled over the SSH connection, and as far as Netflix is concerned, it originates at the US datacenter hosting my VPS.

http://wiki.vpslink.com/Instant_SOCKS_Proxy_over_SSH
I decided to write this application because whenever there are delays on my line, I never check tfl website. Sure I could have checked every other day that week, but not on the day with a bad service!

Using this app I can get the current status, weekend status and set up my regular commutes so I get notified if I'm going to be affected by problems. Simple and fast.

We make use of push notifications so it won't drain your battery! ;)

Suggestions and feedback are more than welcome! Please share!

This app is open source. Check it here: https://github.com/antonyt/TflTravelAlerts
Two technical notes:

1) AES CTR needs a nonce (number used once) not an IV. So a maximal LFSR works up until it repeats. People call it an IV, but strictly speaking IV's need to also be random.

2) I have no idea if you need the replays in a very specific order or not. If you know the m being decrypted, then you always get the IVs. I suspect if given random parts of the output sequence of an LSFRs and the distances between them, it's still easy to recover the seed.
Ayn Rand was poor.
when someone gets your $197,000 house for $134, they can sell it for $71,000 and take $6000 in legal fees, interest etc, as documented in the article.

The owner loses $130,000. Don't be surprised if the person buying the house for $71,000 is in on the game too.
fuck you and your happy face.
Check out my No bullshit guide to math and physics: http://minireference.com/ [$33], it covers all of high school math, mechanics, derivatives, and integrals.

An excellent free alternative is Calculus Made Easy by Silvanus P. Thompson, which is very good and also funny
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/33283
Minor bug: the <title> says "Startup Naming".
It's tempting to slice the reality of biology into over-simplistic models, but it's better to realize we have a ways to go. My intent was to point out that much to our chagrin, there is no set of food in which its members are "in no way any less healthy than anything else". What goes in this set and why are you so confident that they can be equated? Just trot out the line "mixtures of protein are all useful to the body"? Biology has only relatively recently established that not all proteins are created equal when held against the metabolic capabilities of a human. That even the context of those proteins matter. The field is only now experiencing an explosion in the ability to make truly meaningful models.

I encourage you to look into the fields of life-extension to reinforce the fact that our bodies and ecologies like them are in no way perfect. There is currently no food that causes absolutely zero health damage. I only mentioned your use of rather (i.e. "to a certain degree") because it seemed funny to then in the same breath claim an absolute---that there is no degree to even consider.

Where gluten lies in all of us this is up for debate because meaningful evidence interpreted in a dependable framework has yet to happen, as much as you'd like to think it's an utterly settled matter.
Property tax is primarily a disincentive to buy lots of land you can't do anything with and sit on it (metaphorically). That's a good thing- it means the incentives will push land into the hands of people who are actually going to do something with it (making it worth paying the property tax)
How is that even remotely interesting? wtf.
Higher rate income tax certainly does. Tax bands certainly provide a big disincentive for bothering to get a better job/raise.

Inheritance tax is very unfair. If you are rich enough, you'll plan around it and avoid it. But if you're not rich enough, your kids will not only lose their parents, they'll be sent a bill from the government. Which at best is a tad insensitive.

Add to that the fact that the thresholds for inheritance tax haven't been raised properly, so that someone with a 1 bedroom apartment in London will be subject to inheritance tax, it all seems pretty unfair, and perverse for the government to effectively profit from peoples death.
I was also surprised by this. Googling "Python <problem>" usually gets me a solution in the docs or a blog or SO, Go only got me a few relevant projects.
Tell me again what system actually does a wonderful job
VCS took 15 minutes for SV recompile and 60+ for clean compile (depending on level of "clean" and level of "compile") for "large" projects on top of the line servers.
OpenVPN uses SSL for encryption. It's an "SSL VPN". Any more questions?

