skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As dminor said, it was part of the agreement, but more to the point, you don't always necessarily know when you're taking the card. You'd only see the fee after running the purchase. IIRC, there was some way to decipher some 'types' of cards (airmiles reward card vs free gas vs cash back cards, etc) by some of the prefix numbers, but I don't think that was reliable, nor feasible. It's been a couple years since I discussed this with my bank's merchant account person, but in a nutshell it was "you don't now until after you take the card how much it'll cost you".

There was a base fee, and most cards would fall in to that - 2.1% in my case, IIRC. But, if someone used some 'get 2% cash back on all purchases!' card, I'd be charged 4.1% (again, IIRC, might have been a bit more or less). When you don't know what the price is going to be, you end up needing to err on the high side, and factor in higher overall fees to every price, raising the price for everyone along the way. And the banks make more money because the whole 'free air miles!!!!' mentality gets people to use their card more.

The banks get their fees on a per transaction cost (and interest on balances that carry on month to month) - the merchants effectively paid for all your 'free air miles'.
I agree. Rapgenius guy sounds a bit... I dunno... but the reply is too rude IMO even in the light of what top comment shows.
How about I upvote his post instead to help make up for your honest mistake? Fixing an accidental negative with a positive seems more productive to me then adding another negative to it.
This story resonates with me because while I have had an active consulting business for about 15 years (and right now I have a consulting gig at Google), twice in the last five years potential customers wanted to hire me for projects but they were blocked by their HR departments who thought I was LTU. Offering to show tax records did not help.

I am also in my 60s, so I also feel for people who might suffer from age discrimination (or gender, race, religion, etc.)

There should be a level playing field, but sadly that is not always the case.
The payment processors have a disproportionate amount of power over merchants because they form an oligopoly. The barrier to entry is extremely high, which significantly distorts the markets.

The payment processors used this asymmetry to force merchants to hide their costs from the market at large. The market can't affect something when it isn't allowed to set different prices for using the service or not!

Yes, merchants could stop using the payment processors. But, crucially, consumers can't: if a merchant used a payment processor under the old scheme, even customers paying in cash had to pay a higher price to subsidize this!

Couple this with the fact that the payment processor market is entirely dominated by a bare handful of large companies, and you get something really far from a "free" market.
Why would an unsolicited marketing offer be considered private?
I had JIRA running under OpenJDK on OpenIndiana without issues.
"Do cigarettes cause cancer?" is both a single issue, and one with no middle ground you could occupy if you wanted to.

"Left vs Right" is not a single issue; claiming "Left is always correct" immediately commits you to one end of a very large number of dimensions.

And what bothers me about the idea "university-affiliated people are more credible; think-tank affiliated people are less credible" is that if you follow it, you will conclude that the left is correct, and the right is wrong... and it's not necessary to look at what the issue is, or what positions each side has taken, before coming to that conclusion.
There's junior in social standing and junior in official position.

If you're told your boss manager will be a 23 year old who was BFFs with the founders all growing up, and you are 35 with 15 years of experience, that's kinda degrading.

If you're a 30 year old with 10 years of experience and you're being offered less than what an undergrad gets entreating into facebook or apple or google ($30k sign on, $50k+ worth of 4-year options to start out with (which will easily be added to so you can cash out $500k to $1M within 6-8 years)), that's kinda degrading too.

Sometimes your specific experience doesn't match the outside world anymore. Maybe you have eight years experience using Custom Designed Internal Framework that's of no use to the outside world. So, there you sit, being judged along side people with eight years less experience than you because all your experience is "hidden" to the new company, their interview process, and your social peers.

There are many ways jobs and the interview process can make you feel less than stellar.
Ask HN: Beta Tester Slots Available for 'Tinder for Jobs' (using AngelList)
The app is exactly what it sounds like! Indicate that you are or aren't interested in a jobs :)

Before a wider release, we (I and my friend based in England) would love some more feedback - who'd like to test it out and is willing to give a bunch of feedback?
The title is sensationalist. The point is that even the best laid plans require an element of luck, so it's better to develop systems of successful habits rather than attaching your hopes and dreams towards a specific "goal". He's not talking about how you, too, can be a comic book artist, he's saying that you need to learn as many useful skills as you can. In his book he devoted considerable time to detailing just how serendipitous the success of Dilbert was. I enjoyed it.
Kids Living in Basements Drag On U.S. Services Spending
I totally want to meet him. I have brain damage too. @_@ hah.
Fair enough you publish the unsolicited email, but when you respond and the other person responds back, and the only people in the two and from lines are yourselves, it starts to be private, at least in my view.
hmm.. article is almost two years old, so I wonder what the current situation is as I've never heard of segregation of the sexes in Japan.
As a maker of things myself with monumentally less ambition all I could think about was all the trial and error and iteration he didn't have space or inclination to talk about. :-)

