skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As long as the volume of insurance related payouts is small enough and the volume of customers purchasing insurance is large enough, then it's a viable business model. In fact, that's how insurance works (and how it stops working when there are major catastrophes that cause the number of claims to spike dramatically).
Actually, most of the worsening debt situation is due to the financial crisis started 3 years ago, but this would not fit into a story which benefit any political side (http://www.cepr.net/index.php/blogs/beat-the-press/president...). Framing it as tax cut, spending cut and other morally-loaded terms unfortunately works well in most countries facing this issue...
> This is the price (one of many) they pay for their eventual big payday.

"Screw clients, acquire currency!"
Reed Hastings (CEO of Netflix) on the Culture of Innovation
She should have tried Windows Phone. Same benefits of iPhone with choice of hardware
The learning curve of Vim and Emacs making it hard to swith TO another editor? Sorry, but that makes no sense. :-) Maybe Vim and Emacs do have qualities that other editors don't match?
Actual paper and much discussion submitted earlier:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2818847
Unfortunately, they will take note of it as "run the government like a business", which tends to be how supply-side economists would prefer the government to be run anyway.
I had to go and look up Eval and Evil again: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/197769/when-is-javascript...
This is great practice for airbnb.

What about this, exactly, is practice?
The illustration reminded me of a story, seventy years old this month, by Robert A. Heinlein ( "—We Also Walk Dogs" , http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E2%80%94We_Also_Walk_Dogs ): "Want somebody murdered? Then DON'T call General Services. But for anything else, call.... It Pays!"

Of course, this is improved by clever game-style hooks and actual implementation via internet on a much wider labor pool.
I agree, I think there is a place in the world for each philosophical world view. I personally don't like absolutism with the exception of possibly the ones found in pure science.
Toxie Radd 3D
Whatever happened to "the customer is always right?"
Other tech solution: you could cluster posts by content. E.g extract keywords/key phrases and group submissions that have some threshold of over-lapping terms. Of course not trivial, but an interesting project.
Apple has more cash the US government? Buyout not imminent though
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> It's not like he has a magic wand or is a dictator.

He does have a magic wand, in the form of a pen that he can use to veto new military spending. He hasn't used it.

> If the large banks, oil companies and corporations thought it would be in their interest to end the wars, the troops would be home.

No. If Obama chose not to renew the various war spending bills, the troops would be home.

> Plus what are you going to do with the sections of economy that depend on these wars?

This sentence is confusing to me. The wars cost us money, money that we don't have any more and that is causing us huge amounts of trouble right now. I'm not sure what will happen to those sections. But they didn't exist 10 years ago, they exist now for the sole purpose of killing people, and they are using money that isn't theirs. Surely we can do away with them.
Speaking as a decently computer-savvy person with a bit of attention problem - I often have to try to resubmit multiple times on non-unified text fields because I miss things, and then my password doesn't get saved. Then, rushing through it for the third time, my Captcha turns out to be wrong, etc. I've actually abandoned lots of forms I planned on filling out because of non-unification.

I for one like this post.
They may not be mastered equally. For example, I find myself using vim to edit files on servers, because setting up emacs to my taste is always a bit of a pain. (I do know about TRAMP.)
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Oh yeah, my guess is that all carriers offer no-texting plans, I just mean it's getting rarer that people choose them.
World's Worst Website
AirBnB paying for one incident does not create any obligation on them to pay for other incidents. That's nonsense.

Apple replaced a friends phone that they abused and then made up a story about. Apple did this because Apple wanted to take care of their customer. Doesn't mean Apple is obligated to replace every phone, even when it is abused. Apple's only obligated to the terms of the warranty it promises. Apple promises little, but delivers a lot.

These are the incidents that test the true nature of a company. AirBnB is not coming off very well so far, and there is no negative ramification to doing the right thing-- except for the direct costs of doing the right thing.

If AirBnB thinks leaving their customer hanging is worth saving the money it would cost to "make things right" (Whatever that means) it is their right.

