skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When you make an offer, it comes with "earnest money" which is a deposit on the purchase. There are usually some "contingency clauses" which allow the buyer to back out and get their deposit back. Backing out for any other reason means the seller is entitled to keep the deposit. Typically 1 - 3% of the purchase price is included with the initial offer which increases to about 5% by the time you get to "Purchase & Sale". The money is kept in escrow until the deal closes, but it does prove the buyer at least has some cash on hand they are willing to park in a separate account while the deal goes through or falls apart, so the amount of the deposit and the number of contingencies is a signal to the seller of the buyer's seriousness and also gives some assurances that the buyer will make it to closing.

Typical contingency clauses include a home inspection revealing substantial unknown issues, an appraisal coming in below the sales price, and a mortgage contingency saying the buyer will make reasonable effort to obtain a mortgage but can back out (and get their deposit back) if they are unable to obtain a mortgage.

What the term "all cash offer" means is simply that there is no mortgage contingency in the offer. So if the buyer does need a mortgage to complete the purchase, but they cannot get one, then the seller is entitled to keep the deposit.

It is poor terminology because cash has nothing to do with it. The seller gets cash either way, and the buyer may be obtaining financing before closing either way. It simply has to do with the seller's legal right to keep the deposit under the specific case of a buyer failing to obtain financing.

Buying without a mortgage contingency isn't really a big deal if you actually know how much money you can afford to borrow, and give yourself enough time to actually close on some financing. Buying without an appraisal is a slightly bigger deal, because the LTV (loan-to-value) ratio of the mortgage is calculated based on the appraised or purchase price, whichever is lower. If it appraises low and you are at the maximum LTV already, you will need to increase the down payment to cover the difference in order to close.

Finally, the inspection contingency: Sellers don't want the buyer coming back and saying, "hey I inspected the property and it needs new paint in the 2nd bedrooms closet, we need to reduce the price by $1,000..." so the clause typically says something about "significant undisclosed structural, mechanical, electrical, blah blah". When you see buyers dropping this clause it definitely raises an eyebrow, because, what exactly are you buying if you don't get the chance to even properly have some-one look it over? On the other hand, the typical inspection is made to look "comprehensive" with big long checklists but most of the items are complete nonsense, and no real invasive inspection of the property is typically taking place, so I can see why some people just dispose with the ritual.
Looking at the wayback machine, it seems that they used to use tool called UberProxy: https://sites.google.com/a/google.com/uberproxy/

Source: http://web.archive.org/web/20130716091355/http://corp.google...
You're just repeating yourself now. You are not making logical arguments or responding to arguments made before.

> That you don't like the other countries out there (they aren't "fair alternatives") does not mean that, suddenly, taxation here is actually theft.

Yes, it does. The word for it is extortion.

1. No consent existed to begin with and money was taken forcibly. Theft. By definition. Go argue with a dictionary.

2. An alternative presents itself but the alternative is rape and so the choice is between theft or rape. This is called extortion. By definition. Go argue with a dictionary.
Here's a [biased] bit on Wolfram, the person: http://chem.tufts.edu/science/Shermer/E-Skeptic/SkepticsOnWo...

TL;DR
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Although it is clear that Wolfram is no crank, not someone skeptics would label a pseudoscientist, skeptics will notice that, despite his flawless credentials, staggering intelligence, and depth of knowledge, Wolfram possesses many attributes of a pseudoscientist: (1) he makes grandiose claims, (2) works in isolation, (3) did not go through the normal peer-review process, (4) published his own book, (5) does not adequately acknowledge his predecessors, and (6) rejects a well-established theory of at least one famous scientist.
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If this also covers the place she's living, it might not be such a bad deal.
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Bummer that they'll be shutting down a pretty useful service...

"Umano will continue running for the next 30 days until June 12, 2015. All annual Premium subscribers have those 30 days to request a refund for the remainder of their subscriptions here."
"In 1992, David purchased 5MB of data space from his local Internet service provider, taught himself how to code a website, and put his designs on the web." I like his style! Smart guy and a true artist!
It works perfectly in my Iphone.
I don't think that's fair. It's a fun time waster, similar to 2048. I didn't enjoy 2048 very much, but others loved it and it boomed. This game has the potential to perform very well, too, in my opinion. I'm almost certain it'll go viral in the coming days.

I probably won't play solo that much and I'll probably only play the multiplayer a few times. I'm not too into mobile games or small games. Regardless, I think it's a winner.
It's because they use metaprogramming so extensively. As an example, HOL4 (I can only speak for that) accepts a script written by the user (as though in a REPL), compiles and runs it, and produces an sml theory file which represents their defined theory [0]. The user when they start their next theory are supposed to use this computer generated code.

