skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For me the big deal is that if my card doesn't work—my actual plastic card, that is—then it's the retailer's equipment that is faulty. They fumble around with it—using a plastic bag sometimes, or they move to another terminal—and it works eventually. But the issue is almost always on the reader side, not with the card itself.

On the flip side, that retailer has just seen 100 people in a row use their plastic just fine, then you come along with your whiz-bang phone or Coin card or whatever, and start failing. The embarrassment comes from everyone else waiting behind you thinking to themselves, "Why not just use a card like everyone else instead of your complicated technology?" Or, "HEY EVERYBODY! LOOK AT THIS GUY WHO THINKS HE'S TOO GOOD FOR REGULAR CARDS!"

To be clear I don't pooh-pooh these things. I totally understand why people would like to ditch a stack of cards for a phone or Coin replacement. Just explaining why it might be embarrassing to rely on these replacements, and then have them fail.
One option I've seen, though it's not bullet-proof, is to just have an explanation of who the money is intended for, and require applicants to sign a statement about their financial condition. Someone could always lie about it, but most people won't (especially since lying on an application for money is illegal).
Any recommendations on how to get started?
Wallace Mania
What is with the obsession with David Foster Wallace...I've never seen so much ink spilled over a recently dead author. What made his work so special?
>Let's discuss how we can keep from inflicting our own personal morals on those who do not share our moral philosophies

The interesting question, is, of course, which are private matters and which are matters of injustice that 'society' should intervene to fix.

THE WHOLE QUESTION is whether or not cheating is 'a private matter' or 'an injustice that ...'. Just stating that it is 'private' does not seem to be an answer to the question. If I understood you correctly, your argument it 'is is private, leave it alone, else someone else will mess with other private issues'. Why do you think it belongs to the 'private' rather than 'injustice' category?

> one-up us all with an even better morality than the one we already have.

For me, that would be very nice indeed!
Convincing moral arguments are very rare!
This was the same question I was wanting to ask. $12K would be enough for one founder living in a non SV part of the world for one year, but it's not enough for two. What this implies is that the startup should be making money from the get go.

So, I imagine, they are after startups that work and have some revenue but have no initial funding.
This is the first time I am reading about this product but why mag stripe over smart cards? isn't it less secure and deprecated technology? it seems very useful but relying on mag stripe isn't the best move, no? Perhaps they couldn't "switch cards" while using smart cards so mag stripe was the only solution?
> Computer = something/someone who computes

Why isn't it?...

* Computer = someone who computes

* Computor = something that computes
A few thoughts.

As has been noted a number of times on Hacker News and other Internet forums, job interviews are not particularly reliable either for employers or employees. Most people can behave reasonably for the duration of a typical job interview or even an unusually long and thorough interview process.

There is probably a positive correlation between your impression of a potential new job from an interview and what actually will happen but it is far below a perfect 100 percent correlation. My educated guess is that the coefficient of correlation is something like 0.2 or twenty percent.

At least in the computer field, in my experience, there is a high infant mortality rate, with many people encountering a serious problem and indeed leaving or being fired within the first ninety days of a new job -- and even more new employees within six months. A good rule of thumb is to treat the first six months as a trial or probationary period both for the employee and the employer.

The key question with a job is "is it working for me?" It is easy to confuse a company's success and name recognition with your interests. Some companies are successful entirely or in part because they are exploiting their employees. And even if in general this is not true for your employer, your individual situation may be bad for you.

A good rule of thumb is to put up with a bad situation until you have found something else. It is almost always easier to find a new job with a job. However, there are exceptions and psychologically abusive situations can cause significant permanent harm, both psychological and physical -- think high blood pressure and other longer term physical effects of stress.

In general, it is probably unwise to post a blog article with details of why you left a job, especially negative comments on your former employer. It is likely to raise questions about you, if not a red flag, in the minds of potential future employers. What if you post a blog article about them? Having said that, there are certainly exceptions to this general rule as well.
We don't claim to - we do. Here's a great graphic on what happens when you Call 911: http://www.nyc.gov/html/911reporting/html/anatomy/call.shtml
Our first step enters into this process later on in the schema, saving time.
If you're like me and prefer to draft writing elsewhere, here's a Google Doc you can copy with the questions and word limits:
https://goo.gl/K5M3LM

Update: Document is fully public now.
Wouldn't it be more useful for someone to come along and say, "Hey this comment seems to be fairly low quality, do you mind editing it to clarify your opinion so it's easier to understand?"

I've actually had this happen to me on HN before and I was able to take a breath, take some time and improve the content of my comment, which helped improve HN as a whole on a very small level.

