skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am wondering what problem you are trying to solve. I am wondering if you even have a clear problem in mind or if this is a solution in search of a problem.

What is your so-called elevator speech for this product?

As RogerL indicated, the site does need a lot of work. But, I think a deeper problem is that I don't really see a clear business model here. I see something that looks like this type of thinking: "1) make app 2) talk to vendors 3) (something happens here 4) Profit!" and I will suggest that vendors at farmer's markets are not there to try to make you rich. You have got to offer something of value to them.

Best of luck.
A few things can happen. You can be charged the appropriate tax, which can be on-the-spot hundreds or thousands of dollars. This is not a fine, this is just the tax you are required to pay to enter the country with those items. This is generally the outcome when you have eg, a new laptop plus your old laptop.

You can also be fined, arrested and imprisoned for smuggling. This is what you can expect if you have 4 laptops and 3 iphones in addition to your own and you didn't declare anything to customs.

Foreigners have a higher chance of talking their way out of it as long as there's some plausible reason why you have so much "personal stuff".

Chances are fantastic you'll go to prison if they find you work for a smuggling ring, like if your photo is on backpackbang.com as one of their mules.
R.A. Lafferty's The Fall of Rome discusses the role of Goths, http://sentent.blogspot.com/2010/05/r-lafferty-and-semitic-g..., "One of the odder notions that he put into the book was the idea that the Balti, the leading clan of the Visigoths, were not originally from Germania but were aliens to northern Europe."
Good point. Opaque but that does make snarky humor sense.
Just curios if Google is going to pay the ticket if a cop stops the car.
As an ethos, it's fundamentally indistinguishable from a Mafia soldier. So much for "protect and serve".
The story mentioned that data was being transferred to servers. Maybe archivists could tell the internet to download everything?
Beauty of a sport is in playing...and not so much in keeping score. When you are really playing(in the zone), you don't look up at the score.
"Even though it might sound harsh and impolitic, here is the bottom line: if you don’t want to get shot, tased, pepper-sprayed, struck with a baton or thrown to the ground, just do what I tell you."

Tl;dr Your rights don't matter when you're in front of a cop, he has an authority and you have to follow orders, do as they say if you don't want to get shot.
They certainly frown, but only if they know you're doing it. Don't lie if they ask, but no need to offer it up. You can also book without using your frequent flyer info to be safe.
Eric Schmidt is still on Google's board.

Pierre Omidyar is still on EBay's board.

Reid Hoffman is still on LinkedIn's board.

It does seem to be more of an exception when the ex-CEO is not also a founder (or someone very close to the founders, like Schmidt). Carly Fiorina is not on HP's board, Meg Whitman is not on EBay's board (although, ironically, she is on HP's). Lou Gerstner is not on IBM's board.
It's not really difficult at all to say for somebody who actually has experience: were I time constrained (within reason) I'd take the guy with 10 years of experience over the guy with 2, all other things being equal (e.g. the 2-year guy may be a specialist in a specific use/development case for JavaScript, or the time constraint might be very restrictive, to the point that the day or week the 10-year person might need to come up to speed isn't available).

Experience is not necessarily a big factor, and what qualifies as "experience" is highly dependent on context. However, the experienced person generally has just seen more than the inexperienced person. They've had a chance to deal with stuff the inexperienced person just hasn't. That counts for something; in some (most?) cases, quite a lot. It's a bit silly to dismiss experience out of hand, or to minimize the role it plays.

Also, "languages and libraries and frameworks" don't really change all that often in practice, in most places where software has been employed as a solution. That's a very "Web Dev is All Software Dev" (read: myopic) Valley-centric belief. You're referring to very narrow, niche instances where startups "pivot" frequently (or can't make up their mind, or are run by fad-chasing hipsters).
"I see that you're trying to post up. Would you like me to set a screen?"
Emacs user? :-)
Only Rich Know Wage Gains With No Raises for U.S Workers
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2014/08/13...
> When the Empire faded away in the 4-7th century, contemporary archaelogy now thinks that people's life actually improved.

