skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
India is also in similar situation where many dont speak Hindi - its like a Britain or American cant speak English ... being multi dialect/language country shouldn't be an excuse of not being able to speak the national language - i guess past and present government is to be blamed...
> and then the credit card companies will often allow payments to go through, even after it expired.

False. The credit card companies will let the payment through based on the number alone as long as you present an expiry date in the future. But it's illegal to continue to charge past the expiry date of the card for recurring payments after the date that was entered when the subscription started, and you're not allowed to change that expiry date yourself without the customer presenting the card again, with the new expiry date. (It's really easy to guess though, just set it 5 years into the future and that's a pretty good stab at getting it right).

The reason why it works is because you'll get a new card, with a new expiry but with the old number. Still, doing this is against the TOS. Easy to do, not proper and very very bad form towards the customer and the card company.

Stuff like this can cost you your merchant account if a customer decides to take it as far as they can. You are not just making charges on behalf of the customer here, this is a form of fraud by the merchant.
I'm not sure - in the cases I'm considering, I did initiate a relationship with them however long ago when I registered [for whatever reason], and they are giving me the option to opt out. It's a safe bet that buried somewhere in the ToS I've given them the right to contact me for marketing by registering.

But a year later when they suddenly decide to actually do that marketing, it's annoying because I no longer even know what that account is for - never mind how to log in.

Many places are making it truly one-click, but there are a fair number that still require you to authenticate before you can change 'account settings' like notification preferences.

Erm... TL;DR: Because of the existing relationship, I"m not sure that CAN SPAM applies.
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The best advice I can give you is to ignore everything in this thread, and talk to a financial advisor that you trust who understands your goals and risk profile.

To answer your question: Besides the stock market, some other asset classes that you can invest your cash include collectibles (art, coins, stamps), commodities (metals, agriculture), currency (EUR, RMB), bond market, and real estate. A newer asset class is peer to peer lending platforms like Lending Club and Prosper. Like with any type of investing, study the risks associated with the asset class before investing.

For anybody interested in alternative asset classes, I recommended reading up on Modern Portfolio Theory.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_portfolio_theory
The comparison to Warby Parker was more in terms of customer engagement model vis a vis the home try on program. Cost structure, supply chain, mfr, and the competitive nature of our businesses are quite different, as you point out.
There's no mystery. The thieves monitor the radio frequency car remotes use and record the remote's signal. Then they process what they've received to be able to mimic the remote adequately to fool the car's receiver.

All the thieves need to do is be near the car when the owner activates the legitimate remote, to pick up the remote's radio signal. Once they have the handshake between the car and the remote, they're in.

Elementary, my dear Watson.
To me one of the best things about this sort of investing is a report from Credit Suisse over long term equity return as opposed to bonds and cash.

https://www.credit-suisse.com/investment_banking/doc/cs_glob...

It really gets interesting on page 37, if you want a read.

It is of course, backwards looking, over the last hundred years, so it's (as with most macroeconomic stuff) not really scientific, but it at least gives a explanation of the relative power of long-term economic growth over short-term speculation.

tldr; I think stocks are more powerful than you think.
I'd work on redefining the dream. Dreaming of being one-in-a-milllion person can, in the long term, lead to frustration.
You can actually install it alongside Python(x,y), though I get you don't need two Python installs. But at least you can experiment with some of Anaconda's interesting features, without breaking Python(x,y).
But the point is Nginx lets you have your cake and eat it too....no issues with PHP and fast performance and less memory usage.
see above response...
It is market research by the publicly-funded University of Michigan; imagine if taxpayer-funded NOAA gave first rights to all their weather data to Goldman Sachs.
I feel the same way as you OP. It feels like it's something that there's too many big players and too many external forces.

I always thought real estate seems more my style. You have control over your investment. But it's more work.
I can see that - though my answer was more of a sidestepping of the question, by prefixing it with "no" it certainly doesn't seem that way.

Q: "Have you stopped beating your wife?" A: "No. It's time to discuss the appropriateness of wife beating."

Hmm...
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This is a great move for YC. They've never been about making ludicrous amounts of money which is one reason they've been able to be so successful. I loved that they funded Watsi and agree wholeheartedly that non-profits can benefit from YC/startup advice in general.

As a side note, I think that we've as a culture have been approaching non-profits entirely wrong [0]. Instead of letting them build structure to actually maximise the help they can give, we require them to be stripped-down organizations so their metrics can show they're giving as much money away as possible. This is why we've seen such a surge in for-profit-but-that's-not-the-main-point companies like Tom's Shoes lately. It's simply the best way to do the most good.

