skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I fail to see a legitimate argument for using facebook when you simultaneously worry about your data being private. I may misunderstand the predicament here, is it that you don't want your boss/X knowing Y or you don't want facebook/companyX knowing Y? Hopefully it's not the latter.
Hey Andy.. looks like you were playing through when we hit a spike in traffic... However, things look like they're back to normal. Let me know if it's still slow for you.
Yep - that's cool...
[edit] I just realized that he was debugging a third-party application. The narrative is a bit hard to follow.

I can't quite figure out why someone so smart was doing something so stupid.

The way to solve crashes is not to crash, unless you're erlang and functional and build the software to recover fully -- but that's not something remotely feasible to do for an application written in a standard imperative language.

Otherwise trying to continue on blindly results in a hang like the one he experienced at best, and a data corruption at worst.
C# has been pretty scrupulous about using contextual keywords instead of reserved keywords when they add new language features. That's why, e.g., they went with "yield return foo" instead of the more traditional "yield foo." They also let you define "var," which normally denotes type inference, as a normal type, and "var" will refer to the defined type in contexts where it is accessible.
This is exactly what I have been looking for. I only wish you guys had a micropayments model as well. Any future plans of that?
Chrome is still the fastest in Javascript according to your benchmark, which is one of the most important thing, cold boot for example happens once a day at best. The other benchmarks of your article are a bit dubious as there is no standard way to measure "cold boot" or opening several tabs.
Hiring Escorts Never Feel This Good
I LOVE this podcast. I think Rob and Scott do a great job of discussing areas of developers lives that are not generally talked about in a podcast. We don't always want to geek out and talk bits and bytes. TDL is a nice mix with some snappy musical interludes. Not to mention, they bring in some pretty big names in our industry.

Oh, I like the site too.
Does anyone know what Spotify is doing with users who have an account already but are not on Facebook? I really don't want to close my account but if they make Facebook mandatory, I will have to.
I clicked on San Francisco and see that Galeão says "(SP)" next to it. Galeão aka Tom Jobim (aka GIG) is located in Rio.

For the commentor who got the message in Portuguese, "Os vôos cadastrados no sistema saindo deste Aeroporto com essa duração de viagem ainda estão sendo processados!" means, "the flights registered in the system leaving from this airport with that flight time are still being processed".

I use OX Lion and when I use the trackpad with two fingers to scroll the page, the map gets smaller or bigger. A bit annoying. Other than that, with a little work on the UI, I think you have a good idea. I would like to see an alternative with some sort of text-based layout for the flight information, perhaps with dropdown menus, etc. Another idea is to be able to select the departing city and the destination city via the map, at which point the cheapest flights are shown.

Also, TAM has (or at least had in 2010) direct flights from MIA to MAO which your site is missing. Let's see if there's anything else. The bouncing icon is, imo, a bit tiring. I think the color change is enough.
Economia
la economia actual en Mexico, finanzas personales y consejos para iniciar negocios y conseguir buenas Ideas de Negocios, tambien inversiones, CFD y Forex
ATM locations, mostly. Chase has an ATM on every street corner in NYC (OK, an exaggeration, but only just). I know plenty of credit unions refund a certain number of ATM fees, but you can't do thinks like check deposits at them any more.
I mean this as a serious question: when Stripe has 10,000 customers next year, why will they be less capricious and infuriating than Paypal?

Is there a fundamental difference, or does Paypal just have a ~15-year history of sucking, while Stripe doesn't?
I picked one domain, parabis.com and typed that domain name into the address bar of my browser. It is for sale, but the asking price is $2,000. Odd that it's going for $250 at stylate.com.
The Creative Brain on Exercise
> The problem is, you wouldn't want one-man-one-vote.

I agree. Right now the reviewers (= designated experts) have all the votes.

As I think about it, the reviewers achieved that status because they wrote articles that got upvotes from previous reviewers. The first reviewers were historical and they set the standards.

You could end up with a situation where the reviewers were poorly chosen and so upvote complete bullshit (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sokal_affair), but fields of science have a reproducibility clause that provides good amounts of self-correction.

Hmmm. I didn't think your boycott post would lead to an examination of the way science and engineering is published, but the time might well be ripe. That said: My recommendation is to narrow the scope and focus on the boycott. It's enough to keep your plate full for a while.
The articles on his blog (http://weblog.jamisbuck.org/) give more in-depth explanations for those who dislike the slides.
It's something people are asking for, so we'll be looking into it.
while postponing your IPO may seem like a good idea, technology companies need to be aware of the fact that the industry changes so fast that competitors could emerge and given such fierce competition that their earnings outlook could start to look bleak at worst or make them obsolete thereby devaluing the whole company. What happened to myspace should be a cautionary tale to everyone.
It's still a problematic way to quantify distance between strings. It says that "Rello World" is as close to the target as "Ifmkn Vpqkc"

Levenshtein would quantify those differently, and I'd argue, more correctly. It would say the first is much closer than the second.
There's #read/#total in the lower-right corner, fwiw. :)
The fate of Graphics and GPU APIs in the mobile era
Maybe your criticism could be voiced in a more professional and positive way than "This is ass-awful". Someone spent time to make this and is giving it away for free, in order to make developers' lives better.
People choose them because the big banks have historically offered a much larger range of financial services.

