skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you mirepresent the approach of GiveWell.

They currently recommend only 10 charities of 408 (about 2.45%) because they have limited resources. If you could scale the proportion to all US charities you would end up with more than 30.000 recommended charities (2.45%).

Besides would you argue the same way with your broker if he only recommends a couple of stocks for your portfolio? If you want to make an impact/return you can't just take a little of everything but have to foucs.

Nevertheless I applaud you for your project. I'm currently thinking about setting up something similar in Germany. One thing I'm wondering about is if some extra incentive is necessary to make people donate/spread the word. Why should I donate now instead of tomorrow or next week (or never)? If you haven't done already you might want to have look how Groupon did it: http://www.groupon.com/raleigh-durham/deals/donorschoose-org.... Like they do with their normal deals there is a tipping point and donation matching (interestingly from a foundtaion not a corporation -> they would have donates anyway but why not trying to double it).
I agree, it has some things about me that are great for advertisers ("Shopping - Apparel - Casual Apparel - T-Shirts" -- I spend way too much on t-shirts) but it's also got some stuff I was once interested in for an hour but then never went back to, like "Audio Files & Formats" and then that are just plain wrong... "People & Society - Family & Relationships - Family - Parenting" (single male)
> However, I find this rather harsh aversion to paying a few bucks for peer-reviewed, scientific content curious.

I already paid for it. A fraction of my taxes go to funding educational organizations so that they can produce these papers.

Even then, if the $15 actually went back to the author, I'd be OK with double-dipping, but it doesn't.
There are a few of those "operations" that spew ascii-floods for reporting purposes. Unix had dmesg(1) for the longest time, and people grepped to see available system features, until /proc was discovered. Common Lisp has the ROOM function which, again, prints breakdown of memory usage in non-standardized message formats across implementations. Prolog has 'statistics'.

Almost always, if no better interface is provided, people end up parsing the human-facing reporting tools. I am glad antirez is working to improve the formatting; my advice to him is to freeze the keyword names (never to be removed or changed.) That way people can write parsers that will continue to work on future versions. Also, keep the redis version the FIRST value in the results, for obvious reasons.
While I agree that people don't understand the technical aspects of ensuring privacy on the web, they do understand the broad nature of the issue (i.e. my information is being shared, sold, or otherwise used for profiling and profit).

Maybe some other HN members would like to chime in here, but was anyone working during the late 90s/early 2000s and remember the "cookie scare" that went around? Some departments made it their policy to turn off cookies in the browser by default, other users refused to even go through a shopping cart (requesting instead to phone in orders) because they heard cookies steal their information.

That scare is probably why Google is being very proactive here because if users glean the incorrect information, it can be very difficult to convince them otherwise.
Good point about bonds. I was thinking of splitting that 55%-60% between bonds and something even safer (money market?). I haven't found anything easy to invest in that currently gives returns above inflation. Any suggestions?

I do understand the risk to the monetary system. That's why I'm advocating diversifying into precious metals and commodities as well. That's something that seems rarely mentioned in investment advice, but ETFs make it relatively easy now.
I have a 15" MacBook Pro at home, and I tried very hard to use it as
my primary Python/C++ development environment, but, it just felt
completely awkward and kludgy.

Ubuntu is the distro I use and it mostly Just Works.

1. Window management for Linux is much more mature than MacOSX's --
XMonad, dwm, Compiz' grid plugin, etc.

2. emacs keybindings for everything in Linux actually works. kill-yank
rings work as expected. I've had serious setbacks when using MacOS's
emacs keybindings.

3. apt for Debian based distros. (just phenomenal)

Sure, my sound may not work 1/2 of the time, flash applications may
use all 4 cores of my crappy laptop, and wireless N is initially
disabled by default, but, I'm willing to put up with all of this so
the operating system doesn't get in my way when I am coding.

MacOS is there, but it's just not quite there, yet. Linux is making great strides as well, so we'll see how it plays out.
People are not used to tracking, but they will become. Web companies aren't going to stop doing it, as it is giving up enormous competitive advantage and quality of service.

DDG's "not tracking you" for example means Gabriel can never offer you personalized search based on your search history (he wouldn't be able to anyway as it's not in the APIs and it is impossible to be implemented properly on top of existing APIs). This is a tangible hit on the quality of your search results right there.
I would suggest you stick to blog posts that make logical arguments, instead of illustrative FUD.

And then when people call you out on your FUD, I suggest you don't deny it.
Fixed. Thanks for the heads up!
Attacker sits at network / ISP level, and can therefore inject any (js, ...) payload in non-https web pages, on the fly.
Most authors who publish in ACM and IEEE venues also put copies on their own homepage. You can see an example of this by looking in my profile.

I agree there is something wrong with the model, but I think your understanding of academia is flawed.
flattr.com? They hail from Sweden, and are quite eurocentric.

