skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Seems like he would create a widget that injects code on to the company's site making the API limits per client domain and not all coming from storemapper.co
All the other pronouns have different pronunciations for their possessive and contraction forms, and also vary in spelling more than a single apostrophe, so the written mistake is unlikely to occur for those.
> Why on HN?

Who knows. Make something up?

He was an amazing and exceptional person. That's good enough for me.
Because he was brilliant, witty and profoundly original. Smart people building shit care about all those things and the people who embody them.

Case in point, you used his content a few days ago.

His death is deeply saddening to me.
Probably his proximity to the SF Bay area too. It was quite common to see him in San Francisco and I'm sure many of the posters on HN had crossed paths with him at one point or another.
Sad and a memorable actor. From Awakenings to Mrs Doubtfire. Good range.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Gv0H-vPoDc
Robin Williams is dead
Mr Williams was the face of comedy for me growing up, as much as Jack Nicholson could be said to be "the face of evil".

I love the work done by Mr Williams and will be watching Mrs Doubtfire tonight.

I was watching The Daily Show with John Stewart a few weeks ago when he had Seinfeld on and Stewart said something that kind of hit home for me, he said something off-the-cuff to the effect that once Seinfeld left TV he was in people's hearts and minds but that once he (Stewart) left TV he would vanish from memory.
It really struck a chord with me and made me want to send him even a brief written note.
Comedians never vanish from memory. They are in our thoughts, our behaviours and mannerisms. We absorb the comedy we love and carry it with us, leaking it everywhere.
I figured I should write to him, even if only so his secretary can filter it out for the trashcan. Everyone can use a pat on the back sometimes, even the people we look up to.
I have resolved to write that note tonight.
I don't see anything special here, pure marketing play
Hi there,
You're absolutely right, the goal here was to show how creative advertisers can be with this technology. We can also display more discrete and elegant ads, this is all based on what our publishers allow and advertisers want. However, we always want to make sure the ad is more pleasant than an interstitial full screen ad, and you're always more or less still seeing the app. Hope this helps.
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This is the first I've heard of Skyscanner, and they kind of get what I was going for, but I want more of a "set it and forget it" type of service -- something where I can enter in the closest airport and a list of cities I want to visit, and every time I log in I'll see the prices for those cities over the next several months (or get alerted via email, etc.).
It'll be interesting to see how this develops. I'm a little worried that people's first inclination will be to always offer half of everything and hope it goes through, which might cause the sellers to simply raise their prices on the site. Focusing on luxury goods is also a bit of a gamble because the people that buy they are generally savvy enough to watch for sales themselves (which often go far beyond 50% off).

That being said, this space desperately needs innovation and I hope I'm wrong about all of the points above!
Another addition to the painfully long list of tragic comedian deaths.
> It's a myth that the Windows version of WordPerfect was bad software; I'm not sure where that comes from.

Besides that it was slow and never felt like a native Windows app, the biggest problem I remember was that it tried to replace the Windows printing subsystem with its own driver system, which was very confusing and caused problems for other Windows programs. It could not even install on Windows NT.

That said, Word for Windows 1.0 also had many quirks. When Windows 3 came out, the push buttons in Word did not change to the new 3D style, as they had custom-coded every single control, including standard buttons and text boxes.

Amipro (later bought by Lotus) was i.m.o. by far the best early Windows wordprocessor. They, (and not WP) prove that the best software did not win in the market.
Visiting California as a kid, one of only the things I distinctly remember is his trolls/stuffed-animals/dolls and silly-shit placed in his window facing the street.

What a guy.
The author seemed pretty convinced that many of the prices he was spotting were probably supposed to be real-money prices -- e.g, an item that was supposed to sell for $100 would instead be sold for 100 gold. (Which is a trivial amount, even in game.)
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Did you miss when Nordstrom bought Trunkclub for $350M last week? There's definitely a market for high-end clothing.

http://techcrunch.com/2014/07/31/nordstrom-acquires-mens-sho...
Incredibly sad. Loved his performances. One awesome thespian in every way.

Alas, my secret wish, for a performance I wish he had given, but never did, will forever be only a wish now:

Khalil Gibran's The Prophet, Read by Robin Williams (in a voice from the Park Scene in Good Will Hunting).

RIP.
In suburbs of Boston this is a very common thing. They are "all cash buyers" and often beat out regular folk who want to buy a home via a mortgage.

