skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I personally love the car-buying process. I've bought all my cars (both new and used) the exact same way:

* pre-select make, model, color, options, etc (this way I'm comparing apples to apples)

* find various examples meeting my criteria on the market from different dealers/private sellers

* get initial offers from all the dealers

* get financing in-place - either cash or an approved car loan from your bank

* Whichever dealer has the lowest price, call the rest and say "dealer X has beaten your price by $Y. I have cash in-hand and I'm ready to buy today. Can you go lower?"

* Depending on the answer, either cross that dealer off your list or update all the other dealers with the 'new' lowest price.

* Rinse and repeat until nobody goes any lower, then go buy your car.

Dealers hate that method, but it's saved me thousands of dollars with each car purchase regardless of new or used. Ignore all pleas for 'financing', 'what do you want your monthly payment to be', etc. You're going for the absolute lowest price you can wrangle. As far as time investment, outside of figuring out what make/model/options I want and securing financing from my bank (or getting cash), the 'rinse and repeat with the lowest offer' method has never taken me more than a weekend to implement.
That section is nonsense. It says that < at the start of the line is less left-to-right than 'cat' at the start of the line.
They promised they would update it again once they were done with the book. But yeah, it's been a couple years since the last update.
Linkedin

CEO appears not to have a linkedin page (really?)
CFO: www.linkedin.com/pub/kevin-carney/a/494/713
CPO: www.linkedin.com/pub/roseann-duran/0/66a/971

... it goes on
https://www.web.com/aboutus/leadership.aspx

they're publicly traded: http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=WWWW
Would be interesting if Yahoo ran this on their finance news site.
That assumes that you don't think enterprise drives are just marketing ploy, to get execs to part with more of their money for no real benefit.
Right. The problem is that most people have no idea which car to get. "Honey, this one has a nicer GPS system, but that one has a moonroof! Oh, but this one has symmetric all wheel drive. I don't know what that is but it sounds impressive. Or wait, this other one has a SH-AWD... and this one has X-Drive. You know what, I'll take the moonroof!"

The sales staff are not competing against other dealerships of the same maker. They are competing against other makes. They are really selling you the brand.

Having said that, I think it's stupid that once you know the exact make and model you still need to deal with the sales staff. At that point, just give me the best price you have. You know what it is, you know what your competitors are doing. Why are we still talking?

Also, I don't know if you've noticed, but the landscape is changing. One of the big changes is that much more of the salesperson's income comes from salary and not commission. This is good. This means less sneaky tactics. Also, lots of dealerships now have an Internet department which will give you a quote online that is likely pretty close to your final offer. It's still worth trying to haggle, but lots of them don't have time for this: they simply give you an offer that's low enough to where you might actually just take it.
Overpopulation can also result from simple trade. NYC and generally the entire US eastern seaboard are overpopulated by your definition.
The notice is playing the odds; it doesn't track referrers, and right now most of the traffic is actually coming from Reddit (http://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/1vs4uu/have... to be precise). You might be surprised how many people with several thousand rep points forget the rules when they've been on Reddit recently.
Top startup incubator programs?
Many HNers appear to be outraged that this event is 'female only.' I think creating a conference environment that is restricted to women is very important. For a group that is under-represented in this community, having a safe space where open discussions can take place without fear can help strengthen a growing community of female startup founders (just look at some of these comments; you can't reasonably expect anyone to feel open to discussing these issues when there might be concern for some of these types of responses).

Even as someone who believes in the importance of gender equality, as a male co-founder, I acknowledge that I do have subconscious biases that need to be checked periodically (or better, constantly). When there are more female founders, and more of a presence of female leadership, I believe those biases (and the biases of other men in our community) will decline over time. Having a safe space where supportive discussions may lead to success for more female founders is a great place to start.
Yeah, it's mostly the top banner that's the problem. With the large stock image that may or may not be about buying a car and the set of links that are sort of relevant to what you want. Scrolling further, the content looks more legitimate. Had I not just read that article, I wouldn't have gone beyond the top banner.
Mass adoption may increase liquidity on the exchanges and thus provide short-term stability. I agree that Bitcoin cannot have any long-term stability.
Importantly, every layer in the stack is responsible for it's own security. A consumer of this API should be making sure that it's optimally configured and configure it differently where it's not. Any project that isn't doing that should have security reports sent to it to tell it to do that and if they refuse they are guilty of the same sort of negligence as ruby core.

However the fact that other people should also be claiming responsibility for their own security does not absolve ruby of it's own responsibilities.
USD fluctuates a lot less than silver/gold, in case you are implying the opposite.
Ideally, you should always use "includeSubdomains" with HSTS. This will provide robust security for the main hostname as well as all subdomains. The issue here is that (without "includeSubdomains") a man in the middle attacker can create arbitrary subdomains and use them inject cookies into your application. In some cases, even leakage might occur.

