skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Like everyone else on this thread said, wire transfers cost money here in the US. I think what the EU considers a wire transfer is different than what we do here in the US. Wire transfers here require a bunch of information and are painful.

We do have something closer to what you're talking about though. Most large US banks offer the ability to transfer money to other members of the same bank with simply an account number. Such as Bank of America to Bank of America, or Wells Fargo to Wells Fargo. There are fees associated with going Wells Fargo to Bank of America though which is a turn-off.

The other problem with these kinds of transfers is that there is no API for integrating that technology into a 3rd party service. I would have to go onto Wells Fargo's site to transfer money to another Wells Fargo customer. If those banks had any sense at all they would innovate and release APIs to enable that kind of transaction.
That's a really helpful site, thanks for putting it together! It'll help me enormously with optimizing my own site's signup flow.
IMHO the uber text for intro LA is Axler's.
This technique goes back long before the Internet. I recall working in a computer store where it was a standard practice to give someone a quote with an expiry date, and if they missed the time limit extra money would be tacked on with some made-up BS excuse (We sold out of Foobars and the new shipment came in at a higher price).

It was the exact same reasoning: The customer walked away, shopped around, and came back because we have everyone else beat. So now we need to raise our price as much as possible without making it worth their while to go back to someone else.

And in fact, they probably are in our place because someone else raised their price on them, or disclosed hidden gotchas, so we have leverage.
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XXE's are awful. You wouldn't think that simply by parsing an XML file --- something so simple people are tempted to do it with regexes --- you'd be invoking machinery that translates the XML language and binds it to, in effect, scripting language features. But that's what you're doing when you use common XML libraries!

For applications on mainstream stacks, if you accept XML inputs (explicitly accept them, that is; as in, invoke the XML parser yourself) and haven't taken the time to make sure you're not expanding entities, the safest bet is to assume that your XML parser has a "let inbound XML run shell commands" feature embedded into it. That's an oversimplification, but maybe not much of one.

This is a great, subtle finding. And Reginaldo handled it like a pro. Let the feeding frenzy for hiring Reginaldo Silva... commence! :)
A market maker can front-run you with 3rd party inventory (just like Kayak).
Literally nothing you said has anything to do with me, or anything I said. Did you reply to the wrong post by accident or something?
it would probably be a lot clearer if you spelled out "capitalization" instead of using "cap", in a context where there are also maximum values restricting things.
See I live on the Gold Coast, Queensland, and commute ~70km to Brisbane for work. So do tens of thousands here, so I find it really fascinating to see similar situations with vastly different consequences due to culture and other variables.

One of the things to note is that there is an incredible amount of traffic congestion during commute times on the freeway from SF to Mountain View and within San Francisco itself. We could double the capacity of our freeway system and they'd still be slow. So it can take well over an hour on the freeway each way plus an extra 20+ minutes just driving through SF to drop people off if they are any more than a couple miles from the nearest freeway exit.
You don't need data; OP is suffering from the Just World Fallacy, he doesn't understand how the world actually works.
thanks for doing this, I love your site in general and have seen it before in the past. particularly the Tumblr post!
Despite all the really negative comments (and yes, I agree that Quora shouldn't hide its great content from guests), Quora is fairly valuable for me. I spend more time on Quora than I do on Facebook or Twitter; the only site I spend more time on is HN.

The reason is that Quora has a lot of really reputable, valuable, and domain-specific contributors, and it's easy to identify answers from people who have credibility on a subject. On HN there's a lot of noise, and there's a really common phenomenon of people bullshitting about subjects where they really have no credibility (usually the most controversial topics on HN like politics, economics, venture capital). The same is true for Quora, but on Quora you can identify people's domain-expertise better (it's posted next to each answer), and the best contributions percolate to the top much better than on HN. It's interesting to note that one thing people have always wanted on HN is the ability to follow certain users and certain topics, which is something Quora does.

For just the startup/tech world, there are tons of contributions from experienced VCs, angel investors, experienced entrepreneurs, etc. Outside of tech, you get pleasant surprises like former police officers answering questions about policing, movie directors answering questions about movies they've directed, etc.

Quora is still young, so there are a lot of quality early adopters. Going forward, it remains to be seen whether the quality will degrade as Quora gets more popular.

The biggest problem with the onboarding is that most of my value is through following "famous" (credible) people, I get very little value from following topics or questions, because when you start doing that you get lot's of noise (random or semi-credible people answering). This doesn't seem to be something emphasized in the current flow.

