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Ask HN: I am in a David vs. Goliath fight and I need some advice
I participated in the GE FlightQuest competition hosted by Kaggle.com. I had the 4th best score, but because of what other competitors and myself view as a software bug on Kaggle.com's platform [1], I was not recognized as a winner when GE and Kaggle announced the prize winners. For reference, the 4th place prize winner would have earned 30,000 USD.

I notified Kaggle.com within ~1hr of their announcement of the mistake and they did not get back with me for 2 days. 8 days after the announcement was made I was finally able to get a call with a Kaggle executive. The executive offered me partial prize money and kaggle competition points to resolve the matter unofficially. I said I wasn't interested. Kaggle then opened a new forum discussion [1] which a number of other competitors chime in and explain the limitations/bugs of the Kaggle.com platform specifically as it related to the FlightQuest competition and discuss my specific situation.

Finally, an executive from GE contacted me this morning over email and let me know that he supports Kaggle.com's decision of not recognizing me as the 4th place finisher.

I feel like Kaggle/GE have not handled this properly and I would like to get some opinions on what, if anything I should do.

[1] https://www.gequest.com/c/flight/forums/t/4284/acknowledging-two-more-great-competitors
ZenPayroll and Xero announce partnership to take on Intuit and QuickBooks
Do Apple Macs need antivirus? OS X security explained
I end up just going with Asos due to their excellent return policies. There's too much variance among body types and brand-reported sizes that this doesn't seem like something crowdsourcing alone could ameliorate.
Your list directly contradicts the success of just about all luxury brands that have been successful.

Could you therefore clarify what you mean by 'prospects "with enough money"'
awesome, but functionality seems limited... I still like knowing about specific towers like this app: http://bit.ly/13pXgQE
Prenda Law Is Under Withering Fire From All Sides
I don't buy this. There's something about the article that annoys me, too. I can't quite put my finger on it. I think it's because it has a linkbaity title, a tone of confidence, but is filled with weird stuff.

Disclaimer: I co-founded Everlane (http://everlane.com), although I left to start Dev Bootcamp (http://devbootcamp.com) last January. I'm just speaking for myself.

First, look at the error bars. 100.0% (+0.0/-79.3) Saying "the sample size is too small" doesn't even do it justice. Looking at numbers like this will put you in a mindset where you make silly decisions because, hey, they're numbers! They're objective!

Second, this is not how fashion works. As a rule I don't trust survey results early on in a product life cycle -- customer's don't have sufficient context, so you're learning more about their predispositions and biases than their actual attitudes about your (potential) product.

Talking "scientifically," there's a huge uncontrolled variable here: brand. Would women share their measurements with Hermès if it meant proper sizing? How many women who shop for high-end clothes employ something like a personal shopper? What about stores that sell more intimate products, like lingerie? How about wedding gowns? Of course a woman would share he measurements to get fitted for a high-end wedding gown.

I have yet to commit any capital or conduct any surveys and already I feel like I have a decent framework for approaching these issues. If there are high-end retailers with whom women are comfortable sharing their measurements, what is it about those retailers that makes them comfortable?

Why would a woman be willing to share her measurements with Hermés but not Ross Dress for Less?

IMO that's a 1000x better starting point than the one asked in the survey.

This survey is neither reliable nor valid.
The timing for this post is hilarious. They just massively pissed off a large chunk of their third party developers, and an even larger chunk of the players that depend on third party apps: https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=2266...
CISPA passes House
Point 1: We understood the argument, we just felt that was a ridiculously problematic Rube Goldberg solution that has serious negative repercussions. I wouldn't want to take strategic direction from somebody who thought it was the best way forward.

Point 2: You directly stated that not wanting to work for bigots is the same as employment discrimination. That's a moronic argument. If you think your most exciting possible opportunity is to go work for a homophobic bigot, then go ahead, nobody is stopping you, but don't piss on people who have more than one opportunity.

too many words got in the way of the point

No. You just have an incredibly naive position... and you're being incredibly rude to those who disagree with utterly insane positions.

It's disgusting that you compare not wanting to work for a woman to not wanting to work for a bigoted asshole.

I can't even begin to fathom what made you think that was a reasonable argument to make. But I assume whatever broken made you think that was okay is also what keeps you from realizing that it was a stupid point...

no need for further replies, at this point we understand that you're an idiotic blowhard who supports bigotry, and insults those who don't.
eek. That video does not seem to be an excerpt of Oprah - it's instead some sort of disturbing screaming match in a dark room
NetRexx: The Original JVM Scripting Language Returns
New PCL file on why_'s website
Top 3 Efficient Windows 7 Password Reset Methods
But people will say and do different things substantially by how it is presented. "Would you carry around a device that lets a company track your location 24/7?" will get people to answer "no" who have a cell phone in their pocket. If you had asked the general population 10 years ago if they would give a company a list of all their friends, their hobbies/interests/religion/political beliefs and all their photos they would have shouted no, of course not, but they do that with facebook today.
Saying the market wouldn't have still gone through the industrial revolution is tantamount to saying that industrial society is not economically efficient!

