skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I could be wrong, but I suspect this is actually a problem with processing the transaction itself. Processing in the way that AirBnB does is typically frowned upon within the card processing industry from what I've discovered.

The processors and the banks have the power and can shut a merchant off if they determine that they're not playing by the card association's rules. The method that AirBnB employs is referred to as Third Party Payment Aggregation. They're processing payment on behalf of the hosts.

Venturing into this territory for an established company would likely cause a lot of pain. They might need to establish a relationship with a different processor and/or bank who would support the model. If they were to switch without first talking to the bank and processor they would likely be shut down quickly for violating the terms of their agreement. So it's not as simple as a relatively minor product pivot for VRBO.

A smaller startup can risk a lot more by carefully walking the line of what the bank/processor/association will accept. But they're still at risk, I believe. Unless maybe they have found some way to mitigate much of the risk (I can think of one or two that would be possible after building brand recognition), I'm not sure.

So I think you're right with your last paragraph but I think it has more to do with Credit Card regulation than hotel regulation... but I don't know anything about operating a hotel.
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"Many designers or agencies might scoff at the notion of a “non-designer” being able to learn and understand the principles to help them arrive at a design."

They would, except that most of them were once non-designers who learned the principles of design. That is how you become a designer.

Or maybe he means non-designers can learn how to design by reading a book? Yeah, I guess designers would scoff at that - reading helps, but you really have to practice to be any good.
I think the point is precisely to take design entirely out of the picture when you're teaching a new comer about programming. The fact that you have these problems and you can write executable recipes to solve them is already more than a mindful, everything else only confuses.
TIP: One i saw a script to mark&switch directories, where?
I believe i saw here a script that, with some alias + awk magic did thi:

m1 -> switch to /bla/stuff
mark mX pwd -> saves the pwd as mX, overwrithing when necessary
You're assuming the clone would be born in the US.
Here's the bash.org quote you're thinking of:

http://bash.org/?2832
8-10 isn't something you "limit" yourself to. From the context of the sentence "a few hours" suggests 2-3.
The reason this site is easier to understand than the quoted paper is, of course, that it explains everything but the interesting part which is the subject of the paper.
Man Who Set Stage for a Nobel Now Lives a Life Outside Science
See also the article The Fall and Rise of Douglas Prasher in Discover Magazine from April 2011 (This how I found the link)
The (Unfortunate) Tale Of Two Twitters
That's precisely why I think Java is a horrible language to start people out in.

Well, not language. Library. It's abstracted to the extreme, and confusing as heck to anyone just starting to learn how to think about how to program.

Start people out in something simple. Ruby can teach bad habits, so don't tell them about monkey patching, but it's so simple it's a great way to hook people, and has simple console / file IO that'll let newbies actually do something with their skills, instead of being glad their project doesn't overflow its array bounds or get stuck in hideous C input handling deathtraps (which flags do you have to reset in the input stream if they start inputting Japanese? I forget...)

Best of all, despite being OO, you don't need a class to start doing things. Something Java gets wrong for beginners.

#!/usr/bin/env ruby
puts "hello world"

Classes can wait, they're a whole can of worms that should come after people learn to think clearly enough for a computer to understand them.
Furthermore, the lawyers have viciously clipped the wings of the streaming-movie era. You have to start watching a movie within 30 days of renting it and finish it within 24 hours.

Which streaming service does this describe?

The author paints "streaming" with an overly broad brush. Having only experience with Netflix, this quoted sentence describes a system I've never heard of - and saying Netflix's selection is from the Carter era is a gross simplification.
HeyZap (YC 09) Goes After Social Discovery, Launches Check-in For Mobile Games
they'll spend it somewhere else

"Spend it somewhere else" was exactly what I wrote in my blog post, but when the New York Times says "We can give you three hundred words" then Priority #1 is "Don't Panic" and Priority #Left_On_Cutting_Room_Floor is explaining to people how relief organizations actually operate.
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You're assuming that the governing law is that of the place of birth of the clone.
That the internet has been thus for a long time is disappointing, but not surprising.

I've studied oral-formulaic poetry, and one of the interesting aspects of it is that everyone tells the same stories over and over, and what makes one retelling superior is not the actual content, but the way it's delivered. I may well have seen it before. But long line lengths and easy Verdana text make HN good for memorable one-liners, and your retelling had punctuation, capitalization, and pithiness.
The "counter-proofs" to music universals is often just presenting an example of music from somewhere that doesn't match the universal in question.

