skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had forgotten that you can't downvote submissions (after 2.5 years I still haven't crossed the downvote enabled threshold). That does change my opinion somewhat. I do remember an alarmingly large number of duplicate G+ stories during its launch.

Given that the main way to manage duplicates (by downvotes) is disabled, I could support some other mechanism. I like the idea mentioned in the comments about grouping similar submissions and have the comments merged.
> Money moving from one place to another does not always help the economy. When money flows from the corporate coffers directly into the private accounts of its executives, generally little of that money actually flows into the greater economy.

Can you give an example of how this would hurt the economy?

EDIT - those that down voted, mind giving a reason?
This is not the same thing as the Simpson's paradox. Specifically, as stated in wiki, you need to show a grouping (that is classically anti-causally related) with one correlation, but overall, upon combining the data, the correlation is reversed.

This does not happen in your example. But you do hint at something similar, i.e., the weights assigned are different to different groups and that is necessary for the Paradox to occur.
Google Wants E-mail in Android Suit Redacted
There's actually another issue that I missed before. SELECT * returns all of the columns in the table: you can't compare that to a scalar.

Tested on MySQL 5.5 on OS X:

mysql> use test
Database changed

mysql> show tables;
Empty set (0.00 sec)

mysql> create table test (id int(10) unsigned not null auto_increment, name varchar(10), primary key(id));
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.13 sec)

mysql> insert into test (name) values ("Bob");
Query OK, 1 row affected (0.02 sec)

mysql> select * from test;
+----+------+
| id | name |
+----+------+
| 1 | Bob |
+----+------+
1 row in set (0.00 sec)

mysql> select * from test WHERE (select * FROM test) = 1;
ERROR 1241 (21000): Operand should contain 2 column(s)

mysql> select * from test WHERE (select 1 FROM test) = 1;
+----+------+
| id | name |
+----+------+
| 1 | Bob |
+----+------+
1 row in set (0.00 sec)

mysql> insert into test (name) values ("Frank");
Query OK, 1 row affected (0.00 sec)

mysql> select * from test WHERE (select 1 FROM test) = 1;
ERROR 1242 (21000): Subquery returns more than 1 row
run to the grocery store instead. Buy a can of black beans and a can of rotel (diced tomatoes with green chilies). Open, drain, mix, and microwave. Grab a glass of water and BAM! You've got a healthy and spicy-delicious meal. Total cost? $1.05 if you shop at Aldi. I can get 2 meals out of it. YMMV.

Add chips if you need something extra. Dump them onto a plate to keep yourself from eating the entire bag, though.

While you're at the store, grab a romaine lettuce. rinse it off and just start munching. No need to chop it into a salad, that's a pain in the ass.

Shop the perimeter of the store and avoid the frozen and boxed stuff.
Apple bursts past Nokia to become world's largest smartphone maker
This level of eval that we're discussing is only really important for developers. Give your super users a bookmarklet which downloads the huge lib, and pops a repl up on the page. Everyone else gets to use the library as usual.

Put the standard lib on a public CDN, and this would be okay.
Proposing that any 'forgotten password' reset requires the physical presence of the CEO and a sysadmin at a dedicated machine is a really good way to ensure that within six months all passwords are either stored in plain text or written down on a post-it note.
The Very Basis Of Our Patent System... Is A Myth
The other tricky thing is that they need to negotiate this per jurisdiction. They can't sell insurance directly in most markets without being an insurer, and there are all kinds of BS legacy laws about referring and reselling insurance too. (i.e. you'd need to go to classes and be a registered agent to offer it)

It would be a fun problem to solve for them.

I don't think the actual per-room-night price for, say, $10-20k in contents and $bignum in liability (i.e. my guest burns down the building and kills everyone) would be that high; on the order of $10. 2m nights is enough to have some data, and this is similar to the vacation market.