That shouldn't surprising, should it? I haven't studied history much at all, but I would have assumed that there would be a significant bump in quality of life.
Thanks for reminding me why I quit looking at HN comments!
Last Call: The end of the printed newspaper
Putting a cash value on benefits is quite misleading. Once you factor housing benefits, food stamps, etc - the total should be something you can live on. It shouldn't be something you'd choose to live on, but it should be enough (otherwise it's failing those who truly need it)
He wrote a book on the eastern "Byzantine" empire as well, Lost to the West, which covers some of the same ground as the podcast series but plenty of other material as well.
"Do what the officer tells you to and it will end safely for both of you."

Unless it doesn't, which is why people are afraid and angry right now.
Cached: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:Gs1w2FX...
This would mean something to me if police officers actually did something about the criminals in their own ranks.
The site doesn't work for me -- maybe it's overloaded. I shared on Facebook and it just gets stuck confirming forever.
Is "a glorified messaging app" vs. "puts things into orbit and literally does rocket science" a fair comparison?

Surely there are deeper technical challenges and social motivations to "a glorified messaging app".

How about considering the value of wide-spread human communication vs. multi-planetary human existence & space research?
Hmm.. You are right though. Here is an implicit Premise that this works on & and its not being declared verbally.

- "The way airports works in these destinations" - Customs officials don't stop and question everybody ; in most cases - if you are dressed well and speak respectfully , they let you go.

- I have heard Mumbai and Bangalore Customs officials could be unyielding at times ; they stick to the rule book and levy all taxes if caught . Not the case for other airports in India ;

- I m not sure about airports in Bangladesh ; Thailand ; Nepal ; Sri Lanka ; Malaysia and Indonesia - I guess the founders do have a certain insight into how these airports work.
If you do book with your frequent flyer number, their revenue department will revoke any rewards/mileage you have if a trend develops.
My mom is Ecuadorian and I have lots of family there and happen to own property there.

Correa is a gr8 president, but coming from the perspective of someone like myself who is well read on the intricacies of modern monetary systems, sticking with the dollar for this long has been one of the few very bad policies. From a political perspective its understandable given Ecuador's history of currency devaluations. This move will very likely permit Ecuador to continue this economic miracle and transformation that has taken place(lifting many out of poverty, etc) . These changes should enable Ecuador to increase GDP , reduce unemployment further, continue to improve public infrastructure, increase standards of living, and become less dependent on exports to drive the economy. Hopefully, this will become a lesson to the entire world wherein electing leaders that are literate about economics and the functioning of the modern monetary system -Correa has U.S. PHD in Economics- , who don't use inapplicable house-hold analogies ( i.e. gov should run like house-hold) to pander to voters ( are you listening EU ? ) can make the kind of strides that policy makers talk about but never achieve.

Read 7 Deadly Innocent Frauds of economic policy[1] :
1) Government spending is limited by taxation and borrowing
2) With Government Debts we are leaving our debt burden to our children
3) Government budget deficits take away savings
4) Social Security is broken.
5) The trade deficit is an unsustainable imbalance that takes away jobs and output.
6)We need savings to provide the funds for investment.
7)It’s a bad thing that higher deficits today mean higher
taxes tomorrow.

[1] From Mosler's book http://moslereconomics.com/wp-content/powerpoints/7DIF.pdf
I see more and more saas products putting out wikis (you can build/integrate your own via wikia.com etc, or github supports them natively for repositories).

