skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's fascinating to me that Gates correctly described the content we would see and the problems in monetizing it, but was totally off base in predicting we would have any of it fixed by now.

Content is king, and sites with content richer than plaintext have done substantially better. Advertising has done well, and long-term subscription models continue to drive down user counts. The line about "attract attention, not convey information" was a prescient look at a world of shitty, flashing banner ads. He missed subscriptions for premium features, but it's a subtle difference.

On the other hand, ads still cripple the speed of page loads - smart advertising has added weight as fast as internet speeds have improved. Per-use transaction fees still haven't caught on (except in freemium games) because they encourage users to not consume content, and because no one trusts a central authority to set them up. Ultimately, ads are the only effective small-charge technique anyone has found.

He was spot-on with the problems the web faces, but wrong in thinking they'd be solved by now.
Cecile's text messages are horribly sloppy regarding spelling and grammar, I'd never trust a person like that.
Definitely not selfish man. People can only maintain something like 150 relationships at any given time. But if you leave behind something each person you're no longer in contact with can use... Well that makes a real difference for those people, even if it's in a small way.
I've stayed somewhere with working wifi, but the host mailed me and said its not working right now and I had to plug in. On a Mac that doesn't have wired Ethernet.

Rant over, but for real I'd want to avoid airbnb surprises.
If it were up to me, I'd make owning property with a "party wall" contingent upon membership in some form of home-owner's association, the dues of which are used to pay the dues to such a community fire brigade, as well as things like insurance on the common parts of the building, and such.

I'm not sure how you'd handle delinquency in paying those dues, but it would probably be somehow legally actionable.

EDIT: It's probably somewhat moot, anyway, as the overwhelming majority of these dues-based fire brigades exist in predominantly rural areas, where party walls aren't typically a thing.
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Fennec dev here. Figured I'd address some of these comments.

UA overrides are not the only tool in our toolbox. They're deployed in concert with outreach from webcompat.

UA overrides are a way of breaking a cycle, not preserving it.

They make it feasible for Japanese users to use Firefox without manually messing around with UA overrides (e.g., using Phony). And that gives us leverage. And with leverage our excellent webcompat team can get sites to make changes.
Luckily GCC works great with it as it's an ARM Cortex M0. I use the GCC ARM embedded toolchain here and haven't had issues: https://launchpad.net/gcc-arm-embedded The only gotcha is that you need to sign up with an account on Nordic's site to get access to their SDK and libraries, however I'm pretty sure that's just a formality and it's free to sign up (just can't distribute its firmware source, etc).
Things like Modernizr and feature detection are great, but I'm excited to see what happens when coeffects [1] have some more research behind them, and end up being supported by a mainstream programming language.

The idea is that you're able to encode information about the execution environment into the type system, so that you can do things like write functions that depend on having access to GPS coordinates, or an audio output device, and so on.

The theory is that this will make it easier to target a wide variety of platforms, or devices which may restrict access to information through permissions systems, like those offered by Android or iOS. If, at compile time, you know you've handled all of the cases of an environmental constraint either being met, or not being met, then you have a much stronger guarantee that your code isn't going to unexpectedly fail spectacularly on a platform you haven't tested against.

[1] http://tomasp.net/blog/2014/why-coeffects-matter/
Hi Mat and Kat, thanks for this wonderful initiative. Two qs.

1) This line: "We’ll encourage but not require that Fellows later apply to Y Combinator." Will this lead to YC fellowship being a pre-req to get into YC in the future years?

2) Will this garner similar scrutiny of getting into YC? if not can you share a few major differences in the selection criteria?
You will make 12K at Google quickly enough. I'd take the time to work there for a year, get your 100K in cash or whatever you manage to save (try to keep at least 50K), build your product, then either launch or apply for S16.

Of course, you can decide to launch sooner. :)
Surprised Airbnb isn't worried about getting homejoyed out of the deal if a business traveler frequently uses the same place.
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Which is funny because when I was younger I preferred Hotel's, but now that I have some time traveling I much prefer a non chain, roll of the dice AirBnB room to any hotel. Spending night after night in a soulless hotel room is so draining.
Fcc photos of the coin pcb here [1]

I think that the coils that drive the magstripe are only activated when the buttons to the left or right of the stripes are depressed (e.g. by the process of swiping).

Also, I believe coin only transmits track 2 [2]. Why it looks like there's 2 coils is curious to me as well.

[1] https://fccid.io/document.php?id=2397353

[2] https://support.onlycoin.com/hc/en-us/articles/204263414-Coi...

Some merchants require your full name (also known as Track 1 card data) as a part of the transaction process. Coin does not transmit Track 1 data and may be rejected at the point of payment.
It's your girlfriend telling you this, so there are a lot of ways to win that argument and harm your interests.

