skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Credit Card companies offer the rewards to encourage people to use their cards. The rewards may be about 1% of spend or so in general. By encouraging people to spend more, a significant proportion of those people will fail to pay the card off in full each month and get charged X% interest (not sure what common rates are, but they are pretty steep).

I'd imagine the companies have done their sums, and make much more on interest that they pay out in rewards when averaged across a large number of customers.

I would also suspect (haven't researched it) that reward paying cards will have a higher interest rate than non-reward cards.
All of the above is best. :-) We are looking for (1) someone who is familiar with the bluetooth stack, e.g. please experience with the stack source code. The objective is to port some existing stack to a specific hardware (radio). (2) Also someone very familiar with bluetooth chipset on the market.
...which works great for the small groups I manage, but can get unmanageble for larger groups. I believe jQuery moved from Google Groups to Zoho due mainly to the spam problem.
As of a few years ago my school accepted CCs, but charged a $25 fee to do so.
How does a stunt like this affect your credit rating?
Anyone else sick of articles implying that anyone who doesn't want to support Wikileaks is "bowing to pressure" from some unnamed "they" (probably Republicans)? Wikileaks very much seems to have an anti-US agenda and I can totally understand why an American company would want nothing to do with them.
I'm going to use it myself, so I'll leave it up and try to enhance it.
Please explain to me how I was being unreasonable, I asked if they would consider an educational discount, they said no, we went our separate ways. I did not try to guilt them, I did not try to argue with them. I Ask asked a question, received a terse response and went on. It's not like educational discounts are totally out of the norm.
I love this, RBerenguel. Thank you so much for sharing this.
Gizmodo loves them too...
Ask HN: How many emails do you get per day?
I'm building some software that integrates with email (Exchange/IMAP). I'm trying to get an idea of how some of the workflow concepts would scale to people that get large numbers of emails in a day and frankly, what constitutes a "large number" these days.

Right now I average around 150 a day. I think that is average for most people I know, but low in comparison to some email-centric corporate cultures. Obviously there will be outliers that are much higher, especially amongst people in very public roles (evangelists, VCs, etc.), but for the rest of the rank and file out there, are you seeing volumes significantly higher (or lower) than that?

I'd appreciate some feedback.
I got a knock on my door a few minutes after reading this post. Signed up via the QR code during the presentation.

Also, it seems to be working with my Apps account. Yesssss.
it's all marketing genius by the credit card companies
Nobody's hating, you are being rude. Saying you're rude isn't an ad hominem, it's a description of your behavior. It's an ad hominem if you had made an argument rudely, and someone said, "he's wrong because he's rude." Crux, on the other hand, is informing you. Which you find offensive.

I think you might find a better home at Digg.
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For a time you could buy coins from the US mint and IIRC, they had free shipping. People would buy thousands of dollars worth of coins and then go turn them into the bank and pay off the card while gaining all the points.
completely agree that interviewing is vital, just worth noting that images of applicants being circulated in a hiring process can lead to discrimination claims - something your clients need to be aware of...

a quick google, so maybe not the best source, but certainly captures the idea

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090221163357AA...

http://en.allexperts.com/q/Human-Resources-2866/resume-pictu...
When someone likes a deal, the link is actually of our website, not the retailer's. However, we need to do some tracking on our side, and we redirect to the retailer's website.

When the deal is over, we email the deal participants a coupon code, which can be used during the checkout process. This coupon code is supplied by the retailer during creation of the deal, with terms identical to that of the deal.

