skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Chileans are interesting. I like the country, they seem to be culturally capitalist (though when we were there we did observe a communist party having a rally of some sort.) But on the street, you don't see kids bugging you for money, the poor kids go around selling coca-colas in the park. The older kids sell american cigarettes.

Chileans don't seem paranoid, or to have an inferiority, nor a superiority complex like many people. They're open, but not pushy. If you don't say anything to them, they'll leave you alone, but if you ask a question they'll try to answer it.

Santiago has a gay quarter which looked about comparable to the kind you'd find in an american cities. We were there during the day so I can't say anything about the scene, other than it isn't in the closet.

Oh, and they have the best food.

Highly recommend Chile as at least a place to visit. I could certainly live there.
It's really just another approach to data entry. Instead of ensuring that the data is good before submit, by using dropdowns and such, you accept the data and then verify it.

I've seen e-commerce sites do this with address. They let you enter three free form lines, then send it to their address verifier and give it back to you to confirm. You can either accept it (which then saves the company money because it has ZIP+4) or keep your input as-is.
At the same time, moose and reindeer are not cattle, and they are cold-weather animals, which means they have a lot of extra body fat. Extrapolating conclusions about moose and reindeer to cattle is not necessarily correct and there are reasons to believe it isn't.
I like the Google News approach that algorithmically groups together related stories as follows:

Show the most popular story (or 2 or 3), then provide a link that states "See all 143 related stories."

The hard part on a community news site is how to deal with discussion. I think a neat way to do it would provide a choice to see discussion by submission or merged discussion of all related submissions.

The benefits of doing it like this would be as follows:

1) Declutter the front page of related stories
2) Still make it easy to see all related stories with just one extra click
3) For stories with little discussion, makes it easy to see discussion on all related stories as well
4) For stories with lots of discussion, the traditional way of discussing around 1 story only is a great option, to keep discussion more focused (less overwhelming).

Downside: I suspect this would be difficult to implement and therefore buggy - especially how the algorithm decides to group things. The Google News algorithm does a pretty good job.
"That's the only rational way to run a business."

Actually, it's not - ask any business that's taken funding, borrowed to invest, or even run an overdraft as part of their low season. Spending less than or equal to revenues is one way to run a business, especially a small business that you only intend to grow incrementally (if at all). Borrowing to invest for faster growth is a very rational way to run a business in many situations (market opportunity, large personal vision etc).

Again, I'm just addressing the business analogy - here's my politics disclaimer http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2822770
This is exactly the experience I had. I bought G1 the day it was released, then I bought Droid the day it was released. So yesterday I went to get Droid 3, and I did not buy it. Blur (Motorola's custom UI) makes the phone unusable. I absolutely need a phone with physical keyboard for ssh, so I am stuck. The bootloader is locked. I would actually PAY $50 extra to get a stock Android. Perhaps this is a business model idea for Motorola- charge extra for pure Android... I work for a company that has 10M+ users, and we have been making decisions whether focus on iOS or on Andorid app. Until recently, the thinking was that iOS will be reduced to 10% market share, much like Mac vs PC, so our long term focus should be Android. But recently, with the proliferation of custom bloatware on Android, and based on users' feedback, we are re-evaluating.
I think this and "Anscombe's Quartet" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anscombe%27s_quartet are great examples of why you should look at your data before trying to analyze it.
You've described exactly why eval is antithetical to dead code elimination: you must defensively include absolutely every public function in every referenced library, because you do not know beforehand which functions an arbitrary evalled form will call.
It's not just about calories but overall nutritional value. The orange juice contains significantly more vitamins than the soda -- hell, the site you linked rates orange juice as healthier than soda, which should be telling.
I am neither the best analyst nor do I have any information. But I am going to comment on this mainly because, having owned almost everything they released and because I have a lot of great memories from its games, I am really emotional about Nintendo.

They have been in the industry for almost 40 years: started distributing Magnavox in 1974, made huge success with Donkey Kong arcade in 1981 and released their first consoles in the beginning of the same decade (Game Watch and Famicom-NES).

No company has made it that far, no company has been so innovative and no company has had the lows of Ninty (Sony is probably having a bad era with PS3 but that's their first bad release -handhelds excluded- and Microsoft has been doing fantastic with all XBoxes). Furthermore, no company managed to even come close to Nintendo in the handhelds.

As much as I love Apple (and can even consider myself kind of a fanboy) I just can't stand it when they try to involve it everywhere and explain everything as a result of its success.

Nintendo is Nintendo's prey, they dug the hole that they fell into. The 3DS is not selling bad because people are buying Angry Birds instead of Super Mario. It's not selling well because, well, what is there to sell? It's unbelievable that Nintendo released a handheld with such a weak launch-titles line. Tell me one game that will make you want to buy 3DS. You don't buy a console and then wait for games to come out. You want the games there. Unless it's something really major, like the Wii, when you can see its potential and you can do with games like Wii Sports for a while.