If it were a stock San Franciscan, you'd be well advised to open with something like "Do you think immigrants should be allowed in SF?" "Me, too! I think everyone should have the opportunity to live in SF, because SF is awesome. Sadly, not all SFians agree with us -- they'd prefer to put a maximum quota on the number of people who get to live here. The mechanism for this is our building process, which they exert de-facto control over. It's like building a wall around the city made up of the houses they won't allow to be built.

The existence of the cap on housing guarantees anyone over the SF Resident Cap gets screwed. Sometimes they're immigrants; sometimes they're tech people; sometimes they're immigrant tech people. I don't care who is getting screwed, because no one should be without a house. That's why I support building more housing."
SCD is sudden cardiac death, not arrest - death as the result of 'loss of heart function'.
I think the name means something, data science to me means you're more focused on the tools and less on the theory. And that a VERY dangerous attitude to take in statistics. It's really, really easy to apply tools and get a model that looks quantitative and explanatory and good but is actually trash. It's really hard to tell the difference between good work and bad work. Statistics is very, very complicated and finicky in theory and practice and I think we'll need a better way to tell the charlatans from the experts. Maybe the title will work as a general rule of thumb as people self-select -- data scientist = knows how to load a data set into R and type 'lm', statistician = actual expert
Easy solution with no drawbacks: don't move to San Francisco.

I've lived here for a while, and I wouldn't move here to do a startup today. Whatever marginal advantage there may have been to founding something here (and it was always small) has been more than consumed by the ridiculous costs. There's not even a recruiting advantage to locating here -- unemployment amongst software engineers in the SF bay area is like -150%. Every experienced engineer gets recruited on a daily basis, by startup companies that are basically indistinguishable. Startups here are increasingly hiring remote just to make it work (which seems like the worst of all worlds, really.)

Unless you're doing something where your customer base is in San Francisco (i.e. writing something for startups...or maybe tourism), you should definitely be somewhere else. Go where your customers are.
So many good questions/points. Responding to each:
1. This would be an ideal world, but it just isn't the case. Nor do I think its a feasible solution to train nursing home nurses to be as knowledgeable about pathophysiology as physicians. Subtleties of acute cardiac syndrome (heart attacks, etc) are difficult to recognize, and it takes a few years of residency after medical school to be able to quickly recognize and act on them. There are many great nurses that can too, but that usually comes with lots of experience in critical situations (especially in the ICU, ER, and PACU). Nursing home nurses just don't have the same exposure to critically ill patients.
2. Which county? Those are great times. A word of caution when interpreting response times - they often start the clock at the time of dispatch, not the time of the patient calling 911. A lot of Call9's value is cutting out the inefficiencies between the 911 call and the dispatch.
3. Administering aspirin (ASA) is very significant. Anti-platelet therapy (e.g. aspirin) has been shown to decrease the mortality of heart attack patients significantly, and the earlier you give the aspirin, the sooner it works. As for nitroglycerin ('nitro'), the medication that dilates the blood vessels on the hearts surface and allows for better oxygen delivery to heart muscle as its dying in a heart attack, it is extremely dangerous to self administer nitro in certain situations that can only be interpreted if you have an EKG - in one of our patients, we in fact identified this issue and purposefully held the nurses giving off this medication which could have killed the patient. As for the nursing home, this situation happened in, the nurses are well trained and I've been happy with their level of care and concern for their patients.
4. I too think a proactive response makes sense. Good point about the utility of these diagnostics - we surely have cases where they are useful in facilitating the care of patient in an emergency. But they are extremely useful in preventing unnecessary hospitalizations - another key value of Call9. In this way, we do practice urgent care too.
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Thanks for your comments - seems like you've been in the field and know your stuff.
Right. But file this away in the "not my problem" draw. You can make all the excuses you want, but this is ultimately up to them to resolve, not for the consumer to deal with.
Possibly letting me leave 1 or 2 cards at home is not really a great idea.
Of the thousand killed by cop, how many were holding a gun to the head of someone, or came out shooting before that happened?
Zeplin currently only supports Sketch as a design tool, which is also Mac only. Using our Mac app (and our Sketch plugin) designers upload the designs. We also have a web app (for developers not using Macs), where you can access the uploaded designs: app.zeplin.io
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I recently stumbled upon Google's Dremel whitepaper.[1] I'm trying to understand how it performs so well. The paper goes over how it stores data in columnar format, but I'm missing the jump from how that translates into quick queries. Would appreciate an explanation , thanks!