EDIT (reply to below): There's a lot of noise. There are a lot of gems, too, but it's easier to identify the gems. I don't think of things in terms of inside vs. outside the so-called SV bubble, so I don't really share that sentiment. An experienced entrepreneur is still credible to me, even if they are in SV.
There was nothing hard to anticipate about the dogecoin fork; literally hours after the commit making it possible was made I heard from Litecoin/Bitcoin developer Warren Togami among others that the Dogecoin devs were idiots who had just set themselves up for a fork. Similarly the micro-transactions flood was something people had predicted would happen well in advance.

To outsiders this stuff may seem mysterious and hard, but to people with real experience in this field it's easy to see that the Dogecoin team don't have a clue.
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If you have 6 things, then 5 is as good as you can get to extrapolate about the 6th.
Flight price quotes can take the currency and sales city as input. You get to play with both those options in ITA matrix.

What you saw is probably based on those inputs being changed.
These teardowns are great -- thanks to the author for doing them.

Onboarding is so important to breaking the ice with users, and providing with a clear sense of what to do after they register. They got sold about some value proposition before they registered, and chances are they probably need to do some work before they start seeing that value: adding friends, installing a client, setting preferences, etc.

Users need their hand held in those first few screens. It's easy to get tunnel vision about a product when you've been building a product for weeks, and obvious steps don't seem so obvious to fresh eyes. Asking strangers to sit down and complete tasks while you watch is one of the best learning experiences you can have about your own product.

I learned the hard way a few times when I got registrations and no repeat visits. I was able to cut it significantly by guiding users on what to do next (I took some lessons from Twitter's onboarding), and following up via auto email if they still didn't get started. Copy made a big difference, too.
The real question of course, is, if we ran speed tests to servers in Toronto and Australia, would we see the same results? ;-) Of course, this is where (a) we need faster server-room connections and (b) lots of jumbo frame support by default over the Internet. ;-)
I just did this for a CheapoAirFlights.co.uk flight to Saigon from London. Booking from a US IP cost a few hundred more, but I fired up the VPN and it worked fine.
Presumably managerialism? Structural analysis of universities is obviously relevant. As well as their function in the economy.
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It never gets old to hear that it's helpful - thanks for letting me know!
I've often hacked Kayak by booking flights to other destinations with a stopover at the place I want to go. It's bizarre, but yes, they're sometimes cheaper.

"opaque and manipulative" indeed.
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You're most welcome - thanks for letting me know!
DOM size mostly ends up mattering due to crawling your descendant selectors during a Style Recalculation. That and not having secure layout boundaries.
Reflow (aka layout thrashing) hurts for sure, yeah.
You're really not understanding what I'm saying. And that's okay.
I have 3 Dell U2412M 24" monitors vertically oriented. They get the job done.
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I'd love to know that you have reference to show that with a large amount of data set, hashing is faster than linked list. I don't have the reference at hand, but I know that hashing has a higher cost from speed and memory point of view.

I don't see the original code is a huge issue per se which requires 19 levels? of improvement? I'm curious about how you guys move on though. Will appreciate if you can keep post your solution and progress.

I guess at the end of the entire program, people may learn how to send the query to multiple indexing servers in a concurrent (I prefer this than "distributed") system and then gather together of all the results. At the end of it, it shows how advanced algorithms Google search engine is used to index terabyte of data.

Is that the ultimate solution for a web of data? Take a look of the discussion: http://bit.ly/1f7xIve
The problem is that you don't expect a pop-under to continue collecting information from you, especially when you intended to close the connection!
Well, thanks for that. It looks like it is well made, your comments are interesting enough, and I would never see it, because Quora is seriously annoying.

Edit: Sry for that repeat-comment, kind of redundant.
Oh them, I searched for PolyFocus.com and another domain using Network Solutions and they registered both the next day and auctioned them off to the highest bidder. They are nasty. I've heard some registrars do that. They check the search logs for anything good and grab domains up.
Lots of tech companies have a careers section. Make a list of companies you want to work for and got to their careers URL. You can probably apply right from there
Omission of BitBucket is a big miss. Not sure if both publish stats of private repo languages.
Yeah I never use folders (or labels) — I am just not organised enough to actually use them. I tried for years. So Unibox really meshes with the way I deal with email.
Yeah, it's too bad carriers always speed test before they launch the network, then say those are the speeds you get. That it also depends on which bands your phone supports if GSM, is also interesting. I suspect in the near future I'll be upgrading phones not because they're any faster for CPU, but because they support newer networking bands and technologies (like cable modems being DOCSIS 3 8x4, 16x4, 24x8 and soon DOCSIS 3.1 ...)
Data persistence and synchronization are just a few advantages of Firebase over the ones you mentioned.
I've been doing this for years. After I noticed most places are cheap to get to but flights are expensive back. I noticed the same business model was in place from the other direction. So just fake the country of origin and you get cheap to and back.