The drawback of "includeSubdomains", of course, is that you will have to deploy all subdomains over SSL.
I just wanted to say that I really appreciate the way your plot is structured and "fitted in" within the larger World of Warcraft setting. The way you did that calls back to machinima's own origins within another media and was a delightful thought to have today.
Good point, although I didn't even notice, and I'm probably the one who could have taken offense at it. So I guess my ignorance worked out as a win this time?
You can also take money from a bank account using an account number and routing number. That's why Donald Knuth stopped sending out checks to pay bounties.[1]

> Is it another startup whose usefulness stems in a large part from the lack of ubiquitous free, same-day interbank payments between checking accounts in the US (unlike much of the rest of the developed world)?

Partly but not all.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knuth_reward_check
Not haggling for cars is IMHO definitely anti-consumer. That's the last bastion of defense a buyer has against a giant information void they are facing. Square 6-12 dealerships against each other in a deathmatch for your money and watch the price drop. Until actual sales prices start being disclosed (not the meaningless invoices or the less than useless MSRP), we will never know the true price of a car. It's a one sided market. The only advantage a buyer has is the ability to make dealers compete.
But is it unicode!?
I was wondering if someone would bring that up. The prohibition of virtual child pornography is probably the closest thing to thought crime that we have.

I think that using a particularly narrow example of restricted permissible expression isn't proof that society is getting closer to the totalitarian nightmare of 1984.
Those generic parked domain pages are heavily A/B tested and iterated to achieve maximum revenue per user.

What this tells me is TrueCar probably has a pretty solid layout that gets users to click and start the process.
> Perhaps the average man is less risk-averse than the average woman and therefore is more likely to enter a risky business venture.

I think the general assumption for women promoting these types of events is that while this statement may be true, it's not because of an inherent difference in women and men. The difference is due to social and cultural conditioning, not because of any biological difference.
I give you one example: Because torture is forbidden, the US government just renamed the things they did to the prisoners in Iraq and Guantanamo, just not naming it torture. Or because if the people in Guantanamo where soldiers they would have special rights and the other way around, if they where not, they should get a normal trial. So they just called them other names just to disguise that what they do is not right!

That is corrupting the language.

And I even see it in Germany. Because the basic rights (like free speech) are defined in our constitution and "security" is not among them, our former secretary of the interior said this would be a "super basic right" -- thus also putting security above all basic rights ... and giving our rights in the hands of the NSA.

By this way, they corrupt our language and our thinking. Defining everything that way, how they pleasure and how they can betray us!
This would be my fear/concern. It's happened between me and another company before.
Dragging on doing nothing is what I would call 'dumb'. Fork bombs actually do something, and pose interesting challenges.
If it's only for domain name, I would definitely recommend iwantmyname.com. It's a small team and their service is really great.

Just my 2cents!
Every fucking time someone mentions the plumbing or the nursing or the construction industries.
How I started: I got hired right out of college (with a math and physics degree, not CS) for an embedded position. From that start, I've been in embedded for almost all of my career.

What I've found to be important/different: Debugging can be really hard. You can't always run a debugger; you can't always print something out. Sometimes bugs can come from interaction between different threads, which is something that you don't run into in many kinds of programming. You have to watch for multiple threads accessing the same data, and you have to figure out what you need to do if it happens. You need to remember that any thread can stop running between any two assembly instructions - a C statement is not atomic.

I've never done system programming, but in ignorance I think it's harder than what I do. It's got all of my problems, plus a bunch more...
And this gem from the foot of the email:

"Please note that unsubscribing from our marketing emails will not affect important transactional correspondence such as administrative and renewal notices related to your account."

i.e. Anyone whom DIDN'T get this email because they have previously unsubscribed are still going to be stealth-charged? Are Network Solutions TRYING to put themselves out of business?
Well, yes. I think we're in agreement there.
>Perhaps Google considered that to be lawsuit bait, or perhaps they considered it to be proprietary.

I don't think it has anything to do with being afraid of lawsuits (or every consumer review company would be out of business) or worried about competition getting that information. They most likely get some kind of volume pricing discount (or even pricing based on experienced reliability) that is dependent on them not releasing such data.
I wish I had enough karma to downvote you. Instead of having any actual discussion you'd rather make some low effort sarcastic shitpost to try and derail?

This thread is doomed to the flamewar detector anyways, I don't suppose there's any point in trying to have decent discussion here.
All I have is anecdotal evidence and logic based on that. So I'm afraid I can't give what you're asking for.

