skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't buy this. In the UK, there is usually only a single agent (acting for the seller) rather than two, and total commissions are _much_ lower than the 6% which I understand is standard in the US.

Furthermore, commissions are negotiable, and the market for estate agents (what you call realtors) is competitive.

There's nothing different about buyers/sellers needs that's fundamentally different in the USA. The high level (and lack of variance) in commissions has some reason. I'm not familiar enough to know whether it's some legislative/regulatory thing, or just historical (path dependence). However, I find it hard to imagine that realtors are adding 60k value to a 1m sale transaction.

Anecdote: I had a friend who studied to get a realtor's licence in Canada, just so that they could avoid commissions on their own purchases.

BTW - I upvoted you, although my perspective is pretty much opposite to yours :)
Well, no. The Turing test very much is "break the bot" so that you can tell which out of a bot and a human is the bot. And in Turing's example the human is supposed to be helping you as much as possible.
λ->planck(λ*nm,T=T)*m^3/Watt*cie_color_match(λ)

This syntax made me cringe hard. Kids these days…
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I think D lang's vibe.d can take that performance crown with good documentation and some more libraries.
Family of jailed Facebook user in Iran: ‘They are going to kill her ‘
Lifetramp: Be someone else for a day
Gotta love Canada
I think you are right to be fearful. Trust isn't good enough. As our machines become more complicated, formal methods of verification & validation will become necessary for the daily programmer. We cannot trust that it is correct, we must know with certainty. We can already deliver software and hardware solutions that are formally verified to perform correctly and not kill anyone. The knowledge and know-how just isn't widespread largely due to prohibitive cost and arcane nature of the subject material. Increasing complexity and security consciousness will be the primary driver for the adoption of these technologies in the mainstream I believe. We are already starting to see the articles about formal methods appear more frequently on Hacker News, which is a more general programming and entrepreneurial audience.
Seeing Obstacle-Filled Path to Mars
"docker diff [container]" will show you what files have changed since the image was started, and you can then "docker cp" files out of the container to the host.

But for my part I tend to just layer changes piece by piece. So e.g. I have a docker image that's a "base development" image, and create separate docker containers to run each web app I'm experimenting with, with a shared volume with a separate docker container that I ssh into and run a screen session in with the code/git repositories. In effect that means that bringing up a new docker image for a new project is at most a couple of lines of change unless the project has particular/different dependencies.
Ask HN: What non-Tech sites do you read daily?
Share a list of sites you regularly visit that are not Tech related
You could to do opt in permissions similar to the permission request for location information or for chrome desktop notifications.
Why Apple’s Frightened of Female Sexuality
Many commentors seems to think that the turing test is a claim about computers achieving self awareness or consciousness. It's not. It is a test to see whether humans can distinguish between the "AI" and a human. There is no correct definition of AI here.

This is no different than when a chess computers beats a human being. It doesn't matter that it does that by brute-force. What matters it that it beats the human. That's the endgame. There are no points for style in reality.

Human fool each other all the time by being disingenuous that doesn't mean that we aren't humans when we do that.

Lets get some perspective here.
> Linux gives you no guarantee the Ethernet ports will be the same order on startup

Systemd does.
What's merit in this context? What NLP/ML algorithms would you use? I can't think of any that are suited to or good enough for any definition of merit.
I tried to use the history tracking that comes with Reddit Gold for about a week and it was virtually useless. After browsing on my phone and two computers only like 1 in 10 of the links would correctly show up as purple on the other devices (even just PC to PC it didn't work).

Edit: I should mention I bought Reddit Gold just for this feature, so I was optimistic that it'd work.
But automated support with a bot that is obtuse, goes off on tangents, ignores my points and is boring sounds like a pretty poor support experience.
Setting aside the killing of the animal ... his actions directly translated to thousands if not millions of domains moving from GoDaddy to competitors. Seems relevant to his career to me.
True, combating fraud is very hard! And PayPal has used a very clever strategy there.

PayPal is changing now, a LOT. After David Marcus and Bill Scott, things are now in motion for the better! I'm sure in an year or two, we'll see PayPal in a much different way than what it is now.
Send them to me.
I completely agree. Years ago when starting an iOS app I suggested a few abstractions to the other devs and got the response that 'this is not an enterprise application.' The problem is that a complex iOS application can quickly become a lot of code. It is compounded by the fact that a lot of that code ends up in the view controllers.
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That's terminology straight from Turing's paper introducing the game.

