skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No doubt there's an appropriate timescale where the offer is on the table, and also a time after which the offer is no longer on the table. The same is true for job offers, university acceptance, matching with a medical residency, and all sorts of other contracts.

Would it be reasonable for a YC (or other investment) offer to be paired with "decide in an hour or we give it to someone else? Probably not. Would it be reasonable for that timeframe to be a week or two? Probably.
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I have; it's not clear to me that the Castro regime was any more oppressive than Batista (though different people were oppressed, that's clear).

It's also seems like a lot of what is blamed on Castro is actually just the fucked-up poisonous choices left to them due to the blockade (though, not all of it).
I think the relative user experience of the platform might also drive the particular outcomes. For example, I do a lot of my shopping online. From my desktop PC. I have an Android phone. It's garbage. There's no way I could buy something with it even if I wanted to. I have an Android tablet. It's fine, but I don't do much shopping on it.

Would I shop more with my mobile devices if they were Apple? Maybe. My coworkers show me their most current generation Apple phones and tablets and WOW it's like I stepped 10 years into the future.

I agree that economic issues are a reality, but many low-end Android devices are not useful for shopping or paid apps, so that artificially makes the Android market look worse. It would be nice if the graphs could be further subdivided by some metric into, say, Android 4 devices capable of running apps, and older Android devices that don't have the speed, space, or otherwise are unusable anywhere outside of the phone or text screens.
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"Your headphones will give you the best experience." I'm wearing my headphones, thanks Google. Can I watch this now?
Looking at Atlanta is telling.
I've bought and sold a lot of cars the past few years. I have never once considered a dealer trade in offer. I've had relatively easy and good luck with selling my car online through Craigslist and Autotrader which I imagine is what they will probably do to unload the cars.

I like the idea of the service but I'm wondering what the difference is between dealer trade in pricing and market pricing. Even if I have to sacrifice a couple grand to not have to do the whole process, I'm ok with that but I'd rather know pricing from that point of view.

I'm also curious how you plan on doing the legal paperwork as I've done a lot of this too and it's not easy getting setup to handle all the paperwork especially if it's between two parties.
All of these are excellent questions. I'll tackle them 1 by 1 (the is to say, we're still working through some of these items, this is just our current methods).

1. How do we handle negotiations: We talk to you, the seller and work to find a fair market price for the car. We have dealership level tools available for this. We come to an agreement on the minimum price you'd take. From there, we negotiate with the potential buyer and can take an offer up to the minimum we agreed upon. Anything lower we'd need explicit permission from you.

2. The Buyer makes a cashiers check out directly to the the seller. We deliver it to them.

3. The vehicles are listed everywhere we can, including some of the traditional places like Cars.com and autotrader. For certain cars, we also do very specialized listings (e.g. for Porsches we list or Porsche enthusiast forums, etc...).

4. We handle it all, including smog checks.

5. We get paid at the time of the transaction usually directly with proceeds from the sale.

6. With performance vehicles we are very very diligent about this, currently doing it manually. We represent a few very high value Porsches. We research all of the buyers (again manually, but we'll work on that) to see if they're legitimate and also work to get commitments from them. If we see an 18YO kid that wants to test drive a Porsche, we won't necessarily disallow it, but we'll make sure that he has the financial resources and intent to purchase the vehicle. It's not perfect, we're still working on this, but I can tell you all of our owners have been very very happy with the people test driving so far.

--Edit--
We currently offer CarFax. One thing we have to improve is enumerating the depth of service that we provide.
I'm struggling with the same problems for couple of years now. And not a few people around me have the same problem. That's why I started a project called Togetherise (http://www.togetherise.com) couple of months ago. The main idea is to bring people together when fulfilling some work/idea/project or just to help each other. Portal will offer both knowledge and tools. It is in a development phase right now. I believe it will fill the gap we're all talking about. It is not meant to be used only by developers or designer. It targets all project and people that need help or can offer help through mentoring or coaching. A good team of professionals is already behind this project, so I hope we'll enter beta phase by the end of spring.
I thought that was primarily a USA feature?
Isn't the point of a democracy to allow the people to have a voice? It is starting to seem like many progressive groups are trying to vilify an individual's freedom of speech/thought. The Brendan Eich controversy highlights the issue as of late. Do I share all of the values/beliefs that my CEO does? No. Should I boycott my CEO for having conflicting values/beliefs? Maybe. If I am totally against something, then I should stand up for my beliefs. I believe everything starts to collapse when I try to use my beliefs to rally against another individual.

