skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At this point in time, I wonder if it's in pg's best interest to cut loss, and sever the relationship with airbnb altogether. Sell yc's stake in airbnb, and avoid talking about them ever again.

Sure, airbnb has a $1b valuation for now. But does anybody really think they're worth $1b after this, and only on an estimated $10M cumulative revenue? (not to mention the pending stock market collapse and IPO window closing, precipitated by US default next Tuesday)

They have a pretty toxic public image now amongst early adopters, and will only get worse. They have a business process which now appears to be broken, and it will cut into their already miniscule revenue to fix it. They do not have a moral/charismatic leader that can guide them thorough an important crisis like this. They are deemed illegal in many parts of US, and will likely be more so later once more mainstream media picks up on it.

On top of that, they are destroying yc's precarious image. And they're dragging this entire mess on all the other yc's startups (the other yc founders have to stand up to defend airbnb. Other applicants realizes that the best performing company in yc is one that does evil)
It looks like a SQL syntax to access noSQL databases.

I'm not sure if that's a step forward or backward.
I'd just assume that they needed to create an account to comment and picked the first username that came to mind. Quite logically, this was a couple of words from the reply that they had already formulated in their mind.
Thank very much for the kind words and votes of confidence. We're really excited to have Google joining Coca-Cola and Target as sponsors/mentors for us.

And I would be remiss not to highlight Renny Gleeson's leadership and vision in making this all happen. I'm just the operations guy who takes credit for his hard work ;)
URL duplication is already done, but it's especially simple-minded, can't cope with tracking crap on the URL, and will never work for the identical story from different sites.

If the URL is identical it counts as an upvote for the original submission.
You can't completely remove logic from the view, but you can enforce LESS logic. In other words, you are not free to dump a lot of code into the view, there are restrictions.

This is term is used by Mustache as well. http://mustache.github.com/
BS. Perhaps the vast majority of publicity can be made positive for you, but if you screw up in your handling, you can get eaten alive.

AirBnB had a chance to make this publicity tolerable. Instead, they worried about "precedent" and "cost" and, in a fit of immaturity, tried to sweep it under the rug. Every one of those actions have magnified the severity of this crisis.

Now, instead of them being in the drivers seat of the story with some control of the fire, they are subject to whatever the winds want to do with it. In both cases, stuff gets burned, but it's usually not houses, businesses, and people in a controlled burn.
AirBnB burglary animation
That's actually fairly easy. Host should declare coverage limits. Does not make sense to artificially lower the limits, since insurance will not pay for what's not declared. Thinking somewhat similar to insurance that FedEx and UPS are happy to sell.
Strange that a straightforward question gets voted down like this. Is it really an unreasonable question to ask?
SSH tunnels are a quick way to get fired here.
Option not listed: I just flag anything that appears on the front page if another, better post about the same thing is also on the front page. If lots of people did this, then we would quickly wind up with exactly one post about a topic on the front page, so people's discussion would mostly go onto that post. Problem easily solved.
> - A PhD or MEng in Computer Science.

If this isn't for a research-orientated position or a very technical (mathematical) role - in which case, you probably want that to read PhD or MEng in Maths or Physics - then why bother with this particular bit of criteria? Since when does having a PhD or MEng make you a better software developer?
From the second link:
"The huge deficits came about entirely as a result of the economic downturn brought about by the collapse of the housing bubble."

Since the housing bubble and the collapse happened before Jan 2008, and was not _recognized_ (which is being used as an accounting term - i.e. put on paper) - using the phrase "on track" to include that subsequent recognizing seems perfectly reasonable.
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Imagine how worse this problem is for European countries, which face the same tax avoidance, and have to sustain massively more expensive public sectors.
If things are on the same topic, but provide separate, unique points of view, they should go into an inner list, like you'd see for multiple google results from the same location.
One of the downsides of simply merging items, with different URLs, is that the different articles might both be worth posting because they cover different aspects of a story. So it'd be great to see multiple URLs on one item.

Also, there'd have to be a pretty clear standard about what constitutes one item. Sure, same URL - same item. Probably different URLs for the same story on the same day should be one item. But in the AirBNB ransacking case, I'd argue there should have been multiple articles: one for the initial "This is what happened" blog post and one for the "Suspect in custody, AirBNB has made changes to their organization" followup. Edited to add: And another for todays posting, noting that AirBNB probably hasn't done enough for the victim.

I assume some people blindly post TechCrunch URLs to try to boost karma - so a karma based solution might work. You post a duplicate URL, it changes your karma by -1 or 0. Not enough of a karma hit to really change the overall karma, but perhaps enough to search for the article first.
It is also important for several types of handicaps - see any web site design book for accessibility guidelines.
Please. 16Crack broke these in less than 5 seconds. Plain md5.