As for following up with participants, we may allow mass-mailing from our back-end for participants of a given deal, for retailers to disseminate fine prints, etc. We will not hand over email addresses though.
Ask HN: startups working on this problem?
A lot of time when I read articles there are mainly just few sentences I think are important/relevant/funny etc that I really want my friends to see. However I have to just tweet the whole article, and chances are people won't see what I intended. Are there any companies currently working on a solution to this?
Perhaps you want one of these apple trackpads in your stocking http://store.apple.com/us/product/MC380LL/A?fnode=MTY1NDA1Mg...
Very impressed by Dojo. It's amazing how you can do almost everything declaratively -- via markup. That makes it easy to put together simple UIs like this one.
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Sorry, the actual costs for 10 licenses is far less than 10x the support cost of 1 license. The support costs of 1 very penny pinchy person is often far in excess of a normal license sale. Many people choose not to pay that support cost intentionally.

It feels like you're asking for a discount, and having sour grapes when he said no. Tone is very hard to read in text. From the walls of text and the style of your post, I'm not sure you didn't start the cattiness in his mind.
> It's fine for a small startup to cater to small startups, but the big companies have big budgets, and eventually, you'll be making 80% of your money off of them, so learning how to deal with them can be helpful.

Perhaps, if you are running a B2B operation.

If you are a small business running a B2C operation, however, then the original article seems pretty much on the money to me.
Size+Weight:
Thickness: ~14 mm
Width: 191 mm
Length: 269 mm
Weight: ~1.6 pounds

http://www.notionink.com/techspecs.php
This is what bothered me about the chrome app store after using it to "install" a few web apps. I agree that finding new web applications might get easier, but other than the fact that we now see 'chrome-optimized' web apps, how
is this different from a simple bookmarking solution?
Yes and no. The classification of Pluto really isn't a matter of science, it's just a matter of words. We could, if we felt like it, declare that Pluto is a planet. We could arbitrarily decide that anything more than 100km in radius is a planet. Or we could declare that nothing smaller than Uranus is a planet (goodbye, planet Earth!)

While the discovery of a bunch of dwarf planets filling in the size gap between Pluto and the smallest asteroids is certainly suggestive that the definition of "planet" needs to be revised, we could quite easily have gone with another definition. From a scientist's point of view I don't care much one way or another, but from a layman's point of view I can see how it'd be nicer to live in a richer solar system with twelve official "planets" rather than our new impoverished solar system with just eight.
Every time you apply for a new card, you lose a few points; it falls off after a couple years (2 or 3, I forget).

There are people who make a game of applying for cards as fast as their credit rating will allow (I think 700 is roughly the floor, below which you stop applying).

If the company tries to charge an annual fee, you call them up, try to negotiate out of it, and if they won't, you cancel the card.

Having too many cards isn't that bad of a thing (as long as they are with different issuers). It can be a good thing, because part of your credit score is the amount of credit you are using out of your total credit.

Like everything else, you game your credit score... there is no real value to having it be perfect high, you just need "good", so you get approved.

Also, the miles that are best come from getting new CCs... not from spending. There is usually a minimum spend to get the initial bonus... but after you do that, you can move on to another card, and get far more than $1/mile.

For instance I got a card that gave me 75k miles for $1500 in spending.
Re the theme: I just used one of the Dojo defaults. It's easy to swap them.
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It's strange: On one hand, Notion Ink's marketing---consisting of Rohan's blog posts and leaks to slashgear.com---has seemed unprofessional and odd. On the other hand, he's come across as genuine and enthusiastic and has managed to spread that enthusiasm to a growing group of rabid potential customers. If the Adam succeeds, I'll be extremely impressed with Notion Ink's marketing strategy.

Nonetheless, I agree that, when you ask users to pony up $500 to pre-order your product, buzz-generating is not enough: It's time to put up or shut up. I think they need to provide all the information that the quoted commenter has requested.
Whatever happened to Google Fiber for Communities?
Last I heard was that they were going to make an announcement this year. Well, time is running short and I can't even find a "We'll be announcing Q1, 2011". Anyone know what happened to it?
Ask HN: Co-Ops for Developers?
Startups seem to be hiring more developers this year. And developers are leaving their day jobs in droves. This presents a strange paradox. What does everyone think about programmers working "with" each other instead of "for" each other?

