skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Similar thread from a while back mentioning charitywater http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2822610 Spammy?

And I'll start with my old answer here.

I'm suspicious of attempts to solve problems in the developing world that aren't part of an all around solution. Making it easier to grow food, get water without a simultaneous plan to lower population size is a dangerous game. I think the old school approaches to charity are very wrong and if you want to do something useful for humanity, they are the last place to do it.

Yes the responses about making it easier to market crap being useful to humanity are funny and cruel. But they hint that we in the developed world don't care about poverty. We've seen many shocking ads with starving children asking for money and now we are disillusioned because charities haven't delivered after decades. In the US, well intentioned programs implemented in the 70's made the problem much worse.

Poverty in poor countries won't end until developed countries let them into the global economy on fair terms. That's how China got where it is and now we market their crap on iPhones. Is that a better world? Not exactly.
It's a relative import -- where "relative" here is like relative vs. absolute paths. See:

http://docs.python.org/tutorial/modules.html
Very interesting to explore, starting with his bold assumption that anti-matter and matter are gravtiationally repulsive. That seems to lead down many inetresting corridors with delightful consequences to attempt to disprove.
Even better (from the perspective of those suing), it appears that Apple and at least one publisher (Simon and Schuster) might be "cheating" on the agency model:

http://theorangeview.net/2011/08/is-simon-and-schuster-cheat...

As the iBookstore seems to be the only bookstore with this kind of special deal, that certainly adds some evidence pointing towards collusion.
Mind explaining what question 2 is actually asking? (Not the solution just the question)
Stephen Covey gives a useful framework: Do the intersection of your ability, the existing need, your interest, and the important. Ask yourself, "What can I do (ability) that other people value (need), that I like (interest) and that I feel is ultimately important?

Also, before you embark on saving the world, you might want to study a little Austrian economics. A lot of charity work and government programs are inefficient or actually contributing to poverty because they are contrary to economic law. You don't want spend few years of your life trying to solve poverty only to realize that you've been part of the problem.

In general, societies become wealthy when they are virtuous and economically free. Virtue causes them to generate and keep wealth. Economic freedom helps them build wealth efficiently. If you want to make any society richer from a macro level, you might focus on improving one or both of these: help that society become more virtuous and more free.

Regarding virtue, you might work to decrease drunkenness (Alcoholics Annonymous), drug use, and other vices. These activities harm individuals and their families and contribute to poverty.

Regarding freedom, you might work in politics to protect property rights, to have sound money and market prices, to allow people to work without licensing and other artificial restrictions, to reduce taxes. You can also work to spread price information and make markets more efficient (Craigslist, EBay and AirBnB do this.)

On a lower abstract level, you can work to produce some good or service which people value but is in short supply. That is, find a popular, over-priced good or service, and offer it at a lower price and better quality. Khan Academy is doing this for K-12 education.
My father also drilled the same idea in me when I grew up. But as of late I started to notice things that do not quite follow this golden rule.

Take following examples:

1, when in a group of friends engaging in casual conversation, staying quiet tend to get you ignored. You will be labeled as "that quiet person" unless you are already a respected member of the group.

2, in business meetings, the most important persons on the table will never get ignored. And it's best for them to NOT dominate the meeting so the other attendees can express their views.

3, The ability of commanding a conversation is highly valued in society, and such skill cannot be gained by being quiet all the time. In fact, even conveying your message across the table takes skills that can only be learned after much practice.
I've always cringed at the name "dark matter". There is a discrepancy between what our models predict and what is observed and so we pick one of the possible explanations (there's some matter there that we can't see) and name it that. Then all of the discovery channel scientists try to explain what dark matter is to the general public by invoking this hidden matter theory.

I think it would be much better if we referred to the gravitational pull discrepancy as the problem itself and called "dark matter" just one of the possible explanations.
The D programming language has a number of features that are strongly oriented towards being able to deal with very large code bases:

1. checkable function purity
2. checkable transitive immutability
3. code can be divided into checkably memory safe code and unsafe code
4. anti-hijacking enforcement
5. modules with closed name spaces
6. memory is thread local by default (shared memory is typed differently)
7. look for non-null pointers in the near future
1- Help others do something meaningful to them.

2- Or do like Billy. Create a monopoly in an industry and rip most of the benefits. Then take the profits and eradicate Malaria.

Note: It is arguable that Bill Gates alone does more good than all the charity donated through DonorsChoose or Kiva etc..
Couple of things I keep in mind while speaking:

1. If you've lost your audience, get them back or stop talking. Be on the lookout for subtle indicators that your audience has gotten distracted or bored.

