skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're missing the larger picture. Things like this do work in small scale. There are restaurants that let you "pay whatever you want"; there are musicians that make a decent living selling music that one can get for free either from them or from third parties. People obey traffic signals even when nobody is around to enforce them. Churches survive despite the option of stealing from the collection plate as it goes by. So this sort of thing can work and in many places does work. The main question here is whether one can establish a social norm that encourages more cooperation than defection. For that to work, defection has to garner shame and social disapproval. Hence the reaction you see here.

> about a card that lets rich people buy overpriced coffee for other rich people! (And let's be completely clear, if you are in the position either to use Jonathan's card or have it used for you, you are almost certainly quite well-off.)

The exact thing being shared is irrelevant to the principles involved because if you got it work, it could scale. Something that starts by providing the public good of coffee-sharing might grow to provide other public goods. If the idea isn't strangled in its crib by a wise-ass.

Related analogy: the internet might once have best been described as something that "lets overeducated rich people talk to other overeducated rich people! (And let's be completely clear, if you are in the position to make use of the internet or have it used for you, you are almost certainly quite well-off.)"

When I used to use "mapquest" to print directions or use "google" to find answers to some question, that was once a novel thing that only strange nerdy people did. But because the people who used it benefited back then, everyone benefits today. Almost every new innovation helps "the rich" or well-connected before it helps the masses. At the time silk stockings were invented, the queen of england was among the few who could afford them. TVs were only for rich people when they were invented; ditto VCRs, radios, microwave ovens, cars... So saying "this only helps well-off people!" as an excuse to dismiss an innovation is something most nerds just intuitively reject. So obviously wrong as to be not worth explaining. Hence (I suspect) your downvotes.
How soon does a bike pay back its initial carbon footprint?
Yes I do actually. One organ donator is not as important as the whole of humanity.

Any other opinion is ridiculous and dangerous. An ideology that spares the weak for the whole is dangerous and a violation of natural selection.
You think you're being clever and sarcastic: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NBC_chimes
Did you check? GNU tar will guess based on file suffix.
Read the article. This is almost exactly how the US trademark system works.
Good question. I did a quick Google search and here is a solution. http://sqlmap.sourceforge.net/

You could also let a program like Nessus run on your website. But that goes globally and will detect it.
Is It Time for a New Job?
I'm late to this thread, but I'd like to add that just doing your job very well is a great way to give back to the world.

I design database software. I do it because I think it's cool, and I think it's important to have easy to use software that solves IT problems. My software is now being used in rural hospitals in Africa to update patient records, and in disaster areas to help reunite lost children and parents. I had nothing to do with those things, I just design and write database software, but they built on my work, because I did my job well.

Doing your job well can inspire, make people happy, provide a base, provide stability, etc. It can help others do those things that put a happy tear in your eye, that you know made a profound difference in someones life, you don't need to be the actual hero to do good in the world, to make a real difference.
Companies that do good are becoming more and more popular as companies like TOMS shoes and Ethos water prove the value of cause based marketing. Also, incorporating giving into an existing business is becoming easier. My company, CherryCard, connects charitable giving with everyday purchases by enabling companies to give a percentage of their sales to the charities of their customers' choice. We believe that whenever money changes hands a little bit should go to charity. You'll get 25 cents to give to the charity of your choice for free when you sign up at CherryCard.org so that you can try it out and get a feel for the service. I feel very strongly about the importance and potential of incorporating giving into business, which is why we have built CherryCard to give companies an effective turnkey cause marketing solution and built incentives for companies to give more. If you ever want to chat about the place for giving in business shoot me an email at noahfradin@cherrycard.org. Oh and you should definitely all sign up and give your free 25 cents to The World Food Program. They need the money right now and 25 cents can give a starving child a meal.
> gorilla marketing

I often wish that was the term! FYI, it's guerilla.
There is still a USPS product today which does this net-to-junk mail gateway. It is a usability cluster flop, but the core value prop is good: why print 10 million pieces of mail in California to deliver to St. Louis when you can have a computer in St. Louis do the mail merge and save literally a ton of freight?

