skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If she outwitted a bad algorithm: more power to her.

If she had a co-conspirator who helped direct her (and/or her preferred mini-mart retailer) the tickets, lock them both up (even if deducing which tickets to redirect was on its own a legitimate tactic).
Good luck guys! Take feedback with a grain of salt and stay focused on your vision.
Perhaps, but you'd get more of 'em.

Still, lifetime value, really? I admit that I've been letting my car insurance roll over from year to year because I'm too lazy to go looking for new quotes (though this site, once it's working, will significantly lower that barrier) but next time I get a new car I'll certainly shop around to see who'll give me a good rate.
FWIW: I didn't read it as "don't be openly hostile". I read it as "please remember they have their heart in their mouth and are drenched in a cold sweat and even yawning indifference can be soul crushing, yet we realize there are so many it will be hard to get all excited about each and every one of them (especially with so many of them announcing their launch at essentially the exact same time)".
YC-Backed Leaky Is Hipmunk For Car Insurance
Should have a special title tag. Show HN YC: ... or something to that effect.
Maybe its just me, but I hate the idea of giving all my personal information to a site called leaky. It fails to instill confidence.

The design is pleasing on the eyes, thanks square!
There's usually some disclaimer saying this is just a quote and may differ from the actually policy written for you.
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HN Exercise: We're the Hipmunk for X
"We're the hipmunk for X"

Replace the X with what you think is the next industry that should have an aggregated price quote engine.
Same here. I am planning my wedding, and Pinterest has been invaluable! Protip: If you can find the founders email (I can't remember of the top of my head), you can ask for an invite directly, instead of rotting away on the invite list.
Broadband over powerline is like cold fusion, except without the exciting real-world prospects for success. It has been bandied about for decades now, tried on small scales a few times, and is always a few decades away from real use unless it is finally dead at this point.
Surely such sentiment should be extended to any startup, not just YC startups?
True, I was scanning reports for some serious police/military actions but found nothing. Vehicles and buildings are on fire, rioters are aggressive and don't care about the police, random people are injured... I really find it hard to come up with an explanation for not using force necessary to stop it right now. That's a third day now - each adding damage to completely unrelated people and property.

I work in Bristol and wouldn't be surprised if riots started happening in some areas there, unless London ones are dealt with straight away.

Edit: Just read reports of police stations being set on fire. Now I'm really curious what exactly is the official plan for dealing with the situation.
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Java's idiosyncratic interfaces don't always help either: there's Enumeration which has nextElement() and hasMoreElements(), and there's Iterator which has next() and hasNext().
Contrast that with stocks, where anybody can be an analyst and issue a rating, and where there is no mechanical, legalistic system of downgrades and upgrades.

I think this statement is a little stronger than is accurate. For a time I was on the career path of a stock analyst, and before my name could be on any notes urging investors to buy or sell, I had to take and pass a number of licensing tests: Series 7, 63, 86, and 87. These tests were mandated and run by FINRA, as ordered by the SEC.

So not just "anybody" can issue a rating.

However, I understand your larger message that there aren't larger legal implications surrounding your rating; other than simple anti- market manipulation type things.
I was relying on the assumption from the original question that the keys and values were all Strings: "...a Hashtable containing String keys and values and printing them all out."
Group buying sites.
They aren't "hackers", they're engineers
Yes, and the price difference between the hypothetical quote and the real quote is so big as to make the hypo quote irrelevant. Insurance quotes that don't take your PI are bait-and-switch ploys, not services.

A smart thing to do here might be to figure out a way to do progressive quotes/queries; take the DOB+zip+car information just to start, then let the user decide whether the variance in the results (which will be the best-case ones) merit coughing up more info.
Right, but they actually say that on their website!
We've found that people actively dislike Game Center. The UI clashes and it doesn't integrate with their own credentials.
I'd rather pay for NASA to complete the Webb Telescope or build another Big Science project. These are the first things they want to cut. The new CERN is a toy compared to what we could have built 20 years ago but Congress wouldn't fund it.

If you pay down the debt, the other problems won't go away because we are spending a lot more than we're receiving in tax revenue.
I asked that before - there are a couple of these. http://www.thedealmap.com/
I've seen you post this story a few times now; have you considered opening the detail spigot a whee bit more and posting an "Ask HN" if there's anybody here who can help you out a bit? (I would think at least naming the condition could help.) It's not all 19-year-old programmers optimizing clicks on kitten pictures around here.

And I mean the kind of help where someone works with you to share that treatment you've come up with and make some sort of living income off of that. It sounds like you're more after the former to me.
They they should have two types of quotes.

A "soft" quote based on general information.

A "hard" quote based on very specific information.