Computers were people back then, as well as digital computers. And he talks about cloning a human not counting as a win for an intelligent machine.
Why not just ignore the existence of it? I have a feeling that the way this conversation is headed is toward app marketplaces having separate categories for with-IAP apps and without-IAP apps. It's clear to me that many consumers are very happy with the IAP option, whereas many are completely repulsed by it. Apple and Google should help both groups find the apps that appeal to them.
I wonder how the timing on the micro-controller is. Is the JavaScript still async? While JavaScript +/-10ms is fine on a computer, when messing with signals that really limits you. Mind you this could be overcome by adding some flag before the code to specify it to be run synchronously...or something like that.
This comment was screaming for an xkcd: http://xkcd.com/182/
Original Poster from the linked thread, Same thing, different day. Most talented people I know have left or "left" (including myself to found my own company), there is a lot of internal Game of thrones. Some of us saw this coming (based on publicly disclosed stock unloading by David)

Now that DM is gone, I am very bearish on PayPal. Good news is he can now openly mentor and advice entrepreneurs in the space.

Shower thoughts: Maybe I should write a full blog post with all the spicy stuff! (with GOT memes)
"Without getting into a hugely semantic debate, I was using side effect imprecisely to mean the opposite of a pure function."

That's the second sense I described. It's only meaningful if you're actually talking about a particular function. And you're still left with the question of the actual domain of the function. Semantics, but relevant semantics.

"Many FP paradigms (including Haskell's) impose an overhead when doing operations that are not pure. In the case of a SMB clone a huge percentage of the work of the program may end up not being pure, therefore a large overhead may be imposed. Further, many of the advantages of FP paradigms (including Haskell's) are dependent on pure functions."

That's somewhat true of FRP, basically false about Haskell IO generally, but either way if you can do it in PyGame someone can do it in Haskell - it's mostly a matter of working in a high level language, not a matter of functional-programming-imposed overhead.

I would recommend listening to what John Carmack had to say about implementing games in Haskell (and also Lisp, IIRC).
Why do you say this? I mean, it's true, but do you think there are people who disagree, who think that writing that kind of code on a modern computer is a good idea, and further that they are participating in this discussion?

I find this reaction confusing. Nobody is holding Mel up as an example for us to emulate in the specifics of how he worked.

It's like telling the story of Tex Johnson doing a barrel roll in the 707 prototype filled with VIPs, and someone comes along and interrupts with, "I'm surprised that people react positively. Doing clever tricks like these is NOT what a good pilot is supposed to do." He'd be right; airline pilots shouldn't be doing barrel rolls. But it's a pointless thing to say, because nobody is telling that story to convince airline pilots that they should be doing barrel rolls.
I'm pretty sure they don't do the sexist advertising anymore. Though I agree that their policies are questionable.
To defeat encryption, feds deploy the subpoena
If you want it to look prettier on-screen you can just an editor with code folding and hide all the irrelevant functions.

Really, this is just a weird halfway house reminiscent of Rails' ActiveSupport::Concern. Much like that implementation, it encourages developers to address SRP by chopping the class up and calling it done. Difficulties in testing and reasoning are still in place, and the class is likely still too coupled.

If the local units are truly independent concepts, then they should be split out into their own objects. Either make smaller objects that either model the domain closer, or abstract away needless technical details. For example, any sort of serialization (web service/DB) should be hidden behind a high-level class that obscures how it's done if only to firewall the dependency itself from leaking it's conceptual garbage over the rest of your code.

This can be applied gradually with good effect. It's not an all-or-nothing proposition.
I have experience doing something similar in a project at work.

In this project I have one reusable ViewController (among others, but this example is about this one) that had nothing but a UITableView and a search box (a UITextField for searching by text, and a segmented control that sorts/filters the data by preset values like A-Z or distance).

About halfway through this project I found myself with a controller with several if/else blocks and other weird things to stop code re-use and make the controller abstract in the sense that I could init it with whatever data object I needed and it would figure everything else out from there. This accomplished my goal of limiting code re-use but it absolutely sucked when a change had to happen. Conceptually, it was terrible to go down and find the correct "else if {}" to make my amendments to and then make sure that didn't take anything else down with it.

