skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>We have a pretty good idea of what is valuable out there and what isn't

So far. In relative terms.

>extractive is what is valuable out there.

In some places, water is an extractive.

>Talk about one-sided reasoning - and there could be even less reason to ever want to access it in the future too.

Possibly, but then, I wasn't the one making definitive statements like "what would ever justify...". See the difference? I'm showing you another side, not declaring it inevitable. That's why I used the word could instead of will.

In general, you made a one-sided statement that also ignored the fact that your assumptions could change. I pointed that out, along with possible alternatives. Then, you reply that I am being one-sided? You're talking in circles.

Contortions aside, your posture makes no sense to me. You're saying there is no need now and may never be, so let's destroy it. I'm saying there may be a need, so let's think about that. If we don't know, then why burn the bridge? One approach gives us a way back, whereas the other doesn't.

And, that's the entire point of the article. The Mexicans are now having to dig deeper than they thought would be necessary or viable. At some point, they were saying "what would ever justify...".
Google has admitted that they're just doing deployments like Kansas City to push other ISP's into offering higher speed services, which benefits their bottom line as a content provider. If the opportunity was really worthwhile on its own merits, Google would pursue Google Fiber as an actual business. So essentially, Kansas City made a sweetheart deal with the only company that agreed to take it, and that company only took it because they had an ulterior motive. That's a recipe for abuse, and if it had been Comcast rather than Google, people would be up in arms.
Worked in restaurants for years while I was in college. All but 1 restaurant I worked at had systems that asked for the type of card.

I dont think this is limited to web forms.
"Software engineer" is what you write in your resume.

"Coder" is what your future manager reads thinking about what salary he can give you.

:)
You got to love soccer (the real football :) ) for this. Eating during matches is not part of the culture. Actually it's all about watching the game and cheering for your team... nothing else.
(Unfortunately soccer has other quite big cultural problems, but let's not question them here ;) ).
satire is a subset of a strawman
Confirmed Model S rival: Audi Q8
One of the authors here. We didnt want to change the AST in a way that would be backwards incompatible with vanilla PHP. There is some luxury in being able to turn off this extension when needed. We also have a large enough existing codebase that switching to SPL types everywhere was a non-starter. Our goal here was partly to be able to use PHP's native types and still get some good coverage.

Phpdoc may not seem ideal, and it's not, but it has afforded some significant flexibility
Startups – do yo need marketing help?
I'm a web marketer by trade in the Bay Area. I'm often contacted by recruiters for web marketing jobs for start ups.

I have to think that if these start ups are willing to give up 1 year's salary to a recruiter to find a marketer to hire, then they're having a very hard time. After all, with Linkedin it's pretty darn easy to contact people yourself who look like a good fit and pitch them on a job (that's all the recruiters seem to be doing).

So my hypothesis is that start ups have a major pain point around not being able to hire marketers 1) because it's hard convincing someone to bet their job on your start up and 2) because start ups require jack of all trades marketers, further reducing the candidate pool.

If that's true, I'd love to come up with some kind of software to alleviate some of this pain -- potentially automating a lot of the marketing that I would do if I worked for a start up.

So can anyone chime in on their experiences trying to hire marketing people for their start up? Or how you handle marketing if you haven't hired someone? Can you let me know if my thoughts are off base?
I worked for a company which sold goods online and ran their own shopping cart. We took out the 'card type' drop down and just auto detected it. We had a bunch of greyed-out logos and once you entered a valid credit card number it would light up whichever card type it was (Visa, Mastercard, Discover, Amex).

What we found was a huge increase in people typing 'Visa' or 'Mastercard' into the 'Name on the card' field (whatever the field was called, I don't remember). People were so used to having to provide that information that they began to provide it in lieu of providing the cardholder name at all.

Think about that for a second; they stopped putting their own name anywhere on the credit card form, and instead started putting the card type in that field. Conversion went down, customer service issues went up.

We added the field back to the form, even though it was never checked and did nothing, and it resolved the issue.
No indication? The demographic group of teenagers aren't using Facebook nearly as much anymore.
> "You have a First Amendment right to follow any or no religion. You don't have a right to a government job"

Actually, that's built directly into the constitution, so the First Amendment doesn't enter into it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Religious_Test_Clause
I was at a state school paying a reasonable tuition to learn from a quality computer science program. I regret it because although I have written all sorts of frontend code, Ruby, Python, PHP, Java, managed servers, I have still not "finished" learning what a CompSci student learns. I couldn't write my own compiler, I can't tell you which sorting method is fastest for certain data sets, etc. I have learned solely by what is needed at the time, and have created value for businesses I've worked for, but I often just don't have the additional motivation to learn things I don't immediately need. I have SICP sitting on my bookshelf, unfinished.

