skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Out of curiosity how do these websites work? (e.g. like booking.com) They build an API and the HOTEL connects it's system this API and then info about rooms/scheduling/prices/pictures are available?

The financial goes by % I guess. You get a % for every booking through your website. But what happens on the technical side?!
By all means, don't address any of my points, just hit the downvote button.
Unfortunately, I don't have time for a more detailed response. http://shrinkthatfootprint.com/electric-cars-green
Very cool. As someone who travels a lot, this is a welcomed resource. I find it very hard to get trustworthy reviews of hotels from Yelp. Generally people have posting bias (negative experience) and often it's specific to a certain suite type or pre-construction of a certain wing of the hotel. Professional in depth reviews will go a long way to help fix this.

Valuable things in a review would also be a listing of some travel essentials like availability of cost and speed of internet, microwave, fridge, room service hours, free shuttle availability, quality of concierge during night shifts, etc.
Finally finished. Question: I see I can inspect the canvas element and even edit the code. How do I run it with my edits (without pushing it to a server?)
It's like Rotten Tomatoes for Hotels.

The main problem with a site like this is that the reviews in most of the guidebooks write something based on TripAdvisor or the like.

Most guidebooks these days are written by compilers who gather information from the internet.
I really liked the concept, but I could never get past the "you must use Facebook to sign in" part. Listening without signing in was easy enough, but there were several artists/songs I would've liked to have saved for later, but was turned off when I found that an account required Facebook.

Best of luck in your future endeavors, guys!
Tangential but for peeps who're in their late 20's and early 30's in tech, do you feel like we have peaked and now are in the decline?

When I first got out of school, was feeling like a shiny new penny as most of my other peeps were going for law school or doing their gap year in life sciences or other prep for graduate school. Basically leading life as struggling students. So relatively, I had relative high spending power, living in the city with discretionary income and splurging it on un-necessary latte /gastro-pub/trendy lounges and going to feel-good rock-climbing/hiking trips on weekends (posted on FB obviously) and believing in the mission of the startup/corporation same as mine.

Now in my late 20's, I feel like both my programmer peers' buying power and personal power are waning. Financially, most of my friends who're going for medicine and law are now in residency/associate training and will soon over take me in earnings. For my friends in finance/ management/accounting, there is a well-defined path to promotion where I feel like I have capped out and they're gonna start making more and having more power in comapnies. Applying to accelerators and doing hackathons and making business cards for startup's seem awfully empty to me now.

In terms of personal agency, my friends who have pursued graduate research are wrapping their degrees and are either going for post-doc's or joining industry as Associate Scientists doing much more self-directed research than the off-the-shelf web CRUD and "Big Data" that I'm doing. My friends who are musicians or artists or film-makers, albeit still poor are pushing out their albums and films in festivals and galleries; not so much critical success but having something they made by themselves and persevered to show for. I just made a bunch of cogs tick in a number of corporations and a few vanity project that I call "startup's."

I feel like I followed the cult of PG kinda of like the cool kids in high school have followed the cult of "cheerleaders and football QB" and bought in the hype. When I don't really care about consumer web, whether Angular.js or Macaw or whatever is next is better than Backbone.js, or the next message queue performance metric's or the next startup mantra about "pivoting" and "increasing your luck surface area" so all I was doing was looking for personal validation or trying to get rich without a cause. Oh well, youth is wasted on the young and I hope to learn and from this experience to recoup my loss.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_tasting_tea

"David Salsburg[5] reports that a colleague of Fisher, H. Fairfield Smith, revealed that in the test, the woman got all eight cups correct.[6] The chance of someone who just guesses getting all correct, assuming she guesses that four had the tea put in first and four the milk, would be only 1 in 70 (the combinations of 8 taken 4 at a time)."
In the age of YouTube, is public access TV really that necessary anymore?
I believe that you're right, but with that attitude "against" an institution like Erik Meijer, you're not gathering many popularity points :-)
Have you considered a 'hint' feature where people can kind of recommend hotels that are not yet in your database and could be considered personal tips?
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The alternative, a society where police can commit crimes in order to catch criminals is much worse than a society where the police is still kept in check by the law. In a really just society these officers would be charged."

I don't disagree, but there are alternatives to the exclusionary rule, like massive civil liability (or even criminal liability for the police) instead of the current qualified immunity regime.

If a group of police officers illegally obtains evidence, and goes bankrupt/gets foreclosed on/etc for doing it, they are unlikely to do this again.

