skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Trulia and Zillow definitely provided a step forward. 15 years ago, the market was intentionally opaque. Local boards of realtors controlled the flow of information on available properties, making it very hard for people to buy property without giving a 6-7% commission to agents and brokers.

That doesn't mean the market can't get still more efficient, but having a nice presentation of public data is definitely worth appreciating.

I'd also add that real estate agents can provide substantial value. Many don't, of course. But buying a house is an enormously complicated transaction, with a lot of legal, financial, and material complexity. Buying a business is even more tricky. To me it's similar to having a lawyer: there are good ones and bad ones, and sometimes you might not need one at all. But they're not pure waste.
The pricing (on the compute flavor especially) is appealing -- can certainly see uses for it.

Looking forward to OnMetal being available in other regions, especially ORD.

I'm one of the skeptics -- but that's because I've had very few problems with Rackspace cloud instance performance in general; rather, it's the control plane reliability which has caused 99% of the pain.

As an aside, I find the Cloud Servers SLA disappointing, as it defines control plane availability as 1 – (Total API Errors)/(Total Valid API Requests) . Can't launch instances on Super Bowl Sunday? Tough. The failed POSTs to /servers will never trigger a violation, so long as GET /servers is working:

http://www.rackspace.com/information/legal/cloud/sla

Most SLAs remedies are weak ("we break the SLA you get a free t-shirt"), but this one is broken to the point of glossing over fundamental outages.
Totally. It would be cool if IFTTT started getting banks & credit cards on board, that way it "just works" and you don't have to write custom software to export your transactions.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gresham%27s_law
New rule: developers, let's demand 50% of the sales team's commission for contracts sold on promised features.
Unrelated to the post, but I hate static fixed headers so much. I think I hate any kind of fixed element that covers content.
Several years ago, C9 announced App Engine support. Does it support it now?
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As far as number of listings of on-market homes, Zillow and Trulia are certainly very close to one another. Possibly in your local market that wasn't the case, but generally speaking it is.

At Trulia, we also calculate Estimates for properties but in most cases we do not show that data. In theory, the estimates work much the same way an appraisal works: Comparing the home on its various attributes to recent sold homes nearby. Obviously it's not possible to capture the essence of an Appraiser in an algorithm, but we display the estimates in cases where we feel it's better than just showing an old, out-dated last sale price.
I'd be more interested in how many cycles it takes. I mean at 2 billion instructions per second, do you really notice a difference between 30 and 10 instructions? However, if any/all/many of the stall on data or something, then yes, it matters.
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Regardless of the company always keep the payment certificates/receipts

Yes, dealing with the tax authorities directly is usually more complicated (might be simpler for a sole proprietor/small number of employees)
You should expand on this.
:)

It's the little things, isn't it?

Regarding JSON support, Gosu has map literal syntax and integrates easily enough with Google's GSON library. Not great, but not terrible.

More speculatively, I put together a type-loader to work with JSON content specified using JSchema:

https://github.com/gosu-lang/Goson

But I'm not sure it works with the current release. (This HN post caught us mid-rework...)
AirBnB could just suggest to people to only rent a unit for 29 days, find another AirBnB property for 2-3 days to "break the streak" and the have the person in question return to the unit for another 29-day streak. I would imagine that all you really need to do is break the the contractual relationship into 29-day chunks with a provable different contractual relationship (another AirBnB host) for the interim between sub one month stays.
and it gets a fair amount of press over the NASA-hosted D-Wave they partially funded.
Financial Software. Only people in finance could be fooled into thinking that its "cutting edge".
Someday I want to visit (0,0), lots of interesting things happen at the center of euclidean earth.
Isn't that the fundamental problem with percentage based compensation? It doesn't take that much more work to buy / sell a million dollar home vs. a $300k one, but the agent's income is vastly different.
"They don't invent crazy new things."

In the world of fast food, I see this as a problem. Taco Bell released the Dorito Loco Taco which has now made its way on to the main menu. Subway releases new promotional subs and items like the Flatizza, it seems almost bi-monthly. While the latter may not be as big of a success, it still garners awareness.

I can't think of one "crazy" item Burger King has released in the last few years.
The official GNU Emacs Manual is good. I've slowly been working my way through it. It's a free download:

http://shop.fsf.org/product/Emacs_Manual_24/
I thought through this some, and your comment resonates -- it's not right to set aside scientific code from other code with a complicated domain.