I used the customer-facing version to send letters to banks when cleaning up credit issues. (For a variety of reasons, paper works better for this.) It actually worked out to being more expensive to have the Post Office print and deliver 20 PDFs than to do it myself and airmail them 6,000 miles each, but it saved me a trip to the post office.
So, this looks a bit bogus. It doesn't look like it is actually google, but glad to know the workaround.
"a nonprofit/charity will never make as big a difference as a true for-profit vehicle that is pointed at the same problem."

Different domains of problems: a NFP (not for profit) org may not be as _efficient_ as a FP org pursuing the same goal, but you are ignoring that many goals will never be pursued by a profit-seeking entity.

Provision of many "social goods" like shelter for the homeless, health care for poor children, or help for people with severe disabilities (components of the "safety net") will simply never yield a profit margin by virtue of the nature of the underlying problem. This is precisely because if we want to provide such services for people who lack the _ability_ to pay for it, there will be no demand for it.

So, instead, NFPs make a value proposition to _philanthropists_ who want to provide the goods there is no market incentive to provide.

In the public sector corollary, politicians make value propositions to voters, and whichever programs they like (through the mucky, revealed-preference process we call democracy), and the social goods demanded via that process are then implemented through public financing (spreading costs among everyone).

It is the underlying problem -- not the organization type -- that governs whether a venture can be profitable, or even sustainable.
Exactly my point. The previous commenter worried about the rash of "amazingly promising research" articles followed by "FAIL."
With this type of promising animal data, the prospects are good.
Ask HN: Using search ads to target potential employers Good or Bad?
Curious what HN thinks about targeting current employees of a startup where I would like to work with FB ads that express my desire to work there. My thinking is that anything that might help me stand out from other candidates can't hurt, but do you think this is too much? Potentially negative even?
My experience is that Java applets take longer to start up, and are less responsive than flash apps, and take up more system resources.
Is there such a thing as a good virus (don't just think of your own body as well, think of ecosystems, symbionts etc)? Couldn't there be some harmful implications of a drug that eliminates ALL viruses?
"The collection itself is exhausting: what each of our friends is doing at that particular moment and then the next moment and the next one; who Jennifer Aniston is dating right now; which video is going viral on YouTube this hour; what Princess Letizia or Kate Middleton is wearing that day."

To say this is a modern construct is false. People may not have been following Jennifer Aniston, but they were doing whatever the equivalent was at the time. As with any generation, there will be your rare innovators as well as your 'average chumps.'
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It's a similar failing: there's a gap between the ultimate good provided by a non-profit and its metric for funding (which is why grant-writing is a much more sought-after skill than most programmatic work).

For corporations, there's often a gap between financial performance (particularly short-term) and real shareholder/owner value.

It's ethically important to see not just private gain (compensation) but also try to honestly assess one's positive impact on the world (though this does not discount, for example, donations to charitable causes, or the contribution to public goods through taxation).
I'm the co-founder of TechiesGiveBack (techiesgiveback.org). We are aimed at helping the NY tech community give back to charity. We've considered different ways for how to approach this problem. I've also been approached or spoken to a variety of different companies looking to make a difference - Crowdrise, IndieGoGo (which we used for a recent fundraising campaign), Let's Give, and others.

Just spoke to Gabriel Weinberg about his open source tithing effort this morning (http://www.gabrielweinberg.com/blog/2010/11/help-me-start-a-...).

We are working on our own new initiative which will allow mature startups and tech companies to let their employees donate a little bit of their paycheck to charity. I'd be happy to talk about that over email...

(We don't take any money for ourselves - we do it pro bono and all work in tech. We raise money for other charities).
https://www.learnboost.com/ uses node for their whole backend. They also have authored and maintain several useful modules such as mongoose.
A reminder that we should be thankful for the academic orgins of the winning Internet standards. We could live in a world of fragmented protocols and pay walls at every turn. Instead we live in a world where the hacker standard prevails - that everything should be free unless it is truly a unique value add.

Imagine if Linux or BSD had been positioned such that they won the consumer OS war. Now imagine if AOL won the war for consumer Internet standards. Some may argue, but I believe this could have happened had TCP/IP and HTML not landed full force with as such an open, powerful, and stable alternative - largely due to years of academic and scientific influence.

AOL failed to adopt the way Microsoft did, and the open Internet was already compelling as a consumer experience, so they would have had a more difficult time competing - but it might have happened.