Then I said to heck with code re-use. I'm going to make this sucker clean and easy to find/fix/edit/create a new one. I pulled all of my UITableViewDelegate and UITableViewDataSource code into separate files depending on the data model that was necessary for this controller. I still init the Controller the same way, but now all of the searching/sorting/table actions that were horribly done earlier are in their own separate classes - specific to the model for each.

This means that I have 12 files that have a slightly similar structure - all of the numerOfRows and cellForRowAtIndexPath type methods as well as my custom search view's delegates. And yes, an earlier self would of been a little weirded out by such blatant disregard for reuse. But yesterday, when a change request came in to add another similar type view with a different API and data model it literally took me 5 minutes to subclass my XXDataSource class and hook it up to a model, and the whole thing worked perfectly. 5 minutes. I can't tell you how good it felt to not have to look through the cruft and add another "else if" check and make sure my other stuff would still work.

I hate to call it beautiful since I'm still a noob, but damn is it beautiful. My controller has 40 lines. Each XXDataSource class has about 100-150ish. I highly recommend this approach, especially when it looks like you're going to reuse a tableview-esque controller.

Now my XXNavigationBrain solution - that's a whole other topic. ;)
I believe the first digit trick still works with off-numbers, but the second digit trick definitely fails, as it depends on tricks of cubics.

1=>[1], 2=>[8], 3=>2[7], 4=>6[4], 5=>12[5], 6=>21[6], 7=>34[3], 8=>51[2], 9=>72[9], 10=>100[0] (or 0=>[0])

Basically, if you memorize the first 10 cubics, then you can do the next 10 cubics (and actually, there's probably a trick for doing all the integer ones recursively)

If you're really good at this trick, I'm sure you can bound non-integer numbers with referenced cubics and then do something like Newtonian descent.

Its kinds of like building a lookup table of lookup tables in your head for integer cubics.
Netflix refuses to comply with Verizon’s “cease and desist” demands
Substance is more accurate than "merit". You're right, not meritorious but substantive to pre-selected subject matter of interest.

Using K-nearest neighbor (among others) against training documents to classify content, in areas you designate as interest. If they meet a predetermined relevance score and sufficient length range - they would then be considered for recommendation to the user.
My Mom would love this! She's a Chemistry teacher. Would definitely share it with her..
The difference between an employee doing work and one deceiving you into thinking they're doing work is simple: one produces value, the other does not. Here, no useful information can be extracted from this Eugene chatbot. It cannot perform any useful task a human could perform or answer any useful question a human could answer. Which is what I was talking about when I mentioned usefulness.

As a side note, I recently made a question answering engine which, although not very advanced and certainly not attempting to pass for a human, can provide you with useful information when asked general knowledge questions:

http://www.sphere-engineering.com/blog/quickanswers-io-seman...

The Chinese room experiment is not a relevant reference here, because this Eugene chatbot is in no way "functionally equivalent" to a human being. It is not even attempting to implement intelligence.
An Alternate History of Bitcoin
About a third of these are illegal, and another third are just ineffective.
Yes, but the Electric Imp has wifi built in for $30.

Ironically it uses the Squirrel language to program it, which I think was a mistake - I found it very unproductive.
Also read about how using checklists to reduce simpler errors reduced infection rates at major hospitals.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Pronovost

Pronovost's "work has already saved more lives than that of any laboratory scientist in the past decade" according to this article in the New Yorker

The article also mentions the airline industry - specifically the the use of checklists to reduce pilot errors in the new complex bombers of WWII.

A great read:
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/12/10/071210fa_fact_...

It has also been discussed here on HN.
https://github.com/elasticsearch/elasticsearch/issues/256 is exhibit A for why this is a waste of time. The maintainer says it's a priority, they're working on it, etc. and there's another couple hundred comments from people who aren't helping out but are willing to distract the maintainer with a +1.
Note that Apple's efforts might drive up the prices of games and IAPs. Consider the effect of an app offering rewards to users who share it. What is the economic effect of that? The app developer is driving down their average cost of acquiring more customers. Cut that off, and suddenly the app developer has to spend more to acquire customers through some other method (advertising being the most obvious option). In order to preserve profit, revenue must go up. Consumers get slugged with more costly IAPs and apps, or greater amounts of ads within apps.
sports (espnfc.com, reddit /soccer, /nba)
news sites (cnn, wsj, etc.)
personal development (ted, physcologytoday, etc.)
The volume cost of parts that make smartphones, remote controls, wifi dongles, etc so darn cheap for the average consumer do not scale downward when you're only making 100 or 1000 of something.
I really liked your comment. It's insightful and provided a perspective I hadn't really heard before. This is important, because I'm gearing up to buy my first house in about 2 years or so. The thought of working with a realtor has been somewhat terrifying, if only because I believe competence is rare generally. And the incentive inverse has always been a bit of a put off too.