But I think complicated program segments related to business practices etc. also deserves comments, even just "see spec xyz" or "see section 1.2.3 of code xyz" (similar to how you might say "See Smith et al. '14" in a scientific setting)
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I'm not totally familiar with the Navier-Stokes equations, but from what I've just read (please correct me if I'm wrong!), I think the difficulty of the Navier-Stokes equation is reasoning about the solution set, while with quantum constructions the issue is whether or not a solution exists for some specific macroscopic system.
> But I don't understand what Zillow brings to the table.

As an end user (albeit a window shopper so far), the map-based searching on both Zillow and Trulia is really nice. Map-based searching on Redfin feels kind of clunky and slow by comparison.
He hits upon a good point with the criticism of gerrit. For instance, I recently pushed a set of 14 patches through a gerrit review: all of them related. But they had to go through one by one. The reviewers are looking at the set of changes through a peephole, and you end up having to defend things along the lines of "I promise that is taken care of in the patch after the next one; please approve this."

There are ways to submit multiple patches, but there are issues with all of them, so I patiently work one by one, not submitting the next patch at all until the previous one clears.

If you submit multiple patches that are parented off each other in the normal way, then it triggers too much activity whenever the posterior ones get rebased.

Rebasing dependent patches to a common parent is not always feasible.

If you do submit multiple unrelated patches such that they are rebased to a common parent, the system can still be overwhelmed, if some of the reviewers are robots that trigger builds. Suddenly, you've kicked off twelve independent builds, one for each patch.
I expect Amazon will stay the hell away from that market. Note that they haven't even gone after cars, which are a much easier thing to sell.

Homes are a mess: novice buyers and sellers, complicated laws, tricky financial deals, and a "product" that is complex, unique, and can have many hidden flaws. Real estate agents frequently get sued when things go wrong [1] [2]. The last thing Amazon needs is to get in the middle of that.

[1] http://www.risceo.com/10%20Most%20Frequently%20Made%20Claims...

[2] http://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/emerging-trends-in-lawsuits...
Public health issues like vaccination aren't like other issues. Vaccination decisions aren't made in a bubble where only you suffer if you get sick or become a carrier.

There will always be a certain portion of the populace that cannot receive a specific vaccination because of allergies or a weakened immune system that cannot handle it.

The whooping cough epidemics that have been sweeping through anti-vaccination areas in recent years are an example of how a decision that you make for your kids can result in other people dying.
And the Open Source distribution of Cloud9 has always been a complete nightmare to install (in my experience). It's always felt like the OSS part was for show ("hey, use our cloud service - it's also (sort of) OSS").
I've never understood these "business friendly" rankings. If CA is so terrible to businesses, then why are there so many successful businesses in CA?
As somebody who has been on the developer side of that, I'd say that it depends on the feature, and on the available time. If you are sure that it's viable (as I'm assuming the author was), why not?

I'd still prefer to frame it as "that's on our roadmap, and will be done by the time we close the contract", but then, there's little practical difference.
I'm not a realtor but I'm not sure "It doesn't take that much more work to buy / sell a million dollar home vs. a $300k one" is true. I wouldn't be surprised if it involved pickier clientele with more difficult to accommodate hours, for one.
I use Smex + ido-vertical-mode which looks like this: http://klibert.pl/ido-vertical.png. It's closer to how the "command palette" looks like than the normal ido. It doesn't display keybindings next to commands like Sublime does, but if you have `suggest-key-bindings` set, Emacs will show you command binding when you execute it: http://klibert.pl/suggest-key-binding.png

Helm (https://github.com/emacs-helm/helm) is another way of doing this, although I don't use it (yet - I'm going to check it out sooner or later).

The "command palette" (M-x or <esc>: in Emacs/Vim respectively) is a very useful tool for both exploring and working with the editor. It's kind of sad that people forgot about it for a few decades and only rediscovered it recently thanks to Sublime and similar.
vi: runs everywhere, installed by default on most linux distributions.

emacs: incredibly customizable, you can re-write the way your editor works. Some features that I find important: editing files remotely over SSH, running a shell inside the editor (so the same editing commands work in the shell), easy to write custom file finding functions for searching different parts of a codebase, git integration (a semi-GUI interface to git), and if another editor has a feature, someone has probably created a package that adds that functionality to emacs. Also has tetris and pong.
Maybe it's because Burger King is more willing to make their items spicy?
You're absolutely right in this specific case.

The sales people will go crazy, so don't let them sell anything.