Counter-example don't disprove trends, though, and there are certainly trends (I think "universals" is just not quite the right word).
Playstation Network rentals have those time restrictions.
The delta between Python and Ruby is way, way smaller than the Ruby community seems to think it is. You are aware that everything is an object in Python, too, right? The idea that that isn't true still seems to be knocking around the Ruby community. Everything he said about Python applies precisely to Ruby (or fails to apply in exactly the same way if it is a bad argument), because there's hardly any difference that matters to a newbie.

"But, but, len is a function! And you can't monkeypatch the base classes even though you can monkeypatch everything else!"

Yes, please, by all means burden your neophyte with that tirade. They'll really appreciate it while they're trying to figure out what an "if" statement really does or why calling a function with the wrong capitalization doesn't work.
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I've never understood this. Wouldn't a competent security professional know of the existence of TrueCrypt, who would then ask a competent psychologist to determine if you were withholding information (I sure as hell wouldn't be able to keep a straight face), who would then ask a competent interrogator to get the real password from you?

I don't even think plausible deniability would hold in court -- claiming that a large blob of random data on your hard drive is just there for no reason at all is not plausible.
Whom Should You Hire at a Startup? (Attitude over Aptitude)
The oldest versions I've heard went something like “Welcome to the internet, where the men are men, the women are men, and the children are FBI agents.”

Example from 2001: http://www.bash.org/?2832

Pretty sure the line goes back further than that though.

My guess is that it’s a parody of A Prairie Home Companion’s line about “Lake Wobegone, where all the women are strong, all the men are good looking, and all the children are above average.” Though that might itself be playing on some earlier such line?
True, but it isn't all that dissimilar from the genetic patents that Monsanto and similar hold.
Hey chirag, congratulations. Great apps. EMail2voice is a great idea. ATB.
Gtk3 on a HTML5 backend update
What about an application server that was abandoned after padrino became available. I built it on top of sinatra, it was to include authentication and authorisation as well as a few handlers.

I'd generalised it from another webapp I was buildingfor someone else (that didn't pay) summer last year.

https://github.com/dublinclontarf/SchoolOut

This is pretty much some of the only code I've made available in public. Should I put up the entire webapp that I built during the summer? It's not doing anything.
Microchip: 802.11B device does not slow down a G network
Panos,

Where is the click on the adserver? I don't see that.
I always thought "inverse" square root was a misnomer. The actual inverse of the square root is the square.

This should either be called multiplicative inverse square root, or reciprocal square root, no?
Exactly.

Its like trying to teach someone basketball for the first time and at the same time trying to explain a pick and roll, a full court press, Triangle offence etc. You'll just confuse them.

Teach the basics and slowly ease into the big picture/strategy stuff when they have a handle on the fundamentals.
Reminds me of my AP Computer Sci class in high school a decade ago.

There were five people in the class, two of them being my brother and I. Two of the three left had zero prior programming experience. I could only sympathize with them as we rushed through the "syllabus" learning about everything from pointers to classes to inheritances.

Suffice to say they were completely lost and dreaded the class as much as math. I wasn't particularly good at math and could not imagine seeing programming as "math" because of how much fun I was having with VB/ASP(yes, you can chuckle) at home. I don't even want to think what perception of programming the two people left with.

I recently finished college with communications degree, make a decent wage doing programming and haven't needed to even think of the word "inheritance." Of course there are many great uses for it.

But to assume everyone should learn about it is to assume that everyone wants to be a genius programmer at google. There is so much gray in between the curriculum just ignores.
Do other services as well or is this the only one? If it's the latter then this article paints with an even broader brush than I imagined.
AppleTV rentals have the same restrictions
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I can't see how the guy could defraud CPM from the traffic he generated. They were all header redirects, so the browser doesn't load any pages, and there were no ads loaded by the browser.
It's Time To Fix The Internet
Funny reading this post because the title pretty much describes what I'm doing, taking some time off to hone my programming chops and I originally came from a finance background. Looking back, if I had to suggest my own list to someone who's serious about learning:

1. Be obsessed with Github + Hacker News and always consult @yegg's archive for guidance - http://gabrielweinberg.com/startupswiki/Ask_YC_Archive

2. Start off by building a web app using the LAMP stack (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP), and HTML/CSS, and set up your own server on Slicehost or the like. Also learn Javascript and jQuery.