I've certainly considered the possibility of going without a realtor when the time comes, but multiple people whose opinion I respect have claimed that a realtor was worth it. So your comment piqued my interest. In search of more information, I decided to check out patrick.net.

Umm. What? Here's what I see:

* Money is a form of social control and most Americans are debt slaves

* Midieval spikes thwart London homeless from sleeping in apartment doorways

* Michael Moore in cat fight with wife over divorce settlement

* Photo of US at Night

* "Go and rape women" Why do we just stand by?

* God bless the free market!

* ...

I mean, really? I understand that this is probably some dynamically generated list of hot threads from a message board, but if your goal is to convince someone that maybe realtors aren't necessary (a pretty mind-bending claim for most people, I imagine), then you have provided a source that inspires exactly zero credibility. I'd suggest you stop linking people to it.

I had expected to see some material on how one would achieve tasks that a realtor would normally perform for you. I can at least understand how this open data stuff would help replace the realtor's job of finding houses for you, but what about all the legal mumbo jumbo? I know almost nothing about it, but I know it exists. So how would I tackle it? Is there anything else that a realtor generally does that I'll have to do myself?
So why did he give up? What do you think of Bill Scott BTW? What about Braintree?
Given who owns the company now, I'm pretty sure that they'll be looking for acquisitions to tack onto their upsell activity. Pretty sure that's what this IPO will do. GoDaddy will be buying some companies in a year.
The USA has 319 million people, that means every federal agency is going to have to deal with hundreds of "one in a million" cases, so handling something "rare" badly is still worthy of criticism. Chimerism in humans was reported on in medical journals, and as an issue for tests, since at least the 1950s and appears in the titles of all sorts of academic papers from the fields of biology and medicine from there to now.

I would have thought that if the father is saying she's the mother, she's saying she's the mother, she has the birth certificates saying that she's the mother, witnesses to the births like her parents and there is no person missing those children or claiming to be the real mother it would be reasonable to consider the possibility it is an edge case even if you still thought fraud was more likely.
> you still need a very well oiled and consistent automated testing

I would say this is true for any professional team. Nowadays I don't even develop personal projects without continuous delivery. The idea has been out there for years, and this year in particular there have been lots of articles explaining how to do it.
Brilliant; and an unfortunate reality for her. Not in the sense of sacrifice, but in why she had to make the sacrifice.

I have no doubt she'll get that dream though... :)
PyMondrian: Mondrian OLAP Cube generator
How Samuel Hulick made over $37,000 with his self-published book
I was being serious, I don't know the entire history of every country. Thanks.
Are you sure? I think the average amount of attention such ads receive may actually be higher than your typical facebook or Google Content Network ad. The person is waiting for the ad to end to get on with what they wanted to do. Chances are pretty good they might be watching it.
It's not really "predicting" the colors, per se. The UV spectra being downloaded contain that information already. The code being demoed here is just a transformation of that data to "perceived" color. It's just a transformation between two equivalent representations, not "prediction" really.

Still, Julia is neat though.
You have free choice to avoid employment with companies that require non-competes.

Moreover you are even welcome to start a company that does not require non-competes and later on have the pleasure of investing in professional development of people who may later turn their talents against you.
I prefer ReactiveUI: https://github.com/reactiveui/ReactiveUI
(though you can use it together with MvvmCross)

It might be an unfair comparison as MvX is a much older project but it felt more like something cobbled together over time than something really thought out. I also really like the reactive approach - your view model describes the relationships between its properties as they change rather than have a morass of interlinked event handlers.

Paul Betts is pretty active within the portable-C# community, with multiple active projects: https://github.com/paulcbetts
and has a pretty good blog, where at the moment he's going back through the RxUI docs: http://log.paulbetts.org/