I've only had a brief look, but it seems like a fairly unsatisfactory way of implementing billing for a web app. I accept that I could be missing something obvious - can you let me know if I've got it wrong? :)
I'm pretty sure it's correct. Browsers specifically block sending HTTPS referrers to HTTP sites, but not HTTPS to HTTPS. So using HTTPS mode wouldn't stop sending referrers to HTTPS sites unless Google has a referrer-avoidance mechanism on the results page itself.
I am a late riser, but I would actually look forward to early meetings---that would give me something to get up early for.

(I see your point, though.)
I have a gut feeling that google should be on the side of the users in this case, not the websites. Even if the users 'don't care' it's mostly because they are not aware of issues like this.

Typically someone that types a query in to a searchbox on www.google.com thinks they are having a conversation with google, not with all of the potential links they'll click after having completed their query.

Try explaining to a few non-computer literate people what happens behind the scenes when you do something as simple as a keyword search, most of them will have their eyes solidly glazed over long before you get to the HTTP_REFERER header.
Nope, nothing of the sort.
The government has absolute control over the internet infrastructure here, and they manipulated the page's markup on the fly (or maybe the served an already modified and cached copy) when requested.
That makes more sense. I'm still not sure whether there is a trade-off involved, though. The more I think about it (particularly about the examples you brought up, Netflix and Zappos), the more I get the feeling that the efficiency led to the fantastic, rather than the other way around. I guess this is fairly difficult point to resolve satisfactorily, though.
While I agree with his suggestion to just save yourself time, grief, and money by going with index funds rather than managed funds or stock picking, there are some nitpicks:

- "[Bonds] are not 100% safe, as their value can plummet if the issuing institution goes bust. You can mitigate the risk by investing in bonds from a varied pool of ‘reliable’ institutions (such as governments)."

Bonds have many types of risk; the strength of the bond issuer is only one of them. The more common risk is interest rate risk, where you buy a bond that pays 1%, then interest rates rise to 3%, and you have to sell your bond at a loss to make it match the new 3% offerings. This affects ALL bonds, not just the "safe" ones. However, you can mitigate this risk by buying bonds with a shorter duration (ie ones that pay out within a couple years rather than a couple decades).

- ETFs

ETFs are a useful counterpart to normal index funds, but keep in mind that they are not quite the same. For example, unless you're getting free trades at eg Vanguard or Wells Fargo, each time you buy or sell ETF shares will cost you a fee, so it's best to buy them only if you intend to keep them at least for several years. Another notable difference is that ETFs are repriced constantly throughout the trading day, whereas mutual funds are repriced only once a trading day at the closing bell.

- Investing in Startups

If you already work in the tech industry, keep in mind that investing in your own industry ties both your income and your savings to that industry, so if the industry sinks, you're in danger of losing both simultaneously. This also applies to owning stock in your own company. Not saying don't do it, but just keep this in mind.

If you're really just looking for simple, sound information on where to reasonably store your savings, I recommend reading the Bogleheads Wiki at http://www.bogleheads.org/wiki/Main_Page, and/or a book named "The Random Walk Guide to Investing". If you have questions, bogleheads.org also has a very good forum.

Investing is actually quite simple, and is only made to look complicated by those who would rather you hand your money to them instead.
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His agenda is already clear. That article you sent certainly makes it no less clear.

Although, I do find the below deliciously ironic:

Finally, there’s the lower class. The problem here is social breakdown. Something like a quarter to a third of American children are living with one or no parents, in chaotic neighborhoods with failing schools.

Many of these children have navigated the most treacherous of social environments. Abuse at home, gangs in the neighborhood, and no teaching at school. You'd think they'd be the intellectual highlights of our country. They're not, because everyone really knows that this is not sufficient, nor effective.

This article by Brooks is really saying two things, and is largely unrelated to his later article:

1) The free market doesn't work. People should forego higher paying jobs and do jobs that better help the country. Almost like a large-scale self-imposed socialism.

2) Businesses can't be bothered to train people that don't have college degrees. There are millions of people in the inner city that have the social skills, but not the book smarts or degrees.

Brooks's should put his money where his mouth is and implore businesses to swoop into Watts and hire the available talent. He won't though, because he doesn't actually believe that this is where the intellectual horsepower is. He thinks its at Harvard and MIT, but he'd like you to believe its in Smalltown USA.
Too bad its obvious the new money is going into 3D, not the things he may have spent the last 40 years perfecting.