3. Choose a good text editor and familiarize yourself with it, it's a long-term investment.

4. Focus on getting good with one or two languages, and keep building stuff and learning from others.

That's just for web stuff though. For being a solid developer, Joel Spolsky recommends throwing these four books in there too to build a good CS foundation: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/414779/what-should-a-self...
You're assuming I picked the Lambourghini for it's brand name value. I could have said "Volvo" but I didn't. Substitute "Volvo" for "Lambourghini" if you like and you'll get eh same point---a manufactured good will not become free by removing IP laws. I can download 10,000 albums this month without incurring any extra cost on top of my internet bill (which is cap-free where I live), but I can't buy a manufactured good without someone manufacturing it first. Cheap knock-offs won't happen (even in China) if nobody pays for them.
I am not sure how active it is but at least to some extent:
http://www.ted.com/talks/bill_gates.html

About this talk:
At TED2010, Bill Gates unveils his vision for the world's energy future, describing the need for "miracles" to avoid planetary catastrophe and explaining why he's backing a dramatically different type of nuclear reactor. The necessary goal? Zero carbon emissions globally by 2050.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traveling_wave_reactor
TWRs differ from other kinds of fast-neutron and breeder reactors in their ability to, once started, reach a state whereafter they can achieve very high fuel utilization while using no enriched uranium and no reprocessing, instead burning fuel made from depleted uranium, natural uranium, thorium, spent fuel removed from light water reactors, or some combination of these materials. The name refers to the design characteristic that fission does not happen in the entire TWR core, but takes place in a fairly localized zone that advances through the core over time.
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0x7FDE623822FC16E6 : a magic constant for double float reciprocal
I couldnt agree more. The first "programs" I ever wrote were BASH scripts. Definitely no OOP distractions there.
I took a class once that discussed the relative safety of nuclear power and one of the key points the instructor made was the fact that radiation levels in the vicinity of a coal fired power plant are actually higher than in the vicinity of a nuclear power plant under normal operating conditions.
First sale doctrine does not allow circumvention of DRM.

I don't have the CSS license in front of me, but the AACS and CPPM licenses (created by many of the same lawyers) specify exactly which types of digital outputs are allowed and what types of security are required if those digital outputs are used. IP streaming is a digital output. Assuming the CSS license is similar, if IP streaming is not listed in the CSS license, and if the security Zediva uses (assuming they use any) isn't listed, then Zediva is circumventing CSS.
If he's contractually bound then I think it would be fair to say that he is railing against the restrictions imposed upon him rather than being hypocritical.

Of course, this is all speculation until someone either gets a response out of him on the issue, or he starts chasing down "pirates".
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Sure it can ... netflix is cool, but watching movies is usually a spontaneous thing ... you have no idea how many netflix movies I've had sent over and then let sit for months because I didn't really feel like watching them when I actually had time to.

With regards to money ... a dvd costs what? Like 10 bucks ...

If they have just 5 people watch one at $2 a pop ...They've made their money back ... and these are top 100 titles (another clever move btw) ... so they are guaranteed to beat that in their first week every time.

Of course there is overhead to think about etc etc ... but I think its clear that they can be pretty profitable pretty fast, even though it seems rather awkward at first glance.

I'd give them my money if I were an investor.
A reminder, The the objects are only in your mind not in the computer. They exist only as a metaphor to allow you to wrap your mind around programming easier, Rarely does the easier path yield any benefits except shorter travel time.
I read through the entire article. Very fascinating. I admit that I don't understand but more than 5% of what is being explained here, but it is a VERY in depth look at how things are mapped out. I wasn't aware that operating systems were so wasteful in the area of redundant resource management. Mad props on this article.
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While one-way encryption would be the obvious way to properly handle it, there is a need in this project for customer support to be able to see the answers to secret questions to verify them over the phone. And if we're automating that, then anyone who's into the system already has everything they need to recover the decryption key, even if it's elsewhere.
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It's a good intro, and music theory is one of those things that's quite hard to introduce well.

I'm a music educator, of a sort; this is a project of mine, build around interactive drills & concepts (click free resources if curious):
http://emusictheory.com

...but I've held off for a long time on writing a real online course, because, well, it's hard. The concepts don't always seem logical in isolation, the names of concepts sometimes overlap in weird ways (er, major 7th interval or major 7th chord?), and the general approach -- to lay down all the groundwork first, and only then get into anything remotely practical -- is deadly, deadly boring.