Isn't that rather like saying that there wouldn't have been a strictly monotonic route from the pre-industrial society maximum to the industrial society maximum? There might have been, or might have not been, but a priori it's not absurd to postulate that with coal tax from day 1 the road to a more efficient final state wouldn't have been blocked.
What happens when you print to PDF:

http://pastebin.com/jdjE5BVA
Then why do rental companies exist?

With all due to respect, I think I am done with this thread. Perhaps it is unintentional from your side, but I feel like I am arguing with someone who willfully exaggerates things to get a rise out of me.
Current and third-party browsers are good, but 40% of users are on 2.3 or older, where the stock browser (which, let's face it, 99% of users are) really is sub-par.
Finally, A Competency-Based College Gets Approved
The suspected reasons to why there's an anti-hyphen bias (primarily, fakers trying to capitalized on well-known non-hyphenated names) don't seem to apply for the rest of the url. i.e. a legit brand has no control over what a spammer does with an impostor domain, but the legit brand has complete control over what their own url structure looks like
House passes CISPA cybersecurity bill amid warnings of 'digital bombs'
I do believe that a good romance game could be very successful and I would be interested in seeing one made, but the issue would be making one that is a quality game in and of it's self.

When you look at a lot of the latest successful games the majority of the entertainment value comes though exciting and engaging game mechanics or some sort of role playing aspect where the playing is able to feel like they have the ability to feel like something they are not able to do in their normal lives.

This has driven a lot of games to go the route of high paced cinematic game play with the player taking up the role of an extremely powerful person in order to feed their superiority complex. It's one of the main reasons good horror games, adventure games, or heavily story based games have really fallen in numbers in recent years.[0] And a romance game would not only have to execute known mechanics and characters well, they would have to invent them.

A solid romance game would require an incredible amount of detail in the story, innovative mechanics, and incredible amount of character work with solid voice acting to fulfill what someone looking for a romance game would be looking to get out of it.[1] On top of that convincing a publisher to put up the money for such a risky project would be incredibly difficult.

While I do believe that there is a market for it, there are just so many challenges surrounding creating one that is actually good that I can't see one being made that would be successful.

If you are even casually interested in video game design, I would suggest watching the videos made by Extra Credits[2]

[0]exceptions including Amnesia, Tell Tales' Walking Dead, Bioshock, Spec Ops the line etc.

[1]I would assume emotional connection to characters, a sense of adventure, and an engaging story arc with characters. Mostly it being very relationship and character driven which is very difficult to pull off. But these assumptions would need to be tested.

[2]http://www.penny-arcade.com/patv/show/extra-credits
I love using splits, but your `set autochdir` tip is amazing. I hadn't know about it before today. Thank you!
Announcing MapBox.js 1.0 with Leaflet
I'm doubtful about BitCoin becoming less volatile in the future. Perhaps in the very long term, but not within the next few years.

At the moment, merchants who accept bitcoin set prices natively in USD, and convert bitcoin to USD immediately (or risk currency losses). Bitcoin will become more stable once merchants set prices natively in BTC, regardless of the USD exchange rate. This is the case for example in Europe, where the EUR/USD fluctuations have little effect on the everyday purchasing power. This can realistically happen only once the majority of their expenses (salaries, suppliers, etc.) are also priced natively in BTC. But given that only USD is legal tender by law in the U.S., employees, suppliers and IRS can always refuse your bitcoin, and make the exchange rate an issue.

Another problem in at least the next few years is that a small group of early miners of Bitcoin hold the majority of the money supply. Until they have cashed out, they have the ability to flood the exchange with far more supply than there is demand from new users, making the long-term storage value risky.
Mastering Feedback Loops in Startups
As someone who's been using vim for about 20 years, here are the problems I have with any vi/vim emulation modes in emacs:

* Configuring emacs still requires learning a lot about emacs (which takes a lot of time).

* These vi/vim emulation modes doen't touch SLIME's keybindings, afaik. So, to make them less finger-twisting will require manual rebinding (which takes yet more time).

* Most emacs tutorials assume you're using the standard key bindings. So you still have to learn them.

All of the above make the various vi/vim emulation modes fine for people who already know emacs, or who are willing to sink a ton of time in learning it and reconfiguring it. But they are far less attractive to vim users who already have a nice environment set up in vim and feel comfortable in it.

I guess they're still better than nothing. If I had to use emacs, I'd certainly use something like evil mode. But evil mode alone is not enough to make a vim veteran feel comfortable in emacs.
A contextless and monolithic "Liberty" is one of those dumb polarizing concepts, like "you're with us or you're against us".