Have the technical people evaluate that.
You are referring to a phenomenon known as vaporware [0]. Microsoft was notorious for using this strategy of pre-announcing features in order to kill smaller competitors from developing them, afraid that they won't be able to compete with the 800-pound gorilla [1]. Lots of other companies starting copying this tactic, so much so that tech industry publications like Wired started bringing out annual lists of vaporware [2]. Eventually the Justice Department filed lawsuit against Microsoft [3]. Amicus is just following a long, time-honored tradition.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaporware

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/1995/04/24/business/information-techn...

[2] http://archive.wired.com/culture/lifestyle/news/2005/01/6619...

[3] http://www.justice.gov/atr/public/press_releases/1998/1764.h...
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Zestimates are worse than random. There seems to be no sanity-checks in the algo whatsoever.

Check out this Baltimore home. In a single month it's estimate went from $700k to $300k, then back to over $700k during the worst part of the housing slump, and back down to $300k during the recovery. lol wut?

http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/business/realestate/blog/Zil...
Yes we use architect. It is at the core of Cloud9. We use it specifically client side. Our updates will find it's way back to the OSS repo soon.
> Unilaterally shutting her out is probably the worst thing the doctor could do.

Really? That's what she has done to her doctor. She's chosen a life of potential suffering and death for her children because she wasn't paying attention. If someone has ignored the internet ads, billboards, magazine reports, news articles, and their own doctor, they're not going to change their tune just because someone prettied up the message bit (even though that's exactly what people have been doing for years now, plenty of examples if you look for them).

In the end, I think shutting her out is the best course of action in this story, if only for the children. And for her - it's shaken up her life enough to make her start asking interesting questions.
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The Republic of Null Island, "like no place on Earth":

http://www.nullisland.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Null_Island
I thought it was a really weird direction for the Cloud9 gaming team to take.
I think you are wrong on the control and privacy issue. It would seem to me to be more a lack of understanding on what control and privacy mean for the average user. Most Internet users are like most car owners. They have no idea about the inner workings, nor do they care. They don't generally assume that having a seat belt is more safe than not having one. And they generally trust that the manufacturer has their [the user's] individual best interests in mind when developing, building, and selling the car. -- Likewise, most internet users firmly believe that if it was "good" for me it would be already "built-in" to the system. This inherent trust in what is presented is the problem, rather than consumers not wanting control and privacy.
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Police have a long history of not standing up for victims, too. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrian_Schoolcraft, where a NYC cop was forcibly committed to a psych facility for recording evidence that his precinct was discouraging victims from formally reporting crimes to keep stats down.

Calling Sarkeesian's harassment a fiction appears to fly in the face of all available evidence. Lots of cites at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anita_Sarkeesian for it.
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Agreed -- SLAs are a pet peeve of mine. I wrote a post [0] about this a few years ago, it still feels fairly current. Basically, I don't think SLAs are a useful tool for managing service provider relationships; it's too difficult to capture nuance in a legal document. Transparency and track records seem like a more realistic approach. We've been seeing some movement here, but not much. Most service providers offer very little hard data about historical performance, and don't say enough about their internal operations to let you make a realistic assessment of disaster probabilities.

[0] http://amistrongeryet.blogspot.com/2011/04/slas-considered-h...
You probably can't. Private companies are picky about who they let on their cap tables. That's what makes them "private".

The first thing people bring up when people ask this question is ROFR, but I think that may get your hopes up. ROFR suggests that the issuer might be forced to match whatever price you find for your shares in the market. Put aside for a second how hard it will be to get a price for those shares.

What's (I think?) a little more likely to be a problem for you than ROFR is that your shareholder agreement probably more or less prohibits unauthorized transfers of company stock. Boilerplate agreements have clauses requiring board approval for transfers.†

Finally: it's awfully hard to sell shares in a business without being able to disclose the numbers for the business. But you probably won't have the applicable numbers: revenue, projections, expenses.

The stories you hear about private shares being sold in secondary markets usually involve gigantic runaway successes, like Twitter. A company having raised 8MM absolutely does not mean your shares are worth anything on paper; the money the company took from investors was pledged to growing the company as a condition of the investment.

† (good: http://www.nycbar.org/pdf/report/uploads/20071830-TheEnforce... )
Mildly interesting. Gosu definitely has some features that would be nice in Java, and would have been impressive 10 years ago, but here and now, it just looks like a slightly different spin on a dozen other languages I have seen before.

It would be very helpful if the creators made a page (linked to right from the home page) explaining their philosophy and guiding principles, and how their design differs from other languages in the same space. Don't tell us fluffy things like "we choose simplicity over complexity". #1, that is not a trade-off. #2, "simplicity" is such a vague and overused word that it's hard to know what you mean. (What I think they mean by "choosing simplicity" is: keeping the feature set and number of syntactic constructs small.)