But my anecdotal evidence is that, growing up, nobody wanted kids and everyone wanted sex. Having kids was feared as something that would ruin your life. Even if in some sense that's technically true (it could ruin your ability to get a good education and make a living), the attitude lasts longer than the fact. So they would avoid having kids even after they have a good job and could afford it.
Indeed - and if things get too far out of sync, it becomes worthwhile to import things from countries where they aren't. Except that such free trade is often prohibited by law.
It has been a long time since I last read 1984, but I don't see the war on abstract nouns (poverty, drugs, terror) as particularly Orwellian.
Seems to good to be true; what's the catch? They have to pay $7.85 per .com to Verisign and $0.20 to ICANN.
This startup will fail. While I hate how antiquated email is, at least it's fairly decentralised.
Price per TB: http://edwardbetts.com/price_per_tb/
Philosophy professors talking about something they don't fully understand. Analytic solutions are almost always prefferable when they are available because they are much easier to analyze. Naturally economists will prefer models with analytic solutions. However when simulation is required to understand something economists embrace it as is common in finance, pricing theory and even macroeconomics.

I guess the point is to bash economists. And why is this even on HN? From 2007?
The compromise would be very dangerous. It's something to design against. Using vetted OSS software, running atop open hardware, and being able to verify that neither has been tempered with is the way to do it. If I decide to run an IoT based on some very basic microcontrollers + bluetooth adapters + a Cubieboard, running OSS software I verified myself, behind a firewall I set up myself, I'd give it a decent amount of trust (all of the above are examples and of course can be swapped for parts that we can give more trust).
My Eritrean living in Sweden was 170cm / 5'6" weight 112kg 246lb. Bit unusual but possible I guess.

Random name factoid: In England, J is a valid first name and A is a valid surname. So someone's full name could be J A.

I wonder how many databases would accept that.
I am halfway into migrating my build process over to
pkgng (I got quite a surprise when CvSup stopped working, I'm just old fashioned I guess), so I might be happy to buy an extra RPi just to populate a pkg server for folks to use.

At least I have a project goal now beyond just playing - thank you
Well for me squisyness is always problematic. When people's reasoning depends on subjective self reporting feedback I don't consider it nearly as persuasive as something done methodically. My sigh was that I can't see how the article even gets to the 'ranking' order they get to.

They lead with "The survey measures customer experience, which involves difficult-to-define criteria based on how a customer feels about his or her interaction with a company. Forrester queried 7,500 consumers about their retail and customer support experiences and used the responses to assign each company a customer-experience index score. "

So 7,500 respondents, how were they picked? What was their demographic? Were they previous device owners or new device owners? etc etc. And this:

"Sony came in second with a rating of 83, while Microsoft and Samsung followed one point behind at 82. Apple scored an 81. All three brands rated below Apple in the 2013 survey. "

What moves someone 1 pt up or down in the survey? What is the margin of error? In 2013 Apple shipped 150M iPhones, if they surveyed just iPhone customers who bought a phone last year, 7,500 would be .005% Except the slides mention at least five vendors Amazon, Samsung, Apple, Sony, and Microsoft.

So that is why I felt it as non-news. There isn't enough data to say anything about the market, consumer sentiment, or usefulness.

So what was your take on the story?
While I don't use this todo method, I did fork this repo which has been handy for managing my own dotfiles.
http://www.snell-pym.org.uk/archives/2012/12/27/logging-prof...
Commercial intent is more important than how broad / generic the term is.

A query like "sports" or "news" may or may not have an ad in the search results. Keywords like "credit cards for people with poor credit scores" will almost always show lots of ads, even though the query is quite specific and contains 8 words.

In some particularly valuable verticals (like hotels) Google then further adds their other paid verticals to the results in addition to the AdWords ads.

One of Matt's videos (not sure which one) mentioned online publishers tend to focus a lot on say 10% to 20% of highly commercial terms, while often paying much less attention to the rest of the searches as the commercial terms typically are far more valuable than the informational ones. (Mesothelioma lawyers can afford to pay more for traffic than say people selling flour, or people offering recipes that contain flour).
Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers
Logging, Profiling, Debugging, and Reporting Progress (by alaric)
This is an interesting and important case; the limits of the first amendment being tested by a true scoundrel.

Crystal Cox was clearly, unambiguously running a protection racket, where she publishes scurrilous claims about somebody and then offers to remove them in exchange for a "reputation management" fee. She turned this racket on her former lawyer Marc Randazza -- a lawyer famed for his first-amendment efforts -- after he recused himself from her case. You can get a taste of how ugly this woman behaves here:

http://www.popehat.com/2012/03/30/investigative-journalist-c...

http://randazza.wordpress.com/2012/12/17/this-domain-name-se...

Note that she is now represented by Eugene Volokh, another highly esteemed champion of the first amendment.