Anyways, basically finishing CompSci would have forced me to learn some of the theories/necessary base things that I may be missing now.
Equidate – Liquidate your shares or invest in pre-IPO startups
Right, this is in the same bucket as the disclaimers on TV, e.g. the following in no way represents the viewpoints of this station. You as a person have more free speech than you as a representative of your employer.
For any one else going through this, Al Anon and Nar Anon are similar to groups like AA, but for family members of alcoholics and adicts.

http://www.al-anon.alateen.org/ and
http://www.nar-anon.org/
I'd like to see the types of degrees. I've got a BA in Politics, which is surprisingly not rare among other tech people I've met.
The reasons are right in the article: they didn't want to fork PHP and they didn't want a run-time performance hit.

It seems like an interesting solution to me.
In Canada, it's Visa and Mastercard, and the occasional AmEx. I don't think anyone here takes Discover.
It would be useful for someone to write a good, long piece tying together the growth of a managerial class and the decline in the power of the faculty; the cheap money that is pumping them full of ridiculous capital improvement campaigns; the reduction of the discourse around the proper way to order a University, college, or community college eduction to one that mutates the "market of ideas" to "the market" and worships at the weird altar of efficiency.
It usually comes across pretty clearly in the recommendation letters, which admissions teams value over GPA, test scores, etc, since everyone's numbers are high.
Done, and https://twitter.com/justinrsteele87
In places like Austin where carriers have wasted money on xDSL deployments, they find they have to go to FTTH once a competitor goes to FTTH. Why? Since the running costs of FTTH are so low, an FTTH provider is the low cost provider and will win the value segment, not just the high-end segments.

I'm not sure exactly what you're trying to say, but I think that means you agree with me that competition between telcos leads to better/cheaper product for consumers?

To your last point, that telcos don't invest in infrastructure basically because they're greedy (is that even what you're saying?), I think that fits into H. L. Mencken's idea that "for every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong." I have worked at the periphery of a big telco and from what I saw there are many challenges to controlling costs. To name a few: inefficient internal bureaucracies (ugh), strong unions (not a criticism, just pointing out that union labor is more expensive than nonunion labor), and mainly the fact that the network is enormously huge (like, physically huge) and it's extremely expensive to refresh the technology every few years.
You do when you work for Google and the picture is going to be in a magazine. :)
Have you built a website or mobile app yet? Do that first, prove to yourself that you have the skills to build a prototype.

This phase requires almost no money, so don't worry about funding yet. Just start building things. What is confusing about starting?
Other (Certifications etc)
The telcos have been granted a monopoly on the copper (or fiber), is it really accurate to think of them as a private business competing on equal footing with other private businesses?
This is an incredibly broad question. There are tons of different ways to start.

I'd start be reading The Lean Startup by Eric Ries.
It's not difficult, but quite a few developers I've worked with were unaware of that algorithm, which is one reason I think they pushed it into the UI.
This was found to be unverifiable.
Unnecessary and distracting parallax features are quickly becoming the marquee and blink of this generation.
Microsoft: "Don't send us your ideas"
> (did someone at MSFT see this HN post today and update the comment?)

Wouldn't be the first time, when it was revealed on HN that the website for Monster Truck Madness was still up it was taken down shortly after.
It's not clear that chip cards would have avoided the Target thing since the fraudsters infiltrated the terminal software

From my understanding, chip cards implement challenge-response. So unless the terminal is capable of placing the card in debug mode and dumping any keys, I would expect chip-and-pin would have prevented the Target breach.

(If the terminal is capable of this... well, that is a gigantic hole)
Are you working on this Peter?
Behaviorists? That sounds like a mix of bullshit and racism.
that's hard, but wow the author sucks. His/her spouse is driving their kids around under the influence?

1 - see a lawyer and start documenting;

2 - dtmfa
Dropped out of school with lowest degree possible (due to so many missing hours or better say days). With my education background I would only get a job as a garbageman. I don't regret it.
What convinced you that this wasn't a good idea? Details?
America has a huge number of graduates who are unemployed or working at menial jobs, the supply is far from limited.
stop spamming hackernews with your website. seriously. you had one post, that's fine. now stop. this is not a marketing forum.
Is this in regard to UserOnboard.com? I don't like them either, which is why I didn't add them to the site.
One degree in making stuff and one degree in making stuff up.
slideshow is not working for me. May be it is just me :-(

I am using Chrome 32.0.1700.102 m on Windows 7 Enterprise
The USA spends about $6.93 per passenger on security. Israel spends about $56.75 per passenger on security.

Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/11...
MobileWorks, finding workers via the cloud [video]
Dropped our of high school but got my bachelors in comp sci.
The interest of the individual YC partner (in this case) through a direct investment in the "best" ones, is not offset by the interest of YC as a whole (and those YC partners through their interests in YC as an entire entity) which would prefer investment in all their companies, or at least not providing a negative signal to those they choose not to invest in.
When I worked on Madden around 2007 or so, you could still find the original code for updating the score on a touchdown. It had Steve Chiang's[1] initials by it. It's not like the rules for that have changed much over the years, so there's little reason to touch the code.