2. If you can, think beforehand on what you want to communicate, and how to do it in the shortest time possible that still gets the message across. Kind of like debate team, except friendlier.

3. Remember, you have 2 eyes, 2 ears and one mouth: use them in that ratio.

4. Don't "filibuster". Sometimes I have a habit of talking to fill the void or just to hold on to control until I can think of what to say next. It's a bad habit, and I cut myself off if I catch myself doing it.
there is O(m*n) solution for problem 1.
Here's an idea, if a dozen people manage to take control of a few planes, let's make it an extreme hassle for everyone to fly and harass millions of innocent flyers each and every week, for the rest of history (then copy that approach to other modes of transportation).

Technology doesn't manufacture the evil in society, it just makes it really obvious and puts it in the foreground. Maybe the evil needs to be circumvented far earlier on a more fundamental level instead of trying to hide it away.
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My issue with non profits is that lots of them actually just use it as a cover. Someone may still be getting rich slowly.
I actually love this post because I agreed with this video while agreeing with the Gizmodo post.

The Greeks had multiple meanings for the word love which I think is more appropriate. I believe that one can have intimacy with an object or a person which can be perceived as the the equivalent of 'sexy' in its varied meaning.
Amazon applies for patent to help protect falling phones with airbags
Crowdfunding for new Common Lisp portability layer: Madeira
> It builds your constitution slowly but in a way that cannot be achieved in a gym, because it happens in a natural way, not artificially.

That has an appealing ring to it but could you be more specific? What's a concrete physical task that could not be accomplished by a well-rounded exerciser? I'm not talking about Mr Biceps Curl and his good friend Mr Triceps Kickback but someone who does a mix of pulling sleds, carrying sandbags, flipping tires, squatting and deadlifting, snatching and clean & jerking barbells, doing muscle-ups, iron crosses, front and back levers on the bars and rings, and whatever else you might include in a varied exercise regimen.
1) Chef has a list of 250 3-letter codes

2) He randomly picks 5 of them as "special"

3) He makes a list X of all unique letters in the codes of these 5 dishes

4) Guest picks a random dish. There are a few things that can happen:

A) The code of that dish has a letter that's not on the list X. Ignore.

B) All letters of that dish are on the list X. Two options:

B1) The dish the guest picked is one of the 5 special.

B2) The dish the guest picked is not one of the 5 special.

The first question is - how often does B2 happen?

The answer to the second question of that problem is obvious, you don't need to write any code.
You know that he reads Hacker News. This piece of information alone tells me a whole lot about a person.
Pictures of Osama Bin Laden Phishing attack on Twitter
Re: Health Issues

Assuming they are RSI related:

I highly recommend "Conquering Carpal Tunnel Syndrome and Other Repetitive Strain Injuries" by Sharon Butler

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1572240393

RSI cannot be cured but it can be managed. For those of you who are fortunate to be able to take keyboard input for granted, please be wary of any soreness or minor pain. Over time, pain and soreness can become chronic. The bright side is dealing with RSI forces you to realize that you cannot take your career for granted; it gives you perspective.

Good luck! Be wary of magic solutions, something may not work for you.

Changing careers is not as black and white as most careers require significant computer work. You cannot escape computers in this modern age. Get the best help that you can, surgery is not a magic cure
My understanding is that it is a weighted average of some sort. I have sometimes experienced what you describe but I suspect it is a miss-attribution -- that I happen to have recently had a post voted up x amount, I check my average karma thinking it "should" go up but it happens to have gone down, most likely not related to that one post. The avg doesn't update continuously. I have no idea what triggers the timing of the updates.

Attempting to be helpful to the best of my ability. Ever since I first saw this I was doing my best to resist the temptation to suggest you must have stood too close to me at some point. But such humor is often a good way to get into trouble.

Best of luck figuring this out and, if you do, hey, give me a holler and let me know what the answer is.
Appreciate you sharing your missteps and successes. It's also awesome to see the lean startup process in action rather than just hear people talk about it. Congrats!
Action research paper Means
Action research paper is a type of college research paper with the main aim of calling on the readers to take a certain action to carry out change. In this type of research document, you will be making the readers see the need for a change through a possible wrong behavior
How to digitally sign a word document in Word 2010?
How to digitally sign a word document in Word 2010 ?
Ten Million-Dollar Start-Up Mistakes
It might have something to do with the query looking a lot like a google dork (a search used to find vulnerable web apps)
Yeah, dynamic programming. It's a well known problem. I'm pretty sure you can just convert the matrix to 1s and 0s, and dump it into Matlab.
not e.g. with 64-bits, va args and literal 0 (cf FrankBooth example)
I've read up a lot on houseSYSTEM and it sounded really cool. You should have kept it going.