But lets not hide behind the spurious notion that the world operates like school.

Just because you give some gum to your friend doesn't mean you're obligated to give it to the whole class.

If it did, then I'd have the right to go to a party at the playboy mansion! Clearly other people were invited.
In my experience in the tech industry, experience counts much more than a degree. When I'm hiring, I ignore the education section. The industry is full of self-taught programmers who were programming since middle school. Most computer science freshmen came in already knowing how to code well and getting a degree is just a formality--a check box. In that case, why should their education even factor in the job market?

And if you don't have work experience to speak of, make something! A website, an iPhone app, code hosted on GitHub, etc, speaks volumes. In all honesty, I'm more likely to hire based on that than your resume.
I'll bite.

Right now you're doing OK because you've got a relatively high metabolic rate. By the time you hit your mid-30s to early 40s, a natural drop in testosterone is going to slow that metabolic rate right down and you'll see a gradual buildup of belly fat. In fact, I can already see the beginnings of it in your photo right now. I can't see your jawline but your cheeks look a little full for a guy your age.

I used to be 140-150# and now I fight to stay at 180#. In all likelihood I'm never going to get back to where I once was. I've redirected my goals to minimizing bodyfat and building muscle. It's not easy but my health has improved markedly.
BMW Unveils Carbonized i3 City Car
If they blocked Hacker News or Reddit at work, I would be an employee who sets up an SSH tunnel.
Why or how have they failed? Even the person who was the victim in this case has basically had nothing but good things to say about AirBnb. I haven't been following this as closely as I follow some things, so maybe I've missed an angle.

edit: Nevermind, I missed this article. Sorry for the noise. http://techcrunch.com/2011/07/29/airbnb-victim-speaks-again-...

Yikes, if the implied allegations are true, they managed to do worse than bad press. They lied to generate good press. Did they not realize that would fail to stifle the truth and even worse, amplify the bad news?
Then again, after working at startups my whole career, maybe I'm just naive about how messed up the real world is. I second this... Working in a startup every time I see someone having to work around corporate BS to get something simple done, this comes to mind.
I voted for merge.

It would also be nice to have an "alternate links" section on top of the comments page, with possibily of upvoting the alternate submissions.

Even better if an alternate link could replace the main one if it is voted as more relevant (ex main blog post replacing a post merely quoting it)
Email is certainly not dead, but a major value-add of services like Facebook et al is that you can only get messages from people you know. http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/facebook_eats_away_at_e...
Usually property insurance works as a percentage of the insured amount. If I were to rent out my house I'd put my treasured heirlooms into storage/safe deposit box.
quick note - upon submitting the link, there could be a lookup function on the keywords of the title or linked story title, which shows similar submissions...replicating the Google instant search functionality.

yes, there would be obvious issues with keyword overlap and would not apply for customized titles.
Filter on URL would be the first step, if it is a duplicate URL submitted then point the submitter to that story.

Could also use recently, i.e. last week or 24 hours, to compare stories at submitted URLs such that if someone submits a story on G-man advert from a different site it is found or at least present to the submitter to check if their submission is a duplicate.
What Should Congress Do? Plot Your Response
Apparently there's a pretty horrible form to fill out, but that's about it. I know a couple of people out there at the moment and it sounds like a pretty sweet deal.
Wow. It's hard to believe people come out of this thinking Khoi is the "jerk" here. And that he doesn't do his job well. It's sad that you think that.
He should be validating the user's input before they are even allowed to submit the form (I use jQuery Form Validation). In addition to validation, he can mask inputs require his fields are entered a certain way.

However, this sorta falls apart when you think about internationalization. Phone numbers are a good example. There are so many ways a phone number can be entered that it's almost always best to let the user type in the number in whatever format they want and then validate based on most US/Canada and International formats.
Every Android phone on 3 carriers I have used has random crashes and initially laughable battery life. If the only option you have is "carrier crapware", guess what? It sucks. And i'm never paying $500+ for an unlocked phone (I would buy something that is actually functionally useful like a Sony Ericsson)
Finance is pretty much like any sector, there's a huge variety between firms and even between individual teams within firms.