They'd never convince me they cannot do this, especially with all the extremely misleading commercials on television.
Actually, in this case, it's not that I think they are stupid; merely that they have lost touch with reality. An economist who denies the role of government in macroeconomics for ideological reasons may be quite bright and may be able to construct quite fearsome explanations for his positions, but he is deliberately ignoring both the reality of the present and the lessons of history.
This is in a response to http://www.leaky.com/ just launching
The point is that the arrival of YC startups is spiky, with 2 big spikes a year.
> he doesn't seem to understand that something that comes naturally for some

I think that is an excuse. Speaking as the person you are claiming doesn't understand, I am highly introverted and awkward. I hate interacting with people in public, it is exhausting. I throw up after having to do public speaking. Yet, I do talk enthusiastically about my work and the field with other people, and I have learned over the years, as introverts do, to be sociable, just as I have learned over the years how to write compilers, design microchips, do web design, etc. (Little of which was covered in depth at all in the university classes I took at a pretty good engineering school.)
Google for "The editor authors the newspaper hired liked laughed."
I like the color of fire, and I seem to be doing pretty well, if I do say so myself. :)
There's a line on your tax form which asks if you want to contribute additional money. IIRC the annual take was something like five figures.
Pg, can you try adding a tab up top for new startups? I personally love to read about them but sometimes the launches etc. This would make it a lot easier to find the latest ones.
They probably can, but why would you want to see it? It would be a quote for some "average" person, and might be off by a an order of magnitude from your particular case.
Is that alright these days? If they're pals, fine, but otherwise?
I don't think the term "discretionary", captures what happens during a recession in the first world. I mean, when unemployment goes from 6% to 9%, 3% of the population stops going out for dinner, and 70% of the population cuts back on spending based on fear. That 70% of the population starts cutting coupons and buying generic products, and shops at Walmart instead of Whole Foods. Fashion industries get hit hard, but entertainment generally doesn't. I really think the "deals" or "coupon" space is counter-cyclical no matter whether the coupons are for skydiving or pickles. I personally don't have a gut instinct for this space, as I am not a customer of Groupon, but I am interested in the question "If you neighbor lost his job, would you buy more or less Groupons?".
Damn - I read that as "evidence of ancient super_computing_ found" :)
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While I agree that there is a fundamental division of ideologies of what precisely the federal government ought to be amongst the American people, I disagree that it is a division between the two parties.

In my opinion, the establishment in Washington consisting of the bureaucracy and life-long politicians is generally pro-government and pro-spending. The Republicans pay a lot of lip service to small government, but it is only the Tea Party types like Ron Paul that actually fight for smaller government.
I don't think most users would want a tab for it, but you can easily get this from HNSearch:

http://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/submissions&q=%28...
I'll wait for 0.3.0.0.0, thanks.
Reminds me of this Prezi:
http://prezi.com/aww2hjfyil0u/math-is-not-linear/
A given Turing machine M either accepts, rejects,
or runs forever (when started on a blank tape)... [W]hich one it does is an objective fact, independent of our formal axiomatic theories, the laws of physics, the biology of the human brain, cultural conventions, etc. (p. 43)

Nice way to put it. As Franzen points out in "Inexhaustibility", although non-logicians sometimes find it puzzling, the above is related to what mathematicians mean when they say that a statement is true without further qualification. For instance, take Gödel's first incompleteness theorem. It states that if F is any consistent formal system capable of proving statements about whether or not arbitrary Turing machines halt, then there are true statements which cannot be proved within F. (Here, consistent means that it's not possible within F to prove both a statement "S" and its negation "not S".)

In the same sense, its true (as Aaronson wrote in "Logicians on Safari") that "there’s a finite (and not unimaginably-large) set of boxes, such that if we knew how to pack those boxes into the trunk of your car, then we’d also know a proof of the Riemann Hypothesis."
Ah, thanks for the correction. I always thought of complexity as being a subset of computability theory (much like NP-Complete problems are a subset of Complete problems), but you are right-- they're separate disciplines.

Will need to read this, of course. My fault for replying before at least attempt to scan over the full essay linked from the post.
I've said it before: I have a form of cystic fibrosis, a condition with an average life expectancy in the mid- to late- thirties. I'm 46. There's a website listed in my profile where I talk some about what I have done: http://healthgazelle.com/

Would it be nice if donations came pouring in? Sure. But my preference would be to figure out how to support myself. I don't really expect to support myself from that website. I don't do much with it these days. Most people think I'm a teller of tall tales and couldn't have really gotten myself well/was never really that sick. My energy is mostly going elsewhere these days.

Edit: It wasn't intended as a "fundraiser". Just a counterargument to someone suggesting wholesale slaughter of "poor" people. I think I have redeeming value and am in fact currently a contributing member of society, in spite of (in some sense "because of") my very serious financial problems.
Hearing the accounts from some commuters returning home of what they witnessed on their commute; it struck me as the first time I hear a use case where Color would actually add some value. ;)

Also it is amusing to see the looters use BBM, which has been the corporate -type favoured mean of communication to loot the economy for years.