[0] http://www.ted.com/talks/dan_pallotta_the_way_we_think_about...
Hey pg, the date on the apply page (https://news.ycombinator.com/apply) is still from the summer term. Cheers.
That's because Hindi is no-one's native language, it's an artificial language that was invented by a committee.

Mandarin is almost the same situation, except that it is very very close to the native language of Beijing and Northeast China. So it's almost like they're forcing the entire country to learn Beijing dialect.
hi pg,
Any update on when you will update your 'startup ideas we'd like to fund'?

http://ycombinator.com/ideas.html
You mean like Google is now with search (let's be real) and how they are tying their products into search (which they are).
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I recently started experiencing tightness in the forearm of my mousing hand, and was wondering if any HNers had ideas on how to deal with it. I already switched mousing hands at work, but wanted to do everything that I could otherwise (assume I need to be typing).

Does stretching or strength training help?

Are there any good ergonomic guides that aren't really old, and that instead reflect a modern workplace environment (most of the guides I see have old CRT monitors and don't really explore how many options we have now with screens on joint-hinges, standing desks, etc).

Thanks
Doesn't everyone bid until the point of indifference? What better point is there to stop at?
3D modeling, not 3D printing.
Do tell. I'd love you to explain this in detail instead of just snarking and running like all the other "free market über alles" folks infesting this thread.
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Diversify, depending on your age. Put a percentage into stock index funds, bonds, reits, metals, etc.

I've had a great experience with Schwab... they are dependable, customer-focused, and always helpful. They have a number of no-load mutual funds which you can take advantage of and a zero-pressure atmosphere.
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> Except it doesn't change my perception at all.

You are, perhaps, not the right audience. Imagine a recruiter at Yahoo talking to a "rockstar dev" with an awesome Github profile about why he should join Yahoo. His pitch is now "Look, we even let an intern and the CEO design our logo! That's how you'll be treated as employee - someone who can make an impact in a big business...just like, ya know, that other company that begins with G"
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http://nbviewer.ipython.org/ comes in handy.
IOW - "the funnel is really a filter". Which means it's not a funnel?

I agree, by the way, with the approach you describe. It's a lot more sane and will result with happier customers. I just think that you and OP are saying much the same thing.
Lee Valley. They're a Canadian chain that mostly sell high quality hand tools, cabinet hardware, and gardening equipment, and apparently they're pretty popular for woodworkers in the USA as well.

I miss living within driving distance of one :/
You're 100% right.
I don't have enough time to do that this evening (it's 8pm in France), so I'll give it a look tomorrow :)
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If it's survey data, it seems as though Thomson Reuters should be able to release it however they want to release it.

For individual investors, sitting on the sidelines, watching the carnage and then jumping in is probably the best play. No small investor can beat the machines at their own game, but you can most definitely take advantage of the swings in the market caused by the machines...
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Mobile in the USA is pretty much the definition of a not fiercely competitive market. Prices and features among carriers are pretty much identical and expensive. And if you think that was coincidental, I have some spectrum to sell you...

I'd argue the fact that the EU legislates for customer's rather than for business' benefit is part of the reason the mobile market there is in so much better shape than here.
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I was disappointed to find that this was not a link to Detachable Penis.
Wow, that was a great read. So many great collisions of emotions and ideas.

After reading it I understood that the author was deeply offended by the characterization that the Yahoo! logo could be redesigned in a weekend. I get that, they work at a high end logo design studio, it's like telling a Ferrari mechanic you spent the weekend with some tools from Pep boys and tuned your Ferrari to give it an additional 15% BHP. The dissonance of knowing, as a professional in the space, what it takes to re-design a logo, and Marissa's characterization of the same, really irked this guy. That left me wondering how much of that irritation was professional pride.

The meta point the author is trying to make, which is that brand and logo are intertwined but the dependency relationship is backwards in Marissa's post, reminded me of the clothes argument. That is the argument about the phrase "The clothes make the man."

The two sides of that argument are that your a better person if you dress well, and if you dress well you are a better person. Which follows which? Can that even be resolved? I had this discussion with my teenage daughter when she wanted to dress like a pop star, who dressed like a slut. We had the whole talk about how clothes are a sort of 'marketing' for the person you are, and people will set their interactions with you to how you dress first, and the way they know you second. So if their first setting is 'slut' then you may get so pissed off at them that they never get to see the real you, and a friendship opportunity is missed.