So I'm very much in favor of taking a practical approach, and trying to give the student something actual musical-sounding they can produce at the end of every mini-lesson... but if this were easy to do, I'd have it up on the site already. :)
but it's a strawman problem.

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I think you're missing the point ... by doing it this way ... it allows them stream DVDs that netflix simply can't.

Make no mistake about it ... streaming movies is where the money is.
"This is significant because it is designed to quickly increase the virality of a game by allowing users to check-in (and broadcast) to Facebook, Twitter, and the Heyzap graph by way of a simple button."

While I don't look forward to what this will do to my Facebook screen, it's a genius idea. The next step, of course, is to offer in-game incentives for users to share, like most facebook games do.
I'm female last time I checked, and a paste from my blog makes gender guesser thinks I'm weak male and gender genie says I'm male. Doesn't mean anything, but worth noting.

Grepped this, which ars technica claims is a real chat log. She says just under 200 words on this log, and it comes up as weak male again on Gender Guesser and male on Gender Genie. Her username of `k is removed for the analysis. http://pastebin.com/x69Akp5L

Here's the article where Ars Technica links to that pastebin http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/02/how-one-secu...
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I really doubt anyone ever claimed the disaster at Bangiao was just an unfortunate incident.

Who doesn't bash China for their blatant disregard of human life?

Not that I disagree with your point.
Would a nondisclosure agreement have helped the Winklevi?
If the Winkelvoss twins had gotten Zuckerberg to sign a nondisclosure agreement would they have been in a better position when time came to sue him?

Therefore, should you get an NDA signed before revealing your bigger-than-facebook startup idea to that potential technical co-founder/programmer?
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In particular, check out the crime statistics at the bottom of each page. Apparently Columbus and Baton Rouge both have higher crime rates than one another!
I ran the first answer from this interview with Barbara Liskov (famous MIT computer science professor) through the gender guesser: http://news.cnet.com/8301-1001_3-10217055-92.html

Genre: Formal Female = 509 Male = 971 Difference = 462; 65.6% Verdict: MALE

Computing represents a pretty specialized topic, and most of the sample data with computing-related discussion will be from men. It would be pretty tough for any simple Bayesian analysis to account for this.
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"Please keep in mind, when you're hearing from anybody (including me), you're hearing something which was true X amount of time ago in a situation evolving very rapidly."

Under these conditions I think it's better to just refer people to the good/right sources of information. Everyone wanting there 15 minutes by jumping to conclusions seem to be a big part of the problem.
"We should ask what we need to do to design well-factored programs that are cohesive without being coupled and then design language features that directly address those organization requirements"

Language designers have been chasing that chimera for decades now. An unfortunate (in my mind at least) side effect has been legions of new programmers that are ready to fight to the death over concepts (separation of presentation and logic being an example) that are implied to be the One True Right Way when in my experience most programming rules should not only be broken on occasion but frequently ignored wholesale.

"rather than thinking that there is this obvious 'metaphor' that naturally leads to well-organized programs."

Herein lies my greatest criticism of OO and it's proponents. There is nothing inherently "obvious" about the metaphor in general and in my opinion adding a layer metaphor on top of an already complex process simply adds further complexity without bringing anything to the table.
Apart from the 1980s and the pre-war era (the intensely blue bits), that $10k$100k area still seems sort of light-colored compared to the rest of the graph. Of course now we're arguing about exactly what shade of pink translates to 'slightly' :)
Google "coal fired power plant radiation"

The following two articles cite "a 1978 paper for Science, J. P. McBride at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)"

http://www.ornl.gov/info/ornlreview/rev26-34/text/colmain.ht...

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=coal-ash-is...

and Wikipedia says, during normal operation the effective radiation dose from a coal plant is 100 times that of a nuclear power plant, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fossil_fuel_power_station#Radio...
Thank you for posting this article! As an academic, this really touched me. I'm impressed by this guy's humility. For me personally, the years of misery caused by the way our society does tenure and funding is not worth enduring .. especially when the odds of success are pretty low.

I can't help but wonder if he'd be happier if he became an entrepreneur instead of taking that non-research job. I guess being an entrepreneur (in your own field) is much more feasible for a CS PhD than it is for a Biology PhD.

The bright side of the story is that there were other people to carry on the baton, and humanity took one more step.
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If you want to observe the full click behavior: Chrome->Tools->DeveloperTools->Network

Let me know what you see. Curious to see if the scammer changed the behavior.