Additionally, there are many people who still need to (or like) going to a bank in-person. The big banks offer many more branches than a smaller outfit will.

Also, the flexibility they offer when traveling both nationally and internationally is typically much better compared to a regional bank or credit union.
I would look into LLC's based on what your describing. Maybe even an LLP. However I have a slight suspicion if your from a country that it is hard to set up the accounts you described you will likely expose yourself to a lot of liabilities and legal problems in your country. Also I think you will also cause a serious tax headache on your part.

Maybe look and see if there are companies in the US that provide a "corporate shell" and take care of taxes, etc and then pay you as a contractor... Only an idea. Not even sure if this could work or is even legal.
There are no volume limits. What kind of verification are you talking about? Stripe does offer address verification: if you send the address with your requests, we'll return the AVS response from the credit card network, which tells if that the billing zip codes and street number are a match.
Having looked into a lot of payment services recently, including scanning Stripe's terms at the link above, I'm genuinely curious about something.

What kind of management trusts a new start-up with such a fundamental part of their business, inevitably including a certain amount of opportunity cost and risk of delay if moving to another service is necessary, based only on a contract of adhesion that allows for the service to be terminated at any time with negligible notice and without any sort of compensation or guaranteed handover arrangements?
I didn't notice, but apparently I was right to abandon it!
For the curious, here's a link to Jamis' repository of Maze visualizations, implemented in CoffeeScript: https://github.com/jamis/csmazes
To the author;

If you're having trouble finding specifically "bi-directional video" guys you may want to expand your search to VoIP devs. Many of the challenges are the same, and the protocols. It is also likely that they will have more experience. A lot of large telcos have dropped big money on VoIP over the last decade. So there's a larger pool of talent available to draw from.

Also, consider the tone of your post, and your attitude in general. Devs have "Red Flags" we look for as well. You give off several. Consider that many people on this board have the skills your looking for, and/or know someone who does. Pay attention to what you are telling us.
He means the fees. You can pay significantly less than 2.9% + 30¢ with a merchant account.
Awesome. I have been waiting to have a better look at Stripe, it sounds so great.

I have a question for someone who might know: how can Stripe operate without requiring it's users to sign up for a merchant account? Do they hold what is known as a 'master merchant account'?

I am just curious as these sound notoriously difficult to get and might explain why it's US only for now, not to mention the AML considerations of letting users sign up and accept payments so simply.

This all just makes what they are doing even more impressive :).
+1 for the UK
Not in the US: http://gs.statcounter.com/#mobile_os-US-monthly-201009-20110...
Sorry for the slowness. We were having issues with traffic earlier that didn't have much to do with Ruby, but it should be MUCH faster now. Let us know if you run into any other issues.
I have to completely disagree with this author. Even if you're confident in your code, send your best people to work on it, are able to rollout a phased deployment and have the capability for quick rollback in overnight or off-peak deployment is preferable. If ever there was anything to happen unless people affected by it the better. Why put the strain of peak traffic and bandwidth up against a brand-new deployment?
This is remarkable. The # of ways to solve the same problem is great (ironically, I knew mostly Prim's and Kruskal's algorithms because they are more common), the visualization is great too. I liked the slide format, a bit too long maybe.

Also, since it's a computer science post :) I would have added time complexity, just for sake of completeness.

A big plus to the whole concept of "code kata".

Great stuff.
How did you identify your niche (personal interest and hope it worked, or did you evaluate it with metrics of some sort)?

Any recommendations for payment processing and goods delivery services?
Ask HN: How do you quote?
In contexts where it doesn't matter what kind of quotes (' vs ") you use, which do you use for strings? Singles seem "cleaner" in some cases but I tend to carry over doubles from use in other languages.
Ctrl+H
I'm all over this as soon as Freshbooks supports it.
Advertising, brand recognition, mind share, whatever you want to call it. People buy what they know.
I would say find a way to integrate with with large social networks. Facebook and LinkedIn both have API's you might be able to use to help regain traction and maintain certain aspects of your site. Like the idea and its potential after looking at your site. But the name is strange. I cant even tell if I am saying it right.. Might want to work on that also. But I would would keep going with it or open source it... Only my opinion.
>>CPAN has some commonly needed library that they don't.

