skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Out of maybe 100 cab rides from Manhattan to Brooklyn, I have sensed reluctance maybe 5 or 10 times. Definitely get in the cab, close the door, and only then start talking destination.

Also, be aware that they have a counter-strategy if they don't want to take you. One time, my girlfriend and I got into the cab, told him where to go in Brooklyn, and within 60 seconds he had "car trouble". I was pretty sure sure he was bluffing and called him on it, and he said either (can't quite recall) he needed to go to a shop immediately, or he needed a tow. We sat in the cab for about 30 seconds, and then got out. He pulled away, almost certainly to find another fare.

Next time, I will get the details and file a complaint. If he really did have car trouble and a record of service, he should be able to have it dismissed.
OK, but you don't object the supremacist part? Good, we are on the same page.

Now, notice the "after break-up" part. Have a look at this photo:

http://www.nationalgalleries.org/collection/online_az/4:322/...

She was doing an essay on Malcolm X, these fellas attended one of his conventions. The one in the middle threatened to make a lantern out of her (Arnold is Jewish).

In her later interviews she mentioned that many people get really upset when they see this photo, and exhibition curators often objected to its inclusion.
God forbid a service provider be able to decide for themselves what services they actually want to sell.
If you can get past the syntax it's a lot nicer. They remind me of unix command-line tools, but on a much finer-grained level and without all the useless parsing and un-parsing.
Congrates Paul and Harj.
I'd argue that Python is very easy to read for someone new to programming, particularly someone familiar with mathematical notation. Something like:

for animal in ['dog', 'cat', 'bear']:
print animal

strikes me as intuitive and obvious, both absolutely and also relative to the equivalents in other languages.
SF has similar laws. The one I see cab drivers break most often is refusing to accept payment via credit card. If you ever get in a cab in San Francisco and they tell you they don't take credit cards they're either lying or shouldn't be driving the cab in the first place.
> it knows with 100% certainty that it has an unbeatable hand

While your example is a good one, the bot actually doesn't have an unbeatable hand. Another player could have trips or 4/5 of a straight flush and hit a better hand (quads or a straight flush) on the turn/river. Or the board could pair twice and give someone a full house. Unlikely in any case, but not out of the realm of possibilities by any means.
By his same logic, breakfast should be essential, provided you don't eat a large breakfast.

You need to be on the edge of hunger to be creative, not into full-blown hunger. Eat a small breakfast and you'll start to get hungry before lunch. Eat a reasonable lunch, and you'll start to get hungry before dinner, etc.
Is YC an LLC?
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Completely agree, this felt more like a test of basic math skills than a test of behaviour. In real life it tends to be a lot harder to be able to calculate expected value, with some exceptions especially with card games.
Is YC structured as an LLC?
I thought funds are generally LPs.
Fuzzy pattern matching would probably solve that.
Emergent Game Technologies (GameBryo engine) liquidating assets.
I think what you're trying to say is "it doesn't look like my favorite programming language". Never mind that it also is designed with completely different paradigms than what you are accustomed to.
Here is the NYC taxi cab rates.

http://www.nyc.gov/html/tlc/html/passenger/taxicab_rate.shtm...

You have to pay $2.50 just to get in the cab in the first place, no matter how far you go. Thus, it is much better for the driver to do multiple short trips. It also means that longer trips are actually affordable for riders.
I'll post some data and case studies soon. But surely Google's acquisition of Doubleclick validates the model somewhat.

And if you don't buy that, I have anecdotal evidence: I paid for 4 years of college only through buying banner ads on targeted sites.
I'm trying to read through it, but it looks like gibberish.

It's a succession playthrough of a game called Dwarf Fortress. It's something of a city simulation and has been cited as part of the inspiration for Minecraft. You start by generating a world based on some parameters for climate, geology, etc. Then you pick a location in the generated world and embark with seven dwarves (spending points on their starting skills and equipment) to establish a fortress there. You build up your fortress to sustain and defend itself, attract immigrants, trade with the outside world, or whatever in-game project you decide to undertake (people have also devised logical circuits in Dwarf Fortress and used them to construct small computers).

Do players really build all that, or does the ingame AI make those decisions?

The player issues work orders, which are then claimed and fulfilled by individual dwarves. So where to dig and where to build various things is player-directed, though the dwarves may have a bit of leeway as to how and when they do it.

That seems undwarflike.