I have the belief that our founding fathers knew America would be a melting pot of religions, cultures, and beliefs and that is why they established state's rights to accommodate the beautiful array of citizens of which would make the United States of America.

If we continue to push one set of beliefs how different are we than North Korea, Iran, etc?

I am not very political, and I have many left and right wing perspectives. I am just saddened to see our country starting to stumble on a slippery slope.
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Anyone with half a brain knew that Obama did not really oppose gay marriage. When he switched views no one was really surprised... At least of those with half a brain.
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Is minimum car price $5000?
As an Android Developer, I would urge aspiring mobile developers to think about it this way: In which market is there more demand for developers?

I know so many companies that need good android devs and can't find any because nobody has the experience. From my anecdotal experience, the demand for Android Developers is much higher than iOS (relative to the supply) at the moment.
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where do we go to see what cars you currently have for sale?
In my experience (selling to management consultancies interested in proprietary data rather more than the SaaS wrapper for it) management consulting firms' software needs and budgets are often very driven by specific projects, and if it solves a project-specific need they'll be very happy with an unpolished product so long as it can be budgeted for. The way they organise themselves also varies a lot, but if impressing partners or senior consultants with a need to solve a specific problem is probably a better route in than their back office IT purchasing function.

They're also perhaps less respectful of license agreements than you might expect...
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In my experience, Google+ is a great place to find passionate communities of small niches. Tabletop role-playing games, for example, have thoroughly adopted G+.

Google+ falls down for mainstream users, though, which is where the "no one here" perception comes from.

If memory serves, Google Wave was the same way: great for the people who used it, but the value wasn't perceived by the majority.
I usually assume these type of startups aren't targeted at us out-of-towners. Also the background pic of the Golden Gate Bridge also helps...
I would be surprised to see a hybrid of horses and cats but it would certainly be the ideal gift kitten AND a pony!

Wondering if they pronounce 'geep' as "gee eep" or "jeep".
It's the same old game. Demagoguery.

We had the Terrorism scare. We had the WMD scare. We had the communist scare. We had the gay culture scare. Now we have the anti-gay, anti-feminist, & "rape culture" scare.
I have had a lot of sports cars and test driven a good number as well. A lot of owners are like you and some wouldn't even let me drive the car, I had to sit in the passengers seat while they did everything. I could ask to do certain things like if they would brake check or accelerate, but that was the limit.

What I would propose is letting people ride with a trust local mechanic with the mechanic driving. That way they can make sure a professional is driving the car, can pick up on any issues, and can be honest with the potential buyer.
Your point seems to be that the white, rich male who donated money to a campaign to take away civil rights is the REAL victim here. Not sure I can agree with that.
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This analogy is broken. There is nothing of substance that distinguishes people of different races that could rationally preclude them from getting married. There is a substantive difference between the sexes that could rationally limit what combination should be allowed to get married. The former opinion can only be caused by racism. The latter could have a few different sources besides "homophobia".
The maps aren't great but Manhattan seems like a particularly bad example due to the point density. If you look at Chicago (https://www.mapbox.com/labs/twitter-gnip/brands/#11/41.8726/...) the distribution of phone types with regard to the economic status of the neighborhoods is a little clearer. Obviously it's all basic/easily misled visual comparison though.
At the bottom of the page, it says they are limited to the Bay Area for now.
Honestly. This reminds me of the old educational software disks my folks would check out for me at the library back in the late 90's. And I mean that the best way possible!
Wouldn't a gym membership do the same thing?
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Giving money to a hate group is not a "freedom of speech" OR a "freedom of thought" issue. At that point you've crossed the line from thought to action.

This isn't really hard to understand. And I for one am sick and tired of people invoking the beaten-to-death "but freedom of speeech!" argument when called on bad behavior. Freedom is a two way street.

Not to mention the fact it's a double standard. People saying that Eich did a bad thing is wrong and somehow infringing on freedom, but Eich giving money to a group who wants to legislate fundamentalist religious ideals is not infringing? What the fuck?!

Wow. Downvoted to -4 for calling donating to hate groups wrong. This is a new low for HN.
It sounds like your ability to reason about the way other people think is limited. Be aware that this is a defect, not a virtue. It is also one definition I've seen of bigotry: the inability to conceive of an alternative point of view.

In the meantime, as an exercise, let's do some reasoning about what people might hypothetically think, with the example of "infertile straight people".