You would have to write your own repl, write your own way of loading, writing theories etc and by that time you've lost performance (HOL even after 20 years of progress and tweaks now has only mostly ok performance).

So it would at least require some rearchitecting, which is my point; it's not a drop in replacement.

[0] - This is AES, before and after building!
https://gist.github.com/j-baker/244ef3e59f19d74c352b
Works for me...

http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/youtube.com
Just made some changes, wins consistently -> https://gist.github.com/alandownie/8e2fe28e9edf356ac966

Basically same, but giving weight left<>right based on the value of the number.

EDIT: Oooh... just discovered, 20 x 2 is a thing... go twentybot!
can you explain, specifically, how a 14% tax "evolved over the past century in response to abuses by both tenants and landlords"?
"The Big Kill: New Zealand's Crusade to Rid Itself of Mammals"

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/12/22/big-kill
Router management is something very common - and you start to learn all the OUIs very quickly, and fe80::0213:50FF:FE12:3456 starts to get into your finger DNA. Eventually you start to learn all your devices by the last 24 bits of their MAC address, and that's all you need to remembers - the first part (fe80::0213:50FF:FE) is natural.

In some ways, this is a big advantage of IPv6 over IPv4. You don't need those craptastic "Client Software" apps to configure the IP address (I'm looking at you Netgear), because every IPv6 device comes with it's only link-local IPv6 address, ready to go.
I find as I get older I get more organized and disciplined. Maybe its because memory isn't as good at absorbing information as effortlessly as it used to be.
Nice. It feels like the linking of pieces starts to early, or is even unnecessary. It takes longer to finish a game without it, but the linking feels unnecessary.

Good work! This one I'd buy.
Most comments here are so sad. Looks like most people are simple jealous of Yadav's success. People calling him a bastard and mentally unstable. Shame on you guys. Make me wonder what these commenters have achieved. Especially @arihant. Calling another a bastard and unstable is more telling of @arihant himself rather than yadav.
I'm repeating myself because taxation isn't theft, and you keep coming up with a variety of statements that don't actually support the false assertion that it is.

You also keep ignoring the facts that:
1) You consent to taxation by living here,
2) And your parents consented for you when you were too young to do on your own.

You keep saying "no consent existed" but it has existed all your life, first by your legal guardians, and now by you.
AWS “Noisiness”, or the effect of the UK elections on the shared infrastructure
"Rich Man, Poor Man" by Irwan Shaw. Classic - I have been staying up way too late recently. I can't stop reading the damn thing.
Sometimes QE land where they don't belong ... The global economy is having a glut of cash right now.
Yes, and 'not cutting the grass' laws are frequently ABUSED by governments to basically kick out poor people from their neighborhood and pave it over for redevelopment for cronies.
for ssh, they use chrome ssh plugin and connect via ssh-over-http now. no vpn needed.
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Could it? Sure.

Of course, kernel devs were already confident enough to merge breaking code without the added confidence of a partial unit test suite in place.
Didn't go down that way for me. Their sign up form kept giving 503, and each time it did that, the form reset saving nothing I entered. That is a UX fail.

The form is not clear on expectations, when you don't follow them, it fails, resetting itself. That is a UX fail.

The service is only available in Metros, but they never say that during onboarding. Even their sign up form has all Indian cities. You put up your listing and if Housing is not in your city, you simply never get contacted. Fail without notice. That is a UX fail.

I managed to have 3 accounts with same e-mail. That is a massive, massive incompetent engineering. That is a UX fail.

UX and UI are not the same thing. Beauty is seen. Experience is felt. Housing's interaction design is absolute junk.
Some apps have lower profit margins than others. Also some companies need to be able to integrate with their realtime channels on the backend (E.g. for doing custom realtime analytics, integrating with third-party services, applying transformations/filtering to messages in realtime, capturing certain messages for storing in your database, launching various realtime-based background tasks, etc... You do lose a lot of flexibility by going with a service like Pusher. Though it is well designed and very convenient.)
Do you recall any specifics? I used Elm for a couple of weeks but found no unexpected behaviors in the batteries included.
secure shell is NOT ssh-over-http
Investment is not. Flipping and speculation - I can live without.
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You also need a valid reason to have a gun- you can be a member of a gun club and be a recreational shooter, or for animal control (my license) but to have that you have to have a property to shoot on
> Almost like a book

Books do have structure. They have sections, although these are named chapters. They have a summary at the back. Also, many books provide an "Introduction" and/or "Abstract" section (frankly, novels don't have that, but there are more interesting books out there than just novels).