But the 3DS is a handheld, I am not going to buy it just to spend 10 minutes on a Piccadilly line ride playing mini games and waiting for a few major games to come out, when they come, with the quality they come out, etc.. I can compare that to playing Doodle Jump and Doodle Jump wins easily. What I can't compare to Doodle Jump is a Zelda/Mario/AAA game on my 3DS.

It's not about Apple vs Nintendo, nobody will buy an iPhone to play video games. And it's not about whether Nintendo can do well as a iOS/Android/WebOS games developer. Of course they can and I hope they do if they get in such a bad position. What it really is about is whether Nintendo can help handheld gaming keep its value.

Also, it's not hard to see that they are going to fall into another hole if they don't do MAJOR things with the WiiU. So I am kind of glad that the 3DS release wasn't successful, I can hope they are getting a few messages..
You're ignoring the part where we were discussing a tax holiday. When executives hoard money overseas for a decade and then bring it back tax-free, they are basically depriving the government of the tax revenue that money transfer should have brought in.

Beyond that, there's not a lot of evidence for the notion that execs making more money is a net gain for the economy. It seems intuitive that more money in the hands of the wealthy would result in more investments and growth, but to the best of my knowledge there's not much evidence for that.

The real question is not whether handing the wealthy extra money is bad, but whether it's as good as doing something else. Sure, giving a wealthy man another million might get him investing more. Giving that million to the economy at large might do more, though. After all, those same investments you say the wealthy will make could be made by average joes.
Sales requires trust, especially in the Android Market
Test of Google's page speed service on my site.
Ask HN: How do I improve user engagement on a photo site?
Hi, I've developed a site

http://ookaboo.com/

which has accumulated about a million images and gets several thousand visitors a day who are looking for pictures.

I've recently added features to let users add images and I've quite literally recorded a 0.01% conversion rate. I think part of the problem could be the U.I. but I think another part is that I've attracted the wrong audience.

Any ideas how I can get better use engagement.
How does this fit with the linked article, where the lady in question claims her personal liason at the company hadn't even contacted her in a month? How does that possibly match up with "doing everything they could be doing to help this woman" when she herself clearly feels ignored?

Edit: I'm not accusing the AirBNB guys of being bad guys: I don't know them. But this doesn't seem to address, and seems somewhat contradicted by, the concerns raised by the linked blog.
Exactly, and what does 'checking' even mean in this case. If you're not parameterizing your SQL queries and relying on your home baked string/regex/etc. checks then you've already lost.

I am honestly baffled by developers who think they can sanitize input enough to happily send it to SQL without parameters. Can anyone explain why this would ever be a good idea?

On a side note I also don't understand why anyone would give an app permission to do anything other than read/update data. Honestly if your app can drop tables then isn't it a bit broken from a security standpoint anyway?
This would prevent supercompilation from stripping any functions, because you never know what a future eval would need.

This is bad because, without supercompilation, ClojureScript and its dependencies are quite large. Would you rather your compiled .js file be 500kb or 5kb? That's the difference we're talking about, here.

Sure, ClojureScript might not be a "full lisp" without eval, but pragmatically, having tiny .js files is a much bigger win.
Or, why Israel makes it so enticing to move their if you are Jewish.
Couchbase goes 2.0, pushes SQL for NoSQL
Note, this was a U.S. based test.
The title doesn't state that it's for every NoSQL database.
We managed to post nearly identical ideas simultaneously - a Google-News-like approach to related posts. In all my experimentation with community news sites, I find I prefer Google News if all I want to do is read the breaking news (without discussion) entirely due its well done grouping of related stories.
Wow, this is nice! Even the dark theme is an improvement over the default.
> It has iTunes set up in Luxembourg, but that's a very real company.

Sure, but is it really operating out of Luxembourg? I suspect most of their employees are here in the States.
To summarize everyone:

- Use 3rd party services to scrub data before storing data (phone numbers & addresses are particularly easy to scrub)

- Try to normalize your data yourself (turn everything into lower case when storing in the db, format on the way out to the html page. i.e. Try to convert the date to an object [in python] OR make sure phone number follows the right format with regex)

--

To add my own bit:

- Add visual cues to the form (like ajax validation, etc)
1. You may be able to get a teacher via skype in a timezone that is amenable to your time constraints.
5. Its never too late, assuming you have patience. Practice practice practice. I think there are mobile apps which are basically flash-cards for sounds.
I agree with the general gist of your post, but I actually think there is still a large market for casual gaming hardware in the living room.