There is a long tail for libraries, too. That is, the sum of all seldomly needed libraries is big. So you will often find yourself in need of libs where you'll get a better hit rate on CPAN.
A checking account doesn't affect your credit score. If you have a line of credit (e.g. overdraft protection), that would be reported, but I can't imagine that would affect your credit score much as the limit on personal lines of credit are small (typically around $500).

Cancel the account if you are not using it.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't NYC have more women than men? I think I'm pretty average too but I'm pretty sure my non-humorous messages get a lower reply rate than that here in the Bay Area.

I would like to do more casual dating than I do at the moment, but there aren't that many OkCupid profiles I'm attracted to in the first place, and even fewer of them reply to my messages, so...
Anyone know whether they used a documentation tool to generate the 'example on right' style pages? E.g. https://stripe.com/api/docs?lang=python#delete_customer. It's very clean. The general layout and feel of the API doco is great.
You're right if you're thinking it shouldn't be.

Nonsense. That would only be true if PCI was somehow related to security. ;-)
Well - except for the fact that Jobs was successful over, and over and over (Apple Round 1, Pixar, Apple Round 2) - and took over Apple at a time when it looked like it's best days were behind it. I'd suggest that Jobs was successful with Apple Round 2 _despite_ his timing.
Google has a near monopoly in search. It's the same as when Microsoft used its monopoly to kill Netscape in the 90s.
I switched to a credit union after the recent banking scandals, and I couldn't be happier.
Quick feedback. I find the return date selection to be non-intuitive. There is no clear indicator (on my screen) how to specify the return date. Tapping the screen and did the trick, but there was no indicator that said tapping the calendar again would choose the return date.
i've never programmed ruby before, and i'm really enjoying the tutorial so far. i'm going to forward it to some non-programmer friends and see what they think.
I didn't down vote you (don't have enough karma,but even if I did I still wouldn't), but I can explain my opinion better.

First the disclaimer: Personally I find the complaining over Facebook's privacy concerns exaggerated and sensationalized (I don't think it's that big of a deal).

That being said, I think it's absolutely fine to not agree with Facebook's privacy policies or have your own personal concerns. I also think it's completely reasonable not to use the site and even to tell others that you have some concerns over their policies.

What I think is excessive though, is complaining about it on an unrelated post about something that has nothing to do with Facebook and saying a simple tag 'leaves a bad taste'. Especially considering a Facebook tag on a different site has nothing to do with their policies.
"The formula sets the cap at 21 cents, plus .05 percent of the transaction amount, plus another penny in certain cases, for fraud-control measures."

I understand that running to the government for solutions is rarely a good thing, but in this case, shouldn't "digital currency transactions" be something that the federal government maintains as a free utility to society? Isn't something like this just as important as printing currency?
What about sales receipts? Are those generated by Stripe and sent to the user or is it up to the merchant to deliver them?
This seems like a step backwards for accessibility. Screen-reading software would end up reading various individual letters to (probably confused) low-vision users.

There may be a good use-case somewhere but please use with caution.
not bad for a 48 hour build. A little attention to formatting and graphical aesthetics and I can see your site easily be used by some blogger. the most important thing you've already done, you major site valuable. It's a quick and easy way to look up caloric information about very popular foods. you make something people want it easy for the layman to understand and use. He followed the first rule of getting something to market fast now all you have to do is make incremental improvements based on user feedback.
This particular situation is more nuanced than the usual profit-from-the-poor story. Every bank and credit union receives these fees, and in the case of not-for-profit credit unions, the interchange fees truly support[ed] "free checking" accounts. Whereas merchants can lower their prices to pass the money back to the consumers (but won't), banks, conversely, have nowhere to recoup their losses except to charge the debit card users. I would rather see an honest fee like this than watch as overdraft penalties are raised to cover the lost revenue.
Well, I'm switching (I don't have a credit card). What is a good alternative? I know everyone loves USAA, but none of my family has any relation to the military. BoA is "great" because it is everywhere, is there actually anything as wide spread in the (northeast) US?
Note: Though somewhat off-topic, another project from BakedCode is offline -- prompt.im
I don't even care about widespread. I'll take anybody with a descent website.
Inertia. 20 years ago, at the start of college, I got a free checking account at a smallish local bank. Which got bought by a bigger regional bank, which got bought by another bank, which merged into BofA. I had no particular reason to switch until BofA started charging ridiculous fees.
Oracle: Bad Ass Motherfuckers
I always use single quotes if I can, one less keypress. I'm a Pythonist.
Bug report:

I somehow created a post which does not appear on my threads page:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3053559
Are you guys looking for investors?
It's important for Mozilla to stay relevant and strong. When corporate behemoths are going at it having a nonprofit who is only interested in the good of the web with no ulterior motives keeps everyone honest.
Yeah, a mobile version of the site is something I'm considering as a future weekend project.
http://ompldr.org/vYWw2MQ

Looks like this over here.
Here's some things I was happy to find with this page:

1. up/down arrows scroll through buffer history

2. ctrl-a goes to beginning of edit-buffer and ctrl-e goes to end of edit buffer

Nice attention to detail that makes it a pleasure rather than a chore.
How do you show that you're a great group of founders?
Hey Hackers I’m using a throwaway partly because I feel I may come off as naive but also partly because I think a lot of great start ups are facing the same problem I am.
I’ve been reading a lot of the posts on HN and have read through some of the articles that YC has and I was delighted to see how important a great team of co-founders is to the success of a startup. I couldn’t agree more. I’ve been working non-stop for the last 6 months on an awesome website idea with two of my best friends from college and I couldn’t be happier. The work is impossible, the hours punishing but goddammit if we don’t love every minute of it. I came up with the idea but with every day I feel dirtier putting that in writing. I had a thought and some ambition but with my co-founders we’ve got something completely different and much much better. Every day we think of new directions to take ourselves in, bouncing ideas off each other, nurturing our original plan, but always thinking of some new opportunity for the site we didn’t think of before.
Anyways let’s get to the bare bones of the matter. We love our product, but we love our group more. We’ve been getting ready for a release in a few months time (shorter than a year, we have a date but I’m trying to keep this general) and have been looking into some funding options and some help guiding us through the quagmire of the startup world. In YC we found the potential for both so we put together an application and sent it off. We thought it was strong but there’s this nagging feeling in the back of my mind. We had plenty of room to describe our product and space to talk about ourselves as individuals but our company is much more than the sum of its parts. So my question is this HN, how can I convey this through an application form? How can I convey the way we all perfectly compliment each other’s strengths to form a singular thinking entity, how can I show how well we can support each other when things go wrong or someone messes up? Thanks for your time guys!
That's correct almost every Mozilla employee strongly believe in FOSS values, but not just that.
They all believe in the Mozilla mission and manifesto, aka, each one I have meet so far wants an open web, and a fair future where we don't have any kind of vendor lock-in.

Not only that, but also a choice on our privacy.

If either MS, Google, or any such company gets a large percentage of the user base (75%?) again, the web is going to be locked and not very privacy oriented again.
Don't think for a second that Google cares much. They don't do evil, but they'll do as bad as their business requires.

They do use their quasi monopoly right now to promote Chrome and it works extremely well. Chrome is a very good browser but you may understand that such growth is not due to that alone, in fact, being a good browser is only a requirement, not the actual factor of the growth.

Unfortunately it will be used to enforce Google control over the web.
Good question.

A lot of PayPal's issues stem from the draconian fraud measures they need to employ to handle user-to-user payments. Our business and fraud problems are fundamentally different because we don't support this use case.

Additionally, we've been really careful to grow slowly, and to make sure the experience for our users remains great. We've been in invite-only mode for well over a year before opening up today, and intend to monitor (and, if necessary, limit) our growth so that this doesn't happen.

We'd rather be small than suck.
Seed Accelerators and their companies
I don't think it's true of all of their products, such as insurance, but I believe the general public can sign up for USAA banking. This was true a few years ago when I was looking for a new bank, but I ended up going elsewhere for unrelated reasons.
This is pretty awesome. More videos here (http://mndl.hu/hackpact)
You're in luck:

"USAA's investment products, most checking and savings products, credit cards, life insurance, and shopping and discounts are available to other individuals."

This was a somewhat recent change to expand eligibility.
My coworker just got back from an internship at USAA. She mentioned you no longer need to be related to a service member to open a checking account.

Hands down, they are an amazing bank. I've had Paypal issues which they reversed within 2 days. No ATM charges and monthly refunds for any charges. Monthly interest refund. Great services overall by the people and the web.

I believe you can also take out a credit card. Insurance is only for military members.
I'm with BofA simply because they have branches everywhere. I was in a situation where I needed to deposit checks in six wildly separated cities.
BankSimple is rejoicing right now.

I have a mortgage and 3 separate accounts with BoA, but they still treat me like a 2nd class customer. This could push me over the edge.
You no longer need any relation to the military to join USAA. That said, I recently switched from USAA to Ally. Same features, better rates, and better support. Both banks have decent web sites, and let you withdraw for free at any ATM, so for me they beat even BoA for convenience.
It's mostly just a custom thing I wrote. The CSS is mostly taken (with permission) from Jeremy Ashkenas' sites (see Backbone, CoffeeScript, etc.)
Why Aren’t More Women Commenting on VC’s Blog Posts?
here are two tips
go online to your county clerk's office they will have a list of newly formed businesses. The listing usually includes name address and telephone number. It should be easy to get those people to listen to you as they are usually in a process of just getting started and I need of design services.
Second you can either actively or passively look for old dated looking websites. Identify outdated designs and contact the company with one or two suggestions for improvement and offered to do it for them. The e-mail should include a link of your previous work.