Boston's extensive housing development limits enable this behavior; in a functioning market we'd see supply rise to meet demand. See Yglesias's The Rent is Too Damn High (http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0078XGJXO) for more.
In the UK, there is no capital gains tax (CGT) on the sale of your 'principal private residence', i.e. the place where you live. So, yes, non-resident property owners are already taxed differently.
I assume he meant yearly.
Completely agreed on the "lag in technology" -- couple that with the fact that even if you do manage to book a flight as an affiliate, most providers only give you a flat fee (as opposed to hotel affiliates which tend to give a percentage).

Disclaimer: Those claims were relevant the last time I investigated (>1 year ago). It could have changed by now.

On the plus side, building out the flight tool really endeared me to hacking on things - which eventually lead me to leave my last job and co-found something new. :)
No, you're not crazy, you just haven't read the essay that is the subject of this thread ;)
Hey waps,
We don't want to be those guys. This is why the quality of the design is as important as the content of the ad. We can show less ads to users than classic banners / interstitials, more elegant ads, and deliver high-quality content (apps, premium products).

(quick explanation, if an interstitial is being displayed every minute and has a 5% CTR, we can show one every 2 minutes because we have a CTR of 10%. So you can have twice as much -- or more -- ad-free experience time)
timeline isn't exactly accurate. i worked at wordperfect/novell from 1992-2000 as a system and then software consultant (WordPerfect SWAT then Novell Consulting) and bruce was already out of the closet when i started.

i ran into him in the slc airport once when i came back from a business trip to sydney australia. my visit happened to coincide with sydney's gay and lesbian mardi gras. when i saw bruce i said "hi" (even though he had no idea who i was) and told him i had been to sydney on business. he said "i went to sydney for pleasure."

didn't seem like he felt the need to be "closeted" or even shy about his sexuality then. iirc, this was around 1995.

fwiw
I had the same thought, but...Robin Williams.
>If you are believe in progressive goals and methods, the success or failure of the U.S. Digital Service will have a far greater impact on relevancy of progressive goals than who wins the next election or the election after that.

It's increasingly become my view that fundamental political ideologies as a whole have less impact on success or failure (societal, economic, or otherwise) than governmental efficiency and policy implementation. I'm not sure it matters too much whether the goals are progressive, conservative or even anything non-delusional, if they're implemented effectively, and even the most brilliant goals are pointless if the implementation is dysfunctional.

Viewing government as software, it's as though politicians are spending their time arguing about what sort of programming paradigm should be used, and not particularly caring whether the software actually works.
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"I can't believe it, I'm losing to a rug."
155K is the cap for federal salaries, not the typical salary. The 155K number (which is not quite right) is for the highest ranking execs short of SES (CIO / CTO level for many organizations. http://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/pay-leave/salaries-...
I don't see why that's "egocentric". They just don't speak English...
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Another sad testament to one of the most overlooked illnesses in this country and the world for that matter. I don't want to parade one single suicide as cause for action, but something needs to change in this arena.
Saddest thing I've heard all month. He will be missed by many.
> Besides that it was slow and never felt like a native Windows app

I'm not sure what version you used, but by 6.1 it felt lighter and quicker than Word IMHO, and I'm pretty sure it had a standard Windows interface -- at least neither I nor the many users I supported had problems with the UI.

> it tried to replace the Windows printing subsystem with its own driver system, which was very confusing and caused problems for other Windows programs.

Maybe you are thinking of the initial Windows version. I supported many users and systems who used WP for Windows, and I knew others who did the same, and these were not common user problems that I recall. WP did use its own print drivers or provide those as an option, I think to provide more accurate WYSIWYG. Occasionally WP itself would have problems because it somehow integrated the print driver in WYSIWYG (a good idea if you think about it), but I don't recall other applications having problems.
Sabre just opened their API to the public. Not sure if it's paid or not but we were going to do this exact idea for YC Hacks.
RIP Robin Williams.
George Martin, author of the Game of Thrones series, STILL uses Wordstar on DOS to this day. :)

http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2014/05/14/george_r_...
a very talented and wonderful man.
There's an outstanding recent episode of Louis (Louis C.K.'s show) where Robin Williams is a guest. In the show they both attend a funeral for someone nobody liked because they feel obligated, and they talk a bit about life and death.