[1] http://company.zynga.com/about/leadership-team/zynga-leaders...
coördinate is so pedantic, I love it :)

I forget where I read it, but some publication in the US uses the "interpunct" to the same effect: co·ordinate.
This is something I often wonder. Where does a 5-year engineering course fit? BE? BS?
Nope. Once the credit card company authorizes the transaction, it's entirely up to the merchant whether to fulfill the transaction and close it out, or refund the customer. The credit card companies will do nothing to assist in making this decision.

But be sure you choose correctly, because they will take the entire payment away from you if there's a chargeback.
Or, in my case, you wind up taking 36 hours to learn how to mount QFN sensor chips instead of the 12 hours you budgeted.

Half of the time is spent removing and remounting the chips and inspecting the joints with a microscope

Half of the time is spent querying the device using the uC as your host, and fearing that the problem is in your test software and not the solder job.
The best at being square OR best at following orders. OR, not AND. I think they only tolerate the squares because we^Wthey can actually get the work done.
>Yeah as bad as the first part of your post sounds it really isn't much different than my reality in a "traditional" ISP market here in the US.

Did you miss the part where you can't avoid paying the fee? If you hate your provider that much, you can always cancel, which is not the case here.
"Google is effective when people search for things they already want to buy and then see ads for relevant products. Facebook is better for educating consumers about products they might want to buy in the future."

Funny, this divide probably falls exactly where many people draw the line between "Good" and "Bad" advertising. The former is solving a problem, the latter is convincing you that you have a problem they can solve.
I asked him why the realtor didn't buy the property if it was so good

Hmm. The way to effect this as a broker is to take comission, with 3rd part capital backing the acquisition. The broker "pump and dumps" the property and takes a comission. The structure is opaque to the purchaser, and avoids the signalling 'tell' alluded to in the narrative above. This isn n% as profitable as a outright "front-run" or "flip", but can be executed at greater leverage/scale, since it is easily repeatable and the conflict of interest is far less obvious.
How about, can we agree that when you spend years achieving great successes, you tend to form relationships of trust with high-performing colleagues who learn to value your drive and intelligence and to look forward to helping you or working with you again?

That still seems like a boundary value at one end of the personal merit vs. connections continuum of drivers of success, as contrasted with the other end of the continuum, which we might define as being a VP at JP Morgan because your dad is on the politburo standing committee of the PRC.
No, it was Metro North's (a division of the NY MTA) own track, which spans several counties and two states. I don't doubt MTA is a more efficient organization than Caltrain, but that's also just a byproduct of rich people actually relying on the MTA and creating the political imperative to consolidate all the operations.
So, Mechanical Turk?
No, I get that football doesn't change all that much, and therefore the games don't need to change all that much (so why it's become an annual new release sort of situation is beyond me) so I could understand not redoing all of the game logic, but... eight-bit score storage?
Technology is what produces wealth and those that master it make more. And those that master more difficult technology make more than those that those master easy technology.

It should be this way if you want people to solve hard problems. If you want everyone working at the drive thru, pay everyone the same.

Then it will be other countries that master the future.
I had heard that, but I didn't find the reference quickly, and I had to post. Didn't want to make unsubstantiated claims. Thanks for the follow-up. :)

As a result we've been in violation with a treaty with Mexico over the lack of promised water volume over most of that time as well. Again, too busy to find the link.
This is a good way to distinguish between someone who knows JavaScript the language from someone who can apply JavaScript to perform DOM manipulation and data requests.

Not that there's anything inherently wrong with the latter.

I fall firmly in that latter camp; I do all my algorithmic work and heavy lifting in C# and just use JS to get data onto the client and display it. But it's easy for someone like to me to start believing "I know JavaScript" when in reality, it's more accurate to say "I can use JavaScript in the browser for common client/server cases". I'm currently working through "Effective JavaScript" to help improve on this.
Yup, North East USA, applying all over the country.
Sorry to hear that. Is it only showing the title image, then solid blue for the rest?
How can one say the editors did Levinson a favor by holding back the story? Is propagating the idea that Iran or other nation has some innocent civilian when he is really CIA beneficial? Wouldn't that just solidify a potential negative reaction from said government who is apparently rightfully holding a foreign agent who was working on their soil?

In the end your comment seems to support the parent. NYTimes sits on stories at the behest of the US government, only releases it when another agency beats them to the punch.
What about World Cup parties? that's the closest analog in soccer/international football. The Superbowl is really just another secular holiday in many ways in the USA.