If we use gentle downvoting to indicate bad quality comments it's much harder to separate that from disagreement / negative comments. It might be time for HN to adopt a technical solution to keep the quality it has always had present. (I.E. private messages, or comments that aren't about content but directly to OP, or flags to indicate that a comment could use editing/rephrasing/deletion sent to the OP (along with a count of these flags))

This would everyone know what is wrong with their comment rather then having to speculate on what they did wrong, so they can learn and improve in the future.
Thank you, this is ideal for my product. I am going to submit the application as soon as I am done with the video.
There's a VS extension for Vim anyway: https://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/59ca71b3-a4a3...
This doesn't necessarily seem like it's a guarantee - firstly, from my experiences working private ambulance, most are built and staffed to operate at or near capacity, as idle ambulances don't make money.

Depending on the location, when you dispatch ALS/BLS ambulances this way, whose medical license are the EMTs and paramedics working under? Does the county medical protocol director like/want this?

In cases of cardiac arrest, you're going to typically want more than an EMT and a medic on an ambulance. CPR is, as you know, a man-power intensive activity.

The three things you mention are not really problems in a 'modern' PSAP. "911, what are you reporting?" "Confirmed cardiac arrest". Even without that, in most areas around here criteria-based dispatch is used to determine ALS/BLS with an erring towards ALS if there's any question.

In my county (Washington state), the protocol states (and is met with 94% reliability that from call reception for EMS, dispatchers should have toned the appropriate unit(s) with 60 seconds of call reception, and those units should be en route within 2 minutes of that (even for in quarters response).
Coin is an interesting idea, but I figured https://www.dynamicsinc.com/ would sue the pants off of them for patent infringement once they went to market. Dynamics CEO is a former patent attorney.

dynamics seemed to have all the pieces in place to do the same thing.
I think people will always have sour grapes when the tides of the market shift against them.

I know just as many "techies" constantly bemoaning that the housing market is insane in the Bay Area and they can't buy here because of all the NIMBY's and the fact that Prop 13 screws up all the market dynamics that would normally be self-correcting.

Everyone wants someone to blame when things don't go their way. I've largely stopped listening to people who blame "techies" vs. taking a more critical look at underlying dynamics of the market.

Also, everyone wants to blame the techies because it makes it a more expensive area to live, but they don't want to thank them when schools improve, cities get more tax dollars for improvements, etc. as a direct result of the inflated prices and reset property taxes. You can't have your cake and eat it too.
Monster El Niño Makes Record-Hot Year Look Inevitable
Killer robots: the soldiers that never sleep
The Dawn of Online Piracy
I remember the kernel mode TrueType font driver being part of how Duqu worked, that was in 2011. This reads like it may be the same module.

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-s...
How do you handle housing where owners share at least one wall with their neighbors?
> If the language can only express safe actions, the program will not be malicious.

Because 'safe' is not well defined, I can't argue rigorously against this, but it seems like the sort of thing that falls afoul of Rice's theorem (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rice%27s_theorem): for most reasonable definitions of 'safe', you can have a proveably safe language or you can have a Turing-complete language, but not both.
So true. I hate it when CMS administration areas are rewritten to be responsive and end up wasting a huge amount of space on the screen. A CMS admin area is a power user , that most people us on their computer.

Yet characteristics such as high information density and very accurate mouse interaction are all thrown out of the window, because of how the admin looks like on a phone.

How is it responsive to ALL devices, when mobile first enforces such restrictions on a design.
It's happening in Seattle.

A building might be 3 floors and have 12 units per floor, built 50-70 years ago. Each of these units rents for $800-900.

Now that Amazon is building 70,000 units of office space, people are predicting that another 70,000 people are going to be moving nearby for work. And so landlords are seeing a lot of people willing to pay a higher rate for these apartments. This requires evicting the ~24 people who live there, 2 of which (on average) will become homeless.

These landlords can either make the same amount of money, or they can make more money by raising the rent and forcing out the "average" people, confident that an Amazonian or other Techie will pay $1200 a month for the same apartment. And so the traditional residents of Seattle are being pushed out - to surrounding communities, to other areas, and out of the city they love.

A more drastic option is to evict all 24 people, demolish the building, and rebuild with twice the units at twice the rate.

Is this the fault of landlords for being capitalists?
I think that one was MS15-077 which is a local privilege escalation. My guess is someone at Microsoft noticed today's issue while fixing that one.
Definitely agree.

Part of the problem is that data science doesn't have nearly the same formalism in its definition that statistics does. What's the difference between BI's, Data Miners, Data Analysts, Data Scientists, etc? The tools used to arrive at conclusions (R vs. Python vs. SAS vs. Tableau/Excel/SPSS) doesn't seem like a good way of differentiating the roles.