It could even just be a rider on top of existing homeowners/renters insurance. A nice trick might be to sell renters insurance at the same time, and make money off that (which is IMO something everyone should have anyway, even if they don't use airbnb), with free coverage for airbnb use.
The Gmail man
Don't these methods only work in the presence of an instance of a user as well?
It will if he gets it on Verizon.
Facebook launches bug bounty program
Someone should just patent the patent: "conferring a right or title, esp. the sole right to make, use, or sell some invention" Joke
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I know SQL moderately well, but does anyone share my view that moving AWAY from using SQL syntax is a GOOD thing? I personally really dislike writing SQL, i'm sure lots of other people do too, thats why people write query builders etc.
With respect, I don't see how this answers estel's question.

Is she crazy? Did she stop checking email, SMS, and phone? (or maybe change number post break in?) Did you misinterpret what the AirBnB guys told you?

How can these two drastically different accounts make sense together?

(edit: if you only read the TC coverage, the link you are replying to is EJ's account)
Personally, I mostly post using my real name, but I know that currently being non-anonymous all the time isn't really possible in the real world. Some of the problems are hard to fix, some are easier and should be fixed but often will take time.
Usually it's not a problem, because people only vote up the first version of a story. And when a dup does get upvoted, mods can just kill it. The Airbnb situation is unique because

(a) an angry mob is upvoting any story to do with this and

(b) we have to err on the side of not killing stories critical of YC or companies we've funded, or we get accused of censorship.

Fortunately the combination only occurs occasionally, so it's probably not something that needs a structural fix.
Google intros Hotel Finder
There's a link to heatmap.js in the article.
Having seen & read a lot about Brian Chesky, I really do believe that he is a genuinely nice guy.

But out of curiosity, do you know if EJ's note of Brian calling her, telling her how her blog post story will negatively impact AirBnB, requesting her blog post to be removed/limited/hidden, then asking for a "twist" of good news to "complete[s] the story" is true?
There should just be threads with multiple links. The "original source" is what happens when you click it. The secondary source is where things like TechCrunch's opi ion pieces go.

Instead of having some classifier do the grouping, have the high-ranking community members handle this merging. The discussions in these big threads would be about the topic in general, not just TechCrunch's version or Venturebeats version
Arrington aside, EJ's own blog post here seems to contradict what you're saying.

The story she paints is one of AirBnB doing as much as they can in terms of damage control, but precious little in terms of repair.

If they've offered to "fix it", and are doing "everything they could be doing", why is she talking about feeling neglected? I quote:

"But the staff at Airbnb has not made a positive contribution to me personally or my situation in any way, particularly since June 30."

Is she lying? Is that what you're telling us? Or is there some grand miscommunication, where even EJ doesn't understand what AirBnB has offered?
An NDA would be shady. Besides, if you do everything you can for a person, and they're happy as a pig, you want them talking to everyone they can.

If what you do doesn't make them happy, you've got bigger problems.
Thanks for link. Original unreadable on iPad...
This is cheaper than the Arduino Uno from Sparkfun. Arduinos are running code in a loop -- this brings the benefits of an operating system to the world of hobbyist projects. I think it's a game changer if they can deliver on it.
My Kids have DS's. But for Christmas, I bought each of them and my wife an iPod touch.

The concept was simple, I spend about $70 more per device, but instead of buying $500 worth of games over the next 2 years, I will probably spend $50. Why buy $35 DS games when the kids are happy with free and $2 iOS games?

Also, Nintendo should have been smarter than to bet on 3D. The theaters can do it to up-charge us for a minimally better experience, but most people could care less if 3D just went away. The fact that Nintendo bought into "3D is the future" feels very 1985 to me.

The DS and DSi are so good, and the kids love them so much, my personal opinion is simply to move in the direction handhelds have been moving already - better graphics and faster processors. The next step is to lower the prices of their games, but I don't see that happening.
The solution should be to create more awesome startups, which will get more press coverage, thus having more unique stories on hn.
14nm Atom is more powerful than 6-core AMD Phenom II, 10x today’s Atom
I don't know her so I couldn't say.
Most stories are not just a single news item that is relevant immediately after some event and then less relevant over time.