In my own career, I can say that without a doubt, the employees were more competent in their endeavors than their employers. They just suffered from a lack of funds or the freedom to do their calling (whether from family obligations or past debts).

I just keep thinking, if there was a project like Mozilla that I could contribute to from home, and then if it was sold/supported similar to Red Hat, the programmers could split the earnings. Whoever contributes the most, could take the largest split of the profits. I don't see elance or other sweatshops as the future of programming, because they are limited to working at the level that employers expect. We should be able to work at our level and create income streams appropriate for our expertise.
Not to mention that when you look, most of the spam originated from Google Groups.
I use a standing desk. I just realized that I can prop my elbows up and do all the finger-waving I want.
I agree that you missed my point :)

My point is, any finite limit can be exceeded. In days of old, it was state tables and file descriptors. Now it's bandwidth. Filtering doesn't matter once the packet has traveled down your finite link to your packet filter. That bandwidth has been used, and denied service to a legitimate user that wanted his packet to go to your server.

Mostly, you're right, it comes down to luck. Attackers don't get the chance to do a daily dev / qa / release cycle. They write something, push it to a bunch of users who hate Amazon and Paypal today, and that's the end of it. If they wrote good code, the attack will be good. If they need to tweak something, they missed the opportunity.

That's what's saving everyone here -- luck.
A lot of cards have sign up bonuses. I'll sign up for a card, use it once, get 25,000 points, and close the card. This has helped my credit quite a bit too, which I've been tracking with free credit reports on creditkarma.com (and less often Quizzle). A higher number of closed account has surprisingly made a large positive effect on my credit as the Credit Karma reports suggested, which is why I opened accounts. I figure as long as I'm opening accounts to improve my credit I might as well go for the ones with good bonuses.
Ok, given the information in this thread I could assume that the other company reacted differently to your story. However, I have not verified that assumption so anything I base on that assumption shares that weakness.

Now, there are any number of reasons not to try and get bids from another company. So the next assumption that the other companies more positive response changed your actions is really based on two assumptions, there was a more positive response and the new assumption that it caused you to respond differently... and so it goes until I can build towers of logic from a series of assumptions.

Which finally gets back to my point. You don’t seem to be propagating uncertainty when you describe your thinking. Without comparing both company's responses to your bids we don't have any new information about your assumptions, thus confirmation bias.
I once was asked the following by a manager - "Name a skill or trait you feel is strong, but not everyone notices". My gut response was to provide the simple answer of nothing. If a trait/skill was strong then others would notice it. If they did not, well, maybe it wasn't so strong.

I was later explained that people who answer that question with a trait/skill tend to lack the strong characteristics they think people don't notice. I don't think I will ever forget that question and I wonder if this one can fall into a similar category? Rambling thoughts at 12:51pm. If it sounds ridiculous, I blame the large lunch.
You're right, thanks! I didn't know that. For reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarke%27s_three_laws
I love this site. (Note the instruction to try help, if you're completely unsure what to do.)

See also http://cb.vu/unixtoolbox.xhtml by the same author for a great overview of Unix/Linux tools.
I've been using the PlainText iOS app, which integrates nicely with DropBox. This gives the flexibility to use any text editor you want. (I use TextMate)
Definitely a possibility. This is the minimal viable prototype! I'll have to think bigger for version 0.00002. :-)
MPs' Vote to raise University tuition fees in England to £9,000/yr passes
Except that it would end up as 40+ planets, most of which are clearly asteroids, in order to pretend that science is constant.
Most educational discounts are for accredited schools or something, which you're probably not. That's at least part of it.