For non-technical users, however, maybe a "knowledgebase" would feel more intuitive. Here are some examples:

rackspace.com/knowledge_center/

support.godaddy.com

help.linkedin.com

aws.amazon.com/support/ (need to login to aws first)
Ask HN: Google Analytics Playing Hidden Video
I was looking at my analytics just now and suddenly a voice started talking to me about it. I couldn't find a control anywhere to turn it off. Refreshing made it just play again. It's incredibly annoying. It's a hidden HTML5 video. Is this new and is there a way to stop it? It's one of the most obnoxious things I've ever encountered on Google.
Wha? There was a heck of a lot of not-doing-as-asked going on. No defending the outcome, but the current hysteria is not about an example of a cooperative citizen responding obediently.
I see two potential problems.

First, you probably shouldn't do this as the first part of a roundtrip ticket, as the airline can cancel your return if they think you're abusing the system. That may not be important for many people, but it's there.

Second, if something goes wrong (bad weather, can't find a pilot, whatever) the airline may reroute you through a different city, completely screwing up your plan. They don't really care where you connect, and as far as they know neither do you. If you book, say, JFK->LAX->SFO and the engine falls off your JFK->LAX plane while sitting at the gate, they might move you to a route like JFK->ORD->SFO, and saying, "but, but, I was going to leave the airport at LAX and skip my flight to SFO" is probably not going to get much sympathy from the agent.
Actually they don't have that authority. That's an abuse of their power.
If all you are doing nothing illegal then disagreeing with a cop should not result in your injury.
I think you missed that part where peaceful protesters and journalists were tear-gassed and arrested.
OP here. Let me know if you have any questions.
... if you don’t want to get shot, tased, pepper-sprayed, struck with a baton or thrown to the ground, just do what I tell you. Don’t argue with me...

...you don’t have to submit to an illegal stop or search. You can refuse consent to search your car or home if there’s no warrant (though a pat-down is still allowed if there is cause for suspicion). Always ask the officer whether you are under detention or are free to leave.

That is some impressive and disturbing cognitive dissonance.
> No officer goes out in the field wishing to shoot anyone, armed or unarmed.

Are you kidding? The profession is a magnet for high school bullies and sociopaths who want power over others. In just the last few years we have seen dozens of examples of cops looking for violence, or more particularly, looking to harm others. If they can do it behind the veil of law and get away with it, those that want to will be attracted to it.

They may not all want to shoot to kill, but a huge fraction of the police force is in it for the power trip.
At one time I was studying to become an urban planner. The article caught my eye because of the opening:

At the end of May, a task force convened by the Obama administration suggested that Detroit needs to "right-size" its housing stock. That’s a phrase often used in reference to cities that have spent decades in the midst of population decline; in Detroit’s well-documented case, it was a city built for more than 1.8 million people that’s now home to about half that number. The task force suggested the city should tear down 40,000 properties left vacant in the exodus.

It seems to me the detailed story about what happened in Clarksburg is a case study. It is unfortunate that the article never returned to its opening thought to make a real point related to Detroit (using the case study to support the point). But as someone who founded and ran a sub-forum on Cyburbia for a time and who, thus, used to talk a lot with people who enforced city codes, etc, this looked to me like a cautionary tale and a suggestion that "If things can go that wrong on such a small scale, surely we need to be concerned when something similar is being suggested by the federal government for a city the size of Detroit."
SpaceX won't IPO until Musk is convinced that investors would not back out of his plans to go to Mars.

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/342566837852200960
The blog post gives a full discussion of the extent to which the kill switch can be co-opted by law enforcement, and I think does so in a fair manner. It directly references both the bill's requirements for police use and PUC 7908.

Your comment, on the other hand, does not accurately describe the relevant law.

PUC 7908 states that "If a governmental entity reasonably determines that an extreme emergency situation exists that involves immediate danger of death or great bodily injury and there is insufficient time, with due diligence, to first obtain a court order, then the governmental entity may interrupt communications service without first obtaining a court order as required by this section."

Your statement that PUC 7908 prohibits interruption only in hostage or barricade situations is incorrect; those are referred to in PUC 7907, which discusses cutting phone lines. PUC 7908 involves cutting cell service, and is more broad - it uses the language quoted above.