There are more reasons than just current events to avoid using SSL. But if this NSA hoopla is what it takes to make people aware of how poor SSL is as a solution, then let the conspiracy theories flourish.
Official link: http://blog.tutorspree.com/post/60655061386/thank-you
Accident: Thai A333 at Bangkok on Sep 8th 2013, runway excursion on landing
Wait, why did people stop checking email? I don't see how that relates to the open plan office. I've worked in open-plan offices and team rooms before, and people were generally pretty responsive on email and IM.
The principles emphasize process over outcome. So it's not that they want people to lose their homes, but if things happen the 'right' way and that's the outcome, so be it.
If it weren't for mathematics I would've graduated this year, instead I'm still stuck with Algebra and Calculus and what not. I don't know about you, but every time a read a theorem is like getting kicked in the nuts and then punched in the stomach. The fact is, our brains are wired to excel at a handful of things and if math it's not one of them you're out of luck. You can't teach a person to paint, or to write, because you can't teach them talent, the same is true with math. You just have to plough through and hope to get better with time.
Oh, that already happened, years ago.
Strong agree on the distinction between IVs and nonces (I wrote about them in a blog post recently and the confusion annoys me too).
The first hack at TechCrunch Disrupt's hackathon is called TitStare.
To me it looks amateur, which is what I'd expect from a UI design done by a hardware guy. Giving the design job to Ive instead of somebody with the right background is Cook's first really serious mistake, IMO.
I've struggled with this for awhile. I've had some thoughts about improving medical education that would avoid the legal hassles of healthcare and generate a good income. That idea is for another time though.
I don't think I like that idea. Sounds like a good way to throw Native Americans, Amish, and others who can't or don't wish to participate in the traditional labor force off of their land.

disclosure: I am an ordinary, average, white, property owner, not Amish (Atheist, actually).
Not sure if my attempted humour is that bad, or so advanced it wooshed straight over your heads.
It's possible, but I'd expect modern decoders to be more resilient to out of spec files.

I'd share them, but copyright and all that.
Check out music video Chairlift - Evident Utensil. I don't feel like they took advantage of the effect in any meaningful way in this video though. I also seem to remember another one with a similar effect.
DC is in some ways an anomaly; US citizens deliberately disenfranchised by the Federal Government. It's not surprising that they might be extravagantly corrupt.
"An error occurred in the application and your page could not be served. Please try again in a few moments."
Building An Orrery
Isn't the reset synchronous? (Small Quibble)

Agreed that hardware language is generally hard to pick up on but "produced something random" is a bit strong (excluding bugs in simulators, which are a bit more common than I would've expected).
Hacking a Porsche 911
If You Want to Motivate Someone, Shut Up Already
Which will actually give better results this way, since it'll read the size of the file and use that to provide an estimate even.
>Tax bands certainly provide a big disincentive for bothering to get a better job/raise.

You know that your entire income isn't taxed at the highest bracket's rate, right? So, for example, the highest bracket is 39.6% for income above $400k. If you make $410k, $10k is taxed at 39.6%, and the rest of your income is taxed at a lower rate.
I hear this a lot about Apache and there's one thing I'm not sure a lot of people understand... it's SHARED memory in most cases. While it spawns several processes (depending on which worker method), it's not as awful as it looks at first glance.

Apache, and specifically mod_php, doesn't have that level of control over memory usage (mod_perl (and, incidentally, mod_python) has deeper integration with Apache to encourage, with the right configuration, more of the memory to be shared between processes, but it's still not that great). The Apache parent process, primarily exists to do process, signal, and socket management, it's not really possible to do a lot of application level (pre)processing before subprocesses are forked off, which is what would be required to share a significant portion of the address space.

If you have a .php file run via mod_php that looks like this:

$x="";
for ($a=0;$a<(1024*1024*100);$a++) {
$x.="1";
}

This will produce 100MB of non-shared memory in a child process, when the request is made and serviced by that child. And, because of the way requests are dispatched to children, at a low request rate the same child could end up serving all (or a majority of) requests. This unbalances the memory usage between processes.

A quick google search finds a nitty gritty page that might help - http://foertsch.name/ModPerl-Tricks/Measuring-memory-consump.... there's probably better examples.