There are lots of areas of finance where technology is what provides the competitive edge and they tend to be much more agile and use recent technologies, but there are also lots of areas where the code that was written 20 years ago in Fortran still works perfectly fine and does the job.
I completely agree with your last sentence.

However, I at least, find writing about emotional matters to be extremely difficult. When I sit down with a goal of saying something nice, to show some compassion, to show what I'm actually feeling - what I usually end up doing is twisting the knife.

So in general I write less, and see the people face to face ASAP. Any other way is just harder for us both.

I could have easily made this mistake.
I'm not sure that this was clear, but the reason this is important is for an in-browser REPL.

Would it be possible to turn down the GCC compilation levels, in the "I want an REPL" use case?
> To paraphrase a minor celebrity of programming, life is too long to be good at reading every variation of boilerplate.

Learning to read code is just like learning to read English. You can guess most of the words meaning once you know some of them. Personally, I think being able to read code is the best skill you can have as a programmer. Just as a good musician is able to listen to music properly. (I mean 'listen' as in analyze, understand, notate and copy).

The other point IMHO is that scattering your code with anonymous functions points to bad design and is as bad as scattering "GOTO" everywhere in BASIC code. It leads to spaghetti code which is an unmaintainable mess.
Yeah, you guys killed my server... it's appreciated anyway.
"President Obama asserted[1]: '[T]he deficit was on track to top $1 trillion the year I took office.'

This is seriously mistaken.

The Congressional Budget Office's projections from January of 2008, the last ones made before it recognized the housing bubble and the implications of its collapse, showed a deficit of just $198 billion for 2009, the year President Obama took office. In other words, the deficit was absolutely not 'on track to top $1 trillion.'"[2]

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[1]: http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2011/07/25/obamas-address-to-t...

[2]: http://www.cepr.net/index.php/blogs/beat-the-press/president...
The "fold" doesn't refer to the bottom of the screen, but to the crease in a newspaper. Above the fold were the headlines that drew buyers because they could be seen in news stands and such. Below the fold were those that couldn't. Being above the fold on the front page meant your story was a big deal.

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/below_the_fold

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

It was a newspaper term that got repurposed on the web before user experience studies (not the "versioning" of the web) showed it wasn't nearly as important as it is in newspapers.
That's not exactly the point. An insurance policy for a high risk activity - let's say skydiving - is very well definited. There are statistics on accident rates. There is a pretty defined payout when someone dies. The problem is not the risk level, it's the undefined nature of the problem.

AirBnB doesn't know the value of the property they are renting. They don't have a long enough history to figure out what these kind of things could cost. What if I rent out a mansion, are they as liable there as in this case? Does AirBnB limit their pay out? These are questions they will have to come through at some point.
Happy Sysadmin Day.

p.s.: stop reading our mail :)
Not just Apple is lobbying this tax holiday.

More info here http://money.cnn.com/2011/02/16/news/companies/repatriation_...
This article seems to gloss over one of the cipher modes of AES called CTR mode. CTR eliminates the interblock dependency while staying more secure than ECB. CTR mode uses a separate counter (such as 0, 1, 2...) that gets factored into the key for each block. Compare this to the CBC which uses the cipher text of the previous encrypted block as part of the key for the next plaintext block. CBC has a data dependency where CTR does not.

I would suspect that they can get much higher cipher rates by using CTR mode rather than CBC.
He should have explained that the servers don't have any more PCI slots available.
Short answer: The disadvantage is temporary.

I went to Carleton College in Minnesota. It does well in liberal arts college rankings, but it's not well-known. In fact, my Y Combinator interview began with pg asking me, "You're Canadian?" (He was thinking of Carleton University.)