05b28d17a7b6e7024b6e5d8cc43a8bf7 = !@#$%^&*()

5f4dcc3b5aa765d61d8327deb882cf99 = password
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This storm just keeps getting bigger, like turning over a rock that had an ant on it, now has gobs of ants underneath that weren't seen before. If AirBnB cares about its future, they'll patch this up publicly and then get some serious crisis management consultation people in the mix. Yikes!
In a class like MyClass you would probably use the same ifTrue to compare the different members of the class. Eventually, the comparison boils down to numbers. To answer your question, we may need to look at the implementation of = for Integers or something like that.

If you go deep enough, the comparison and/or branching is built in in the microchip and you use that.
John says the first one is "password", in under a second. I'll wait for a few hours to see if I can get the second one speedily. (By the way, this is why you shouldn't use MD5!)
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If the story is exactly the same just from
a different source, it should be downvoted.

You can't downvote submissions.

Some duplicate stories have a slightly
different slant ...

In my experience, most don't.

I think ... it's better just to leave it alone
instead of attempting to cull the duplicate
submissions.

Noted.
I've been trying to use Sublime for a while now but really disliked the dark skin (even with theme changed). I just installed: https://github.com/buymeasoda/soda-theme/ and am in love -- definitely going to be switching over.
Sorry about that. Actually they are used in the real code but I removed a lot of other stuff when I copied over. I should have deleted more carefully
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any social/mobile game startups considering a move to Chile?
A glass of orange juice from a store contains as more calories as an equivalent amount of soda:

Calories in OJ: http://caloriecount.about.com/calories-orange-juice-i14425
Calories in soda: http://caloriecount.about.com/calories-carbonated-beverage-i...

Adjusted for the same volume, the soda has 109, while the orange juice has 122.
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My understanding of technology as a competitive edge in finance is that:

1 - it's a relatively small part of the sector

2 - it happens in intervals

Specifically for #2, you can look at flash trading, where the edge exists for a while, but then everyone more or less catches up..and it's a couple years before the next innovation.

Some other complaints:
-Bank incentives are almost purely monetary (which does not work).
-They tend to hire within the industry (it's an extreme place to find technical and managerial inbreeding).
-They are extremely arrogant and prideful (making corrective measures hard to implement, since they aren't identified)
In the blog post I include a screenshot of it... but my server is dying at the moment.
Was anyone ever excited about the 3DS, or its pricetag? Think that is more to blame than Apple.
Actually I goofed up while typing out the post a bit. Views that contain subviews should keep a track of the sub-views. Not collections. I have updated the post. Sorry for the confusion
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In my experience doing anything with constant data flow when you have bad reception can turn battery into heat amazingly quickly. Otherwise it works just fine.

I do wish having an idle skype didn't send packets constantly, though.
He was citing what the numbers actually were. The CBO's projections a year earlier were way off because they had overestimated GDP growth and their employment numbers proved to be overly optimistic.
I agree with you, but Pump is not a web framework. You are not supposed to write your application with Pump. Picasso is a framework I built on top of Pump (https://github.com/adeel/picasso) that's more suitable for that.

(I can see how you could get a mistaken impression from reading the discussion on HN, though.)
@cmurdock Then I'm glad I don't work there, your company sucks.
Do you know if they are targeting a specific geographic area? I'm guessing most everything will be coming out of Santiago.
I agree with you about Smalltalk and most Lisps not being practical. I think Clojure has the power to change that though.
>wishful thinking to claim that the perfect answer is already known

...which is exactly why to leave it to the market.
Excellent visual. I've not seen this explained as clearly in any other news source. It seems so simple to do; I chalk it up the kind of lazy Journalism we have today.
"Could you explain why it would be a bad thing to make primary education more like college?"

They don't have the same goals. Primary education has to educate everyone. Private colleges can be selective about students, kick out students, etc, etc. You can't compare a system that has to educate everyone with one that can be highly selective. It's apple to oranges. But, private colleges as a whole are questionable. Look at all the diploma mills, aggressive recruitment to private "colleges" with substandard education, no real campus, whose goal is only to make a profit. I can't find it now, but I read a story recently about a scam private college that bought another school that was accredited so that they would get the accreditation which wouldn't be rechecked for years!

So in short, I think some private schools do a great job for some students, but I'm highly doubtful that it will work well for primary education that has to educate everyone.

I think US colleges are great, but it's not the same goal as primary school. I don't think the two are comparable.