Many stories evolve and new information is added. The Airbnb stories lately are a perfect example.

If you're busy enough to occasionally miss a day (or even a half day) of HN, you might not realize that something has already been posted.

I really think this is a non issue. Occasionally when there are dupes, I ignore them if I found them boring the last time, or read/comment again if they were fun last time.
Ask HN: html-based flowcharts
Does anyone know of a (javascript) library to generate static HTML-based flow charts? By HTML-based I mean that the components of the flow charts would be DOM elements that I could insert marked-up text into or something. I tried doing this with raphael but because it's SVG I can't link the text I render to anything, for example. And by static I mean it just spits out a flow chart on the screen - no user interaction required.
Actually i find SQL a great thing, and one thing that bothers me with all those "other" databases is that you have to start from scratch with everyone of them. A common Query language would be awesome!
I'm kind of wondering, what next? An optimizer?

I think there's a lack of clarity on what's being reinvented here, why, and where this is all headed. And when we get there, is it really something fundamentally new, or is it something that existing SQL products can absorb along the way?
And I have no doubt that's how it would be done, except that it turns out eval isn't actually necessary for a browser interactive REPL, which is pretty much all that developers need.
That's not quite right. The "paradoxical" version would be something like:

Alice and Bob are taking a course where their grades are determined by 5 essays and/or presentations, and they can choose how many of each to do. Alice does one essay where she earns 80%, and 4 presentations where she earns an average of 90%. Bob does 4 essays earning an average of 85%, and one presentation where he earns 95%. For each assignment type Bob has a higher average than Alice, but Alice's overall grade (assuming equal weighting) is higher than Bob's: Alice gets 88% ((80 + 4 * 90)/5) and Bob gets 87% ((4 * 85 + 95)/5).
Everyone generalizes from one example; at least, I know I do.
One idea: instead of making the formula for article placement based on the points and decay based on time of creation, don't use time of creation in the formula at all, and instead make just the points themselves decay. This way old things can come to the top again if they start receiving upvotes again.

This idea alone wouldn't solve the problem, but if combined with some sort of "merge" mechanism then it would be sweet.
Does it matter if your boss steals your ideas?
I think it's horrible that pg, a minor minor stakeholder in Airbnb, is handling the PR. Should be founders job. Where is Brian's apology for putting this poor woman's life on hold for 5 weeks?

Any goodwill that AirBnb gained from the namesake of YC has been lost from people I've spoken to.
Have HN inform the user that the link has been submitted before.
Daily US cash balance update
Interesting approach. I imagine an iTunes/AppStore allowance would be easier to manage as well.
[having problems with hn slow response]

see http://www.quora.com/Hows-life-in-Santiago-Chile for more background.

i am here because my partner is a chilean academic with tenure here. in general, it's a good place to live. personally, i am not the most outgoing or relaxed person on the planet, and sometimes living in a different culture - and it could be any other culture - gets to me. but the only negative thing i can think of about living here is that the work culture in large companies (my first job) emphasizes hours over productivity. if i were coming here to run a startup i would use a more results-oriented working environment (i don't care if you work at home, but you fucking get stuff done) as an incentive. a lot of people really hate the enforced long hours.

you need to speak spanish. but people will be friendly and tolerant when you screw up. you can learn while you are here. a chilean lover is as good a way to learn as any ;)

PS - just thought of a negative (as i went outside). the winter air quality in santiago is terrible. if you have asthma you don't want to be coming here. another negative would be the differences in wealth, although i imagine that's more shocking to a european than an american (i have no idea why i am paying such low taxes compared to europe - why isn't more of what i earn being used to help the poorest people here?).

PPS - some positives: good food (you have no idea how good a hot-dog can be); good beer (really - it's exploded the last few years with a bunch of micro-breweries); a more entrepreneurial attitude than europe; a more sane social attitude than the usa; low crime rate (despite what people here seem to think...)
Right. But we're both making the point that "gives a good interview" is contingent on "isn't given a good interview."
Even more importantly, you can't take the nucleus from one species and implant it into the egg of another and get a viable organism (unless the species are very closely related).
That's why we use a fresh salt for each password. Bcrypt incorporates a fresh salt into each new hash. Your and the GP's concern in this area is not warranted.
Even if you don't believe they are nice guys...do you really think they are so dumb...