In fact, i'd venture that qualified immunity has done more than anything else to foster this culture of misconduct that the exclusionary rule was meant to prevent. The likelihood of criminal charges against police in these cases was always low.

I believe at this point, time has shown that the exclusionary rule is not really an effective deterrent to police misconduct, whereas at least int he US, real money might be.

(sad, but true).

As a complete aside, "we as a society" did not decide anything. The exclusionary rule was judicially created, and very very recent (late 1900's). Prior to that, illegal evidence was as good as anything else in the US.
If you're referring to mobile, yeah, we took too long to get email login setup. Chock it up to our cash-strappedness.
He's an independent consultant now. I suspect the market for companies willing to consider Scala is a lot bigger.

If you want statically typed functional programming, but also functional programming that stands a chance of adoption in many environments, then Scala is about your only choice.
I think the divide has a lot to do with those who have written or encountered codebases where operator overloading was used in well-meaning but ultimately confusing and error prone ways, and how they reacted to that.

Like many language arguments, I think it distills down to those that believe that when looking at any piece of code, it should be immediately apparent what's going on or where to look to find that out even without much knowledge about the codebase even at the expense of more code and having to scroll around to see it all, and those that believe that reducing the overall size of the code to be seen to it's more concise if better, even at the expense of requiring a bit more foreknowledge of the codebase.

The extreme examples of this are probably Java at one end, and APL on the other. Less extreme examples are probably Python and Perl.

I don't think it's right to say either is better than the other. They both have obvious benefits and costs. Unfortunately, I think those cost/benefit ratios are often changed because of outside forces, such as business demands that change how much time or how often a codebase is worked on and by who, so the initial impression of the programmers accessing this code is greatly swayed by the circumstances that they first see it in.
You actually find it very funny when you're just drunk enough.
Also known as "peaking in high school."
Ask HN: Any deaf or blind hackers?
How does it affect your hacking on a day to day basis? What's the state of software like for your particular situation? Is there anything that you'd absolutely love to see a startup/open source project do?

I'd just love to hear about individual experiences in that regard.

Note: if you fall outside of deafness/blindness but still feel like you have a meaningful answer to contribute, please do! I wasn't sure exactly how to phrase the title.
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> So the study is asking "what happened to the kids who their peers considered 'cool' or a 'nerd'?"

Our 'coolness' meters collapse metrics, for example:
inhibition may make you cooler in one case (not quoting sci-fi) and total nerd in another (not being rebellious.)

Therefore the question doesn't necessarily work given that the ability to inhibit behavior is strongly correlated to success.
I think you misunderstood my comment (which was essentially "good thing the police decided to commit clear misconduct by signing an NDA and then committing brady violations") But in any case, the justice system didn't work this way for a long time, and was effective. The exclusionary rule only came into play in 1914 in any real way.

It also doesn't work this way in other countries and is effective there too.

The cops, in the end, aren't punished because someone went free. We are.

I'd posit that large amounts of civil liability for the cops who do this would be a much better deterrent than letting a criminal that isn't them, go free.

(the other option, of criminally charging cops, is just never going to happen)
Here's one reason why it's not a brilliant platform, check the URL after clicking log in:

http://codecombat.com/play/ladder/gold-rush?email=ohdear@exa...

edit: Seems to only happen after clicking log in on the main page right side bar rather than the header one.
It's not $14 customer charge, that's what Priceline paid per annual lead. Cost per lead is likely to be less than a $1 dollar, annual revenues were $190M, divided by 12*15M leads is around $1.05. They likely have other income streams than lead generation, if they are providing full CRM to restaurants.
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And Kotlin, and I would dare say Rust.
I'm worried they may push themselves into this:

http://www.daedtech.com/how-developers-stop-learning-rise-of...

An expert beginner is a person who is very competent in one area, but is unable to expand their horizons without making some very big changes.

In a perfect world, I would love it if this game slowly turned into a real programming environment, where the user experiences freedom with a trajectory that will push them into learning core programming concepts.
I want to like this... with Amazon video, I can read reviews, see related items, and play the video on the same page. With Amazon music I can read reviews and find related items, but to play it I must first 1) add it to my library, 2) navigate to the cloud player 3) search for the album in my library, 4) click play.