Every world is different, so there aren't truly any universal characters, but the community (probably with some help from the developer) has more or less decided on the personality of the generic dwarf based on their behavior in game.
nice writeup. caucho's "metaprotocol taxonomy" is great further reading, contrasting REST with other common patterns/protocols:
http://hessian.caucho.com/doc/metaprotocol-taxonomy.xtp
I love seeing more diversity in how people make CouchApps. There's no right answer, so the more options we have, the better off developers will be. Thanks!
I know. But presumably a bot is programmed to play consistently well ... otherwise there's no point in automating the process. I'm not saying a bot's performance would approach that of someone that's cheating, but if they can be consistently successful to the point where they can play a game unattended, I suspect their dot would fall towards (or beyond) the edges of most other players.
The last time I was in NY, I emerged from a hotel in midtown, and asked the next cab waiting in line outside the hotel to take me to SoHo. He just shook his head and sat there. I asked the hotel cab-wrangler if the cab was working, and he just shook his head as well. I walked a block and got a cab on Broadway instead.

Only thing I can figure is that he was holding out for an airport fare. Give that it was raining pretty hard, this was kind of annoying.
Of course best with a personal introduction, but many start-ups don't have one.

Pitching services are good to cast a wide net but just keep in mind that there are tons of start-ups that are blasted out on those channels so it's a bit harder.

Definitely try to get meetings just to talk and discuss early rather than asking for money. If you get them interested and engaged in more of an advice perspective, they tend to be more interested later down the line.
It was a weird title. I did an an quick poll of two non-programmer, LOL-speak experts, and I got these answers:

- If you can read this, you can get a job in financial program (if there were any)

- If you can read this, you can get a job in functional programs/programming (if there were any)

I don't know what this proves.
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You can now pay with plastic in NYC taxis through the little screen/swiper thing in the back seat. :)
> Any idea why a cab driver would want to reject a journey?

As stated by OP, shorter journeys within Manhattan tend to be more profitable. The main reason is that once in an outer borough, it takes longer to find a fare to get the cab back in Manhattan. So they either burn time and gas looking for the right fare, or they burn time and gas driving back to Manhattan empty.

> Does NYC deny this 1.5x for further journeys?

There are myriad rules and fare schedules for journeys outside NYC, airports, etc. The 5 boroughs are within NYC, and this is what OP is addressing.
That is the fugliest thing I've ever seen.

Looks like it's well written, planned and engineered tho.
Haha damnit, you're right. Thanks for pointing that out!
Is that just in NY? Tons of NJ gas stations charge less for cash than for credit/debit.
So now hacker news will get a Project-Titan-killing email service?
can somebody write a LLVM backend for the CPU? :)

Writing an LLVM Compiler Backend
http://llvm.org/docs/WritingAnLLVMBackend.html
I'm giving away a piece of data I planned to keep private and use for my own purposes, but here goes. Full Tilt Poker is now fully Qt. While they built their own slightly modified Qt binaries, it's not hard to get QtScript embedded in FTP. Once you have this, you can get the QObject corresponding to the window handle of a game table, and work backwards from the signals/slots there to find the model QObject. From here, you can enumerate all of the methods and events that the table model object exposes, giving you full access to all information that the client has, as well as allowing you to directly control the client.

I built a framework that lets me use QtScript as a bridge from .NET to FTP, enabling me to trivially introspect and manipulate the game client. Never had time to actually hook bot logic up to it, sadly.
Agreed. I took one of those black Towncars once, and the driver tried to charge me something absurd at the end of the rather short trip. I told him all I had was a twenty, didn't get any change. That was the first and last time I'll ever hail one of those.
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I think it is fundamentally immoral to force someone to take part in a transaction that they don't want to, just because the law forces them to do it. You wouldn't point a gun at them and make them do business with you, why do you want someone else to do it.
You're absolutely wrong - this is the most open ended prediction without any tangible evidence to back it up.

We'll run out of oil first before this happens.

I'm sure I'll get negative karma points for this too. You HN fanboy's tend to negate everything that is contrary to your belief system.
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Maybe if it was just playing heads up (1v1), but with technology where it is today, playing better than a group of good humans is apparently a hard problem.
This is an awesome idea. Well, let me restate that: this is an awesome geek hack.

I posit that this kind of tomfoolery is required because (in my experience) profiling tools are (1) expensive (2) hard to use (3) inaccurate [could be due to #2] or the combination of the preceding.