That is a great link in general for how shared memory and COW works.
That book looks amazing, I'd love to learn some Physics too, will see if I can get it.

Read the first pages of Calculus Made Easy, looked nice so far.
Thanks, that confused the hell out of me.
> How about we humans stop overfishing the oceans?

I agree. Also, how about we stop driving personal cars and start using public transportation / bikes / hikes whenever possible, making it a priority in our lives to the point that a car trip makes us feeling guilty?

As I understand it, CO2 emissions from cars is one of the major reasons for the ocean acidification and, considering the immense magnitude and consequences of it, it's almost a crime not to care about it (as most of us do).

Come on, let's wisen up - most of us in the first world coutries live in cities with decent public transportation and other sustainable options. Let's use them!
Interestingly some of their jobs for software engineers require "B.S. degree […] one of the World's Top 50 ranked Technical Universities". Other jobs like the Android position require a BS degree. It seems a little odd to require a degree after deciding you don't need one yourself.
Ok just read that.

I guess I have a wider problem with this "problem".

The fact is there aren't really people out there (other than some community activists) who have a brain and can help people like this to navigate the system without charging the rates that attorney's charge. Which seems to be the answer to anyone's problem. Get an attorney to tell you your rights and write a letter so people take you seriously. This is in a sense one of the reasons that poor and/or uneducated people get shafted so often. They have no way to communicate and people don't take their problems as seriously to boot.

Of course even if you created an office of "ombudsmen to the normally shafted" that office might simply drown with those that weren't deserving and simply wanted to take advantage of any thing they could to dodge legal process.
Here's a subreddit dedicated to producing (or locating) interested corrupted images: http://www.reddit.com/r/glitch_art/
They already do tax it for businesses in various jurisdictions, e.g. in Florida (see "tangible personal property").
Islam doesn't have interest in the sense of an American-style simple interest loan, but it certainly does have charges for borrowing. There's no real meaningful difference other than when the interest is charged; in a lump sum at the beginning for Islamic banking, or spread out throughout the loan for American banking.

e.g.: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murabahah
A property tax will also make sure that the landowning class either makes productive use of their land or loses it, rather than hoarding it as an anti-competitive measure.
ah, that's a great point! what're the best colors for indicating success and failure to red-green color blind folks?
You are mostly right, but then there are other issues to consider: why would a business buy from you who is just starting out? They would like to have some guarantee you will be around after a few years..
Mathematical proofs are completely precise, that is to say, not vague in the least. They are, however, in an extremely high-level language; it's left to the reader to expand the notation enough to convince themselves of the validity.

(And, of course, there can be bugs - that is, mistakes - but there is no ambiguity.)
> Proofs formatted for automatic solvers show that they can be standardized. Now think about the tiny percentage of proofs that are in this form.

Just as important, though, is the number of proofs that anyone would want to read in that form. I can't think of anyone who has ever claimed that reading formally verified proofs aids understanding...
If you bypass AirBnB, you will not benefit from their insurance coverage. I have heard of cases where recurring guests would try to arrange the next deal directly, and that factor was always the decisive reason for the host to decline.
There very well may be a limit to the propensity of the brain toward addiction, unless we delve into deep sci-fi territory of complete reward structure take over.

What makes you think that doesn't happen? We know the brain is plastic. More frequently used neural pathways get reinforced, unused ones get destroyed. After a long period of addiction, the brain is physically altered to require that addiction. The presence of the addiction becomes the new baseline for feeling "normal." There's a limit to this for physical addictions, because there's a point where the heroin will kill you. Psychological addictions don't have that restriction.
Just spun up some more dynos so it should be back up and snappy again!
No need. This is a bizarre story and not the normal - which is precisely why you are reading about it on the news.

Basically everything you read about on the news is what almost never happens.
Yet another thing I would do if I was rich: buy up the unfortunate circumstances and forgive them.