After finding an album using Amazon reviews and related items, this is faster: 1) Search GrooveShark/YouTube from the Chrome URL bar, 2) click play.
I like the irony of AirBnB styling for the hotel industry.
Frankly, even looking at various guides, I still can't really figure out how they work in Haskell, because there's no concrete step-by-step examples anywhere. I can't sit down and say "right, I have these two functions, one looks like `x = 1` and the next looks like `incr y = y+1`, what do I call on what to combine them with a monad, then how do I define a monad which only calls the latter if the former returns 1?", which should be the simplest case.

Haskell's utterly ridiculous amount of syntactic sugar really doesn't help, and I figure its laziness probably doesn't either.
The short response is: Payday loans have APR up to 1000%. These ones are comparable with bad rating, but still reasonable, long-term bank loans. Payday loans capture people who need food or pay the late bills now, discussed loans are (usually) for pretty well-defined business purpose.

> Poor people need jobs and education

Good, microlending helps them create a job, or sustain it themselves rather than looking for one. Or do you think someone should come in from outside and do it for them?

> large scale efficient production

So... China's mass production model then? How do you propose jump-starting that?

Edit: On a specific example:

https://www.zidisha.org/microfinance/loan/MwangiGituathi/791... (first non-trivial-shop entry from front page)

- started business using the first loan

- got successful, tries to expand to another location

- creates job for another

- money helps him get the education

Isn't that exactly what you wanted him to achieve? (job*2, education, person capable of creating your large scale production environment in the future, wouldn't call him victimised)
>Vegan != no carbon footprint.

Well, no sane person has claimed that.

>In fact, I would imagine that when compared to a typical vegetarian diet, it is less carbon efficient.

Your imagination is not consistent with reality/studies.

http://shrinkthatfootprint.com/food-carbon-footprint-diet

>Isolation from animal (by)products means that food bound for vegans typically requires specialized handling and processing.

The average vegan food is a lot more efficient than any animal product. An animal is just a biological machien which converts plant matter to animal products. You could take out the inefficient converter and just eat the plant directly. For example, 99% of soy in the United States is eaten by animals.

>Limited food processing means that food can not be easily stockpiled and distributed.

What? There's no special truck for vegan products. Supermarkets ship vegan and non-vegan products together.

>All of that, and vegan-bound foodstuffs still have to be planted, fertilized, harvested and transported.

Yeah. And because animals eat plants, the average omnivore consumes more plant matter than the average vegan.
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It looks like the domain had three eras. It was parked for a while, then it was taken over by domainauctionhouse.com, and now you guys.

http://web.archive.org/web/20040601000000*/http://tripexpert...

The domainauctionhouse page had a link to domains for sale, which had an Adult section. Maybe the links to domains with bad words in them caused it to end up on filters.

http://web.archive.org/web/20050205024618/http://www.domaina...
(FYI, the scale used in parent's is 1 is best, 11 is worst. Confused me for a bit.)

[Edit - Ignore me. I guess you can't recall rejected candidates.] In your final example though, because you had now interviewed all the candidates, you could go back and offer jobs to the best candidates. The point of interviewing four and then interviewing until you find a better one is that it should keep you from wasting time interviewing the whole list. If you end up doing that anyway, you know who the best was and can hire them.
Agreed. I know many of the same. But I would also say that many of them fell into the "cool kids" camp in high school. Not so cool anymore. Likewise, a "nerd" may have the same friends, same hobbies, etc., but this may have led to greater success and recognition as an adult than being the star quarterback or drummer in a band in high school.

Perhaps I should have said status among peers in high school does not future status within society (ie. cool now does not equal cool later).
It's as simple as doing a search for 'data center near X'. Call up their sales office, and ask them how much per month for ping, power, and cooling. You may also be able to find VARs that lease out racks 1 or 2U at a time for cheap as well. Shop around, there's HUGE variance in pricing in this space. It also couldn't hurt to let the salesdroids know you're shopping for best price as well. I doubt there's a ton of wiggle room for a handful of U, but if you're talking a half rack or more they're generally willing to begrudgingly work with you on price.
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How to Speed up your Python Program 114,000 times.
Transparency into the deals is nice, but doesn't change the fact that the deals have to exist in the first place. This seems in the same line of thinking with FCC's earlier "commercially reasonable" deals. "We'll give them fast lanes..but don't worry...the deals will be commercially reasonable...and now transparent, too".

Somehow it doesn't make me feel much better about it.
The author mentions http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/spacewardetect...., which has a link to this from 1998: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/rec.arts.sf.science/....