First, infertile straight people commonly are unaware of their infertility until such time as they are actually interested in having children, which occurs late in the traditional order of [marriage, sex, children]. Perhaps someone could think that enforcing this question up front is impractically difficult, and this is a defect of the current regime. Perhaps someone could think that it's important that you're willing to have children before you enter marriage, but that subsequent discovery of infertility doesn't dissolve the marriage. Perhaps the issue didn't really occur to the person in question -- the media coverage of the issue is nil, so awareness has got to be pretty limited. Perhaps there are actually such movements, and you're just unaware of them. (For instance, were you aware of Sixtus V's decree of 27 June 1587?)

Perhaps the people with these opinions are silly and wrong to think what they think: from time to time, people can and are intellectually inconsistent. Perhaps this is the result of a something that invokes an inconsistent pattern of reasoning about the matter, such as a politician of an unfavored political party promoting the matter, or perhaps they were exposed to some cultural artifact depicting gay marriage in combination with a celebration of human sexuality in a way that the person in question found disgusting. Or perhaps they have a prejudice against gay people that falls short of being an un-person but which affects reasoning about relevant topics in an unfair and negative way (as is commonly suggested in a variety of racial-sensitivity contexts).
Can you explain what that is supposed to mean?
In highschool we had a class where the teacher would provide LEGO Mindstorms for us and let us do anything we wanted with it. Using optic sensors, we made it find its way out of a maze which we set out on the floor with tape. These things are great fun, but probably most suitable for kids to play with.

Probably a better idea would be to get started with something like an Arduino. Not too long ago I read about Tessel on HN which seemed interesting, sort of an Arduino but you could program it with JavaScript, if that's your thing.

Also there's tons of articles and videos on the web of fun projects people built with Arduino's and Mindstorms, so I would definitely google around a bit to see if you find something you think is interesting. Anyway, good luck.
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Ah, got it. Sorry if I was overly blunt.
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Even with the egregious layering problem, the map actually shows something pretty interesting: the way in which Android has colonised lower-density lower-income areas to the almost total exclusion of the iPhone. It makes sense: you can buy brand-new low-end Android devices; you can't do the same with iPhones.

So the map doesn't actually show that Android is doing poorly in high-value areas; it does, however, show that Android is doing well in low-value areas -- in addition to doing well in high-value areas. The data is a win for Android even if the map literally obscures this fact.
NPR's April Fools joke is also interesting social commentary
these are all fair points if not slightly pedantic...

obviously I feel I received some value from college (in my case, the soft value outweighs the hard values).

like I said, I don't necessarily think college is the best place to spend 4 years of life and many thousands of dollars if you are not gaining any type of skill, earning a value-add level of expertise in a field, or great general skill set improvements. It had a significant impact on me, although most of the skills I learned there were improvements on traits/ skills I already possessed.

I would whole heartedly agree that coursework can be dramatically optimized to better prepare students for a variety of careers [which I think will be the future case as trade schools, crash course programming schools and various workshops appear, and colleges continue to get pushback from those who have not been snapped up into the workforce]

but as bluedino mentioned, university life allows for a fairly unique set of circumstances: most young people, densely populated by people in relatively similar circumstances, rapidly maturing as people, learning a wide variety of new/ interesting things. >> for me from 18-22 this experience held quite a bit of value.
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That was just a snarky remark, and I have nothing to back it up.

I should have instead stated my opinion that people's priorities and incentives change as more money/pressure get involved.
It's an opt-in experience. You can still go for a walk :).
Blue eyes is a more recent mutation [1]. Blonde hair has appeared independently several times [2].

[1] http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/01/080130170343.ht...

[2] http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/08/science/another-genetic-qu...
Thank you for using the correct word, privileges, and not the incorrect word, rights.

The issue isn't about rights, its about equal treatment and equal privileges.

However, I disagree with you on "It is not possible to support Prop 8 without treating gay people as though they are not people." That would be like saying "It is not possible to support progressive tax rates without treating 'rich' people as though they are not people."
Happened to me at first too. Refreshing the page worked. Not sure if that's an intentional pause or not.
Disagree with someone? Quick, declare them a hate group!
A lot of times companies file trademarks that they know they won't get in order to get it declared a "generic term". Once it gets that designation the company can use it without worrying about a competitor coming in and trademarking the term later. You still can't defend it from competitive use like a trademark, but if you own the domain or have created other artificial barriers to its use, then it's really never a problem
My parents own a small business and are personally against Gay Marriage. I admit that hoping that my privacy will be respected enough that no one will try to find them and harass them because of this... They are generally good people who are sometimes misguided in their thoughts. However, they don't let that creep into their business and have the utmost respect for people in general. Yes, even Gay people. Just because they believe that Homosexuality is wrong doesn't mean that they are opposed to people who are gay.