Crystal Cox never really denied that the things she wrote were false and damaging; she merely claimed that she can't be held liable for anything she writes because she's a journalist.

The appeals court decided that she does indeed qualify as a journalist in this case. It did NOT let her off the hook for defamation. This is very important. Journalists can still commit defamation. The district court convicted her of that, but it used the wrong test because it assumed that she's not a journalist.

So what does this decision mean exactly? For Crystal Cox it means that the case will be retried in district court, this time using a more precise definition of libel. I think it is highly likely that her conviction will stand.

For the rest of us it's a precedent that modernizes first-amendment protections for the Internet age, the attainment of which was well worth the defense of a scoundrel.
Welp, my brain is shutting down, so I can't respond to half the stuff you just said.

But I wanted to thank you for being so courteous and kind in your responses. Turns out you and I disagree, but somehow we figured it out in a positive and constructive way. That's pretty awesome.
In some countries you can get prepaid credit cards to cover #1 and #3, though the additional fees probably make it costlier than by using Bitcoin.
Thanks for the conversation. I hope I encouraged you to not to be afraid of voicing the reasoning behind your opinion in the future.

Dialogue is the best way to learn and grow.
But don't short-circuit this. If you build after the first time, you may well not know enough to build the tool right. After you've done the process more than once, you have a fair idea of what the tool needs to do.
Who are you?

I've read your comments. You claim to know the real reasons why women aren't going into tech, you reply to comments about gender/racial disparity with such simple-minded arrogance and assurance, yet your profile says you're a college student studying EE and physics. You're nothing more than the typical puffed-up ignorant college asshole who thinks he has the world figured out.

Wait till all the pubes have grown in and get a few years in the real world under your belt before thinking about making such idiotic statements because as of now you have absolutely nothing of value to contribute. For a college kid in the throes of acquiring knowledge and perspective, you're pretty god damn ignorant and stubborn and just dickish on the whole.

And if you're not the typical 18-22yo college kid, but rather someone a bit older, then this is all the sadder really.
The McCarthy era was both a long time ago and is almost universally regarded as a political and ideological failure. Are you saying that our society is infested with crypto-McCarthyists?
UK porn filter blocks game update that contained 'sex'
No sorry, had the poster actually engaged the issue critically they'd probably at least cite specific sources and literature for the issues they are raising, instead of reciting the same tired criticisms of feminism that are brought up in literally every discussion of feminism ever.
Monitoring Online Censorship In China
I think their most common channels are cars.overstock.com, as well as americanexpress.com partnerships, you wouldn't be actually visiting truecar.com.
Also known as the Scunthorpe problem http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem
I had Dr. Tesfatsion (from whose page this paper is hosted) for a Masters-level intro to macroeconomics course. This is a course that all first-semester graduate students in economics take at Iowa State, and Dr. Tesfatsion begins the course with a small examination of the epistemology of economics, and a discussion of where it fits between the "soft" and "hard" sciences.

I was taking this course in 2009, and we spent much of the course discussing the assumptions that economists make in building their models in light of the economic meltdown of the previous years. The course was heavy on traditional Keynsian-derived macro theory and the many historical assumptions that have eventually been shown to be problematic, but it also included an analysis of economics through diverse methods that included behavioral psychology and game theory, many of which emphasised testable small-scale interactions and the way in which they which may lead to larger-scale emergent patterns. (Tesfatsion is very much into agent-based simulation of markets)

I was coming from a religious liberal arts background and an engineering program which was fairly heavy on the philosophy of science, and I appreciated a well-rounded and diverse approach to the analysis of economic systems. I'm not sure, however, what my peers thought of all of this.
The response bias on the poll is going to be overwhelming. Still, its an interesting discussion.
Along these lines, I have done a monetary analysis; http://perenniallycurious.com/centspergb.html
The interesting part about that quote is that it appears to allude to the much reviled Citizens United v. FEC decision:

>"the Supreme Court has accurately warned, a First Amendment distinction between the institutional press and other speakers is unworkable"
This is very encouraging - thanks for posting.
I like the idea of selling to someone who could make the conversions you could not, using the same source.
I don't but they are an awesome team. I use to go to their Ruby meetups and they are so nice to the developer community. One of the guys showed a demo of how awesome VIM is and was compelling enough that I converted and I never looked back.

http://www.meetup.com/sfruby/venue/?sort=date&desc=1&venueId...
This is indeed exactly what happend at my lower/middle/high school--we received a full paragraph from each teacher evaluating our performance every trimester.

Doing so at a college scale would be too costly. But you do have all the grades that go into your average, comments on each essay, office hour time, etcetera. The nuances of your performance don't matter in your GPA, that is, your Grade Point Average, but you do have a bit more information available to you, yourself.