How much of the $3.50 "3D upcharge" is this guy seeing? My initial guess is "none."
Google employees snooping personal data is a real issue that has actually happened. I don't think an illustrative guide in and of itself is a bad way to convey information.
Spot on. I do mention in the article that the price of ARMH probably takes everything I mention into account already. I fully realize that buying ARMH right now is a gamble. It's one I'm willing to take though (even if just for the fun of it). Someone else more rational might want to stick to index funds. :)
Privacy issues are a concern, but is this privacy issue a concern?
And she's fixed.
> The campaign was more than just Mac v.s. PC. It was also the Apple ecosystem.

It was mostly about the Mac OS X vs. Windows. And I'll repeat, they are still not ahead there.

> Just look at the growth of Apple after a campaign where it attack the PC. Discounting this isn't smart.

Correlation != causation. I would say instead, "Just look at the growth of Apple after it introduced several really amazing products that had no equal in the marketplace".
The map is actually a reasonably accurate reflection of where the largest communities of Asian British and South Asian immigrants live.

That said, whether it's disproportionately common amongst Indian ethnic groups or otherwise, you won't meet that many Patels even in the relevant parts of London. To put things into perspective, the population of Greater London is ~7 million, and there are <100,000 Patels in the entire UK
sources:
http://gbnames.publicprofiler.org/Statistics.aspx?name=PATEL...
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/5040755/Britains-most...

If you want a better picture of the relative sizes of UK ethnic groups by district (amongst many other demographic factors) then the interactive map at www.censusprofiler.org is awesome.
A time based view would be interesting.

The next generation moves away form these ghettos and assimilates into the rest of London, after a few generations there are only hotspots of the original immigrants left in these places and then usually only if there are strong religous reasons.

If you go into London through the east end (Brick lane etc) the names of pubs are Huguenot (from early 1800s) then there are names of Jewish merchants and tailors on the top floors of buildings (from the early 1900s) then the ground floor is now Bangladeshi.
The red flag that I see which tells me that this guy doesn't know what he's doing is his inclusion of a leveraged ETF into a long term (i.e. not day traded) portfolio. Leveraged ETFs are weird and they _do no_ return 2x over a long period of time. I'm not talking about their fees, I'm talking about the fundamentals of how they are put together. These funds attempt to give you 2x every day and they reset every day so that over the course of a week they have tried to double the index's returns 5 times over five separate days. They have not tried to double the index's return over the entire week.

tl;dr Leveraged ETFs are for day-trading not buy and hold investing.
Another issue with this is that it gives Google Analytics a pretty dominant advantage. Suddenly all other analytics packages are shut out of Google search query data, unless Google is benevolent enough to create an API for it.
You should probably add a contact form / email address to http://www.startupbook.net/. I ordered the book ~15 mins ago and I haven't gotten a confirmation email yet.
Here's a counter seditious thought ;-)

Everyone spotlights the biggest success stories (in your case Google) and tries to exrapolate what the average should do to be like them.

However, the average case won't be like the outliers regardless of what methodological is followed, and maximizing the profit for the average startup is likely wildly different from maximizing the profit of the outliers.

Secondly, Google acted like an average startup--seeking funding, seeking sale to Microsoft, Yahoo, et all---until they stumbled upon their disruptive technology: ads.

So unless your startup is likely to revolutionize the industry its good advice to follow proven techniques for profit making.
I like when people subtly tweak their iPhone messages. A friend for a while used "Sent from my iPhome"
You're right, I'm sorry.

It lets you transfer small amounts on the web, but it's not for billing.
I'm curious about how caffeine consumption goes up when waking up earlier. I find that when I wake up earlier I will sometimes drink an extra cup or two of coffee throughout the day to try and stay alert, though I suppose if waking up earlier became a habit then maybe caffeine consumption would level off?
... she found programming languages to be hopelessly nitpicky with nonsense rules and no relation whatsoever to languages used to communicate between humans.

I find that funny. Has she tried learning Russian?

As far as being "just another form of language;" I think the assumption is quite reasonable. However, like any significantly complex language it's easy to learn enough to get around and order dinner. But to be conversant enough to explain to someone how to perform a complex task in that langauge is quite another. I read somewhere once that people generally only have a certain amount of space in their brains in which to assimilate a language to such an extent.
According to my experience with non-profit web projects the "About" page is even more important than on other site. Maybe you want to make it even easier to reach and add some more information, pictures... to build trust and make sure that real people are behind this and that it's not a scam.
Appropriately, the photo for this story is from (the filmatization of) a Gibson novel.
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Really like the little logos in the text, next to the links. Hate the way chrome cold-loads them a good few hundred milliseconds before the fonts, and I just see a load of icons floating in white emptiness before the text appears.
I agree that it's not easy for some. I watched a group of intelligent people who'd forgotten all their high school math try and learn programming for 9 weeks and it was unproductive. Math builds abstraction upon abstraction, and programming does too.