A more useful discriminator would be the application of statistics (BI vs. Biostatistician, for instance), the depth and complexity of the statistical algorithms used, and whether the main use is stat inference or prediction (machine learning doesn't seem to focus on inference a whole lot, for example).
A better JSON.stringify
Seems weird.

"Hi John, attached is your itinerary. You'll be landing in Boston at 9PM. Once you arrive, text Billy at 617-XXX-XXXX, you'll be sleeping at his place."
My read was that the main business expense is expected to be the expenses of the founders, so it's perfectly okay to use the money to pay for rent / food / insurance / etc.
Goodbye Google+ Photos, Hello +Google Photos
It's definitely awkward to have to re-run a card, for a lot of reasons:

At least in the US, there's sort of a social phenomenon of de-emphasizing the payment process at restaurants. Checks are left on the table with a 'whenever you're ready' attitude, and often are not brought until requested. Cards are left on the check and taken away, often silently, to be processed. Checks are kept out-of-sight, for each payer to process individually without a lot of discussion, and tips are usually kept private. All of this amounts to awkwardness if something brings attention to the whole process.

Additionally, since cards are picked up and processed elsewhere, it's awkward for the payer if the waitstaff has to come back and explain that your card didn't work and wait for you to bring out another. Doubly so if they seem busy already, or if you already feel guilty for inconveniencing them by, say, splitting a check in a complex way - which is common for a large class of people, including me. Though I've noticed there's a different large class of people who find this guilt ridiculous.

On top of all this, there's a very real stigma around cards being declined for having insufficient funds. This doesn't really happen in the world of fairly well-off techies, but, running out of money (/ maxing out a credit card) is a very real problem for many people.

Not to mention the awkwardness of 'being the person using newfangled tech'.. and then having it not work on you.
I ported Iain Lobb's Gamepad ActionScript library to a Processing library [0], which is still available from the Library Manager in Processing as far as I know.

It abstracts away keyboard handling behind a Gamepad class. Please feel free to use it in a template!

[0] https://github.com/heuermh/gamepad-processing
Thanks for the reply, I will miss your insights on HN about copenhagen and denmark!
Show HN: Simple Weather a Chrome Extension
What does the job title actually matter where the t-test hits the SQL query? Nobody is morally opposed to well-educated professionals who can actually code to save their lives.
> explicitly calling move can be less efficient than implicitly relying on copy elision

Sure, in the sense that non-zero is greater than zero. But move constructors are almost always basically a memcpy() sometimes followed by some zeroing of the old data, never heap allocation nor expensive atomic ops. IMO it's not worth worrying about. Much better to accidentally invoke a redundant move because you specified std::move() when you didn't have to than to accidentally invoke a redundant copy because you thought RVO would kick in but it didn't.
How did the Star Trek "Enterprise" communicate across the galaxy? I don't remember any specific mention of a method, though I guess today they'd say something about "quantum entanglement" or similar....
> mobile is the predominant method of browsing for a huge number of sites all over the world.

That is not an excuse to give up on high information density on the desktop, just because your headings have to be ridicoulessly big for mobile.
There is plenty of less expensive real estate along BART. Take a look at San Leandro, for example.

Other costs can be reduced as well.

I consider living in SF as an unnecessary luxury.
> A runtime, that downloads arbitrary binaries from the web to be executed, sounds in every regard like a bad idea, even if you put it in a full virtual machine. The two-word argument against this is basically “Flash exploit”.

Not sarcasm, but an honest question: barring the argument "even full virtual machines have bugs", to which one might as well retort "even multiply heavily tested browsers have bugs", why isn't it safe to run such a program in a virtual machine? It seems that most of the pain of Flash exploits comes from the fact that Flash doesn't run in a (proper) sandbox.

(I'm not a web developer, so I could easily be talking nonsense.)
Some hosts are more OpenBSD friendly: https://www.exoscale.ch/syslog/2015/02/17/openbsd-meets-exos...
Surely your right to not use our product. But, we've already saved lives, decreased transport times, identified conditions in patients that otherwise would have been ignored (because we have doctors doing the assessment, not bystanders/nurses/EMS). The way the system works is that there are many triage steps before a patient ever sees a doctor - we've flipped that model and put the physician (who is ultimately the one making the medical decision) as the first step rather than the last. To us (and our patients), it just makes sense.
then maybe you should find a jerb. entrepreneurship is risky.
I know I'm bound to be proved wrong here, but I think _every_ product after the original set (EC2, S3, SimpleDB) has been consistent or now has a consistency option: the major ones are RDS, EBS, EFS, DynamoDB, RedShift, Elasticache, Route53, Kinesis, SES.

Some of those APIs are sort of odd, admittedly, and could be covering up eventual consistency under the covers (Route53 in particular springs to mind there!)