I'm not really big into American football but I still go hang out with my friends, eat lots of guacamole and chips and try to enjoy myself (come on, it's your friends!)

At least this year one of the teams playing is the greatest American football team to ever grace this green earth, and Seattle gets to show up so it's a nice change of pace.

(The preceding inflammatory statement is by no means hyperbolic opinion in any way shape or form... ;)
You're saying that intellectual property only exists because of government protection. I'm pointing out that this is true for other forms of property too.

Saying 'I'm not talking about a god damned laptop' doesn't change this.
> They're petrified of appearing adversarial because they know their access will be cut off.

Oh they're all for appearing adversarial. They just want to never actually be adversarial.
Dataset: Ten Years of NFL Plays Analyzed, Visualized, Quizzified
I'm an AMEX cardholder. I don't really mind too much when people don't take AMEX. I understand they are a "premium" brand and I adjust my expectations accordingly. That being said 99.9% of the time they take AMEX.

>giving a select list of options, lets the user know to use that type of card

No. AMEX cardholders know they aren't welcome 100% of the time, and they know to look for an AMEX logo before typing in their info. You need to have the proper logos or lists of payment methods right next to your way to pay.
Not sure if I should call myself a dropout or not...

I finished my grad school and then job for 7.5 years. I quit job to startup. Also joined MBA.

Dropped off from the b-school after 2 semester. Found it too boring and too generic. Coursera is much better.
All of these aquifers are finite. There may come a time when every one in Colorado is drained -- if there are any at all.
You seem to think that democracy is some God-given quality, universal to all people, and you can introduce it into any country just by invading it or inducing a regime change in some other way.

I think it is a social institution that can evolve over long time, and only in certain societies, which do not suffer of civil wars, foreign invasions, ethnic or religious conflicts, poor economy, etc. A country that does not have these democratic traditions will not be able to suddenly accept them, simply because there are different traditions of making things work.

As to the slogan "democracy is rule of the people as opposed to a small group of thugs concerned only about their pockets", I assure you that Stalin, for example, subscribed to that, too. It is a very abstract phrase, and you can hide almost anything behind it.
>It's harder to "steal" a chip card since the information is not sitting on an easy-to-read mag-stripe.

Well, yes. But really it's mostly the POS device sending data to the chip which then performs operations and returns a result code or a data block to the POS device.

When you enter a PIN in the POS device it is sent to the chip and it verifies that the PIN is correct. A yes/no result code is returned to the POS device.

In a POS transaction your PIN is not sent to your card issuing bank for it to verify like it is for ATM.

Instead the POS device sends about a dozen data elements about the transaction to the card which runs them through an algorithm and encrypts (maybe not encrypts but that's the best term I can think of right now) it with a key it and the issuing bank knows. The resulting hash is returned to the POS device and is sent to the bank for authorisation. The bank then performs the same algorithm and verfies the hash is valid.

I am not sure if you could literally copy a chip, but it is doing more than just storing data like you have with a mag stripe only card.

"Chip&PIN" would have zero effect for an online transaction as neither the chip or the PIN are in play.
Add "Show HN" to the title. Looks like this is a "Show HN", so you might as well make your submission stand out on https://news.ycombinator.com/newest.

Edit: I like the idea. A couple suggestions for improvements:

— Add a document title. Display the city and the restaurant in the title.

— Show some sort of a notification when a city isn't found (otherwise people might think your application is broken when Yelp doesn't support their city).
Hi, I didn't release the code of the crawler, first, because it was not well-crafted enough to be released (quick and dirty linear programming), and second, because any change in the site you crawl calls for recrafting your code.

I used python, sometimes with Beautifulsoup, sometimes with lxml, both are very good for crawling. I would say BS is easier, and LXML cleaner.
I think it's the equivalent of the middlebrow dismissal we so often see here in HN, rather than any faith in humanity. As you mentioned, it is just too easy to come up with a generic "how dare you" response, which is guaranteed to draw in existing prejudices and pitchforks. I don't think the intent is to drown out rational debate of the original statement -- it just happens to be the victim in the race for clickcounts.
Have you ever tried Coursera?
I was laughing the entire read and through the videos, the guy writing this is talented.
You understand a person's message from all of the words they use, not just individual words. And if you think it's acceptable to prevent someone from using an individua word, you don't really understand why we have the concept of "free speech".

It's clear and in context that his account is reflective of his experience and his values. Asking him not to say "TSA" would nullify the very reason for him wishing to speak out and give rise to either a toothless account or one which obviously implicated the TSA because nobody else handles airport security in the US.
Damn, looks really nice. I like it a lot more than the old design. Good stuff :o
That's because PHP is a tacky language. :)
I recommend bstring for length-prefixed strings in C:

http://bstring.sourceforge.net/
You could try taking coursera algorithm classes intro Nd advanced. Yes the same book for official courses.