Of course not. I'm not even sure what I said to imply either of those.

The story Arrington wrote yesterday about Airbnb not offering to help was bullshit.

I never read the Arrington story. I was just responding to EJ's blog.

From the beginning they offered to pay to get her a new place and new stuff, and do whatever else she wanted.

Great! Sounds like Airbnb is several steps ahead of most of us here on hn. We just never realized it.

What I meant in grandparent: Difficult situations like this one are also often great opportunities to make things better and learn. This one is a doozy. Looking forward to learning from its resolution.
Does anyone have any idea what's the reason Sublime don't support for code folding by default?
Why Google's Scrambling to Catch Up in the Patent War
Learn Programming in a Free Environment
I got the opposite end of that stick. Me and a friend both tried for MIT. I had (relatively significantly) higher grades and test scores but he got in and I didn't because he had built a cool website and I hadn't really built anything I could show off (also my SATs could have been better - if they were I suppose I might have gotten in via merit of numbers; the rest of my application wasn't _completely_ barren). I wonder if he'll find MIT like you did.

OP: The question has been on my mind as well (this is kind of a fresh wound). I keep telling myself that great people make themselves, they aren't made by schools. I'd tell you that, too, except I haven't even started college yet, so it's kind of early to go around telling other people that - might just be wishful thinking (though I'd imagine not completely).
Static analysis is already being done, since it is being compiled. Supercompilation taken to the extreme is very slow, but don't take it to the extreme, doing just enough to evaluate the expressions which are passed into eval would be fine (and these are often simple, macro like substitutions).
Population to Bulge, But Will Hit Ceiling
Title is extremely misleading. Should be "Verizon Android Phone" instead of just Android.
> A large advantage of lisp like languages is the data-as-code paradigm. To give up eval is to give up this.

Code as data is about (among other things) programs writing programs, the majority of which (compilers and macros) don't need runtime eval, i.e. the program that writes the program isn't the program that's running it.

Neither I, nor anyone I know, needs runtime eval of ClojureScript code in the browser. As the post states, it's certainly not needed for REPL interaction with a browser, something we intend to support. Why should we spend time writing something with no demonstrated need, other than to satisfy peoples' abstract notions of what constitutes a Lisp?

Whole program optimization: "Optimizer, here is my entire program, do whatever you can in pursuit of size and speed: renaming, moving and eliminating as you see fit."

Runtime eval: "Oh, wait, here's more program!"

You can't do the former well and support the latter. If you think having the choice is important, write the code. Here's some of what's required:

A ClojureScript port of the compiler (when multimethods are finished, not too bad)
Syntax quote
Runtime representation of namespaces, vars etc

What you'll end up with is something that generates huge, slow JavaScript programs. Make sure to emphasize to your users "But it has eval, and is written in a real Lisp!".

Seriously, I'm sure someone somewhere might actually require this, but they'll have to satisfy their own needs.
Call For The Dream - Get your representatives on the horn ASAP
Urban sprawl. Wildlife is being forced into closer proximity with humans because of suburban developments and golf courses. Land developers make a quick buck and wipe out natural habitats.

If you see a bat or raccoon on your property, realize that it doesn't have a choice. There needs to be compassion and awareness.
Well the comparison would be between different students. But the weightings essentially account for this difference. However, the better comparison would probably be if different students had different marking schemes.
I have much respect for Mr. Fogus, but statements like this make it difficult to take this post seriously:

ClojureScript is designed to solve the types of big
problems that are simply too difficult to fathom, much
less achieve, using raw JavaScript or any number of
JavaScript frameworks.