There was a study two years ago showing that learning maths literally rewires your brain (noticeable on scans)... so it's not just a matter of adding some more knowledge - it's a different way of thinking.
There are of-course grey areas, but the key is the community. They don't optimize it for "where do I ask the question?". You could probably ask it in Yahoo answers or Mahalo then, that pretend to answer it all in one place. Or Quora.

The key is to create a community of people with common interest, where there is enough interest (Area 51) and have them connected. Getting answers is a side effect. They have nailed this part and you have to give it to them.

For what it is worth, questions that doesn't belong in a site are automatically, and generally quickly moved.
While I think an immersive VR system would be great, I don't understand the appeal of a 3D movie as exists today. Then again, I never understood the appeal of surround sound, since unless I can turn and see something behind me, it makes no sense that sound would come from there. I'm just a four channel (stereo + center + sub) kind of guy.
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Founder of PoundWire explains how the modern lean startup founder is similar to the gold miners of the 1800's.
>Tracking is okay because you are being tracked.

Wrong. I never said tracking was "ok" on the merit that it's already happening. It can't be stopped and basically because we fuel it. I give the Web a lot of information about myself. From typing queries into a search engine to storing my photos, thoughts, and relationships in Facebook. I, like millions (billions, really) of other people have willingly sacrificed a certain level of privacy by using these free services who make money off our data.

>Would you be against tracking in real life? Cameras everyone out in public? In your home?

Tracking people with cameras, or in their homes (get real, dude) is so far removed from the kind of opt-in tracking we're talking about. I call it opt-in because you wouldn't be tracked if you didn't participate. Being watched by some government agency in your home, presumably against your will, is a far leap from here. You're really grasping at straws.
DuckDuckGo.com returns the Stack Overflow article as the first search result for your query, and doesn't return the spam page at all. Instead of complaining about Google, why not use a better search engine?

Try it: http://duckduckgo.com/?q=perlmagick+remove+exif
You probably missed the original wave of Mac vs PC ads.
Your entire coverage of this point is a single heavily-hedged sentence at the end of your stock-picking section, followed by "they could have said the same about AAPL", as if the success of the iPhone somehow guaranteed that ARMH would track AAPL (it does not). Also, the word "perhaps". No, not "perhaps". Iron certainty.
"Haecceity also explains why you can gradually replace every atom in an object so that it not longer contains any of the original material and yet psychologically, we consider it to be the same object."

This is why sports fanaticism is very hard for me to relate to.
Shall we use “IPcalypse” or “IPocalypse” for the hype around the end of IPv4?
Not sending the Referer header at all can break some sites, probably more than is acceptable to do by default. But stripping the query part of the Referer header might be reasonable. Probably the main side effect of that would be to make Google mad. (P.S. the header is called "Referer", not "HTTP_REFERER").
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Induction doesn't actually hold like that when you start applying things that require finite resources, such as time. Is it easy for me to find a dollar? Sure, I could get it any number of ways. It's slightly more difficult for me to $10,000. Now apply "induction" to amounts > $100,000,000.
The developer is from Scotland, he lives and works on the island. Sounds like a nice life.
You mean, check with my local library here in Poland, right?

Don't place me in the "doesn't want to pay for content" box. I am OK with paying for content and I do pay for many things online. But there are two issues with ACM:

1. The research has been paid for with taxpayers' dollars (I wasn't the taxpayer, but still).

2. $15 is really expensive.

And of course, if it were just one article that would advance my work a lot, I'd gladly pay. But you don't know that ahead of time. And if you're building startups, you usually do a lot of wide-area research, so it isn't that one article, it's hundreds of articles that you need to skim through.

I also don't buy the argument that we need to pay so much just so that we get peer-reviewed content. JMLR (Journal of Machine-Learning Research) is a prime example that this need not be the case.
BTW, DDG still leaks search terms:

* Disable javascript
* Do a search
* Click on an https result

Your search terms are sent to the website as referrer.

Referer	https://duckduckgo.com/html?q=https

If you're going to claim to be whiter than white, you better cover all bases.
How about, "in comparison to software development, 'programming' is easy"?
Wow, the last one on that page is actually a recognized "Dark Pattern"¹:

ACM used to routinely request certain kinds of "volunteered" contributions
and/or subscriptions on my annual invoicing. They would do this by adding
the things they wanted me to do (without my requesting it) and make me
have to line out the items I didn't want.

This is known as "Sneak Into Basket": http://wiki.darkpatterns.org/Sneak_into_basket

If anyone has a copy of such an invoice (I've always thought "societies" were silly, never joined ACM when I was in grad school, and refused to join NHS on principle) they should throw a copy up on the Dark Patterns wiki.

¹ Racist nomenclature thumbs down
I don't know about Nav's rule #1: avoid odd numbers.

Studies have looked at meeting efficiency and number of participants and found that 8 is the number of death, with other even numbers not so great either.

To avoid politics, keep the group small.
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IEEE is much more expensive.
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