But yeah, Zuckerburg is a liar about a lot of things. People give him a lot more credit than he deserves. I still believe the Winklevosses about him stealing their idea, it seems like the kind of thing he'd do.
It could have 0 impact if you don't use it (like a lot of things in C++)
Anyone remember that time T-Mobile tried to get Engadget Mobile to change their colours?

http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/31/deutsche-telekom-t-mobile...
http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/01/painting-the-town-magenta...
Is it DP? I think DP is O(N^3)? That will be a funny way(Matlab) to solve this...
Try powering up on caffeine and then immediately taking a nap. The caffeine takes a few minutes to kick in, and when you wake you'll feel the combined effect of a short nap and the caffeine.

I recall reading about a study which showed that this method is quite effective, but I don't have a link handy.
Not working. Shows the Login page.
There is a certain kind of project where you're not sure, at the outset, if what you want to do is even possible due to performance issues. Obviously, that question needs to be answered as early as possible, and so the project is about "optimization" from day one.

A good example is id games -- Quake, Doom, et al. They design games around technology. They need to figure out exactly what the engine can do before anything else.

Phones and tablets are making this sort of project common again as people push the limits of those platforms.
It doesn't matter if Sam is donating the money to charity. Fact is that he stole money from kind-hearted people who thought they were buying coffee for others. Like I said in the other comments, you wouldn't rob a bank and then try to make up for it by donating all that money to charity, right?
(little nitpicking note : there are cases where it can be useful to have a virtual descriptor as the only virtual method of a class)
The true price of publishing
(Maybe it's just me being overly... I don't know the word, but overly something...:)

> And It’s funny to see those comments on a site titled “HackerNews.”

It's as if he's trying to guilt people here into thinking "oh, that's true! Startups have to disrupt! Therefore it's okay for him to fuck with stuff because he's a startup! It's okay!". Which to me is really really lame. Let people form their own opinions.

The social experiment was people giving to others, for the experiment succeed it required people to pay it forward, for it to fail it'd require people to not pay it forward, based on Jonathan's reply[1] to the entire situation I think it's pretty clear there was never the intention or expectation that someone asshat would come along and take all the money.

Why they're still trying to justify this and won't just accept they shit all over something good is beyond me, maybe they're that desperate for publicity that this is all they can do. Grasping at every last second.

[1]: http://jonathanstark.com/blog/2011/08/13/an-open-letter-to-s...
If that really motivates you, go for it. If you think you can make a difference in communities struck by poverty, start a company. A few ideas are a simple social donation service with a spin or a site that allows you to send items easily through the mail (eBay for charity).
Step 1: learn about what is and isn't meaningful, instead of uncritically assuming altruistic morality is true and devoting your life to doing what is "meaningful" according to some other people. Be your own guide instead of just assuming charity = meaningful.

Read Atlas Shrugged.
He might have meant for you to replace "gruber's readers" as "Apple fanboys".
Thanks! It would have been nice, but it was hard to find support at the time (and not much has changed).

The Winklevosses aren't much better for the record. They lied on national television. Compare this (3:45):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KzN6XWDEmXI

Q: Did you contribute information and material to the making of this movie?

A: No, but we actually met with the actors after the filming.

...to this:

http://www.thinkpress.com/authoritas/20090910.letter.pdf

"In addition, I can confirm that Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss were interviewed by Mr. Mezrich."

These guys were all made for each other, though I think Paul Ceglia takes the cake for most outrageous.
Regarding 3, I've always thought that was a weak justification for listening more and speaking less. I agree with the moral, but the same logic can be applied to arrive at a number of ridiculous conclusions.

Regarding 4, Yes. Absolutely. The art of conversation is a delicate one, and I've witnessed the 'hold the reigns' phenomenon often. (I'm one of the worst offenders.) What's helped me is to imagine what my point and the supporting statements are before opening my mouth. If I know what I need to say before I start speaking, I'm less likely to ramble until I'm satisfied my point is made.
Deserved or not, Mersenne Twister is somewhat famous among laymen like myself for being very fast relative to it's reasonably high quality. If you can point me at an RNG that is both faster and higher quality, I will be genuinely in your debt.
how do you know he assumed? maybe he arrived at that point of view...
Yes, the stream moves too quickly, and this is where tagged-based streams would help. I think submissions would stick around longer in the filtered stream, exposing them for longer periods to people who want to find them.
It's not comparable. Dark matter involves hypothesizing something that is being hypothesized solely to explain certain cosmological problems. If we didn't have those cosmological problems that need explaining, no one would be suggesting dark matter.