He certainly didn't walk into this project knowing how to do everything he did. Or did he?
That just really rubs me the wrong way. On one hand we see the tech community being berated by lots of people for being "misogynistic" and un-inclusive, and then on the other hand we have VCs putting millions on people who say things like "I'mma rape you in your mouth". What the hell? What's your explanation Andreessen Horowitz?
Lol. "Most people that know what they're doing", don't pull up the desktop version, because they're pretty okay with mobile sites. But I guess I've no idea what I'm doing when browsing on my iPhone, and my analytics showing far better engagement with a mobile site vs desktop site on mobile just shows me a lot of people who don't "know what they're doing".
Discover Meteor is worth every penny! In addition to being a handy resource, it's also kept very up-to-date, for example, numerous chapters were recently rewritten to use iron-router.
Kyle's first reply was essentially "No thanks." And a simple "no thanks" likely would have elicited the same "please join!" response from RapGenius anyways.
Yahoo CEO Mayer Apologizes For Mail Outage That She Says Affected 1% Of Users
But there are worries the harsher penalties may have actually led some women to falsely accuse men of groping in the hope of a cash settlement.

It looks like until Japanese men and women – but especially men – learn to behave themselves on trains in mixed company, completely gender-segregated cars might sadly be the safest way to ride.

I leafed through a book once (and fully intend to actually buy and read though the thing soon) called the "No Asshole Rule". [1] My takeaway was that there are people who on the surface are extraordinarily productive but who are so destructive in interpersonal relations as to contribute negative value overall to a business.

Reading this article makes me wonder if, on a more general level, anybody's tried to quantify the amount assholes cost society in general. And how much of that cost is truly wasted vs. that which creates industry of benefit to all of us. I know effort's gone into using our understanding of psychology to steer people into more responsible social behaviors, but I wonder if all things considered we somehow end up in a better place because assholes are constantly testing limits and we come up with social accommodations for that behavior.

1: http://www.amazon.com/The-Asshole-Rule-Civilized-Workplace/d...
Kyle's responses at the end are brilliant. You have to shine a light on wealthy bro moron stupidheads with ingenuity and openness.
The entirety of these 'reward' programs was to get you to use your cards more, and secondarily spend more. Spending extra hundreds per year to get a free flight now and then generally isn't 'savvy'. You think you're getting something back, but you're contributing to the problem, and giving cover to the whole 'increased consumerism' lifestyle.

Thinking to yourself "sure, I'll spend a few extra bucks - I'll be getting 2% cash back next month/year!" or "hey - I almost have a free flight - sure, buy a bit more!"... encourages spending more than you need.

I know there are people that do extreme gaming of the system, paying utilities and such with every rewards card out there, transferring balances and such to get a free flight. These are the outliers, much like extreme couponers spending days per week figuring out how to get $200 in groceries for -$18. It's not reality for most people.

It's far easier to not spend on frivolous stuff, save up, and buy a plane ticket when you want it vs buying extra crap then trying to figure out which 10% of the days you can use your 'free miles' on. My wife's got 150,000 miles with an airline, and they have no 'air mile' seats available on any flight she needs for the next 12 months - it'll be 2015 at least before she can use all these 'free flight' miles (earned from travel, not from rewards cards).
This usage of "ask" is at least 10 years old because I heard and used it in my last job, which was over 10 years ago. From my perspective you're the one looking to fight an uphill battle trying to put this genie back in a bottle.

Just because it is new to you does not make it useless or wrong. English grammar evolves; that's part of what makes it such an expressive and useful language. Another recent example:

http://m.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/11/english-...
SSDs are great, until your game library outgrows them. At the moment, it may be hard to fill half a terabyte with Linux games, but it's pretty easy on Windows. I've got 350GB of Steam games installed on my Windows machine, and I'm not a big spender on games. I've just bought Humble Bundles and one or two things during each of Steam's major sales.
Milo.com does this.
Well, Horowitz loves the rap music.

It also gives them an excuse to be total baller VCs and hang out with their rap idols.
This is really nicely done. I do hope that avoiding the inevitable product death of acqui-hires hasn't reduced your upside from the new gig too much.

I would suspect that anybody worrying about the future of trigger.io as a result would have worried far more had they found out about this any other way - and I'd imagine that as soon as continued active development in your absence is visibly happening (i.e. the next batch of features rolls out) even those people should largely calm down.

Good luck.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cn9t0m6eG4Q
I've been enjoying Ghostery. Nicer / cleaner than most privacy plugins, and it speeds up pages noticeably (same as adblock, mostly through killing iframed social things).
> I think any elite above a certain dollar amount or level of power, would just go elsewhere. Isn't Uruguay right beside Argentina, and Paraguay, for instance?