I could easily see this applied to a protest; police say a protest will lead to looting (e.g. Ferguson), perhaps they even see plans for flash mob robbery on social media. On the basis of this, they brick every phone in a protest zone, undercutting protest organization and limiting demonstraters ability to film police abuse on smartphones.

I do not know what the legislators intended; maybe they don't know about the issue, maybe they don't care, maybe they think this is an adaquete solution and are wrong. I don't try to define their intent here, I'm simply trying to point out a very real problem with this law.
Ouch, -4 points - what's with the down votes?
holy crap this is so awesome. I've been on a kick to try to hack the shitty experience that is flying domestically in the US, this is very inspirational.
> the research suggests that there's a counter-productive degree of "distraction free"

Very interesting. What research? What does it say?
A detailed an well argumented framework to be found in

Chapter 1: Five Steps from Novice to Expert

Mind Over Machine by Hubert Dreyfus

http://www.amazon.com/Mind-Over-Machine-Hubert-Dreyfus/dp/00...
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Absolutely yes there is: "Congress shall make no law ... abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press".

Allowing that "speech" is no less than "communication from one citizen to another", and "press" is a generic term for devices facilitating that communication, there is no reason to believe those who wrote & agreed to the particular enumerative wording of that right meant to exempt "instant mass communications". To the contrary, the specific inclusion of "the press" DID refer to the then-fastest means of communicating with the greatest number of people technologically possible at the time.

BTW: the American declaration of that right as fundamental was written by people who had in fact caused riots, impromptu mobs, and perpetrated violence precisely so they could implement a government which would, among other things, enshrine that right.
Good.

It would be stupid not to, especially during the transition phase where driverless cars are the minority.

YMMV depending upon local standards but here in San Diego, CA it is extremely common for the flow the traffic to be going 5-15 miles above posted speed limits and the cops do not care. Having a car going significantly slower than the flow of traffic is much worse than exceeding the speed limit.

Also there are sometimes situations where very temporarily exceeding the limit is the best option (eg. you're at the speed limit and someone cuts into your lane toward the back of your car, potentially shunting you and you have no clearance on the other side, but do have room up front). Driverless cars with full 360 (or close to it) lidar would be ideal for dealing with this situation (as opposed to a human driver that is unlikely to even see the other car in his/her blindspot) but if they are capped at the speed limit their options for resolving the situation safely would be severely curtailed.
Great write-up. Something you wrote in there piqued my interest as we encountered a similar problem:

our users didn’t send money all that often (a few times a year, on average).

Can you say how you guys were able to navigate this problem successfully? We think we found our solution by expanding what we offer, but this problem made segmenting by service use (arguably the best way to monetize) incredibly hard.
Very true, my co-founder discovered this the hard way.

A note on the roundtrip booking - correct, you should never book roundtrip. Your roundtrip should be made up from two one-way bookings.
uBiome looks interesting. Has anyone tried them?

http://ubiome.com/
Stuart Hameroff: Consciousness is More than Computation [video]
NeuroVault: A public repository of unthresholded brain activation maps
Why every police officer should wear a body camera
If you do this for a roundtrip purchase, they will cancel the remaining legs of your flight.
Hm, does that really make sense? The level of rents should have no bearing on how much a developer is worth to a company? So it would mean the Berlin developers are just bad at negotiation?
Unrestricted radios are widely available and easy to build.
Thank you for all your cloud first, mobile first. I think that cloud first, mobile first, but that cloud first, mobile first. If only cloud first, mobile first,then cloud first, mobile first. But I digress, because what is really important here is our cloud first, mobile first strategy, which will require much cloud first, mobile first along with cloud first, mobile first.