Frankly, you've worked hard enough trying to justify yourself in this thread and I don't want to get into a prolonged argument. I just think it's useful, if you're going to contrive a little test to see if someone's being unreasonable, to consider whether you yourself are being unreasonable in applying that test.
Daily Deals for Hackers - Interested?
I applied yesterday (the day after the live launch event) from the Chrome OS page, and by that point they had a whole questionnaire to fill out about your internet habits and what software you typically use and stuff like that. Maybe the QR code mentioned earlier really was a shortcut of some sort.

Crossing my fingers for this one...
This is a valid point. However, our product (small business invoicing software) and price point ($300) mean that we don't sell to enterprise customers. We don't make a product for this size business, nor do we have the price point to support the sales effort required.

We receive maybe one inquiry a month from a large customer and they actually tend to be some of the most reasonable prospects we come across. Very rarely do they show disrespect, ask for discounts, contact us over and over again, etc...

Though it's not critical to the discussion, the person I mentioned in the post was not a corporate customer. They were a very small (less than 5 employee) firm who happened to be exhibiting these toxic/large company traits.
Vote passed by a majority of 21, and 27 of the 650 MPs abstained. Sad to think what a huge difference those 27 could have made...
go to the library and get some Ries, Kawasaki, and Godin
GWT Chrome Developer Plugin support for Mac and Linux
I wonder how many people here consider themselves scientists versus engineers. I think computer science is in a pretty unique position because people in our field solve both scientific and engineering problems. Indeed, the heritage of our field comes from both mathematics/physics and companies that made things like typewriters. Building computational systems has always required solving problems of both types; I'm not sure this has been the case for a while in other engineering or science fields.

The main distinction that I've seen between EE (at least the part focused on computational things), CompE, and CompSci is what part of the stack you focus on; does this reflect others' experiences, particularly those in EE or CompE?
All good ideas. Re showing comments without the HN navbar: that would involve some more complex screen scraping, but I agree that it would be nice to maximize the space for the most interesting info.
You sounds like you lied when you stated "I framed it like X". People were correct you were using deception to gain information, but were incorrect on the technicality of your statement.

I don't think your bellwether test is that good of a test. I know lots of people who turn down educational requests when not from schools out of hand.
How are you going to determine who gets how much?
Ask HN: Do you ritualize?
I'm working on my next book for Portfolio on the maker's mindset and as part of the research, I'd love your thoughts on these two questions:

1. Do you ritualize or automate any part of your life, from mundane things like what you eat every day to creative things like the place or tools you use to create? And, if so, what and why?

2. Creating something from nothing, be it code or company, is a hugely uncertain endeavor with the potential for a lot of angst, do you do anything to help breath through the uncertainty or even lean into it? And, if so, what?

Thanks so much for the insights.
javascript has way too much in common with scheme. python is practical, but not different enough to really teach you much.

I program in three languages on most days (though not the same three all the time). These artificial constraints are difficult.
Many C APIs do exactly that: they require you (the caller) to malloc your own memory, then pass in a pointer.
They doesn't necessarily mean Republican. Remember, the one documented case of pressure we have in this whole saga was Joe Lieberman (a Democrat) pressuring Amazon.

As to your second point, corporations aren't patriotic, no matter how much you want them to be. If a corporation drops an account, its because the costs of holding the account are outweighing the benefits. Lieberman's pressure raised the costs of hosting Wikileaks to the point that Amazon was unwilling to continue hosting them.
Debunking the myth of gender bias in car sales (CarWoo, YCS09)
HIGH LEVEL PITCH: DealsForHackers.com is a daily deals site for the hacker / startup crowd. (Groupon meets TechCrunch).

This is a concept I'm taking a pure Customer Development approach with - if I get enough people to say that they'd be interested in the concept, I'll move forward to the prototyping / initial deal gathering phase.

Why the new / anonymous account? My boss and co-workers read HackerNews constantly, and I'd prefer that they don't know I'm thinking about starting my own thing.