I suspect they might have a culture similar to Spain, in the respect that it's much less common for people to move around. Young adults often live at home well into their twenties, and go to university in their home town, and friend and family groups are usually in the local area. If almost everyone you know lives in one place, to move away is a much greater step, even if you are wealthy.
Can you give more specifics about your complaints, especially about Uruguay? I've had the opportunity to work with several people in the past year in Uruguay, Columbia, Brazil, and Argentina. The consensus has been uniformly positive that Uruguay's economy and politics are stable, the tech workers have plenty of opportunity and good wages. Some of the taxes and import duties are tough, but better there than in Argentina, for example. Thoughts? I'm honestly curious.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women-only_passenger_car
No ways. Unless you want to have a hard time getting a place to rent or get a mortgage, you WILL need to have credit. I learned that the hard way when I cancelled all my credit cards two years ago and have had no debt or loans since. I just used debit cards for everything. And now, I'm almost a millionaire having a hard time finding a place to rent because my credit is not the greatest anymore.
The first movies of theatrical productions plopped a camera in what was presumably the best seat in the house and let 'er rip. New media start by imitating their predecessors.
> CC is sometimes used as a "heads up". It means "I'm interested in you reading this, but I'm not asking you to do anything right now."

It bothers me that Gmail combines the To and CC recipients into a single line. You have to do some investigating to figure out who's on To and who's on CC.
Will [could] this affect the price of paying for goods with my Visa/MasterCard debit card, i.e., will this essentially make it possible for stores to charge more for using any cards? This could motivate a huge swing back to carrying cash and checks. That being said (and understanding the inherent cost to merchants), won't this ruling essentially set back payments by a decade?
What are the technical details of your foam construction? There are varying grades and several relevant ratings for foam mattress materials - on your specs page these are not listed.

I would be specifically interested in the relevant grades/ratings for your support core, and the same in the comfort layer.

The type of information I am interested in is that which is outlined in the relevant foam sections listed on the following pages:
http://www.themattressunderground.com/mattresses/comfort-lay...
http://www.themattressunderground.com/mattresses/support-cor...
Everything is a Remix Case Study: The iPhone
Oh come on. At least give me a hint on how to fix it. :)

You said you got partway through the installation -- did it finish successfully?
Try doing that with one hand.
If the title is accurate, this effectively means prices are going up another 3%+ on everything over the next few years. People don't usually lower prices.

If someone was selling a $10 pizza before and paying 60c in payment processing, he's most likely gonna charge $10.60 for the pizza now and call the 60c additional profit. I'd be very surprised if most merchants decided to keep charging customers with cards $10 and give a 60c discount to cash customers.
I'm still trying to fully appreciate epic structure of that final response. Just to state the obvious, it cries out for annotation--that's the joke. I had to google four or five terms to fully understand it.
If its real, he's brilliantly explaining why he's too honorable to work with them, and that's OK. They're douchebags.
Wow, this is why people pirate.
I invested in 64GB of RAM. I have a little script to create a 32GB ramdisk on startup. Whenever I want to play a game, I copy its folder to the ramdisk, rename the original, then symlink it from the original location to the ramdisk.

SSDs are great, but ramdisk gaming loads in like five seconds flat. I suppose games will outgrow ~48GB in several years, but my hardware will grow old by then anyway.
"After a week of Yahoo Mail outages that began four days ago"... how does that work?
X-Rebirth isn't? Yea, they refused a lot of refunds.
This is just the nature of the portrayal of war in media. Your complaint is just as accurate when leveled against film, music, or literature. John Wayne movies, The Three Musketeers, Shakespeare's Henry V, The Aeneid, Homer's Illiad, all these things glamorize warfare to some degree.
Trigger is by far my favorite native app wrapper. Cheers to Antoine and hoping for a good future ;)
They have the tracking system, it's called ShotSpotter. There are domestic and military versions.

As for defense, its all about heat over time. A 100kW delivered into a small, say 10mm spot. Is very difficult to effectively reflect away, even if your mirror reflects 99% of the light energy away you are still getting a kilowatt of energy dumped into your reflector.

As for shooting bullets out of the sky, that might be a bit tougher. It works for mortar shells because they have an explosive you can set off, but turning a lead bullet travelling along into a blob of lead travelling along, not very effective. However, there is a paper from the Army Ballistics Lab that discusses reducing the effectiveness of bullets by putting divots into them. Basically if you can deform a bullet in flight it will begin tumbling and likely hit further from where it was aimed than it would have if it had not become deformed.

Of course an unsophisticated adversary with RPGs isn't going to be buying 'laser proof' RPGs any time soon :-)
anyone who finds usb sticks cumbersome must have the motor skills of a walrus
Watermarks are definitely DRM in my book. A technological measure used to prevent or at least discourage copyright infringement. It's the same basic idea as e.g. the coded anti-piracy dots you see in movie theaters.