I reckon Ballmer's PR drone won this one though. More words.
Likely there would be no riots in Ferguson if cameras recorded the event.
Java 8 Update 20 released
I’m a cop. If you don’t want to get hurt, don’t challenge me
NY Times releases military surplus gear data on GitHub
Only if you don't have any checked baggage!
Google Maps' Former Lead Data Scientist Building World's Largest Plant Library
Like http://xkcd.com/657/ ?
True, I didn't take that into consideration. I used Social Security Disability and Social Security Supplemental income to help pay for College but didn't get any other bennefits since I lived on campus and was on my parents health insurance.
Sometimes Hacker == Cracker, if the crack is particularly clever.
Number one wishlist item for next C++ is to add networking libraries to the STL. Its past time that C++ knew about the internet.
Charles Bukowski, Letters to John Martin and William Packard
A civil rights lawsuit is fine. But the problem is that doesn't PREVENT any police behavior.

1. hit the kill switch

2. tell protesters to GTFO

3. they don't comply so start shooting

4. no recordings of what happened are made so it's he said she said

5. innocent people are dead and the only recourse is a lawsuit based on conflicting sworn testimony where officers are generally held to be more reliable than non-officers

Contrast this with the no-kill-switch situation

1. tell protesters to GTFO

2. they don't comply and are filming

3. knowing they are filming, use less lethal means of dispersal

4. nobody is dead and the police are held accountable for the actions they took

The problem here is that in the absence of any hard evidence to the contrary the 6hr window gives the police plenty of time to either find a good reason for why they did what they did or if there's some particularly bad actors around, make up a good reason.

I think the vast majority of police departments wouldn't abuse their power especially considering how very nearly everybody doesn't get shot by the cops on any given day. But the concern here isn't that they'll shut down people's phones when making a traffic stop; people are concerned about the possibility of really bad actors who haven't been caught yet using this as a tool to conceal something really bad.
Must be interesting to have enough spare time to scribble that many words devoted to something so monumentally trivial.
That's why I said it.
We took a hybrid approach.

First, we compiled a list of the best possible investors (for us, Max Levchin was on the list given his PayPal background) and found ways to get to them. (warm introduction is best, but not always possible)

We also were very open to meeting people along the way through recommendations. For example, one of my good friends Nils Johnson knew Eric Dunn very well and recommended that we talk given his deep payments background. This conversation was what ultimately catalyzed our seed round.

I think cold emails to investors rarely work. What you really want to do is build a network of folks who believe in you. Hopefully some of those folks have money to invest, and others who don't can help add new nodes to the network.
Serious makers want this price point with an atheros chipset. In lieu of that, the open-mesh.com routers are a good choice if you are trying to do low level wireless innovation.
MBP Retina 15", top of the line $2,499.00 in the us, 2,499.00€ ($3,327.94) in germany . its exactly the savings range that they are targeting
This whole article is dripping with contempt for the people that the Police are supposed to be protecting.

This isn't just a problem of the Police having too many toys, this is a top-down attitude problem. You can't have that much of a lack of respect for the people you're supposed to protect, and protect them too.
That's a very good point and I understand that. But webhat's comment makes it seem like the whole article is invalid or the example is not correct. I definitely would not consider this as an 'obvious error' with the example. Maybe bad practice. Would you say the copy/paste issue is solved if the author just does a mass replace from 'http' to 'https' on his articel?
Worth a read, but quite infuriating: "Most field stops are complete in minutes. How difficult is it to cooperate for that long?"

I sincerely hope that the vast majority of law enforcement DOES NOT HOLD an authoritarian view like that. That's just "If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear" from dragnet surveillance, DUI checkpoints, and stop-and-frisk, but phrased slightly differently. In short, it's a distinctly un-American viewpoint. "Cooperate with me, I have a gun" - distinctly not a rule-of-law ethos, but more of a might-makes-right ethos, and ethos that should be consigned to the dustbin of history.
From fission to fusion: the need for a quick transition
100% true.

I guess the top voted HN product/startup either don't choose YC or may be something like that. huh, can't say anything.

YC claim that they put money on founder rather then product,i am sure they have seen something certainly.
Counterpoint -- "Who Should Resist Arrest", at http://nyti.ms/1t2fnXB