Please. ClojureScript may be a beautiful language, but it's not going to solve your problems-so-large-they're-difficult-to-fathom by magic. Better yet, I'd love to hear a real-world example of such a problem that JavaScript is incapable of addressing properly.
Mint vs. Wesabe: A B-School Case Study
Yeah but crooks is the biggest understatement I've ever heard. This is a bizarre, mean-spirited act... not simply theft.
Spelling robots
re: 3D movies. Signs are starting to show that movie goers are not merely indifferent to 3D but are starting to avoid it when given the 2D option [1]. Definitely not a good sign for Nintendo's bet on 3D technology. Brings to mind how many reviewers of the Zelda Ocarina of Time 3DS version talked about switching off the 3D features since they added nothing to, if not detracted from, the overall experience.

[1]http://www.economist.com/node/18988914?story_id=18988914
I think you're overstating the case. It's just another problem to be solved.

The short-term solution is to take care of EJ, make her whole as much as possible. So far they seem to be botching that, but it's not a lost cause yet, and I doubt it's enough to destroy them in the long term.

The long-term solution is multi-part:

1. figure out a new renter's insurance they can offer as an optional product to property owners. Difficult, but I'm sure there's some intrepid banker or actuary looking to make a name for themselves. Maybe they can require all AirBnB properties pay a small fee into an insurance fund that's backed by a derivative that gets sliced and diced in some clever way and resold on the secondary market, or whatever.

2. Step up the Facebook integration. Make it more prominent. Base the site around real identity, users' social graphs, etc.

I also don't see this destroying YC's (precarious? really?) image. YC has hundreds of companies now, several large exits. This issue with AirBnB isn't going to hurt them in any way that matters. It's not like Ron Conway and Yuri Milner are going to withdraw their investements, or promising startup founders will stop applying all of a sudden.
I like how the article uses "Lisa" and "Bart" for people’s name in the example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simpsons_paradox#Description
Is the Aging Brain Uniquely Human?
I'm not the OP, but I liked Notepad++ before I switched to Sublime for both platforms.
Right, you'd say "Look at the bright side of things, you didn't get murdered" to a women who has just been raped? That's rather low.
Yes because trust is an all or nothing thing in the real world.
could you comment on this then - http://www.ajcn.org/content/82/5/1011.abstract

P.S. I'm genuinely asking, most of my knowledge is borrowed from Leangains
And it will launch in 2015. Is Intel trying to win the war with ARM in the mobile market with promises?
> 75%+ of all emails I receive on my non-work address to not be worth looking at.

If you use any of the major mail providers (gmail, hotmail, yahoo), you should not see 75% spam in your inbox. It's worth noting that email that's "not worth looking at" is not necessarily the same as spam. The group you mentioned includes both real spam (phishing, pills, etc) and gray mail (newsletter, notifications, etc). If most of your inbox is gray mail that you're not interested in maybe it's worth setting up some filter rules or consider unsubscribing to those mailing lists.

Gray mail is generally a difficult problem for spam filters to solve since a critical email to one person might be junk to another. There are evolving ways to improve this filter but it usually requires action on the user, such as clicking the junk button or deleting them without reading.
Maybe that was too blunt.

I've watched these kinds of complaints and calls for correction/improvement/action for some time.

I come to HN late to the party, so I don't miss the old days as much as the first residents. In fact I'm probably one of the people ruining the party, for some of the longer residents.

I come to HN every day, because HN is the most interesting site on the web. I suspect that the earlier residents still come to HN daily or with some regularity, for similar reasons.

While I understand the dismay that earlier residents might have in reaction to the changes, these changes are all but inevitable as a more diverse crowd comes in. This is compounded by HN's relatively poor interface, especially in relation to the current complaint.

I don't mean to put words in pg's mouth. I doubt that there's much real incentive for pg to address all the mechanical issues in HN. He has many other interests, and he probably does well to attend to those before this.

Given the realistic improbability of large interface changes, the only thing left is to restrict membership to invite only. Otherwise you'll experience a slow retreat (as you are) from posts that longer residents like, as HN's low but strong buzz spreads.

Since mechanical and membership (I'm guessing) changes are unlikely, the most practical thing for any individual is to not worry about it.