I'd be devastated if their business suffered because of their personal viewpoints. The mob mentality leads to situations where we round up everyone who is Japanese, Jewish, Homophobic, etc. and get rid of them. Let's be rational here and let people live with their beliefs, and lets not persecute people for their beliefs because of a time/culture/religion they were born into or the sexual orientation they were born with.

EDIT: Just because you are opposed to someone getting married doesn't mean you hate that group. People who have that viewpoint frequently believe that homosexuality will degrade the morality of society. Yes, they are wrong and misguided, but they aren't ALL hateful.
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I think you will find the public will learn the opposite of what you want: This is an example to progressives that they too in some situation have the power to send strong signals about standards expected of those who expect to be in leadership positions - even in private companies.

This has been the case "forever" for moralists on the right, from long before McCarthy. Try to become a politician or high level exec in the US while showcasing features of your personal life that does not fit into a relatively conservative, Christian narrative. Your odds just became vastly worse.

This is one in a short, but growing, set of examples of situations where people have been successfully ousted for supporting relatively mainstream but still bigoted viewpoints.
Totally engrossing.
Pretty sure campaigning for legalized discrimination is the objective definition of a hate group.
...where do you have that "understanding" from?! Are there any actual information about the 'Homo sapiens sapiens' <-> 'Homo sapiens neanderthalensis' contact and relationship or are you just spreading someone's wild guesses?
These days I both work a day job and am a startup founder, and I don't do a whole lot other than work, between the two. But when I find (or make) a small bit of spare time, I like to do things like:

1. Read - fiction (horror, sci-fi, thriller/suspense, mystery, etc.) and various topics in non-fiction: physics, cosmology, history, economics, biographies, etc.

2. Mountain bike. I haven't been riding much lately, but this is one of my favorite outdoor activities when the weather is nice.

3. BMX - I still pull out my old BMX bike from time to time and do a little dorking around, street riding.

4. Road biking. I mainly only ride my road bike for cross-training purposes, but I like to get in a few miles here and there.

5. Hike and/or trail run. - I sometimes go hike or run, mostly on some of the same trails I MTB on. Plus a few nearby trails that are open to foot traffic, but not bikes.

6. Concerts - I love live music, and I try to make it to a concert every now and then. The last one I hit up was Trans-Siberian Orchestra back in November. But I like pretty much anything heavy-metal or hard-rock. From Steel Panther to Motley Crue to Tyr or Anthrax, whatever.

7. Dining out - I'm not exactly a hardcore "foodie" but I enjoy trying novel cuisine and having a good meal at a nice restaurant. So exploring new places to eat is something I like to do, especially when traveling. This week has been a good example - I've been in San Francisco all week (I live in Chapel Hill, NC) so I've had a chance to sample a Peruvian restaurant, a Czech restaurant, a place that specializes in garlic, etc.

8. I try to hang out at the local hackerspace[1] a little. Often when I'm there I'm actually working on the startup, but sometimes I like to go in and just tinker and play around a bit. I bought a few microcontroller / SBC boards (Arduino, rPi, BeagleBone) and a bunch of discrete components and shit, and built a monster breadboard with an integrated powersupply using an old PC ATX power supply. Sometimes I just go in and work on learning to build weird electronic circuits and stuff.

Outside of that, I dunno... does reading HN count as a hobby? Or watching TV shows and movies? I squeeze in a couple of "go to the theater" for a new release deals a year, and watch a movie on Netflix or Amazon Prime from time to time, or rewatch one of my old favorites on DVD. shrug

[1]: http://www.splatspace.org/
My one criticism is that it's a fairly big leap from learning C from ground zero to being a client of a complex, high-level library like mpc. I feel like the moment you hit the call to mpca_lang, anyone who really was learning C at the beginning shifted from "learning C" mode to "copy and paste C code I don't understand" mode.
This is an important point that I've been bringing up whenever someone tries to discuss this: what reason is there to prevent someone else from getting gay married?

The only reason that I've seen is 'my beliefs say it's not okay, so you're not allowed to do it even if you don't share them'. Which comes across as spite, more than anything. 'I'm going to prevent you from getting married even though it costs me nothing to allow it', and in fact it cost Eich a thousand dollars to try to prevent it.

I can't imagine spending a thousand dollars to prevent someone from doing something they wanted to do if it wasn't going to affect me in any tangible way. That's why Eich seemed like an untrustworthy choice for CEO: this doesn't seem like a rational decision for a person to make.