Going to a school with name rec is certainly a plus. And if you're in the startup world, that goes double for MIT and Stanford—not only do they have outstanding CS and engineering programs, but they also have an extraordinarily entrepreneurial culture. If you tell a venture capitalist that you went to MIT, for instance, that's a strong indicator that you "get it" as an entrepreneur. It's neither necessary nor sufficient to get them to write a check, but it pretty much answers two of the questions every potential investor has: "Is this guy smart?" and "Does this guy understand how startups work?" If you went to a no-name school, you've got to find another way to answer those questions.

Just remember: Once you've actually done something, that defines you far more than what school you went to. I didn't lose my shot at Y Combinator because pg hadn't heard of my school; I lost it because my team hadn't built anything before. If we'd been Stanford grad students rather than University of Michigan grad students, maybe that would've helped. But you know what would've helped more? Having ever deployed an app worth using, or developed a popular open-source project, or written a book on a programming language (say, CoffeeScript).

In short: "Make something people want." Aspire to do something noteworthy enough that you can introduce yourself as "Hi, I'm the creator of so-and-so." At that point, no one will care which school you went to.
YC have stated they only edit titles for the good of the site and not for the good of YC. If they wish to adopt that policy they're free to do so and make a statement to that effect.

However I imagine they don't do so due to the obviously loss in good will such a position would cause.
Nokia Cedes Smartphone Crown to Apple, Samsung
Let's say that someone reposts an old Spolsky article that has been around for 3 years and was posted back in the day when it was fresh. Instead of detecting the duplicate and not allowing the repost, I'd like it if HN automatically posted a link to the old discussion as a comment on the new post. Maybe do some sort of filtering on dates, so that the system disallows reposts of recent items as it currently does, but doesn't block posting a 3 year old article again for more discussion. Not everyone was here 3 years ago, and asking someone to search HN for every old article they might be interested in is a pretty crappy interface for discussion.

Edit: Removed dangling "There's value in revisiting discussion" statement.
Being an old VMS fan, I always liked DD-MMM-YYYY (e.g. 29-Jul-2011). At least it eliminates the month day ambiguity which sometimes confuses me.
To use a terrible analogy that doesn't hold up under close scrutiny but is sufficiently accurate to answer your question:
Just because you spend more than you earn using your credit card doesn't mean you don't have money in the bank. You can also use your credit card to put cash in your bank account.

The US doesn't hand people treasury bonds to pay them. It uses treasury bonds to put money in its treasury. Then it pays its operating expenses out of the treasury. If the treasure runs down to zero, it can't pay any of its expenses, but it will almost certainly never run down to zero. It gets in new revenues all the time (even without borrowing). Just not enough to meet all of its expenses.
Another MacVim user here. I open up a lot of tabs, which works really well for me. The first version of MacVim used to have a sidebar (which was even better) but this is fine too.
Was Reddit hacked this morning?
Sqlite and couchdb creators announce unQL. SQL for NoSQL
What about non-Santiago parts of Chile? If I were going to spend six months in Chile I might be tempted to forego the metropolis and find a nice town by the seaside or the mountains (both of which seem to be pretty easy to find in Chile). But are there "nice" areas outside the big city, or is all the wealth concentrated in Santiago?
70 Lightning Strikes in One Shot
I vote for do nothing. If the story is exactly the same just from a different source, it should be downvoted. Some duplicate stories have a slightly different slant and thus encourage a discussion of the subject from a different perspective. The most obvious example is the AirBnB story from the financial times. There is a lot of overlap in the comments from this submission and previous ones, but there are also different perspectives. I think for stories that are this big its better just to leave it alone instead of attempting to cull the duplicate submissions.
TL;DR: not Android is the problem, but the vendor crapware. As a rule, always only buy Nexus phones.
we are a 20 user organization. at $180/y/person, that's $3,600/year to have boomerang for my organization. google apps costs us $1,000/yr at $50/y/person..
Indeed it has! My server is smoking :P
Wonderful underground waves of crystals
As far as I know both Self and Slate are very strongly inspired by Smalltalk.
The first 1,000 user problem, i.e. why consortium apps don‘t work
Same here. I started using YYYY-MM-DD for my own use as soon as I learned of it, long before I was on the internet. Among other things even the simplest sort programs will get dates in the right order.
I know there are a lot of differences (I'm English and live in Scotland), just my understanding of libel / defamation is that broadly the nature of rulings was similar - essentially that Scotland's system while slightly different wasn't that much better than the English system.
I agree with that entirely, and have no problem with "classics" being resubmitted, with a pointer back to the previous discussion. I'm more irked by the 5, 10 or 20 times some stories get submitted, like the "G-Man" commercial, and others.
No article on the US debt is going to be neutral.