Consider that the Microsoft Kinect broke the record for consumer electronic devices for selling the most units in 60 days. Yes, it even outsold the iPad.

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/fasterforward/2011/03/kinec...
Definitely not a sociopath (he and Joe are great guys; the AirBnB people I've met have all come across as much more social and friendly than most other startups).

Actually, a sociopath with $5b at risk over $10-20k might actually do a better job managing this kind of thing than a genuinely good guy who doesn't constantly think about how to defraud of hurt people and then lie to cover it up.
Scotland and Shetland are both part of the British Isles, a geographic term. Scotland itself is actually part of Great Britain, an island which contain England, Wales and Scotland. Although admittedly Shetland is not.

The term British is rather malleable but check the first entry in wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Britain

Yes, common usage of the term British includes the whole of the UK.

The usual problem people from Scotland and Ireland have are being called English, not British and Scots are British anyway and I never mentioned the Irish.

Finally riddle me this, what should I have used instead of British to refer to the people of the UK? Which is where I'm from I might add. As there exists no other term other than British.
Brian told me that someone from Airbnb called her just a few hours before she published this most recent post.
You're exactly right on this. She also simply lacks the energy to do everything she needs to do to overcome this. AirBnB could really turn this from a crisis to an opportunity by taking the bull completely by the horns here, and making her whole again, at least emotionally. Waiting for an emotionally scarred PTSD-victim to figure out and enumerate exactly what they need is not going to cut it.
The only problem, is that the TOS do not allow you to use it if you do not show the information on a map and there is a usage limit (it's per IP, so you could do it client side).
Those are called "railroad diagrams". I don't have a specific recommendation, but this should get you started:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/773371/what-is-a-good-too...
in santiago there are very good hospitals. i had a hernia op in a good-but-not-top place and it seemed similar to me to hospitals in the uk. doctors are a little more paternalistic here - you have to be firm in making clear that you want to be involved in any process. health insurance is way less than the usa. on the other hand, public (government-funded) hospitals are pretty basic.
Ask PG: Require Checkbox Before Commenting?
The mediocre comments are drowning out the high value comments. For example, I just flipped through some comments on an Airbnb story and the first half dozen or so were from people who had never even used the service--and then halfway down the page was a comment from Brian Chesky.

What about a checkbox that you must check before posting a comment:

[] I certify that I'm directly related to this story, an expert on the subject matter, or that my comment contains a link or other highly relevant information to this story.

There may be another type or two of comment that could be appended to that statement but those are the 3 main ones off the top of my head.

It would be interesting to see if something like this would greatly increase the value of the average comment and hopefully drastically reduce the size of the current majority of little-value-add comments.
What I don't understand is renting to a stranger... but leaving valuables in the house. At least put that stuff in storage while you're out.
Do you have gingerbread on your x2? If not, do you know when it will be released for your phone?
Sure, but such people can not remain the lynchpin of a PCI auditing operation. I mean how many WTFs from anyone who has half a clue have to be sent to the brass at this company and the ones they are auditing on behalf of before someone thinks "holy shit our entire reputation and business is being flushed down the toiler on a daily basis?"

It just doesn't pass the smell test for me. I don't know what it is, but something is missing from this story.
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Is this really the same thing? That just sounds like whoever chose the weightings got the result they wanted - a student who couldn't master the final exam got a poor mark.
Nobody cares about Arrington. That's not AirBnB's problem. AirBnB's problem is "EJ".

I've talked to the Airbnb guys and they are already doing everything they could be doing to help this woman.

If they've been offering to fix it from the start, why haven't they said that? Certainly the victim doesn't believe they've offered much, if anything at all... either that or you've just called her a liar. (I obviously have to allow this as a possibility - that this whole story is fake.)

They clearly need to talk to her more than they are though. Somebody in charge needs to pick up a phone. They need to convince her that it is no longer in her best interests to spout the gory details on her blog. That hasn't been done yet, clearly, so it's hard to say that they are doing everything they can.

I don't think people - at least from what I've read here - are questioning their integrity. People are questioning the optics of what seems to be a decision to defer to lawyers worried about an unknown future possibility rather than to do the right thing in this very real situation. That's what is causing the bad PR, not exaggerating reporters. Cut out the middle men and get one of those founders to pick up a phone already.
I'm sorry but my first reaction to this was how can I follow these updates in twitter. ha

Other than that, I do like the 'developer' posts/transparent process updates
Please, save yourself the hassel and use Pathogen for all your vim plugin needs. Otherwise there's some nice tips in this article.
No credit to Patrick Wied?
I think things differ in 3 main respects -

1. Whether there was an ongoing culture of doing the wrong thing - NotW yes, AirBnb not so much (afaik).

2. Whether there is an indication that the defence is actually completely false (i.e. whether the guys in charge actually did know and sanction these things) - again there are some strong indications that this was the case at the NotW, especially if you take the culture into account (i.e. - how did that culture come about if there wasn't some degree of either asking for hacking to be performed or not wanting to know whether it was - both equally worthy of blame). Again AirBnB - not so much.