So our author has extrapolated that it is how you are as a company, that emerges in your logo, not your logo defines how you are as a company. And I tend to agree with that, but I also know that companies evolve based on how they see themselves. So the argument that Marissa is trying to create a perception which then manifests as reality is certainly plausible. I know when Yahoo! called me a while back (in the Carol Bartz days) and said they were looking for engineering leadership for the Web's #1 media company I thought "Hmm, this is a company that is not in touch with what they are." but it was what they were trying to be.

So my summary of the article is that the author's pride was wounded by Marissa making it sound like Logo design was trivial, and attacked both her understanding of logos and the whole branding process in response. Along the way he gave us a couple of interesting things to think about.
Nice try NSA...
Since naming is my thing I will add that the choice of vastrm as a name is horrible.

An invented word is fine but it should either relate to the product or at least be memorable and easy to pass along by mention. Especially for a consumer product which is marketed in part on a web site.

I don't know how to pronounce "vastrm" is it "vastrem" or "vastrim" or? ... and even if I did I'd have to spell it for someone since it's not close to being a word. It's a hack essentially.

Once again, they are, after all, selling to consumers.
That makes sense. I wasn't thinking about that distinction. It's certainly a terrible practice, regardless.
Yes, now I remember, I think you are correct. They were able to click through the SSL warning but because we use socket.io they had additional problems. Some of our customers do not employ full time engineers and whatever script they were using with our API were using libraries that couldn't handle the SSL cert change and they could not easily update them. We couldn't ask our customers, mostly sales and customer service oriented directors, to handle a complicated certificate change either.
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I showed this to ##math and the ops decided to make TexPaste the official pastebin instead of Mathbin: http://i.imgur.com/hk9fPZV.png
Most custom shirt companies out there only provide custom dress shirts and suiting. We are looking at going after the sportswear category. No one, we know, as of yet, has set up a supply chain and factory that can produce a quantity of one unit at a time without costing a fortune. The factories we use are part of a consortium that consults with the US gov't on setting up both labor friendly mfr abroad as well as clean mfr and eco friendly mfr processes. It's not a sweat shop. Sorry to disappoint. Also, this was not a free ride. We spent 2.5 years prior to YC setting up supply chain, factory, product development and a host of other logistical processes to be able to deliver quality and efficient production.
It seems like it should be a setting on the browser i.e. if it's your own personal laptop then you probably want to always be remembered and if it's an internet cafe then the browser should never remember your password. Maybe the browser could send a header indicating the preference(it could always be ignored - for bank websites etc).
PHP's market share has only been going up (at least over the past three years) and currently sits at about 80% of all server-side programming languages, by at least one count. [0]

[0] http://w3techs.com/technologies/history_overview/programming...
Good point. Remember the old browser modal dialogues about sites using cookies? I bet you could ask 10 people and perhaps 1 of those might actually be able to describe what a cookie is. This is a failure from on-line educators and browser manufacturers.

If you could easily identify that a site you were on had cookies stored, and that one was about you being logged in, and it was plain simple to wipe that cookie then I'm sure you'd be happier about that situation. Couple that with a default to have them disabled - until you explicitly lend your browser a little more trust - to prevent ticking those boxes in a public place. And we might all feel a little better about them.

I guess cookies though are a solution to the leave me logged in checkbox. Another technology could be used. I personally hate them as they currently are.

Even key chain programs are difficult to understand. Safari uses user key-chain, Firefox uses it's own profile to store passwords. No consistency and headaches for users.
I really love the concept of an early stage investor formalizing their commitment to improving the world by explicitly creating room for non-profits. Now all we need is a later stage fund to structurally commit follow on investment to these non-profit start-ups. YC deserves big props for this and for not just chasing the buck, if not with all their investments at least with these the mission really is to change the world and for the better at that.

Watsi was an experiment waiting to be repeated, looking forward to see which non-profits will make it through here.
Mmmh, I'd love to hear a feedback if someone does that. I don't have a firefox OS phone, so I can't tell, but I tested it on an iPhone 4 with iOS 7 beta 6 and I think it's a limit.
Of course iOS 7 is not the lightest system on earth but even on more optimized OS like iOS 6, I think the weakest hardware will struggle to process it correctly.
True! I should have made that clearer.

The only time you need to think about StopIteration is if you're consuming from an iterator in some unusual way (eg writing a "get me the single item which is in this iterator, or blow up if there are zero or more than one" function) or if you're writing an iterator which is not built out of building blocks which already know how to stop an iteration.

So, not often.
The common analogy is that Chinese "dialects" are really different languages in the same Chinese language family (they have a common ancestor), the same way that Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Corsican, Catalan, etc. are different languages in the Romance language family (their common ancestor is Latin).