It's fine to support "liberty" but to not take into account your subjective understanding, interpretation, and practice of the concept, come on now. Just saying the word does not make society a better place. It's not a magical power phrase.
Writing 2 masters - a loaded gun & everything to lose 
Everyone wants to scale out write capacity. All web-facing Internet apps could benefit. But multi-master MySQL was not designed for active-active & will break. Here's what to avoid & how to fix it.
Ron Conway Pledges to oust Senators
CISPA Passes in the House - Full Roll Call
> Any serious attempt at revolution today would be over in less than a week, the leaders assassinated by unmanned drones.

To which I answer, Iraq and Afghanistan. Certainly the insurgencies there would not be considered "successful" revolutions, but they have made the political price of occupation higher, AND forced concessions from the US and local governments.

That said, I don't relish contesting the US Armed Forces violently.

OTOH, fending off a group of small-time thugs is a perfect application for a firearm.
Why are you so opposed to an app? This seems like the absolute IDEAL use case for an app - the only thing going over the wire is the content, not formatting, a bunch of JS, etc.
The video's pretty traumatic, in case anyone's in the middle of some work and doesn't want to have to go home and hug their kids right now.
"this hippie idea is based on sound mathematical proofs and concepts"

What proofs? There is not even a formal security definition for Bitcoin.
You mean like

http://example.com/something-about-something ?

Matt Cutts actually recommends using hyphens in this case:

http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/dashes-vs-underscores/
It's a little taller, but it still looks like an o to me. If you go to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShpcjWG_Meo it says "This video is unavailable", which means that a video did exist at some point at that URL.
Can you make a living out of just ONE app without being featured constantly on top tech blogs or mass media?

Sure, some people can. The app obviously needs to be good and fulfill a need. This isn't as easy as it sounds.

What are your theories on how to make money with apps?

Apps are the same as any other business; you need a good product that people want, and you need good distribution. Most developers will fail when it comes to distribution. After that, most apps will be free and offer in-app purchases (unlock or buy items), or use ads to generate revenue.
These guys are peddlers of iOS pay-to-win shit games.

Their success is mostly due to the proverbial suckers that are born every day.
I agree with regard to tabs, but I always felt like buffers were orthogonal to splits. I use both all of the time. Buffers to manage a working set of files and splits to manage the files that I want to viewable. I frequently find myself using splits to write new code while referencing other parts of the code base (or even the same file).
A lot of my clients are technically proficient. My biggest repeat client used to cut code for his own web shop, another is a friend who studied Computer Science, another is a startup with a CTO who worked for Google.

Sometimes I wish I had more freedom of choice with technology.
Humour - harj taggar blog
This made me think.. and I believe you're correct.
Got this video discovery site I've been working on for some time on videowatchr.com and it's going nowhere.
Thinking of abandoning it.
Wait, you write "If Satoshi attempts to spend his coins, this might reveal his identity", but, would that now contradict the claim of anonymity in bitcoin transaction?
> coharently

This is the first time I've observed irony in a single word.
Hmn. I think the reason there's superlinear speedup in the paper you linked is because the requests must be serviced in order. If you only care about throughput, and you can service the requests out-of-order, then you can use LARD in a serial process too, to improve cache locality, and achieve speed 1/Nth that of N-machine LARD. But to serve requests online, you can't do that reordering, so with one cache you'd be constantly invalidating it, thus the increased aggregate cache across the various machines results in superlinear speedup.

So, mission accomplished! I now believe that superlinear speedup is a real thing, and know of one example!
Anyone know what technology S3 uses to meet this kind of demand?
My .vimrc used to have:

nnoremap - :Sexplore<CR>

Which opens netrw when you hit the - key. I now have it mapped to ctrlp instead (ctrl+enter in ctrlp to split open).
Yes, I agree that the length of the key and the real randomness are the most important points and that when those are fulfilled the recipe has sense. Neither explicit length minimality nor real randomness of the key were mentioned but the SHA advice was explicit to the 256 bits.

EDIT: To make it clearer: "Long" is not explicit. 256 bits is. The difference between real randomness and for example output of RND in your favourite language is also nowhere to be seen. Moreover the use of the "key" is dubious as it's not an encryption key at all.
Not sure you'll see this, but I am curious, do you ever see a link that has no discussion and that you think deserves a discussion, or you think has the potential for a discussion you would like to read?

If so, do you ever attempt to "rescue" them by leaving a somewhat neutral comment of some value?
CISPA plan to let feds receive confidential data wins big House vote
Just tried the iOS version. A couple pieces of feedback:
* On the "Dashboard" screen, the ligt reflection in the upper left of each dial was confusing at first. I thought it indicated something be aimed for in the central "compass".
* The compass is also somewhat unclear as to which direction is better (if you've never used a compas before). I do see you addressed this in the "About" section of the app, but you could probably do something visually to make it more apparent.