> I pity the "tl;dr"/buzzfeed generation

Me too. When deciding what to read, I think it's better to filter the article to read by their summary (if they had one), rather than merely by their short, link-baity titles.
it's easy to forget that he raised $90mm to begin with. So somebody came away impressed enough to drop the money into the company:

http://techcrunch.com/2014/12/15/softbank-housing-dot-com-in...

With the money they didn't stand still, they started hustling and built an outstanding buy/rent site that kills the ugly competition (magicbricks, commonfloor, indiaproperty).

Have to admit that the "Look Up" campaign has been nothing short of silly.
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For the past 6 months I've been learning Russian and am still struggling to break through. While I'm making progress, it's very slow going and I'm looking for a better way short of moving there (maybe in a few years).

Every piece of advice I've received has fallen into 1 of 2 categories - the traditional (grammar heavy lectures, canned dialogues, workbook exercises, flashcard drills...) or the pragmatic (talking with native speakers, local language groups, learning only the vocabulary for common situations, watching subtitled movies). I've tried different cocktails of all these. I do learn from the traditional methods, but only if I repeat them 10 times. And while the practical methods are more authentic, I end up drowning in the uncharted waters of the language instead of absorbing it.

Is learning a language just miles of crawling through the shit, or is there a way to make non-linear progress? I'm willing to try anything.
As far as I can tell, this is no better than IMDB except for its superior feel of design. Even regarding design most people like to go with minimalist these days.

I understand that this is development version, what kind of search are you using as I could'nt match "grave of fireflies" but got a hit with "grave of the fireflies".

Here are some things that could consider to differentiate from IMDB.
Most often the reason I go to IMDB would be for their rating, but the rating system is based on averages with probably some varying weights for the respondents(critics). But what I care more about is not what people have rated, but I would want to know what is the average rating my friends have given or even a certain group of like minded people have marked, this could be a more appropriate way for understanding ratings. This way I would'nt have to go about cursing IMDB every time I watch a movie.
I said he isn't a "world-changing bastard".

And if you're running a 1500 crore company and spend time fighting on Twitter, crashing cars, impulsively resigning, abusing your own investors, giving away your shares impulsively, you would be hard pressed to find people who will call you stable.

Is there any guarantee that Rahul won't retract this decision by next week? There isn't, and that is unstable behavior.
> You consent to taxation by living here

Why this is wrong was addressed previously so not gonna repeat myself.

> And your parents consented for you when you were too young to do on your own.

Your parents cannot give this consent for you. Can they consent for you to be raped? Would their approval of you being raped suddenly make it not rape?

No. You're arguments are nonsensical. Go home. I'm done here.
Why change a process that works without a compelling reason?
Next obvious step: Compile the kernel into BPF using LLVM and run it inside itself.
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I would like to know what type of stuff they are able to run/use one the thing.
Yeah Dave Thomas has written about it here too http://pragdave.me/blog/2014/03/04/time-to-kill-agile/ and also Mike Cohn one of the developers of scrum has criticised blindly following methodologies (which is sort of related) http://www.mountaingoatsoftware.com/blog/dont-blindly-follow
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As a datapoint .. we're from the Toronto area ... we looked for renting a home in a remote community - a few hours away from Toronto. I am shocked to see how urban prices have creeped into the area. 450K for a nice house in the boonies? Also, rents are through the roof. All the landlords we spoke to who weren't professionals seemed to have 1 main home in the community and two or three others that they bought and renovated.

As someone who doesn't own land and was hoping to do so later in my career, I am scared. I knew I was priced out of major cities where the good jobs are (e.g. for my spouse). Since I can theoretically work remote for the most part, I thought .. it'll be okay. Now, I am getting a feeling of dread that I have been priced out of a huge chunk of the market.

I am beginning to think that a rise in interest rates won't dampen property prices where there has been significant foreign investment. It'll hurt the mom and pop landlords but not the foreigners putting up all cash.

Here is the frustrating part .. this chain of logic says I need to buy something right now ... buy into the bubble! (Housing in Toronto and Vancouver is widely considered to be a bubble). I've essentially held out for 7 years and it is getting to the breaking point. If I had bought into the same (but at that time smaller) bubble, my "investment" would have doubled.

Am I screwed?
Reading the reading list!
The very definition of agile seems itself to be very "agile" and constantly changing depending on the discussion.
It's not just management, the relationship between coworkers can be harder to develop when you're not (for example) having lunch together.
Aside from TOTP, as pointed out by TOTP:

- the Yubikey is a hardware authentication token (with various modes - in particular, the "type my password" mode can be plugged into nearly anything)

- companies like Duo Security sell two-factor authentication

- ssh-agent (part of OpenSSH) allows you to keep authenticating, with or without confirmation

- you can get a lot of security from doing your web browsing and your development/system administration on different machines

Of course, it's hard to recommend something without any details about your situation or what you're looking for.