Definitely worth a watch, and very poignant in light of his suicide. RIP Robin.
USPS just can't get ahead: Another $2B loss in Q3
If you're a developer with some experience, I'd expect you'd be brought in around a GS-12. There may be some more clever hiring practices that get you more.
http://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/pay-leave/salaries-...

That said, perhaps there are some folks attempting a slightly different tack within government: http://18fblog.tumblr.com/post/85724876053/hacking-bureaucra... Not sure what their rate structures look like.
Reading Upward
My only complaint is that not all the implementations yield the same results.
It feels plainly obvious that Uber is run by assholes, and that anyone who works there has a black mark on their resume forever.

But that's how it feels. Is Lyft just better at PR?
Ask HN: If Google were to disappear How prevalent is Google in your life?
List Google products/services you use multiple times a week (OK to say "too many to list"). Extra: Try to guess on average how many Google searches you perform on average per week. Here's all their products/services for reference - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Google_products

As for me, not only do I use search, news, gmail, calendar, maps, docs, keep, youtube, chrome, android, nexus; I also use Google apps and google cloud (for hosting/computing) for my startup. I probably do 100+ searches on avg per week. A bit worried :)
This is identical to the sentiment against iPod when it first came out. If the design is good, user friendly, and people still like the product, it won't matter if it's got worse specs since they can always improve them in later releases.
Free markets make men do amazing things.
Thanks for sharing, very interesting article. Your previous post is great (and relevant) too: "Dissecting Message Queues".

http://www.bravenewgeek.com/dissecting-message-queues/
>HTML5 may not be so evolved, but at least it works on my Android in both Chrome and Firefox, it works on my MacBook, it works on my Ubuntu Linux, it works on my Windows Phone that I keep around as a paper holder and it works on my iPad.

I dislike HTML5 for this reason. In the heyday of Flash you could sidestep most of the bloat of the web with a click-to-play plugin setting or by not installing the extension at all, and 99% of the sites that relied on Flash completely for navigation etc. weren't worth browsing in the first place. Now that many of the capabilities of Flash are built into the browser, you don't really have a way to avoid superfluous animations and awkward nonstandard interfaces and whatnot. Every time I have to use a Wikia wiki, my computer and I each shed a single minimalist tear.
We may get to see why we have unsubstantiated libel regulations.
You also have to account for the additional cost you'll be paying for data transfer and http requests to Algorithmia's API. I doubt a week of a developer's time is more expensive than a lifetime of those expenses and the fees Algorithmia charges.
I want to kill email, by replacing it with something new. I don't want incremental improvements or altered workflows, but rather a new technical underpinning that lets people continue to write long-form messages to each other.

I have much grander ambitions for the company later on though, so I don't want to lock myself in with some company name like NewMail, Inc.
Or why fraud is illegal.
Already linked: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8165877

Given that the referenced story is no longer on the front page, it appears the story has been demoted.
What happened after the deadline? Did you pitch it in front of everyone? Or did all the teams just get to experience the joy of building something with tight deadlines?
Yes, but these items are basically only flags in a DB under the power of Blizzard. It's not real in the sense that Blizzard could just enter whatever values they want in this DB and it would be perfectly legal.

Conspiracy theory: Maybe the didn't ban bots that much so they could hide their own "bots" (a simple function in their servers that sells goods they just have created out of thin air by a simple insert statement).
Fraud's fraud. A taxi company could do the same thing to a rival.
I've used Uber dozens of times, but stories like this really make me think I should give Lyft a shot. After all, if this company is operating in such an underhanded manner this early in the game, it's troubling to consider what they'd be capable of down the line.
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If Lyft are better at PR then Gett must be as well - because Uber did the exact same thing to them a few months ago, allegedly.