Another point: "For the JVM" is a 2-edged sword. If I see a programming language described as "for the JVM", it would make me think twice about investing the time to learn it. The JVM is good technology and I do make use of it, but for reasons I won't detail here, I don't want to be locked in to it.

"Can run on the JVM" is a different matter. "The compiler has a JVM backend, among others" is great. "Currently runs only on the JVM, other backends are coming" is OK.

If Gosu was specifically designed for very tight integration with Java, such that it wouldn't make sense to separate it from the JVM, that is a design trade-off and should be explained on the "design rationale" page I suggested above.
No. I'm sure they were aware of it.

I just don't think people have to abandon a cool name just because someone somewhere registered a domain or has a twitter handle with the same name.

Ideally you make up a new word for your new enterprise. But it ends up being harder than you think if you are trying to name something with an identifier that means something in a domain. Anyone that has to name a new product or company can attest to this.
Servers have a lot of nice features that are hard to replicate in a totally decentralized environment - I say this as someone who experimented a lot with different peering structures for a hobby project.

And indeed, this too seems to rely on persistent nodes, though they don't say in what capacity (whether they work like torrent trackers or if they actually relay content).

In an increasingly mobile-flavored network where one person has many devices it makes sense to have servers. However, that doesn't mean we all need to get behind the mega silos of Facebook and Google. The early internet actually got this right, both technologically and topoligically.

The problem is partly cultural since we have gotten used to the all-or-nothing, anti-federation approach of Web 2.0+, but it's also due to the inability to deliver and change features in a timely manner. But if, say, Facebook UI innovations were to stagnate (and some say that they already have), it would become more feasible to implement a slower-moving federated service.
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If you really want a “repository of all knowledge”, though, the main thing you need is standardization of wiki APIs and dump formats, such that you could, say, create DB dump file that contained “Wikipedia, all its siblings, and every Wikia wiki” and fixed up all the links between them.
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I've done quite a lot of work over the past few years on graph algorithms and I may have found a rather powerful approach to solving the graph isomorphism problem.

The thing is I don't have much interest in publishing papers or working on problems that don't have applications and it's not clear to me that this problem does.

Does anyone know of any real world applications for a better GI algorithm ?
Regarding how Zestimates are calculated, see http://www.zillow.com/zestimate/ --a lot of high level explanation there.
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As someone who works for Joel, I have the same question. I'm fairly certain all the Fog Creekers think Joel spends all his time with us at Stack, and all the Stackers think Joel spends all his time at Fog Creek.
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Looks like a standing-only desk, which probably isn't what most people want.
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We picked language from the article that seems to describe it.
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The holder of a small minority stake in a company almost certainly can't use the company's valuation at its last investment round as a floor, because that valuation set the terms of a specific sale of stock under a specific set of terms (board seat, antidilution, preferences, &c), which the minority shareholder isn't in a position to offer to anyone else. The VC valuation was also the product of due diligence and access to information that no minority shareholder could share with an outsider, which adds a huge amount of risk to the sale, which you'd expect to see taken out of the value of the shares.
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Do you have a link to said essay?

Edit: Here's the link, I believe. http://paulgraham.com/submarine.html
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I sometimes use a personal OpenVPN install I have on AWS. I know from experience that Stack Overflow and Yelp block me; presumably, they block the whole range.
There is some quantitative truth to what he said, actually. San Francisco does have more single people than other cities, and in fact has almost 12% more single people than St. Louis does. So probabilistically speaking, there is a higher chance that someone you hire in SF will be single (and therefore more likely to put in looong hours) than someone you hire in St. Louis (who may be strict in going home at 5pm to be with family).

Source:
SF has 44.7% single people,
St. Louis has 32.9% single people

http://www.bestplaces.net/docs/studies/solocities_list1.asp
As long as you put "Extension School", It seems strange that someone would think you went to undergrad there.

Then again, I ride the Ⓣ every day. Maybe people just have no clue what "Harvard Extension School" is.
I'm not claiming there aren't huge downsides to being in SF. I'm claiming

- there are some advantages, but it depends

- the advantages depend on your target market, the stage of your company, and your desired direction, in terms of bootstrapping vs. raising

- you can't know ahead of time which way (SF vs. STL) will be more advantageous, and you can't repeat the experience, because the second time you'll have more experience, more talent, etc. This is a path-dependent experience.

Maybe if they did the startup in SF, they'd meet an advisor who changed the direction of the company to something even better, or maybe they wouldn't, in which case low cost of living in STL is an advantage. But pointing at cost-of-living alone isn't a useful comparison.