I understand how it would be hard for the government to implement a policy to do the same, but this situation is ridiculous.
And this is what happens when you privatise the tax man.
In what world does "-h" default to "human readable"?
This problem is indicative of how screwed up our legal system is. Lawyers harass regular folks at-will as most people have no recourse (i.e. money to hire their own lawyer, or knowledge of the expanding and complicated laws).

Two ways I can think of fixing it - one is offering simple, straightforward hearings in front of a judge with the power to use their own judgement (instead of relying on overly-specific, exploitable laws); the other is to implement some counterbalance punitive fee for wrongly harassing citizens - something that decreases the profit ratio for predators and makes defending people in otherwise unprofitable cases profitable.
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That definitely is a problem marketplaces face, but it actually wasn't the problem that we had. When customers started working with us, they stayed with us - repeatedly booking new lessons and packages.

As strange as it feels to say it, we had a business that could grow over time, and that's something we'll always treasure. What we didn't have was something that we could grow at the rate we wanted, at the economics that we thought made sense.
No, the NSA can't spy on smartphone data
"Earned" is a slippery concept that can take some funny turns depending on who's using it.

If someone who's halfway through paying their mortgage stops making payment, has the bank earned the equity the borrower has put in? You might argue they haven't, but this isn't absurd.

If nothing else, advocates for the lender -- and, in general, libertarian voluntarists -- would argue that if both parties have agreed on the conditions, execution of them is justly earned.

And if you want Rand cite for that, read the Roark/Rand courtroom soliloquy where it's explained why it's OK for him to blow up a building (sure, other people may have put in sweat and equity, but that's nothing compared to his contract).

Well, why not the same thing for an HOA? Nobody held a gun to your head to move into a property that's part of a private collective. If Roark can uphold his aesthetic conditions, surely an HOA can uphold whichever please them, and ask for their fees, and blow you out of your building if you don't comply.

Now, if you think that there's a flaw here -- perhaps that "as agreed" is not necessarily the same thing as "earned" -- I might agree with you. Perhaps Rand even says something to that effect elsewhere. But at the same time, the entire climax of her second most famous book turns on a different principle.

(Also -- I have my doubts that anybody has any true claim to have earned most of what they have. We all have a heck of a free ride as far as life and resources go.)
What about the popcnt intel intrinsic?
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11114017/whats-the-differ...
When I was in school, I tutored a significant amount for some pocket money (all freelance). Towards the end, I tried Tutorspree for a bit, just to see what it was like.

I was disappointed, because I really wanted them to succeed for so many reasons. But scheduling was a nightmare, because going through a third-party, by definition, will always be less efficient than speaking directly. Also, after a while, this pattern emerged:

1) They call me (or send me an email), asking me if I could take on a student for $SUBJECT (usually Python or Machine Learning).

2) I respond and tell them that I can

3) I never hear back from them

I imagine they were calling multiple tutors and trying to find a combination of low price and good reviews, and then recommending that tutor to the student, but this process was incredibly frustrating.

I eventually just stopped responding to their emails and phone calls, because they had a lower signal-to-noise ratio than unsolicited recruiter emails sent to group mailing lists!

Also, their payment was handled entirely through Paypal, and I would have to send them an email to tell them that I had tutored the student (so they could pay me). I almost never logged into the website. For a tech startup, it was surprisingly reliant on old technologies. Not that this is necessarily bad, but for a market of college students and (primarily) young tutors, this is a poor fit.

Finally, they cut they took was HUGE - 40% at one point! That's more than I pay in taxes, and I live in one of the most heavily taxed cities in the country! On the very first day, my first client asked me before leaving if I would be interested in continuing tutoring outside of Tutorspree if we could split the difference.

That is a very bad sign for any agency or marketplace: if the fees are so high that they actively drive away repeat business, you're walking up a down escalator.
...and, video not found 11 minutes later.
Great read, Khan academy does solve a lot of the headaches that come with Math, thank you Salman Khan! if it wasn't for him I wouldn't have gotten a 3.8 in Calculus.

for those who don't know math or want to learn this will make your life easier, https://www.khanacademy.org/