The other one is clear your cookies before booking. Places create fake demand by disappearing the cheap flights on you if you shopping around. If you clear your cookies the cheap flights will return.
It's a content site, so probably from pageviews with ads. I doubt Quora is going to stick around, and if it does it will be in there with about.com, ehow and the like. A scummy low quality crowd sourced content farm.
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How the heck do any of these comments have anything to do with the linked piece?

Samuel, great stuff. Another solid teardown!
The data made over repositories like Google code, debian and similar places where entries has some form of minimum standard, GPL licenses are a strong majority, and is increasingly used.

So young people are either not serious enough to warrant inclusion in the 40 000 list of programs in Debian (doubtful), or your assumptions are incorrect.

> To place restrictions on my gift is to have given the world a poison and not a gift.

Next time you gift a beer to a friend, I hope you will allow them to hit you with it. Adding restriction on hitting you with the beer is the same as putting poison in the beer which would kill your friend.
yes you are being taken advantage of and I am sure the employer knows it. However depending on your long term goal you can use this as a stepping stone to a better job.
But that's not the point of Django; even the disadvantages (which admittedly exist) are pretty minor for even the worst cases.

The best thing about Django is that all apps respect the app structure, middlewares, URL dispatch mechanism, and template tags, so it is trivial to create detachable, modular applications and use them for your own project.

I can download one of dozens of applications that improve upon the provided functionality and the chances of there being an incompatibility are minor. Installing apps is trivial, migrating all your new applications' schema is consistent.

People truly underestimate just how imporant it is to have a framework with no surprises and consistency. This is something that Flask does not provide and weighs heavily when you need external functionality.
Two of these same links made the frontpage?
Huh. I didn't know Kayak dealt with 3rd party inventory. Interesting.
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Follow-up reply to ronaldx's edit: I personally would not have (and didnt't) use the word "bullshit" in this context, so I agree with you there. I still agree with swombat3's overall argument, though.
SQLAlchemy makes most queries significantly longer to write while not adding anything for 95% of the use cases. The fact that it's more powerful doesn't change the convenience of the Django ORM, and the fact that in practice it's not a problem.
Such an API already exists, you can get it directly from Visa: https://developer.visa.com/vpp/

Note that, pushing money to anybody as a service also involves a lot of regulatory compliance issues in almost any country you would want to be able to do this in. In the US for example, facilitating money laundering, terrorist financing or transfers to a named person (even accidentally facilitating if you don't have enough controls in place) is a felony and you can go to jail. So make sure you are a licensed money transfer operator before attempting.
Valuation. And no P/E since high growth companies have negative earnings (almost by definition).
> The answer is more color range per pixel.

Doesn't decorrelating the quantization noise (dither) along with appropriate noise shaping make these two equivalent? It's been a long time since I've thought about this in context of video, but it should be possible to directly trade one for the other in the wire format, as far as I remember.
An analogy can an have predictive power when there is no evidence?
Yes, when you have only 6 things to look at you might take an educated guess based on what might have happened to the first 5. It's the sort of contextual, gut-driven judgement people call a hunch.

That's fine for a conversation about facebook after a few beers... it's pretty silly to take that and write a flippin' paper about it and present it as "research".
Like someone else said, it’s because it’s a Southwest flight… Southwest isn't shown on the results of the big airfare search engines (kayak, expedia, orbitz) when searching from the United States because it refuses to pay those websites' fees.

Looks like you’ve found out that they are shown on Canada based version of the Kayak site. Most likely because the fee arrangements are different or because Southwest is willing to pay them, probably to get exposure to markets that wouldn't otherwise know about them because they don't have a marketing presence there.
Instead of trying to set the value of each denomination of a currency to a certain amount why don't we use SI prefixes for them? Making very large and small numbers more relatable is what SI prefixes are designed for.

Instead of talking about $DOGE 700 = $BTC 0.001, why not say $DOGE 700 = m$BTC 1?

This solution would work even if the currency drifted further from the value of the dollar, just start using u$BTC, n$BTC, or k$DOGE etc.
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Sure, the transactions would travel along the same rails used when you walk up to an ATM and withdraw funds. When you input your debit card, the information is validated immediately, your balance is then depleted by the amount withdrawn. The push to debit card functionality will move funds along this network instead of the cumbersome ACH network, which take days to process requests and validate bank account information.
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Ah. Yes. Good point. Fixed.