I'd love to know what the community thinks about this!
StartUp Idea #3: Book/Review/Rate Marriage hall services online
They want you to use your card because they get paid on the merchant side as well. So it doesn't matter if you always pay off the card on time.
snake, invaders and even vi!
Google AdSense Creator: Why I Would Not Start A New Company Inside Google
"I was so passionate about this idea, and doing it aggressively, I don't know if I would have been patient enough" to do it in Google.
Yes, but it's getting burned by these borderline deceptive tactics that drive small software companies to begin to take harder stances on things like this. I can't tell you how many times we've been run around the ringer for discounts, extra support, customizations, etc. only to suddenly not hear from the person anymore, or find out they went with someone else with absolutely no explanation. That is all of course within the customer's rights, but experiencing this many times on the vendor side, you begin to grow cynical, and a policy of trying to be as supportive and helpful to everyone begins to slowly turn in to a more guarded and defensive posture and your first inclination is to look for someone trying to do an end-run around your pricing vs. someone simply looking for help for "his daughter's video editing project."
If any HN folks are investors/VCs (or know of investors/VCs) who want to throw in 30 minutes of their time for the 3 winners of Startup Riot, let me know and I'll add you to the list. The more the better.

Only stipulation: they have to be nice people who are actively looking to help entrepreneurs. No one just doing recon work. This is about helping entrepreneurs succeed.
The moral of this story is not to detect toxic customers.

The moral is that he almost lost a sale, were it not for the other guy stepping in. The moral is that he should have asked to speak with someone else at the company to continue the selling process.

This guy almost blew it.
As a denizen of an email-centric corporate culture, my daily email volume is in the 200 range (not including spam, which is filtered out).
Nice, but it's a bit of a stretch to call this a terminal emulator (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminal_emulator)

Here's a real terminal emulator (a port of rxvt), implemented in JavaScript: https://github.com/paddymul/rxvt-js
Alas, some sites do bust out of frames. I understand their reasons, but it does make things more complicated for a design like this one.

By the way, when a site does bust out of hnvue, I've noticed that the page can get into a weird state. Closing the browser window (or tab) and reopening hnvue is probably the best solution at the moment.
you can email your friends
I think a lot of the confusion stems from the fact that both scientists and engineers use lots of (often somewhat esoteric) math. This places us firmly on the math (science and engineering) side of the occupational divide, as opposed to the non-math (law, medicine, everything else) side.
Ah yeah, apologies; I was remembering poverty-rate statistics rather than unemployment-rate statistics.
Yeah, but Dropbox's prices are too low for these places. I've found that asking for $20 to get an Excel plugin that gives you Vim keybindings is an impossible task. But getting a million dollars for a proprietary knockoff of memcached? Easy. You don't even have to fill out an expense report.
Hmm, I applied twice, from http://www.google.com/chromeos, and from the link in the dev version of the browser. I wonder if that will actually hurt my chances of receiving one... :/
The scientist describes what is;
the engineer creates what never was.
-- Tódor Kármán, founding director of JPL

As forgotten @CERN.ch
Three is a bad number. Three is the minimum required to do your job, so doesn't let you choose any cool languages that blow your mind and make you a better programmer.

- you need to know C. All your infrastructure and fundamental libraries are built in C. If you can't read the code or fix bugs in your infrastructure, you need to hire somebody else who can. (N.B. if you work in an environment where all your infrastructure is in Java, you need to learn Java instead. If you work in an environment where all your infrastructure is Microsoft, you're screwed because that's not open source).

- you need to know Javascript. It's running on all of your client's desktops.

- you need to know a glue language. Probably sh, but Perl works too. Python and Ruby are alternatives, better in some ways, worse in others.

Those are the three you need to do your job. But if that's all you know, you're not doing a good one. For instance, the best way to become a good Javascript programmer is to learn Lisp.
Backspace button acts as browser back rather than deleting

(Does this work by intercept keystrokes like preezo? Perhaps the Backspace is not correctly intercepted?)

Chrome 8.0.552.215 on Mac os x 10.6