Also, there is no conspiracy. People just don't care that much about security.
Excellent comment.

As I understand it, they mostly did this for themselves. A change of one pixel doesn't concern any user, but it communicates the pride you take in your work.
Unfortunately the kernel does have loops…
20% isn't worthless if you're browsing on a mobile phone on a slow GPRS connection.

From an end user perspective, I get sick of all the responsive sites that look pretty on all screen sizes, but loads like a sack of shit on anything slower than WiFi. Which is why the libraries I write auto-minimize live code (they also use smaller dependencies, but that can be mitigated by your public CDN point).
Nice will try thanks
Taxi drivers face fewer repercussions for shitty driving. Interestingly, as a function of Uber being illegal here, Uber drivers are super duper careful about what they're doing; if they have an accident, then the traffic authority isn't going to be very happy with them.

But, to be honest, a crappy driver is a crappy driver. Taxi drivers just seem to be worse in my personal experience.
SF snark aside, there are some parallels. Portland Metro's urban growth boundary[1] has both reined in sprawl and reduced the availability of cheap land for development. Combine this with horrendous traffic on the major suburban arterials (I-5, I-84, OR-26, I-205) and you have a sustained demand for close-in residential properties.

You could call this an "artificial constraint", but it's also part of what makes the Portland metro region a desirable place to live.

[1] http://www.oregonmetro.gov/urban-growth-boundary
Pretty high douche factor. Seems like the only good they do is throw charity galas to show off.
Don't be an excitement blocker, everyone wants to celebrate, then in the morning we can try to understand what just happened.

But seriously, that is a good question. Maybe we can get an answer when node .12 will be stable as well.
First off, this is not a "quantum computer" as defined by the field. Instead it is a "quantum annealer" that relies on the quantum adiabatic theorem, though it's pretty clear it is impossible for these spins devices to remain completely adiabatic.

They look at mostly combinatorial optimization problems, and largely they can not do anything faster than a classical (non-quantum) computer (i.e. a single laptop).

I read in future versions they may embed classical chips into their D-wave black box. Benchmarks at that point will be sort of silly.
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Needs an explanation
Please don't pattern match the wrong things. Fighting /Crashing Cars/Impulsive could be said of any of the greatest founders including Steve Jobs/Bill Gates. I am not saying that fighting / crashing cars is a pre-requisite to building a great company. You can build a great company despite those characteristics.

Here is another anecdote:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9496238

I have a great story about a startup run by a bunch of insane guys. One of the founders cashed out a ton of money early and bought a $100k car; another founder's dorm buddy proceeded to wreck it within a month. Ron Conway's son used to bring cash to one of the founders, who blew it on drugs and partying while supposedly spending it on business development.
Crazy. Irresponsible. Negligent. Bill Maris would NEVER invest in such people. All of the Valley VCs who are outraged with Secret and the founders' cash-out would NEVER want any of those guys in their portfolios.
Too bad those crazy kids ended up building a $250B company, huh?
Us companies can open offices overseas, and remote collaboration for me surpasses regular one nowadays.
Fantastic game! It really shines on mobile and you've done a phenomenal job of making sure the block sticks with your finger even with aggressive moves. One usability improvement would be to maintain the "hold" state after a block combines.

So if I'm holding a 3 and bring that to another 3 all while keeping my finger held down and then continue to move my finger somewhere else I don't take the new 4 block with me. I have to raise my thumb and do a new tab and swipe. If I can just keep my thumb down then it makes the game more fluid and you can get some nice chaining/combos going.

Also, if you do put in a leaderboard system then you should definitely involve time, and have the timer running when the game is in "paused" state (not background, but pressing the "pause" button deliberately). I've been "cheating" by pausing to collect my thoughts and plan out my moves.

Seriously, a great game - kudos and hope it's a big success for you.

That moment when you hit 20 and then the "twist" I just got a huge smile on my face :)
You can have a SSO server that requires a TLS client certificate signed by your own internal CA, or you could put it behind a VPN authenticated with the certificate. Either way, with no custom software, you get device and use authentication.
I think this guy has an OCD, constantly trying to achieve publicity by using the "Yadav" image for marketing Housing.com. I just feel like this is another similar move, to re-establish his image after all those hatred going around him to the point that he was called the Rahul Gandhi in IT.

He could be X times more successful than me, I'm not going to waste time fighting that argument otherwise I eagerly want to hear out his argument for this move.
It's quite fun and addictive. Slight bug: my laptop screen is a bit too small, so I can't see the time bar.

Good job!
Outrageous. It brings back memories of sites that were simple, fully functional, light, and designed in a non-obnoxious way.
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