My point is quite simple: the arguments being made defending watermarks are the exact same arguments people make to defend DRM on movies and music. That doesn't mean they're wrong, of course.
I'd put forward the proposition that not only is there no need to measure productivity of developers, but that this is a counterproductive management approach.

1. You have hyperproductive developers (the famous 10x ones). Everybody knows who they are and you can hire or retain them if you provide the correct incentives.

2. Then you have the disaster zones - again they are easily recognisable.

3. With everybody else, _they are going to be as productive as they are going to be_. They will be trying their hardest as much as they can - if they didn't actually want to build software they would be in the disaster zone category. You can improve this via a process of facilitation using well-known approaches to improving the working environment (plenty of info in books like Peopleware for example). As a manager, your biggest problem is stopping them working too hard and burning out because your schedules will become increasingly erratic, and the effect of late hours is always a net loss over the longer term.

If your development team isn't effective, it's a management problem, not a developer one.
What country are the materials from, and where are the beds assembled?
This has been the single largest problem with the program to date, how often you can fire and how quickly you can acquire a target. Early tests with chemical lasers were basically one shot every 10 to 15 minutes. These lasers are better than that, but they still have duty cycle limits which makes it possible to just overwhelm them.
Because it wasn't marketing, it was a job opportunity. They wanted to give him money for services. To me, even if I dislike someone, if they approach me with a business opportunity I'm going to treat them with respect and dignity.

Out of principle, I might decline their offer, and if I felt strongly enough I might explain why, but I'd do it in a way that's private and saves face for everyone.
You still use those?
Why do you think that everyone spends extra hundreds per year to get a free flight? Most people I know that use rewards cards use them because they put most of their expenses on credit cards anyway so getting an extra 2% back is just a nice perk.
Their reply was basically "why do you have a negative impression of us?". That seems like a totally legit question. Why would you punish someone for asking that? Even if you think they're people you dislike, why would you punish someone for an earnest question like that?
That may be your view, and it's a noble one, but what I've learned over the years is that no email is private, ever. Treat them all like public correspondences and you'll never get burned.
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So, why don't they just have a policy that you have 24 hours to get a refund, like the original Android Market policy? Sure, I suppose if you are really dedicated you could play through a game in those 24 hours and get a refund to play for free, but that's a marginal enough case that it's probably not worth worrying about.

Or they could just limit the number of refunds you can get, to say 1 out of 10 games that you buy, and no more than one per month.

Or they could just refund you any time you want. Yeah, sure, a few people will scam them that way, but it's not like they have a huge per-unit cost for delivering the games to you. If it'll make users like the above more happy and more willing to buy from Steam, it's probably worth it in the long run.
I'm just going to come out and say I think 104 incidents of the 100,000 - 1,000,000+ riding the trains is pretty low...

Further, I know multiple women (or I guess men) who would over react if they were accidentally touched and in a bad mood, tired, hungry, etc. With Japan's very large population in a relatively small place I can imagine this happening often. I am sure that groping happens, but it seems as though this is at least as much hype as it is facts.
I think the issue here is:

Kyle: "given Rap Genius's somewhat questionable history"

Tom: " ... if you think we've said stupid things and have been obnoxious / wack ..."

Kyle: "... I've no patience for rape jokes or your problems with queues."

Tom's reply reflects a lack of appreciation for the inappropriateness of a rape joke. AFAICT most decent human beings frown upon jokes about rape. And while you may find rape jokes entertaining, I definitely wouldn't want to associate myself with the behavior.

More generally, we (the technology community) shouldn't be condoning these remarks. Sadly, this even shows up in politics: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rape_and_pregnancy_controversi...
Compared to Dropbox it is (for small relatively files).
Interesting so are you using amazon for fulfillment as well?

They kind of replaced a traditional wholesale supply chain for you. Brilliant!
Of course, if you muddy the waters (complex reward schemes vs simple cash prices), you create an environment which a few "savvy operators" can exploit.

At the expense of the majority.

But what you're missing is that the guaranteed winners are the ones doing the muddying, and at everyone's expense.
> Why would you punish someone for asking that?

Well, easy there, this wasn't a physical flogging in public or anything like that, it was just some fun ribbing -- the kind that RG founders themselves are especially fond of indulging in, (like telling Mark to "suck his dick" and saying things like "I'mma rape you in your mouth", etc.).

If we're really serious about have an inclusive and welcoming culture, we as a tech community should stay away from RapGenius. Let them know there are consequences to the things they say. No-one should be rewarded after saying things like "I'mma rape you in your mouth".
He only said "credit cards with rewards", as in there's no incentive for people to use credit cards that have a reward if they end up charged more for every purchase.

Also if you are a millionaire and are having a hard time finding a place to rent, why not just offer to pay 6 to 12 months of rent up front? Even in NYC that tends to work.