Overall, great job. Sorry about the nits I picked :o)
It's that first step I don't get. How is the traffic between you and the entry node encrypted? Can't someone monitoring traffic know that you're on Tor (even if they can't know what you're doing on it)?
"This video is unavailable" doesn't necessarily mean there used to be a video with that ID. That video is pretty creepy, though.
Introducing The Yahoo Weather App for iOS
The author on the iTunes market seems quite close to your HackerNews user name. If you are the creator of that app it would be good form to note that in your comment. Also, if you are the creator of the app your icons seem to look very similar to the custom ones we created to use on the OpenSignal website...
Yes, I feel similar. I've tried way too many vim 'emulators', and the only other one which comes close to that 'vim' feeling is XVim for XCode. However, neither that one, nor all the others feel as easily extendable (with the exception of Vico, a native Mac vim clone that uses Nu (a cocoa lisp) for extension, but Vico even though it's easily extendable lacks a ton of vim commands)
appengine sucks at notifying you of quota violations. ;)
Only 3 of the 444 responses from women made over $100k.
The chart in the article is only for women 18-24, 17 responses.

Looking at all 444 women regardless of income, 56% said yes, and their income chart is far more even. And in the next income range, $75-$99k, 59%, or 13 of 22, said they WOULD give their measurements. Fun tool to play with however :)
Our app uses responsive web design, so it works well on all platforms (PC, tablet, smartphone). In future we might want to extend it and build a proper app though.
...Which would be equivalent to npm install -g XXX, whereas to replicate npm install XXX you'd need virtualenv. I don't think there even is an equivalent to pip install XXX without virtualenv with Node/npm (global system-wide installation for all users that requires admin rights).
Fish - the friendly interactive shell
Bootstrapping With A Paycheck
good answer and thank you. I was thinking of it more as an accepted currency. Because if it's seen as being such, then it would be worth it to mine as much as possible. And what happens when they run out? It's pretty confusing to me...
> "Something must be done" is the refrain of private defense contractors seeking new revenue streams...

TechDirt points out a key Congressman's wife is in security contracting, an industry very interested in the outcome of this bill:

... as we've noted all along, all attempts at cybersecurity legislation have always been about money. Mainly, money to big defense contractors aiming to provide the government with lots of very expensive "solutions" to the cybersecurity "problem" -- a problem that still has not been adequately defined beyond fake scare stories. Just last month, Rogers accidentally tweeted (and then deleted) a story about how CISPA supporters, like himself, had received 15 times more money from pro-CISPA group that the opposition had received from anti-CISPA groups.

So it seems rather interesting to note that Rogers' wife, Kristi Clemens Rogers, was, until recently, the president and CEO of Aegis LLC a "security" defense contractor company, whom she helped to secure a $10 billion (with a b) contract with the State Department. The company describes itself as "a leading private security company, provides government and corporate clients with a full spectrum of intelligence-led, culturally-sensitive security solutions to operational and development challenges around the world."

Hmm. Sounds like a company like that would benefit greatly to seeing a big ramp up in cybersecurity FUD around the globe, and, with it, big budgets by various government agencies to spend on such things.

-- http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130417/16253022748/oh-loo...

Of course, now it's up to the Senate.
Become a full stack engineer or become useless
The miners or the exchanges? If you have nowhere to sell your BTC, why bother mining?
When the content must frequently be viewed in a browser, it makes sense for the reader to be in the browser as well. An app seems far from ideal when it's just a moving window to web-based content.
Thanks a lot, no problem about the nits, we love feedback! Agreed about the compass, we'll have a think about it for the next update.
I would watch this movie.
Debian 7.0 "Wheezy" release planned for 4th/5th May
There are multiple equilibria, the question is whether they are efficient. Whether or not you internalize the environmental costs of say coal power, the economy will reach an equillibrium. If the negative externalities of coal are not internalized, that equillibrium will involve a higher than efficient level of coal usage.
Splits came to vim way before tabs did as a result I use splits as vertical pseudo tabs:

nnoremap <c-j> <c-w>j<c-w>_
nnoremap <c-k> <c-w>k<c-w>_

Which does both split navigation and split maximizing. I could probably switch to tabs but I'm happy with how things work and I don't really see any advantage over how I'm doing things now.
I found this slightly more readable:
http://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/113-2013/h117

Call your congressperson. They do care what you think, at least a little bit, especially if you take the time to call or write their office thoughtfully.
I don’t want this day to end.
Debian 7.0 "Wheezy" release planned for May 5
Get a lawyer is the best advice you'll get -- just like every other time someone Asks HN what to do with (potential) legal matters. Apparently, most lawyers will do some sort of initial consult for free. Also, might be a good idea to delete this post ASAP, if you're seriously considering legal action.