The private prison example isn't exactly the same, but it has similarities that you guys are ignoring. The main one is that the incentive is to maximize profit, not to make a better prison or school.
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It's probably just a way of saying that they need more math and data mining skills than your average software engineer with a BS or no degree at all.
Idea for the merge mechanism.
If a user thinks a link has been submitted before; the user posts a cross reference comment whose syntax must be simple as in:
MERGE: news.ycombinator.com/link/to/article

If the merge comment gets enough upvote, then a detection algorithm automatically merges it to the other one.

I left out a couple of details, but this is the simplest way I can think of to automate the merging without reverting to clustering algorithms.

I guess this is equivalent to voting the story down the front page, but it allows for salvaging the discussion in the down voted link.
Why not mention the landlord? Maybe because it's not particularly relevant? I mean, what would she say about the landlord? "I told the landlord, and he commiserated with me, and helped me change the locks." And heck, she already mentioned changing the locks.

As far as the investigation, Airbnb has claimed that a suspect has been apprehended, but apparently neither the SFPD nor Airbnb have contacted her with any further details. She's not necessarily blaming the SFPD for not having caught the suspect; but she's arguing that the spin that Airbnb has put on this story is untrue, that everything has not been resolved, and they have not been as helpful as they claim.

And why would someone who had just been victimized by someone anonymous they connected with on the internet want to publish a whole bunch of personal details all over the internet? Internet vigilantism is not some silver bullet; publishing more information may lead her to be more vulnerable, not less. Her intent is not to get "the internet" to help catch the thieves; her intent is to warn people about the risks of using Airbnb's service, and that Airbnb will basically do nothing to mitigate those risks.

And it's not like this story is completely made up. Brian Chesky wouldn't have written a response confirming many of the details and contesting none of them if the story were untrue. All he did was try to put a positive spin on it, which this second post demonstrates is just spin, with no real content.
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No - Word is definitely better for coding.

But you're right, both are good choices. You can highlight, bold, and italicize all your code at capricious whim, no other editors can compete with that
It's also a huge amount of money.

In London, which obviously is much more of a financial hub than a technological one, the highest paid jobs for programmers are almost all in the financial industry.

Personally, I'd prefer to do something more interesting for less money, but that doesn't mean that it's not tempting.
I recently got the Charge (from Amazon Wireless, saved a couple hundred bucks), and I've had none of the problems listed in this article. This is my first Android phone, I came from an iPhone, and I've found the experience to be very pleasant so far. Perhaps I just "don't know better", but I'm still happy.

It sounds like this guy's experience was "This phone is different than my phone, and I can't do things the way I was expecting to. It sucks." It's like someone sitting at a computer running a different OS then they use, and saying "this sucks, I can't figure out where X is. In my OS X is right here, but it's not right here now. This OS is crap". It's also like someone switching from Office 2003 to Office 2007 and hating it because the menus are different.

Also, I feel like everyone overreacts to the installed apps you "can't" get rid of, and not just on this phone, but any phone including the iPhone (I'm looking at you Stocks app). I don't like or use them either, but it's not like they're getting the way, preventing you from doing anything, or taking up any noticeable amount of the phone's resources. For me, it's more frustrating to not have the option of removing them, then actually having them on my phone.
Yes, but that's buried in a long discussion about ideas in general,

I generally agree with the premise of your original post (and I deal with it by providing links to earlier submissions by hand) but here you provide the rationale for submitting stories more than once.
Maybe I'd buy this if you used Google+ as an example instead. As far as I'm concerned I get many times more spam on Facebook than through email - only once every few months does a message from a Nigerian prince slip through gmail's spam filter, but multiple times a week I get a FB message that someone I vaguely knew 3 years ago lost their phone and needs numbers, is having a party thousands of miles away, etc.
With the exception on the potential hit to AirBnB, I think you've overstated every single claim in your post. Of course, I have no evidence of market effects; only time will tell, but YC is not going to be judged and thrown out as unworthy because one company has a significant (perhaps deadly to the company) issue.

And why does YC have a "precarious image"? I've never heard anything of that nature. Every YC person whom I've spoken to (albeit not a huge percentage!) has loved the program.
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Most my favorite games over the last 3-4 years have been on the DS so I might have been if it hadn't been for the fact that I've been enjoying games on my iPhone and iPad almost as much.

If Square/Enix released more games for those platforms I'd be excited and would stop even considering getting a 3DS.
Yes, experience would be a better word.
Ironically, GAAP numbers are easier to game than what Groupon is reporting. For example, if Groupon were to slash their marketing budget in order to meet their earnings estimates, you'd see better net income but a minimal change in CSOI.