At a certain point you just have to apply Occam's Razor and realise that Uber is run by a collection of assholes.
If UK taxes work like US taxes, then the community in question doesn't capture this externality (it goes to the state/Feds), so that's small comfort to them.
There were 5,560 canceled rides, but the article suggests that a single Uber recruiter was responsible for almost 30% of those, and another was responsible for a further 10%. It would be interesting to see the data here in more detail: it may well be that 177 Uber recruiters have booked and cancelled rides, but that 160 of them have done so at a rate similar to average users, while 17 have been absurdly abusing the system. I'm actually a bit confused as to how single individuals were able to perpetuate such abuse without Lyft preventing it: after a single phone number has made a hundred cancellations on a bunch of accounts in the course of a few days, why weren't there automated processes in place to prevent those accounts from making another 1,400 of them. For that matter, why was the person even able to sign up for 22 accounts with one phone number?
Crying. A terrible loss of a kind soul. My favorite story:

[Christopher Reeve's] approaching operation to reattach his skull to his spine (June 1995) “was frightening to contemplate. … I already knew that I had only a fifty-fifty chance of surviving the surgery. … Then, at an especially bleak moment, the door flew open and in hurried a squat fellow with a blue scrub hat and a yellow surgical gown and glasses, speaking in a Russian accent.” The man announced that he was a proctologist and was going to perform a rectal exam on Reeve. It was Robin Williams, reprising his character from the film Nine Months. Reeve wrote: “For the first time since the accident, I laughed. My old friend had helped me know that somehow I was going to be okay.”

I only wish someone was there for him in his last moments. A horrible illness that is truly indiscriminate. RIP.
Possibly, but I think maybe it's that I like social interactions to be on my terms or anticipated ahead of time.
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In case anyone had forgotten, they did the exact same thing in NYC to another competitor, Gett, a few months ago:

http://techcrunch.com/2014/01/24/black-car-competitor-accuse...

Can't wait to see how Uber rephrase "It was likely too aggressive a sales tactic" this time around!!
A little bit of happiness has gone out of this world. RIP Robin Williams.
Perhaps you buy a second home and have enough income to keep & rent your first home. Perhaps it is a vacation home for you, so you timeshare.
Okay, Uber has to face the music on this one. But...

Why is there no rating system for passengers? How can a single phone number be tied to 21 accounts and cancel over 1500 rides without Lyft ignoring orders from that phone number? Why weren't the accounts deactivated long before this level of abuse? It doesn't seem like they're taking good care of their drivers' time or expenses.
Do you have any more info/articles/discussions?
It's about providing value to other people. If you write a software that is really used for something you provided a service. If that service is worth 100,000€/year then so be it. But he just gained money from the misjudgement of other people, not providing any service to anyone else. (Just like high frequency traders.)
If its versus it's implied someone is illiterate, we'd all be completely uneducated because we didn't write in Middle English.
"And I thought hedge fund managers were not adding value to society"...

Its always weird to me when people in the tech industry say that hedge fund managers/quants "add no value to society". The presumption that any individual's job "adds value to society" is really arrogant...do you really think that all the software engineers working at Google or FB or Twitter to make people click advertisement "add value to society"? Does my local grocer "add value to society"? Its such a vacuous statement.

I apologize in advance if this is harsh, so I would offer you to read more about finance before you make blanket statements like "hedge funds do not add value to society"
I know I'm just another comment, but I'm too moved not to add my own goodbye. His work was inspirational and he's been one of my favorite professionals since childhood. Very sad to see that he's moved on, especially by his own choice.

May he rest in peace.
Their evil keyboard runs commands to install malware which capture your password when later entered on the good keyboard. i.e. Their keyboard types "install keylogger".
oh and microcorruption.com
These are great challenges for learning crypto. They've provided solutions in 10 different languages.
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Good testing. I got hired as a Test Engineer in SRE at Google to write automation code tests. Good coverage from unit tests, good integration tests, and good system tests (many of them using fake systems with scripted failure modes). Then finally, a fair amount of testing on "real" machines as new code gets integrated.

Then make sure you have great monitoring because it will still fail at runtime and you're the poor sap on call who has to deal with it.
I made about $65 playing D3, which turned out to be pennies per hour. But it paid for the game, and it made me feel good about wasting so much time.

I also just sold a TF2 hat for $56... not sure how I feel about that one. http://i.imgur.com/Loqrvbw.png
1. Randomness is part of the laws.

2. Determining the source of the randomness is like figuring out why the strong and weak force constants were set the way they were. They exist at the ends of our epistemological limits.

3. You seem to be missing that even if we were a source of randomness, we would not be in control of it. Free Will isn't about a lack of predictability, it's about control.
slippery slopes come from poor management

I stand by my assessment of an asshole that pitches tantrums if people eat at their desk (while presumably working!)
That was in the article ;)
You think people actually read the article?!
In the traditional sense of hackathons i think YC hacks had each team present a 1-3 minute pitch.