Also, my current employer's tests run in the order of magnitude of hours, and I doubt very seriously that they are I/O bound (or network bound) in the manner that this page discusses. But, again falling back on the "hard to know without tooling", I couldn't state with any confidence exactly what the problem is with the tests, so this may be a great start toward finding out.
I mostly agree, though I wouldn't stray far from the current "design", just streamline it a bit. The biggest issue would be usability: I didn't like the tedious way it made me choose my city. Also, very minor thing, but it was annoying to input my basic data twice in a row: Just one page before I already told Yafounder who I was and what I was looking for - it should really copy these fields into my search criteria.
I read part of Genji Monogatari during my Japanese studies as an undergrad. It's nearly 1,000 years old and it's absolutely not the same language that's spoken in modern Japan. How much of anything written that long ago could a normal native English speaker understand?

It's just not a reasonable thing to expect from the general populace.
Yes, YC is an LLC.
I've been writing a lot of unix system tools that deal with stream in Node.JS. This might replace some of them.
So for example I live in SF but grew up in Millbrae (which is pretty much where SFO is actually located) I'd park my car there and then take a cheap cab ride back and forth to the airport.

The problem was the cab drivers at SFO are looking to get a $40 fare back to the city, not a local $10 drop off. I've had a driver refuse to take me once (I now know better). In NYC taking a fare to the outer boroughs is usually a one way trip, you're going to have to dead head it back to Manhattan which is time lost.
Awesome stuff. Though I think it would be pretty hard to use. Last I saw the big sites were all monitoring dll loads and os hooks. So actually doing any actions would bring down their wrath.
Btw, as soon as you have more krouds, try showing 'newest' and 'most active' krouds on the front page.
The other problem is even though this is the law, I have had friends who avoid taxi's who don't want to take them because of that sense of hostility.

Unless I'm desperate for a cab, normally I would just find a new one. It's not like SF where there's no way you'll ever find a cab, NY they're so abundant
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Is Y Combinator a full-time job? How long did Paul stayed on Facebook, a couple months? This is odd no?
Any website that uses HTML forms (properly) is at the last level. Also, using the <a href ... > tag is also using HTML as the engine of application state transitions.

This article makes things out to be more complicated than they actually are. Just make decent HTML. REST was extracted from the web, it doesn't need to be imposed on it.
I've updated the strapline just now.
People shouldn't make claims like that honestly. It makes be discount the language almost immediately because I know I can't really trust what's written about it on its site.

Furthermore, there's tons and tons of parallel C code. Probably more than any other language. Almost any decent C library is reentrant. Many of major C projects (mostly thinking of server software and operating system kernels) are threaded.
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Does this mean that PB is leaving Facebook?
Similar rules in London, UK. And, I suppose, most cities.

The standard way to hail a cab in London is to lean in the passenger window when the cab pulls up to you, tell 'em where you're going and then they unlock the doors and you get in.

A couple of times I had people say they weren't going that way, etc. Once I said "I know you have to take me!" but there's not a lot you can do when they say "feck off you cahnt" and drive off. By the time the next day rolls around it's just not worth the effort to file a complaint.

On the other hand, as many times as that happened, I had cab drivers say that they were on the way home, heading in the same direction as I was, and so they stopped the meter early and I got a discount. I also got meters stopped early a few times for showing them a totally awesome short cut near where I lived.
These tests are flawed because the absolute value of the money we're dealing with is too much of a variable between subjects. $1500 is not much for subject A to lose or gain but it is for subject B.

A test should account for that if we want results to be comparable across subjects.
WSOP is far from the only tournament; they're implying Ferguson was a tournament winner very soon after first starting to play in them. Do you believe otherwise?
On your second point, I'd like to ask if that applies to gas stations as well. Because many of them display in big numbers a price that is reserved for cash, while a higher one (~10-15c more a gallon) for credit. Is it illegal?

On a related note, I also believe (no link or citation sorry) that there can't be a maximum on the amount you want to pay with credit. For example, car dealerships tend to say they can only accept up to a certain amount to be put on a credit card, even though the agreements with credit card companies say they can't do that.
Compare this to Google search ... how else are you going to
find stuff on the Internet?

A lot of interesting stuff on the internet I find in my FB news feed where my friends are posting it or liking it.
For shopping it has even more weight: I am more likely to look at what my friends recommend vs. some random stuff out of search.
That's where the vague quote on which I was seeking clarification came from.
That is not necessarily a sign of a good language, though.

ADD 1 TO COBOL GIVING COBOL

is also readable, and yet (thankfully!) we've mostly abandoned COBOL.