[1] http://research.google.com/pubs/pub36632.html
Not if you participate in manufactured spending - i.e., buying money...like purchasing Visa gift cards (must be done carefully at the right places / times)
A simple framework for database migration that has worked for my team:

https://github.com/guilhermechapiewski/simple-db-migrate
I'm not even sure I could do it alone. It's so much work. My co-founder and I lean on each other for motivation and support. When it's you against the world, a teammate can be invaluable. Particularly when it's looking gloomy. Which it will.

But if you strike out alone, good luck! I can't speak for everyone obviously and I can't generalize and say it only works this way. Just giving my two cents.
reddit.com/r/churning has a great guide
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Hi, I disagree (not just because I authored the patch linked here). Web sites are never punished. Our users are.
Interesting story, but even she admits she only made a handful of sales. While she may be #1 in a super-niche category that doesn't actually seem to be worth much, so I have to wonder if that's part of why she wasn't caught by amazon.
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This program offers interesting features to a business but not s much for the traveler. Anyone who is spending 25+ nights a year in a hotel is going to be sure to be getting points for those stays. Points == status and status == more convenience when traveling. Beyond earning free nights, there's expedited check-in, private lounges with free food, gift baskets when you check in, etc. The caveat is that to get status most (or all) of your points need to be with the same company. This means most hardcore business travelers are very loyal to <program x>. This travel program doesn't have any kind of loyalty rewards which is a non-starter.

Other downsides of airbnb: booking isn't instantaneous as with a hotel (wait hours or days for confirmation from owner), checkin has to be pre-arranged and requires you get in touch with the owner (i.e. no 3am red-eye check-ins), each place you stay is slightly different amenities versus hotel chains which all have the same brand of pre-wrapped toothbrush when you forget yours. These might seem trivial but when you travel a bunch it's the little things that hurt the most.

Story: I once had to wait for 2 hours to check into an airbnb in SF since the owner was in Africa and his mother forgot to leave his key where he said it would be.
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> Compared to a business hotel, it generally lacks in terms of concierge/information/predictability. But things like a full-size refrigerator, cooking facilities, and sofas can compensate (if that's what you're looking for).

All of which is available in many 3* brand name hotels -- Hyatt House, Marriott's Residence Inn etc.

However, do you really need a full-size fridge and cookies facilities when out and about for a couple of days? Most business people don't even cook back home, and you're talking about having to cook for yourself when you're on a business trip that someone's already paying for.

The complementary breakfast (Hyatt House and Hyatt Place are the best) and the evening reception or nice lobby with pay-for food would seem like a better option than full-size fridge and a cooker.
In most cases, lying on such an application in the private sector will fall under fraudulent misrepresentation. You might get sued in civil court for it, but it's unlikely you'll be pursued for false pretenses. Especially over $12,000.

People lie to each other on business contracts every minute of every day, nearly all of it ends up as a civil offense.
Well, you are spending money on those. Each card has a fee. But if you're doing it correctly you should realize far more value than you end up spending.
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I certainly have been rejected because of the lack of Track 1 data. One merchant told me as much.
Would it be safe to say that Cuckoo filters are bloom filters with some additional overhead for the ability to add and remove?
Because the simplicity of Toki Puna is the very point of it. Even Einstein said, "If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself."

Using such an (admittedly, over-) simplified language would probably go a long way towards helping you approach your speech in such a way that you could explain things with that kind of simplicity of expression.
Hi!

I am a grad student working on a purely research based concept that I feel could make a good start to a company. However, I'm fully committed to the research at the university for the next year. The YCF would be used to get this project from just a thesis to an applicable concept. Would this be a good start to what YC is looking for?
I cancelled my preorder after I got the app and saw that silly tapping security code.

I decided to try out Plastc after that. We'll see what that's like.
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There's a LOT of downright wrong information. There are some bad seeds there spreading FUD to keep newbies away or lead them down a dangerous path, especially around manufactured spend.

The outright lies I saw people posting during the Redbird heyday were astounding.

Avoid.
Of course it does. This is one of the reasons proprietary drivers are so "super-secret" and generally perform much better than open source drivers - they're chock full of game-specific hacks.
Even if you have a computer with wired Ethernet, who travels with an Ethernet cable these days?
Thank you! I will definitely do that. Sometimes my most successful stories which ended up in TechCrunch (of course), WSJ, Forbes, The Guardian, etc. were five or six sentence emails - which is a bit embarrassing sometimes.