On a serious note, just heard a devastating interview with a 6th generation furniture store manager, while witnessing his family store go up in flames (you will see the pic tomorrow in most of the frontages).

It is extraordinarily terrifying to consider the implications if the thugs were a bit more organised, a bit more dispersed, a bit more armed; how much more havoc they could cause.

For example consider the implication to the economy if they start targeting more affluent locations, such the central London high streets (Oxford street, Knightsbridge...). The insurance industry has already been wiped out this year, it will be a deadly blow. To say nothing of the recently depressed UK retail performance which fuels a lot of the London economy.

Or the implications to house prices and thousands of stretched mortgage holders (London housing bubble is perhaps the only housing bubble in the world that hasn't quite popped in the last two years, and if it does at this time it will be cataclysmic) .

No doubt they already wrecked immeasurable damage to the economy, except they bankrupt the already bankrupt councils, which is the core tragedy in all of this.
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Can anyone post a list of books they think are must reads?
Curious: are you guys using cloud infrastructure or using your own machines?
Because ripping off web designs in whole or in part is copyright infringement, and if they really didn't get permission they're a takedown notice away from losing one of their most important assets.
It is definitely not alright. They must have permission. An acceptable looking ThemeForest template is a $20 cash outlay; who would risk their launch over this?
This is just a sign of a helpful startup ecosystem. I don't see anything wrong with this arrangement.
Thank you, that is indeed very helpful. Do you think you could temporarily auto-fill that text into the search bar at the bottom of the page for the week leading up to demo_day? I think a lot of users would find that to be both non-intrusive and interesting/helpful.
Isn't OpenID effetively dead?
It's awesome if Square actually "loaned" them their design. That seems like a genuinely useful thing an established company could do for a fledgeling one.
What do you mean non-existent branding? That simple plain style IS berkshire hathaway's brand. Read some of their annual reports. The website is a further extension of that focus. As are their offices and business style.
Did your account get hacked? This doesn't seem much like you.
Is there an option to hide the (YC ##) spam?
The information is transmitted via HTTPS to the carrier. Once your session on Leaky ends, the data is gone -- there is no data store.
Hi Craig, yes -- we too someday we hope to have a mascot as cute as Aleksandr
Congrats on launching! Some comments:

1)Even though I know you guys are from YC (and not for example the Russian mob). I still bailed when you asked for my driver's license # and SSN. It's not enough for you to just say "trust us".

2) I checked it out from the couch quickly on my iPhone. The experience was not that good. The form drop-downs were slow loading and left me staring at empty pick lists. I had to scroll side to side to read the label on each field.

3) I was prompted twice to enter my email as an early adopter (once for each car I was entering presumably). This did not instill me with confidence about supplying personal info.

Hope that's info you guys can use. Good luck!
Cloud. Turns out it was an issue with whether you landed on http://www.leaky.com or http://leaky.com. 302 Redirect has now fixed some of the errors.
I think you're wrong. For instance, there are health insurance search sites that demand more than this, and there's clearly enough affiliate money in health insurance to keep those things up and running. I think you're probably just a part of a small sliver of the market that is hypersensitive to this stuff.
I have a one-word piece of advice for anyone who wants to learn how to write:

Blog.

Don't worry about which software to use, how to customize your template, or how to promote your thoughts. Just find a service that lets you start writing right away, and then start writing about what interests you or inspires you.

If you feel intimidated by formatting or structure, a trick that works well is pretend you are writing an email to a friend, explaining to that friend something that he or she may not understand very well. Real friends or strangers may start to read your posts. How do they respond to your presentation of facts, observations, and arguments? Use the feedback to tweak your approach.

Your organization and "voice" may seem awkward at first, but regular practice -- every day, if you can manage -- will help you develop your skills. After 100 hours you'll notice a big improvement. After 1000 hours, you will be well on your way to being a master.
After going through all that, I just get a page full of "N/A" as quotes. Cool idea though.
There is no regulation that I am aware of, though the government did provide some assistance dollars a few years back. What is regulated is the price of access, which does make rural access challenging – being forced to sell your services at the same rate as those in the city.

In Ontario we had DSL access on the farms before the government programs were created, so there is room for a business to make it work. What is different in my area is that the customers own the telephone company, so that provides a good motivator to provide the services that customers want, even if it means lower profits at the end of the year.
Hmm.. the mixed content on the homepage is not very reassuring about your security practices, esp. with all the personal information you're asking for.
It looks like Techcrunch is getting the scoop on every single launch.
They probably will. Keep your eyes out for "(YC S11)".
Or, at least homeowner's insurance. The last thing I want my car to do is go "leak."
Game Center is not a silver bullet any more than iCloud is. The anecdote is interesting, but the point I'm trying to make is that the two APIs get the job done and require even less coding than what you'd need using Parse.
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I had always been told that UK cops didn't carry guns, when/why did that change? Was it a reaction to 9/11 or 7/7?
"Please be nice to them"

With very few exceptions, I enjoy seeing what the YC crowd releases, but isn't this going a bit to far? Aren't we the perfect audience to provide constructive criticism? On the other hand, if you're asking us to be empathetic at the same time, I couldn't agree more.