Someone posted an interesting video the other day: http://www.kpcb.com/usainc/

The Heritage Foundation has a different take on it:
http://blog.heritage.org/2011/07/28/the-truth-about-obamas-b...

Which shows that Obama is more to blame than Bush.

Situation is normal as each side is blaming the other side.

John Mauldin has a book called Endgame, which is worth reading through Interlibrary loan. It presents some interesting ideas.

Think we need a new super post that just allows everyone to post articles on who's responsible for the US debt underneath.
The victim has updated her blog with a new post in which she explains how some of the public statements made by Airbnb's ceo are not true:

http://ejroundtheworld.blogspot.com/2011/07/airbnb-nightmare...
I agree that dilution of new page isn't a big problem and the crowd aspect should ensure interesting links go up.

The problem to solve is split discussions so I think it would be great if duplicate links would be automatically merged and the discussion page unified.

The more challenging problem to solve is how discussions about stories that are almost identical or link to identical stories could be merged. Could there be an option to view discussions independently or show a page that auto-merges similar discussions?
Anything from Janurary 2009, which is actually when he took office?

http://cbo.gov/ftpdocs/99xx/doc9957/01-07-Outlook.pdf

(Page 11: "CBO currently projects that the deficit this year will total
$1.2 trillion, or 8.3 percent of GDP. That total, however, does not include the effects of any future legislation.")
This sentence is confusing to me.

Xradionut is using the broken window principle - if we break stuff and then rebuild it, we've increased GDP and therefore helped everyone. If we stop doing this, we might ruin the economy.

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

In other news, the Tsunami was great news for Japan.
What do you mean it's not something done in the real world? What is VRBO.com (vacation rental by owner). I've taken a half dozen vacations where I rented someone elses house - long before AirBnB. There have been vacation houses in ski towns for decades, on the shore for literally hundreds of years. The only twist AirBnB provides is that it competes with regular hotels - not just vacation homes. And I know more than one vacation home owner who has a similar story to the one told here. People trash vacation homes. People trash normal rental apartments. It happens all of the time.

The apartment I live in now had $15,000 in damage done by the previous tenant when he was evicted for not paying rent. He took a sledgehammer to the toilets and walls. He spray painted the ceiling and burned the curtains. My friend's vacation house at Disney World had all of the furniture stolen by someone renting it. This stuff happens all the time.

The only thing I'm shocked by is that this is the FIRST incident on AirBnB that we've heard of. They should have had a plan to deal with it. I'm not exactly deep in the rental scene and I have two stories to tell of this happening from people I personally know. This stuff must happen every week.
Web needs more curating. What better to curate than curriculum?
I consider the image an implementation detail of Squeak or the original Smalltalk-implementation. You can implement Smalltalk the language without the image: http://smalltalk.gnu.org/
I'm sorry, but I disagree with you (and upvoted that post). While post traumatic stress disorder is highly individualistic, one of the classic symptoms is a desire not to be reminded of the trauma (especially only five weeks after). Usually, at this point, a victim would be doing everything possible not to think of it.

Granted, PTSD is highly individualistic, but if you read the relevant medical literature, this is not a classic case.