Had the same occurred for consumer OS, we could live in a different world of open desktop standards. We appear to be headed that way 30 years later through the browser, but it's going to take at least another 5 or 10 years to supplant proprietary desktop OSes.

We do have a similar battle going on for the mobile platform. I'm an avid Apple user and fan, but I'm rooting ultimately for HTML5 as the standard for developing apps. Let's just hope it's good enough to compete.
Well, a problem with the Austrian framework in this context is that there are things we need to finance as social goods (desired outcomes by society at large) that can never be structured to be profitable.

This is, incidentally, the classical economic case for both governmental provision of public goods, taxation, and regulation.
How does he steer? There must be a lot of angular momentum stored in that flywheel, making turning a non-trivial exercise in managing angular momentum.
From a CNN article quoting Jonathan Stark:

"Jonathan's Card is an experiment in social sharing of physical goods using digital currency on mobile phones ...," he wrote on his site.
Lemme guess... They fucked up their server?
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> I feel it's impolite to subject your users to be tracked by Google and other huge companies just because they visited your website.

It's also probably illegal in Europe now, though at least in the UK the authorities have declared a one year moratorium on taking action over it because the new privacy rules on cookies etc. are practically unworkable even if well-intentioned.
No. As I understand GAAP, the projected inflation and projected income (including interest) are taken into account at least annually. The company then pays the delta (or underpays the next installment by the delta, if appropriate).

A problem many govt agencies had over the past decade (even before the collapse) was too conservative of estimates on inflation and too exuberant estimates of interest. There was, for example, a federal policy (law, IIRC) passed early in the decade (2004-ish?) that many school districts and other agencies struggled with.
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Jim has written large amounts of Ruby code at Yammer (and Javascript, for that matter). I'm pretty sure he knows the difference.
What type of work do you want to do that startup? If it's something marketing related, then use marketing tricks, but if you want to write code, then make something useful for their startup and offer, perhaps, as open source. Unless you are trying to brainwash them to remember your photo subconsciously, ads aren't going to do any good.
I think it would be creepy to target rank & file employees of your target employer with FB ads. Most of them aren't in a position to help anyway.

It might be interesting to buy AdWords on your name so your preferred spiel comes up when people Google you. I'm not sure if it's all that much more effective than just having a decent homepage though.
As I understand it, the main objection to `__proto__` is that it's writable, and thus not atomic with object creation. This creates a bunch of headaches for implementors for performance and security.

More knowledgable people than myself discuss it on this es-discuss thread:
http://www.mail-archive.com/es-discuss@mozilla.org/msg06142....

There is a Harmony proposal for a "set prototype of operator" that would solve this problem; instead of writing:

var newObj = {__proto__: OldObject, id: 5}

You would write:

var newObj = OldObject <| { id: 5 }

Detailed here:
http://wiki.ecmascript.org/doku.php?id=harmony:proto_operato...
Don't cars also cost energy to produce? ...likely substantially more than a bicycle too?

And even then, I would imagine, if you're changing your mode of transportation, you're selling your car, and thus preventing someone else from buying a new one? i.e., reducing the number of new cars sold.
Its successor Self shows even more what OO is really about.
efficiency. I don't think that word means what you think it means.

In any free market situation, like retail stores, you don't see lines as long, or employees that unhelpful. If there are 40 people in line (not uncommon at my local DMV), their time is actively wasted by one DMV employee who should be making as much as a retail cashier, but isn't because of gov't and union benefits. Opening up one more 'cashier lane' at the DMV would reduce everyone else's wasted time, so they can go back to being productive.

It's not enough to analyze just the DMV's side of the equation, you have to look at both sides to get the whole story.

It's the same story with, e.g. traffic. Minimizing traffic repair costs, at a cost of longer repair times, forcing every single person in town take longer to get to work is a huge net loss.
> What we should learn from this isn't that ideas are bad. It's that ideas are very powerful.

Actually what we should learn is that ideas are powerful and especially dangerous if they are combined with a general lack of information and alternative viewpoints as was the case in the first half of the 20th century.