Where it gets confusing is when nationalism gets involved. Mandarin and Wu are different "dialects" of the same "language" because they're from the same country. Italian and Spanish are different "languages" because they're from different countries. It's a political distinction.

Linguists tend toward using mutual intelligibility as the difference between a language and a dialect, but it's fuzzy. Beijing and Shanghai dialect are almost totally mutually unintelligible, but if you walked from Beijing down to Shanghai, each village, town, or city you pass will speak a dialect that's still mutually intelligible with the immediately neighboring village/town/city's.

But really, the words "dialect" and "language" mean essentially the same thing in English.
blank label makes only dress shirts and does not offer any sort of home try on program. We are big fans of Fan Bi and co.

re: a different experience. We are sort the anti-Gap. At the Gap, one size fits all. With us, we will fit the shirt to your body type and not force you into a size that was made for the masses.
You have been downvoted, lol.

This is the stupid HN system at work: Someone who doesn't understand English being a native speaker (simple vs simpler) can downvote you because he has "earned" that right, by submitting a gazillion articles with 1 point each.
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Vastrim AFAIK
It doesn't make child smarter but it makes teachers give better grades.
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Historical note about the logo illustration at the top of the essay (which predates the well-known red logo): it was internally referred to as "Uncle Stinky".
(Edit: rewrite for clarity)

The underlying premise appears to be that parents volunteer to improve their kids' intelligence (eg, grades). Nowhere is this premise discussed, proven, or cited - it's just taken as a given.

The author then goes on to suggest that there are much better things you can do as a parent to improve academic performance.

I accept this, but it's meaningless if he doesn't at least show that someone has demonstrated a significant correlation between parental volunteering and the intention of improving academic performance.

As a parent of a not-quite-school-age child, I will likely volunteer to some limited extent - but I will do it so that I can better know the people who are monitoring and teaching my child for a significant part of every year.

The author also conflates PTA meetings, volunteering, and fundraising - treating them as if they were all the same thing.

Clickbait article without substance is clickbait.
Certainly there's way too much noise going on in that video. A minimalist approach could work well though.
In light of that, isn't Zappos a more apt comparison?
First impressions count. And as they say in law calling it close to Warby Parker "doesn't pass the smell test".

Your points are valid (and I will take them as correct).

But when someone sees a headline that says "the Warby Parker of" they are going to think many different things and that's at least what I thought.

Clothing is sold everywhere eyeglasses are not. Custom clothing is nothing new what Warby did essentially was a new idea.

Note also that eyeglasses have been around forever and are used by a nice percentage of the population because if you need glasses and don't wear contact lenses you need glasses.

Polo shirts are not the same (title says "custom polo shirts") and I'm not even seeing that they sell polos for women. And how many men are "metro" enough that they even care about getting customer polo shirts? There is a big difference between men's fashion and women's fashion to begin with.
I was thinking of things like these:

http://uk.rs-online.com/web/c/semiconductors/memory-chips/nv...

or these more specifically:

http://www.amazon.com/NetApp-Server-NVRAM4-111-00023-201-000...

So I guess I didn't take your "NVDIMM" usage seriously enough :) Thanks for the explanation.
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I disagree with some people here. If this _was_ an exploit that had an attacker (as opposed to the various other explanations people are putting forward) then reporting it to Google is obviously valuable to them, even if he is unaware of how to replicate the exploit. He would

a) make them aware of the problem
b) give them enough of a start to work out what is happening.

So I'd suggest it is worthy of being rewarded if not by the exact rules of the program, at least by the spirit of it.

However, I seriously doubt this is really what happened - he makes a lot of leaps without any corroborating evidence. I am very sure this isn't Google trying to 'screw' the guy.
As a Warby Parker customer, I think the company is just at the tip of what they will accomplish. This is a gigantic market and most people are still paying $400 for same frames and lens you can get for $100 from them.

I've had two pair of glasses from them, and I've never had so many comments and compliments on a pair of glasses. So even if the glasses are made by the factories that make frames for other companies, there is something to be said about their design.

I'd love to see Warby Parker's disruptive strategy applied to other parts of the health care market. It shows what free market pressures can do to effect prices.
Nanning is actually not a province. It's the capital of Guangxi province.
Seems like a typical misplacement for a non-native speaker.
Hindi is the native language of 180 million people (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindi), most of who live in India.

While Hindi being the national language might have been the decision of a committee, the language itself is not artificial.
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like the wifi market?

47 CFR 15 (and other countries' equivalents) probably counts as regulations.
Somebody in the OP already commented about ostringstream and the article was updated accordingly. ostringstream is better, and I suposse more idiomatic.