Thanks
So what happens to the coins/accounts if they do not reach their 10 BTC goal?
Thanks for saying so! (I'm the author)

Also, 100% agreed on all the point you make. That's not far from being a blog post unto itself!
The secondary goal could be interesting (pure end-to-end transactions in BTC), but I'd prefer if app.net would disclose the terms and fees up front.
Haha, thanks for saying so! (the "great stuff" part)
Level0 was fun, Level1 threw me immediately into "This looks like it's gonna suck". I know Git fairly well, but I don't know it that well. I poked at the shell script a bit, but I just ain't seeing it. It's also a lot harder to work on without the support of the easy benchmarking ability that was provided in Level0. How do I know if I'm actually improving.

Props in general, I just feel like Level1 was kind of a brick wall for me.
> Most Users Online: 27 (Jun 24, 2013 at 9:48pm)

What happened on Jun 24, 2013? Is that the day you found it again?
For what it is worth, I think Django just needs to be updated in a sense. For example, instead of just form.as_p and form.as_table, they should have form.as_bootstrap which you can do separately anyway, but of course that makes it a separate other thing that I need to reach for.
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Are they particularly? They lead with Harvard, Yale, and Princeton, extremely elite schools that produce a large portion of the country's leaders. How many CEOs have one of these schools or Stanford on their resume? It is in the interest of these schools to cultivate these people.

Outside this elite circle, I'm not sure the premise is true. I went to a state school, and leadership was never a big concern. Much more so teamwork.
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Ah, thanks for encouraging me to 'go back' :)

http://web.archive.org/web/19961227103606/http://realms.org/

That's the oldest capture on the wayback machine, though I was running that site starting in 1995.

I feel a bit old. :)
yes i felt the same
If they don't have an SEO strategy (or are selling a unique product that people don't know exists until they see it)

The second part is what I really had in mind there. One of the sites I was thinking of is a textbook example, a start-up for people who have a certain hobby.

The SEO strategy is reasonably effective: the site consistently ranks on the first page of Google for almost all targeted search terms, which is not a bad achievement starting from a page rank of nothing a few months earlier. But it's partly able to do that because no-one in the field has really done anything similar before, so almost no-one actually searches for anything like it either.

In contrast, more specialised and proactive channels, such as advertising in traditional off-line media or targeting ads at people with that particular interest on social networks, attract very favourable comments and numerically they tend to get far better click-through rates, similar levels of engagement, and in some cases a much higher overall conversion rate/lower CAC.

If you only looked at the hits from Google, your first reaction might quite reasonably be that there was no market for this product, but the feedback once people in the target market actually see it paints a different picture.
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That would work if people tended to be rational.
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Most of that shit was designed (originally) with racist intent. I don't think modern admissions committees are racist; at this point, it's more of a "how things were always done" dynamic, and it's taken for granted that nonacademic factors should have a huge influence over college admissions. (One problem is that grade point averages aren't standardized and the SATs don't go high enough for as competitive as college admissions are. The bullshit gets such a high weight because so many students are 2400/valedictorians, now that admissions are a national pool with many students submitting 20+ applications.)

Admissions tests (such as the SATs) made college admissions "too" meritocratic in the 1920s-30s and prep-school boys started losing spots to ethnically diverse applicants from public schools. For example, student bodies went from 0-3% to 20-25% Jewish in a year. Many of the professors and administrators welcomed the change (the quality of students improved) but wealthy donors went into race panic and demanded that WASP-biased extracurricular factors (what would be called "pattern matching" in modern VC-istan) be injected back into the process.
Surprised how highly ranked Haskell is, given its position in TIOBE. I wonder what accounts for the discrepancy.
Major issue here is that the site is linking to www.ssnregistry.org which is pretty obviously a honeypot for SSN numbers...
but you see, my point is that the actual hard problem of executing a SQL query has been solved by those who designed the DBMS. our task boils down to writing SQL, which is way easier than designing the machinery that implements relational algebra.

EDIT: not to mention that you don't even have to understand relational algebra to write SQL. There are HORDES of programmers who don't know what it is yet they write SQL.
blocked rendering works, but reuse of existing dom components do not. much cheaper to break it into the list item and render around your display area in larger blocks than you would if you use native. detaching from the dom changing is cheaper than item reuse, still cheaper to render multiple fragments and converting and adding them once.
"You should have just hit the downvote"...pot, meet kettle.
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they certainly open up to googlebots. Human generated content opened to bots but not to humans. bad SciFi...
I love Balanced.

Pushing money to debit cards is cool, but my customers don't have a problem providing banking details. Especially since payouts are fast as is.

But international payouts, that would be huge!
This is a link to page #2.
That has sort of happened. People discuss dogecoin in terms of xxx satoshi where 1 satoshi is .00000001 BTC. So dogecoin is currently ~170 satoshi or .0000017 BTC
Google confirms their payments team is working to incorporate bitcoin.