You are incorrect in stating that Nazism was not primarily idea driven. The whole "nationalism" thing started off as a powerful idea in the early 19th century spearheaded by the Romanticist zeitgeist. Previously, people imagined their "tribes" as consisting of their immediate family, relatives, and perhaps friendly neighbors. Europe consisted of multiethnic empires at the time. With the rise of nationalist ideas, people started to imagine their tribes as all people speaking the same language and being of the same "race". Also, don't forget the "socialist" part in Nazism, which was also idea-driven. I recommend watching "The Goebbels Experiment" (IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0458375/) to get a hint on how significant the idea-driven propaganda/brainwashing was in the rise of Nazism.

The nationalist wave started off somewhere in Central Europe and reached other parts of the continent much later -- it is still causing trouble in Russia (the surprising rise of neo-Nazi skinheads there with the fall of the USSR), Northern Ireland, the Balkans, and the Basque Country in Spain, for example.
Never heard of him but I'm definitely going to watch that talk :)
Yes, it's irresponsible to _only_ excoriate the line workers. But wholly absolving them does no good either.

Surely, there's enough blame to go around.

(With an added helping for Congress, perhaps?)
At the moment it IS pretty basic. However, this is just an Alpha which we built in 5 days as a proof-of-concept. Ultimately we aim to add much richer information that gives insights into how users are interacting with the content on the site, and whether individual pages (or even clusters of pages) are fulfilling their intended purpose. In fact, you can see some of our intended functionality over at our UserVoice page:
http://redgate.uservoice.com/forums/129997-pagetrawler
It's a marketing position. I don't expect much to come from running ads, but I am curious to see if it can give me some sort of mind share advantage perhaps. Maybe someone unrelated to the position sees it and then emails someone who is involved in that dept pointing out how "this guy is really eager". I'm more than qualified for the position, but I'm concerned it's so competative I'll get lost in the noise.
Just because an article sounds like something informative and good to read, does not mean it is:

At the end of the day, however, despite all of their common features and unique abilities to copy and spread their genomes, the origins of most viruses may remain forever obscure.
What a terrible reply. If you were ripped off on a large scale and the alleged thief was bragging all over the internet, when you see him mouth off you would say something.

Why lay down like a dog... even if one person reading thinkcomp's comment discovers zuck is not as glorious as he seems imo it's worth it.

let the man be heard without making him feel like shit.
No, but such a process would be compatible with a far more aggressive/creative approach at facilitating the widespread cooperation (among public and private entities) needed to solve the problem.

Perhaps government has a role in highway planning, but I think it should act more like cooperation infrastructure provider rather than system designer.
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The paywall is ludicrously easy to circumvent - clearing cookies, Chrome's incognito window, deleting the &gwh=stuff from the end of each page URL where you hit the wall.

But after a couple months of doing this, I paid for access. I'm not a rich man, I don't have money to throw at things I don't need, but I felt that the value I was getting from the NYT's reporting was worth paying for. I can't buy a copy here (although I do when I'm in the US) so this is my way of supporting great journalism.

I wonder how many people like me are out there - circumventing the paywall with ease, reading as many NYT articles each month as they want for free, but eventually deciding to pay to support the paper? Or am I an edge case? What I'm getting at is maybe the paywall's deliberately easy to get around, so you realise what value you're getting from the NYT.
> a virtual destructor is only required when the class, or its base classes, already have another virtual function

Your derived class only needs a virtual destructor if the base class's destructor is public. If the base class destructor is protected (or private), then no one can call delete on a pointer to a base class.
I agree with the author in that there seems to be a general lack of thought in society as a whole. However, I would say that the information glut we're exposed to is only one of the reasons - and different reasons apply to different people.

I would include the "rat race" or "daily grind" into these reason pool for a lack of critical thought. So much of our brain power is demanded for tasks that are unoriginal, uninspired and uninnovative that when ( or even if ) we have a chance to sit and think critically, our brains are sapped and it becomes easier to let a pundit or a blogger form our thoughts for us.

Another big reason is the lack of incentive put forth in the article. An innovative idea has little to know value to society if not immediately monetizeable.
This is not so much a minimum viable product as a proof-of-content (we knocked it together in 5 days to see if there'd be interest in what we'd like to build).

Agreed that taking guesses is not ideal - we'd like to give users the ability to give authenticated access to services like Google analytics / Clicktales / native CMS analytics & siphon off the raw data they need, and then do our own additional assessments with it.
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