But hey, I think I just should get started sharing the details. I think these stories and shared knowledge could be useful after all.
>and start blaming the shitty ass landlords

Blaming the landlord doesn't really solve the problem. If every landlord decided to charge 50% under market rent, it would just mean that apartments would be very over-subscribed and you'd need to be quite lucky to get an apartment. There are various causes to the problem, but a more reasonable one is the unwillingness of the government (in large part due to NIMBY types) to allow for more development, which would increase the housing stock and decrease the pressure on rents. I'm not flat-out advocating for that, but I don't think it's reasonable to just blame every landlord either.
I am aware of this, but most iOS users do not use Chrome. I am also aware of FastClick and Google's FastButton as well, and I have even used them where the need applied.

https://github.com/alexblack/google-fastbutton

Nothing I said was untrue about iOS, and my comments never mentioned Chrome, but I spoke about and linked to Mobile Safari documentation.
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"that live on pure energy" -- Don't we all?
Yes, you are going to die. You are also going to pay your taxes, get a girlfriend, buy a house, travel, have crazy adventures, and do all the other boring, amazing, stupid, wonderful things people do.

I think it's a bit strange how people compare themselves and their lives to some imaginary metric, as if you need to get a certain number of points before the game ends. Sure, you can use strategy guides, wall bugs, and precise timing to win the prize as fast as you can with as high a score as you can. But the most important part of playing a game, much like living life, is not to win - it's to enjoy playing!

It's not silly to want to accomplish things and to work towards your goals right now. But don't let the eventuality of death be the reason you get off your butt. Make it that you just really want to get in the game and play.
You don't have to include the whole library. Modernizr allows you to customize the package to only detect for features you need.

While writing your own feature detection is still probably lightweight (although not by much if you customize modernizr correctly), you're not going to get all the edgecases Modernizr will unless you spend A LOT of time on it.

http://modernizr.com/download/
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Golden. Neat idea!
Worked with them before, really nice bunch of people and a cool project that solves a true pain point.

Best of luck!
Are any startups around London, or Paris, interested in trying for a local group ? In which case, it could make sense to staple applications together.
Please contact me (see profile), including your answer to "Please tell us in one or two sentences about the most impressive thing that each founder has built or achieved."
If I don't inherently trust devices on my network, even if I can throttle, block, and do whatever else from my router, why should I let them on it? And why is this a problem that needs to be solved?

I can maybe understand the sentiment of wanting to make the best of unused resources, but this thinking is a bit naive and doesn't bother taking into account privacy/security/bandwidth issues, etc.
> Microsoft Windows does not release any OpenType fonts natively (but has the DLL because) third-party applications could install them.

I'm not sure about Windows itself, but I know for a fact that Office includes at least one OpenType font: Cambria Math. It relies on the OpenType math typesetting information (which was largely designed by Microsoft). In addition, TrueType's layout information in not sophisticated enough for many languages (e.g. Arabic), so these users are most certainly using OpenType fonts.
This definitely already happens, in the few cases where I've seen AirBnB be used for repeat business travel. A colleague of mine goes to Rome for 2-3 week stays and found the place he currently rents via AirBnB, but now he just books it directly. It's quite possible that they can make enough money on the other cases to not matter, though.
> "In a few years, people are going to be using Call9 instead of calling 911"

'Murica, your shit is beyond repair.
I felt like you do now when I was your age. I had a nervous breakdown, in part because of my extreme fear of death. After the breakdown, I knew my life was over. Meaning the life I envisioned for myself was over. I just wasn't the same person. I felt like an alien.

Well, as the years went by, I managed to survive. Dying young is an anomaly. It's rare. Do what you want in your life, but you will probally make it to old age. It does go by quick, so have some fun. In my case, the fear of death lessened as I got older. The lessening of the fear of death might be the only thing that age offers? No--most fear went down with each year that passed. Some of it was learning? For instance, for years, I didn't declair a bankruptcy because I optimistically overstated my income on a credit card application. I talked to a good lawyer, and he said "You along with everyone else!". "Of course--no one admits it though?" (I not stating it's good to lie, but knowledge lessens fear. Along, with a good lawyer? Oh yea, if you live a risky life; get to know the legal system. Know those statute of limitations.) Again went off base, I just saying you will statistically make it old age.
Having a dominant founder is different than being an only founder. But what's common to all these companies is that one founder was really dominant and had the vision. In fact, out of the top companies, it's safe to say that very large proportion have a dominant founder, who wound up having much more equity than the other founder.

I don't understand why there are so many downvotes on something that is, indeed, a verifiable statistical fact. Can you downvoters write a message that elaborates on why you have such a strong reaction to this data?
It was https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9856637
In Canada, where they have switched to chip-and-pin cards,
the servers bring a terminal to table. Customer puts in card, enters PIN, and enters tip amount. For swipe cards or chip-and-signature, it prints out a receipt to be signed.

Card would still be useful for terminals that don't support NFC payment. Or for larger payments than are allowed with NFC. Or for people who prefer to use cards instead of phone/watch.

It should be possible to use the tokenization system of Apply Pay to have switchable card with chip-only card.