It's just strange for this to be so controversial.
The wars, combined, only comprise about $1T of our deficit.
One more fact for your collection: Verizon even subsidizes its prepaid phones. One option I was given to replace a prepaid out-of-warranty feature phone was paying $200 for a new one--though they sell the exact same model with new service for $40. (Ultimately I took a prior-generation refurbished phone for $50.)
I just wanted to say that I am following you on twitter, and visit your web site on a regular basis. I am sure you have what it takes to make a million, and I will just sit here (in the UK) watching you do it ... and try to analyze how. Full of admiration, particularly for your earlier venture into marketing. I have to say I considered doing the same thing about a year ago when I was made redundant and researched some of the Chinese suppliers. I lacked what you had, and that was courage. Good luck Mat.
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Avert your eyes.
Strange to, on one level, make the valid and useful observation that forename + surname is a cultural assumption, then go right ahead and make the cultural assumption that the form should only accept US addresses (and even then ignoring DC, PR, Guam, and forces serving overseas...). Even with your scheme, you'd better hope nobody types in Beverly Hills, LA. And you'll need a spellchecker to help out people who can't spell Missississississippi.
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>Luckily for me my situation is nowhere as bad as ej but airbnb really needs a 24 hour hotline.

They don't have a 24 hour hotline? Crazy. Hotels do. Seems like this would be something worth spending the money on.
I switched from BBedit to Textmate, then back to BBedit. And now switching to Sublime.

BBedit has been around for a long time. I remember when (besides TextEdit) it was the only decent editor on Mac.
LOL, that is a terrible analogy. If I bought and built a boxcar and I did it wrong then yes my fault, I'm not building the phone, the manufacturer is, so as a consumer I can expect a certain level of quality.

Most consumers don't know the difference between Google-made Android phones and the others. You're missing the core point which is that the Android platform is fragmented and regular people are being given a phone full of advertising and apps built for up selling.
Just a couple of illustrative data points:

If you want a Verizon individual plan that’s compatible with an iPhone, you will end up paying at least $70/month, plus taxes and what-not, and at least $30 of that is for the data plan.

The cheapest MetroPCS plan is $40, including taxes and what-not, and includes unlimited data (although MetroPCS doesn’t have 4G—you either put up with the slowness of EDGE or you pay for a 4G phone—and there are a lot of gaps in their coverage area).

So if you are satisfied by what a cheap plan offers you, it doesn’t make sense to shell out a massive amount per month just for the sake of an iPhone.
> 1. How do you reliably extract forename+surname from a single name field

You don't. It's their name, it is not broken. Instead, the "first name, last name" format is broken: what happens if that person has more than two names? If they're culturally written last, first instead? If their first or last name should never be used on its own? Or if only one of them should be used?

You ask for their name, and you use what they give you. Period, end of the story. You have no business fucking up somebody's name.

> 2. Same for the City/State field

That one's even easier: freeform address. Not everybody has a state, not everybody needs a city field, and not every address can fit in so simple a format. Ever seen a japanese address? There are 5 or 6 levels in the geographical hierarchy (country, prefecture — including prefecture type, municipality, optionally ward (depends on municipality size), district, block and house number) and it's written from the largest to the smallest element of the hierarchy (so prefecture to house number). With the business or person name at the end.

You may also note that japan does not generally use street-based addresses, though some local systems do (no, japan does not use a single unified postal addressing system either)
Original article here:

http://www.raspberrypi.org/?p=28

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2815724
Politically he can't veto spending, even if legally he can. The reality is that the President is mostly a figurehead, bought and paid for just like Congress and trapped by chains of patronage and party. That's why nothing changes. Pay attention to who his advisers are. Notice who has benefited over the last three decades of political change. Read some real history.

> Surely we can do away with them.

What are you going to do with the military and their families? To the contractors and suppliers? And the jobs and businesses that relies on the war gravy train? You need a "real" stimulus and infrastructure program. Otherwise you are looking at an much larger number of unemployed group of people, many which are soldiers.

We have some real big problems in the United States, which will not be solved, because it's not interests of the people in control to solve them.
> Maybe my "simple" is to have the ability to yield chunks of data as it gets generated using chunked transfer.

I'm curious, have you ever actually had to do this? Even Rails only just got this feature in 3.1 (http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2011/4/18/why-http-streaming).
True, didn't think of that.
There are actually 8 more non-states (like MP, AS, PR), and 6 for overseas military. Just to cover the US.
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Smart for Foursquare and Groupon, not smart for businesses. This still doesn't fix the problem that Groupon is not a viable option for the majority of businesses.