3. And of course, scale, though I didn't mean to criticise that particular difference.

The victims might not care about the finer points, but in terms of determining who is to blame it does matter. Obviously there is the point that employees are the responsibility of the company, however if they do something the employer was not aware of then that seems to me to be a sort of technicality.

Anyway, getting into [1] territory now so should probably just leave it at that :)

[1]: http://xkcd.com/386/
Your doin' it wrong. Zucchini is a fantastic filling and flavor carrier. It loves spices, olive oil, onions, tomatoes and what have you.

Thus it should be used as something that adds volume and takes on flavor of other ingredients.

I used to dislike zucchinis too - since people putting them on my plate didn't have a proper idea of how to use them. But once you use it as Lord intended them to be used, they are THE fruit. Zucchinis are in fact my favorite fruit.
My Plans to Quad-Boot a Macbook Pro
EFF also has a good form letter: https://secure.eff.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=Us...
The point wasn't the weighting, it was that group A can get a better average in every category, while group B has the best overall.
Is it still called a "mint" if it's all downvotes?
Is Daniel Ackerman Sandberg the Anonymous spokesman? The video evidence
True. I've used AirBnB a few times and it was always while the host was still in the apartment. It never occured to me that people would rent their apartment via AirBnB without actually being there.

I do wonder now whether EJ's 'DJ Pattrson' knew she would be away and planned to ransack the place whether she were home or not. If she were home, what would they have done, tied her in the closet, or worse?
Well I guess we need to write a screensaver that crawls the web. Maybe when ISP's have to spend $ on all this storage it will give them incentive to fight this. I remember land of the free .. This doesnt feel like freedom..
i can't imagine the grant requires you to live in santiago - that would be something of a political faux-pas here. BUT the country is very much centred around santiago. there are no other places that i, as a european, would honestly call a city; the largest are are more like large provincial towns. the only exception really is valparaiso/vina del mar which is almost an extension of santiago on the coast - the government is there for half the year, and it's within easy distance of santiago.

not sure what you mean by "nice". i know of one european software engineer that lives in the middle of nowhere (well...) and loves it. but outside santiago you just don't get the "stuff" you probably expect (nice restaurant / top-end computer hardware / large selection of brand-name clothes / pre-prepared frozen food / decent coffee ...). but if you want a simple life, sure. doubt you'll find many good software engineers to hire, though.

as for transport - i think it's excellent. in santiago there is both a modern metro and a bus system. the entire country is connected by buses (some of excellent quality - something like airplane business class) and air. i lived here for many years without a car (i still don't have one, but my partner now does, and uses it about once a week).

oh, and driving - well, they consider themselves the "british of latin america" and really that's not a bad description. compared to uk driving, it's a bit more hectic, but compared to elsewhere in latin america, it's pretty sane. also, no corruption here (well, not that you should meet). don't try bribing a police officer. you can extend this to culture generally - "they" (disculpenme) are friendlier than the british, but less friendly (perhaps "more reserved" is a better term) than any other s. american culture i have met.
My first encounter with the Internet was on a 10hr/mo. dial-up connection with a 14.4kbps modem, and I'd been using BBSes before that. I definitely appreciate how far we've come :). Still, ISPs have reached the point where they're holding back technological progress to satisfy their own ends. Municipal fiber projects and independent ISPs often don't impose the same restrictions as the monopoly players, which suggests that it's possible to run a network without, for example, forcing Netflix to pay an extra fee on top of its existing bandwidth payments.

So does the extended depreciation force equipment owners to pay the taxes they would've written off for the extra years if they just disconnect the equipment and let it sit in a closet?
Those bonuses and dividends are all still taxed, in some cases at a higher rate then the corporate tax?
I'm mostly posting this here to see if there's anything I missed in my preparations, or if anyone's tried something like this before and has advice to share.
Would be nice to have a system like stackoverflow... where you type the topic and it gives you related things already submitted, so you can see that you are late and don't post it.

Just a random thought !
Can you really be a Software Engineer without a degree? Developer, yes, but the term "engineer" has a certain level of professionalism associated with it that an autodidact computer programmer wouldn't necessarily have.

For point of reference, check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Ring#The_Ritual_of_the_Cal...

> It is a symbol that reflects the moral, ethical and professional commitment made by the engineer who wears the ring.

I'm not an engineer myself and I wouldn't presume to call myself one unless I'd gone through the engineering training.

Am I being too pedantic?