Me, I'm not a physicist and have no idea what I'm talking about, but I do know that if you're looking for a campfire in the desert and the desert is the size of Utah and Nevada, you're going to have a hard time.
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Are you familiar with the idea of the Turing Tarpit?

We have a similar thing here: The issue isn't whether you can do X with/without framework Y. It's whether framework X is more cost effective vs. framework Z (or no framework): Does it require less/more boilerplate? Is it less/more error-prone? Does it mean that more/less experience is needed to do the right thing? Does it mean that testing becomes harder/easier? &c.
Look no further than Fiddler for an excellent Telerik product (albeit one that was acquired).
In general, civil forfeiture abuse is rampant and blooming in the US, especially given the financial incentive to perpetrate it and the lack of proper safeguards. That way of thinking you describe is already open and that's exactly what happens if the police suspects you are not going to give them a good fight (i.e. is poor or alien or live far away or something of that nature) and/or the money or the property would be worth less to you than the cost of the fight, and they have chance to keep the money (in some jurisdictions, they do not). This is exactly the way the law is interpreted right now. Just google the numerous cases of civil forfeiture abuse and despair.

However, in the case of SR they actually may have a pretty good case that those are money intended to buy drugs, etc. - it's not like SR ever hidden what they're selling and the buyers hid what they are buying, and looks like the law enforcement has these records. So since under the current law drug trade is a crime, and they would have absolutely no trouble proving the money is actually the drug money, in this case it is hard to classify this as abuse, at least without venturing into the whole topic of drug legalization and so on, which is beyond the point.
the more people agitate about reducing the scope of government (or, on the other side, reducing the influence of big banks) the better

The problem isn't that people are agitating about the wrong issues. The problem is that voters are suckers. They believe the leaders of their political parties that tell them that they're going to reduce the size of government or restrict the power of banks. Then when Republicans and Democrats get together to both dramatically increase the size of government expenditures and bail out the banks that failed the hardest, who is held accountable? No one.

Do you reckon it's time to be smart about achieving those goals, rather than pontificating about The Way Things Ought To Be

Pot/Kettle? We're sitting here arguing about this stuff on HN. We're not accomplishing anything. Worse, you actually tried to diminish me as a person by throwing out that red meat of "Fox News and the Koch brothers" when factually I haven't found how you disagree at all with my original point. Let's face it, we're just entertaining ourselves by going back and forth on a Friday. :)
LA is also nearly always sunny and comfortable, so there's always a large number of people that just decided to spend the day outside, relaxing.
But that's precisely how the examples from Learn you a Haskell work...

First the author introduces a simple problem which you could have thought of without knowing anything about Haskell. Then he writes a naive, step-by-step solution without knowledge of Monads, Monoids or whatnot (ok, maybe later chapters assume you've read the previous ones). Then, he shows how the solution he arrived at maps to Monad/Monoid/whatever. He also shows how the solution can be made "more general" than the particular problem you started attempting to solve.

Give it a chance and you'll see what I mean. There's no black magic there.

Also, you can completely bypass do-notation and you'll see there's nothing exceptional about monads.
Not knowing anything about the industry, why do we still need music labels in 2014? My understanding was that before digital, their primary role was to provide distribution. The artists could not afford things like burning and shipping CD's, etc. However, no anyone can set up a distribution channel on the web for extremely cheap (probably cheaper than the equipment the music is recorded on).

I suppose promotion is a part of it, but where is the meritocracy? Should we all be just listening to "good music" and the artists get rewarded directly?
All else being equal, isn't a large fossil fuel power plant 2x more efficient than an ICE, simply from economies of scale from producing tons of power in one central place?
You totally saved me! That's awesome :-D
What kind of usage is Earbits getting? No buyers (or takeover-ers)?
Interesting to note that this is where TripAdvisor initially started. It turned out its really hard to scale this 1) globally and 2) efficiently and thats where UGC came into play.

Question on the trust factor: Why should a user trust "professional" reviews over the collective opinion of the crowds? Professionals can never experience everything, so will be working from a smaller knowledge base to start and are probably more corruptible than 150 MM people or wherever TripAdvisor is these days.
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Good for you - my current project started the same way (the kindness of another person).
> I can't imagine any legitimate "superstars" actually respond to these folks.

Well, of course not. The goal isn't to get those people. It's to get the people who aren't that good but are just good enough and therefore are actually awed by having someone contact them and refer to them as an extreme cutting edge web 2.0 ninja.