Go YC!
For those not in the know Agamemnon took Cassandra (daughter of Priam king of Troy) as his concubine in the Iliad, hence the "on" pun.

I'm with you though. As much as I love projects with Classical History names this title makes it just a little creepy.
It was for me. I liked it so much I made tech writing my minor.

Oddly enough, my advisor thought that a CS + TW combo made no sense.

I ignored him, much to my benefit.
I'm really hoping to see a YC company launch on the startup foundry or such, but it may not be wide enough exposure yet. Eventually.
Niceness and constructive criticism are not mutually exclusive. They can even coexist in a single comment.
Esurance is an insurance company, leaky is an aggrigator for insurance prices.
There is actually another company that has this concept: CoverHound. I'm one of the co-founders. We started a few months before Leaky.

We went through the AngelPad incubator during the Winter 2011 class. TechCrunch covered us in a little blurb at the time. Since then we've received VC funding and have built out our team a little bit.

There's no publicly available pricing API for insurance carriers yet, so I'm curious as to how Leaky comes up with their numbers.
We're the Hipmunk for Used Cars

We're the Hipmunk for Real Estate

We're the Hipmunk for Vacation/Tour Packages

We're the Hipmunk for Technical Books

We're the Hipmunk for Matchmaking/Dating

I think the Matchmaking/Dating one could be sorted by Agony.
(Most likely to respond to your witty message).

We're the Hipmunk for Drink Specials (weekly view)

You can see which bars have specials which day/time and optimize a schedule to refrain from being sober all week.

Or you could optimize for Live Bands, themes, ladies night, etc.
True ... and the Internet as a whole could use a lot more "nice". It's amazing how much different some people behave when they're not having a face-to-face conversation.
DiP3 is a good book, if you are already familiar with Python. It's not for newbies. In fact, when I didn't know Python I disliked DiP3 to the point of making rude and ignorant comments about it on public forums. Now that I have a humble portion of Python, I like the book and refer to it often. Mark Pilgrim has an engaging style, too. I always appreciate a little style.

If you are looking for an intro book, go with Zed Shaw's "Learn Python the Hard Way." There's another guy with lots of style.
IIRC, Bing uses Hadoop a lot.
>Please be nice to them. For you their launch may be "yet another YC startup," but for each individual startup this is their big moment.

I'm usually quite pleased with what comes out of YC. That said, in this competitive market, I don't think that being nice (just because) helps anyone the week after launch.

I personally look forward to the day HN tears apart my project so I can say I truly learned something.
It just hangs here for me after I took the time to fill in all that information: http://o7.no/pHl2qg

Do you have plans already for filling the top of the funnel here? Its going to be really hard to compete with established businesses buying traffic in this market.
Bond rating agencies are superfluous when it comes to liquid bonds such as US Treasuries. The only reason their ratings have any impact right now is because of outdated SEC rules related to Nationally Recognized Statistical Rating Organizations.
http://www.sec.gov/answers/nrsro.htm
The market itself is a better judge of future value than any more-or-less arbitrary rating by S&P or one of its competitors.

The bond raters do still add some value by evaluating new issues or thinly traded securities. In those cases the markets don't give us useful information.
This guy has balls of steal for filming the looters this close
Zed A. Shaw wrote a short critique: http://oppugn.us/posts/1272050135.html . One part of it is rather against Mark Pilgrims unwillingness to update it than against technical points.
Part of that is not that people behave worse but that communication in writing, without facial expression and voice tone and the like, is prone to sounding a lot harsher than it likely would face-to-face. Especially if someone is prone to hyperbole, sarcasm, irony and so on, the lack of voice tone and facial expression tends to have a huge negative impact on "tone".
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But for the users, that wouldn't really matter?
I like the style and examples and it didn't make me want to commit suicide like certain repetitive, overhyped, chimpanzee-level Python books have, but it needed 3 or 4 more chapters. The coverage felt incomplete and a little arbitrary.
Can't help but compare this to the uprising in the Middle East over the last months. Sure, the motivation is different, or even incomprehensible in the case of London. Still, they're both begging the question "why now?" and they exhibit characteristics of a highly contagious epidemic, where the original reasons are almost irrelevant. People frustrated for all sorts of different reasons find the opportunity to express violently their anger with much less fear of repercussions than usual, mostly thanks to their sheer number and decentralization. It's fascinating (or scary, depending how close you are).