And no, I'm not saying Python is bad, or like COBOL - just that readability and quality of a language are not necessarily related.
It's nice of you to say that, but it's impossible. The portfolio effect means that no investment firm ever ends up as big as the most successful individual startups. Nothing beats putting all your eggs in one basket, and having that basket turn out to be an outlier.
Really depends on the company, what you are looking for, and the overall atmosphere within the company. If I were looking at college grad I would look at past experience (any internships, previous work, extracurricular activities). A college grad that was president or treasurer of their fraternity or sorority lets me know that they probably get along well with others and have some basic organizational skills. Someone that has interned is going to hopefully have some real world experience in the field.

For an admin asst or office manager you are going to want someone who is halfway decent with people, but more importantly has good organizational skills and time management. You are going to want someone who can think on their feet and outside the box when needed. You are also going to want to have someone that is reliable and will be there on time and when needed. How you screen really depends on coming up with a list of priorities such as these and looking at the individual's background/experience along with interviewing them to determine how they fit into those priorities.

Customer service reps is a high turnover field so finding someone who has been in the industry for years with the same company may prove challenging. You are going to want to find someone that is "people friendly" and good with dealing with stressful situations (angry customers, etc...). It may be easier to find someone new to the field who is good at this, as I would imagine the "burn out" rate is high for these jobs. People grow cold to customer complaints, etc... and begin treating customers poorly.

Data entry, you are going to want someone who is good at typing and can enter things quickly. A basic typing test would be good here. Depending on the level of data entry you require you may have the person doing some basic error checking along the way which entail an ability to think quickly and react accordingly.

Long story short, when coming up with the job description for these positions I would put together a wants/needs list for the type of person you desire. As you receive applications/resumes for the positions do a basic screen against those wants/needs. Remember that a need always outweighs a want. For example, if you want someone with a college degree that has X years office manager experience, you should be able to sacrifice the college degree for substantial experience in the field (especially if the experience is directly related to your industry). If you find yourself throwing away more resumes than you may have to reevaluate your wants/needs list to see what you can sacrifice (in other words your standard for needs are set to high). If you are getting to many good resumes start evaluating more on the wants side of the list.
It's a fact about the industry that most such consultants-authors-speakers don't actually build systems themselves and haven't for a long time. If you want to get prominent at it, telling other people how to build things is itself a full-time job. The contradiction here is unfortunately very real.
I would LOVE to see that
Here's the wiki link to "lean startup"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lean_Startup
My experience is that if you do not look like a white yuppie, cabs won't even stop for you to refuse service, especially at night. I once grew a goatee that made me look Hispanic, and I couldn't hail a cab at night to save my life.

I was upset about this and even once filed a complaint with the Taxi and Limousine Commission (TLC) after a cab slowed down, looked at me, then sped away to pick up a white guy down the street. However, for the complaint to result in a sanction, you have to show up at the TLC court to testify, or the complaint is tossed. I didn't want to spend a day in TLC court so I didn't follow up.

When it got warmer, I shaved my goatee and stopped wearing my leather jacket. Magically, I then got picked up every time. I was disgusted by this and now I take cabs only in extremis.
http://techcrunch.com/2009/08/10/facebook-acquires-friendfee...

FF was acquired about 15 months ago, so that's about how long Paul was at Facebook.

Also, I imagine being a partner in YC is very much a fulltime job.
Negotiate through the window before you get in, they have set prices based on "zones". Those towncars are roughly twice as expensive I find. I Don't tip those guys since it they are doing it without the dispatcher's knowledge so it's pure profit for them
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1898669
It's amazingly easy to get around such things. Eventually I'll write up a blog post on how I've gone about it, and potential future ways of doing it.

For the record, monitoring DLL loads is silly, because well, it only monitors DLL loads. If you load the DLL into memory yourself (essentially replicating the standard functionality), it's a non-issue, and that's not terribly hard.
To expand on harscoat's comment, it's exciting to me (and I imagine to many others) that you'll be part of it, and I expect YC to be even more world-changing now.
It's always seemed to me that the difficulty with hypermedia controls is not how to have your server expose them, which is straightforward enough, but how to have your client do something useful with them.

It basically means writing your client as a state-graph navigating agent, which makes it closer to AI-ish programming (not surprising, since the argument for REST has been that web services should be structured more like the human-browsable web) than the input -> output or interactive event-driven paradigms that most programmers are more conversant with.

Yet the books and online evangelism etc. for REST that I've seen don't really address this issue.