Edit: And S3 and SimpleDB now expose more consistency than they did at launch.
"If people are to be expected to put up with turning on a computer to read a screen, they must be rewarded with deep and extremely up-to-date information that they can explore at will."

Incredible how far we've come from "put up with turning on a computer."

"But within a year the mechanisms will be in place that allow content providers to charge just a cent or a few cents for information. If you decide to visit a page that costs a nickel, you won't be writing a check or getting a bill in the mail for a nickel. You'll just click on what you want, knowing you'll be charged a nickel on an aggregated basis."

I can't decide if this sort of micropayment-driven internet would be heaven or hell.
The security that a smart card provides would actually prevent a product like this from working because one of the primary purposes of the chip system in CCs is to prevent cloning, but this relies on simply being able to enter your CC number into it.

I can't remember what it was called, but I remember reading about something that does use a chip card and allows you to switch payment providers using a phone app, but they were actually acting as a payment processor and had agreements with the card providers that they support to redirect charges to whoever you had selected at the time.
But this is a library. It's not a drop-in 'sortable list' component (which I agree could, and should, have built-in keyboard accessibility). It's a general purpose toolkit for setting up drag interactions.

Asking if it 'implements' keyboard accessibility is like asking if a box of hardware tools implements wheelchair accessibility – it might be possible to build something wheelchair-accessible using the toolbox, but that's up to you.

I completely agree that there are lots of devs who won't consider accessibility when using this or other DnD libraries, and that's a shame, but it's not the place of a DnD library to magically create an alternative keyboard UI that somehow corresponds with whatever drag-and-drop UI you've built using the library. That just couldn't work. A human needs to think about it.
We feel the same way and actually started doing this with colors. There's a guideline section in the app where designers create a color palette, define all the colors that they'll be using. This way, when you're looking at the designs, you can instantly see if there's a color that is not defined in the palette.

We've heard back from a lot of designers using Zeplin saying that they're now more cautious about which colors they use. We're now working on a similar feature for reusable UI components.
At the risk of repeating myself, if you're thinking of applying as a solo founder you're solving the wrong problem. You need a co-founder more than the money (see also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9918690)
Its intent is to do something which harms. I don't think the infinitesimal collection of people who want their partners to "cheat" on them justify the flexibility you're implying. Basically, what you are saying, is that some people are not harmed by being cheated on, and therefore it isn't fair for us to judge the actions of the sites users, because maybe all or most of them are in a situation where there is no harm.

I think the simpler explanation (and likely more accurate one) is that in most cases, each AM user has at least one partner which is being harmed by the user's actions and use of the site.

Being accepting and tolerant of different types of relationships and desires is a separate issue. The site was created for, and is marketed towards, people who want to cheat (in the traditional, harmful sense) on their current partners.
Weren't there recent articles about the sales of the Apple Watch dropping off by 90%?
I have long had in the back of my head the admonitory slogan "URL's and URI's aren't the same thing", but had never bothered to learn why. Your last sentence finally clarified it for me; thanks!
The assertion "responsive = 300ms = no zoom" discredits any resume with written "responsive" on it. Because, if you remain stubborn even after a crowd tells you they need to zoom, then you lack the basic skills to drive user interviews.
Would prefer to not pass the "null" parameter.

Even better if it accepted named parameters via a { }.
How would YC validate on if the company has received any funding (angel, seed) yet ? Is it not hard to validate as one of the requirement is for a company to apply with no funding?
Yeah, so its going to report as 'Edge 1.0', not match anyone's regex and a "You need IE6 or higher to visit this page" error?

User agent sniffing is just a bad practice. Everything about it is a hack. There's no right way to do something wrong.
ZeroCater Is Hiring a VP of Engineering and Head of Product
Use this app to gain REAL social media followers through collaboration
Stealing back from a thief is not theft.
That is more ignorant than callous. It's plain wrong. To go further, abuse is in no way the victim's fault.
Thanks for the insights. I haven't encountered any issues with third party code myself and don't mind the client/server model, but for me the killer app is Babel support (so flow is only a type checker, not another transpiler).

Do imports and import resolution work out of the box in TS these days? Last time I tried, I had to jump through hoops to get it to understand node imports and it wouldn't work without magical comments. I also don't want to have to wrap everything in module declarations -- the import logic of node should be sufficient. If TS has sorted these problems out, it might be worth another look for me.
Duplin County, the subject of the article, has about 2 registered Democrats for every 1 registered Republican. They voted for Kay Hagan, and their local politicians are Democratic.
Is this fun?
> Some fear that Cuban culture will be lost with the opening of the island, but others think they will be able at last to earn more money.

Yes and yes.