The possibility of gravity being repulsive between matter and antimatter was hypothesizes long before we ran into those cosmological problems, and has been subject of sporadic ongoing debate at least as far back as the early to mid 20th century.
Why did Google choose Python?
hmm is it just me or is every answer in this article a bummer.

Sometimes I think we should all just go and sit on a beach
:)

Cheers,

Dean
Numerous of your comments have a very mean tone, can you remember that the companies you list each have numerous people all of whom have spent many years of brutally hard work to get to where they are today, in fact, can you just be much nicer?
> international photojournalism is practical/useful

True, I was looking for a right word, but couldn't find it.

What I meant was that people and businesses need programmers. For most flavors of 'programmer' the demand is quite stable, and it isn't going away because "the economy is bad!". If you are e.g. a freelance webdeveloper (at least a reasonably good one) you can be sure that in the next year demand for your work will be comparable to this year's.

On the other hand, AFAICT demand for photographs is much more volatile (at least for most kinds of photographs), and I think it's because people find it much easier to do without them than without webpages when they need to cut something. I know it works this way for artwork. I might be wrong, just sayin'.
Completely agree. In a related note, I think a hypocrisy that many people who help "Humanity" commit is to be condescending and cruel to people around them. That makes me suspicious that they are helping Humanity at large for their own self glory, not to really help other people. I guess they are still helping, but...come on...
Yes. See the case of In re Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corp., 774 F.2d 1116 (Fed. Cir. 1985). Here's a copy of the decision: http://ftp.resource.org/courts.gov/c/F2/774/774.F2d.1116.84-...
Might look into real estate and buying trustee sales at the courthouse steps and reselling for a profit. It usually takes a team of people. You could probably find some initial investors. It needs some computer work, but you'll be mostly running around seeing houses and overseeing rehabs. Money is decent.
That benefit has to be offset by the harm. If he is getting that $1,000 to help a logging company gain the rights to clearcut old growth forest, then his additional hour may be net harm, even if he donates the $1000 to help clean up a beach.

At the big dollar amounts, are you going to be able to make the ethical choices to only choose cases that do not do net harm? Perhaps, but not guaranteed, and one "no" to one client can lose you a big client and cause trouble getting the next.
Nice topic.

Though not related solving these basic need problems, I'm working on providing very low cost (free) communication for people far away. Hopefully I'll get something to show soon.
A link for the full article, if you don't want to hit "next page" seven times:

http://www.businessweek.com/print/magazine/content/11_23/b42...
Of course he didn't want to take over the world. No wonders, most of the so called "Next Big Thing" goes this way...
> I'm sure sitting on a bike is better for you than sitting on a chair

Bike seats are pretty hard on penises, though. Google "penis and bike seats" for a ton of articles (including some interesting specialty bike seats to alleviate the problems).
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Even if you(or your app) could bring smile on someone's face or help to gain confidence then I think still you are going to make someone's life better. This is what I had in mind when I created my 1st iPhone app,"Am I Beautiful?"

http://mib.sidlabs.com

It is not necessary you get involved in something big. Start from small thing and then try something big.

My 2 Cents
Nintendo's pressure to make iOS games
Immediate and long term results are both worthy and needed. It's just a choice: do you want to work in the world's emergency room, or in patient education?
I like how you illustrate in a clear way something that is unintuitive for people coming from a more traditional class-based background; the scoping of this.

It's easy to see how it applies locally to descendants of the original object, such as here:

var person = Object.create(null);
defineProperty(person, 'fullName', function() {
return this.firstName + ' ' + this.lastName;
});

where neither fullname nor person even have those properties, but their descendents do.
I'd suggest that your happy path integration tests would be a good place to start, coupled with a database loaded more heavily than you expect in the real world.
You can see how the migration is going at http://odbl.de/
Acceptance is very low in Australia.
... and your point is?
"data:" URLs are pretty good for this too, no web request needed. See RFC2397.

I've been using these a bit lately for little icons and such, I think its a cleaner approach than spriting in a lot of cases. I put a little script to generate data URLs up at http://nick.zoic.org/art/etc/make-data-url.html

How good is cross-platform Unicode support these days? I do like the idea of just using characters which look like icons, even if it does feel a bit like writing MS-DOS TUIs with box-drawing characters :-).
There's Random Hacks of Kindness (http://www.rhok.org/):

"Random Hacks of Kindness is a community of innovation focused on developing practical open source solutions to disaster risk management and climate change adaptation challenges. Random Hacks of Kindness was founded in 2009 in partnership between Google, Microsoft, Yahoo!, NASA and the World Bank."

Johnny Long founded Hackers for Charity in 2008: http://www.hackersforcharity.org/ - see announcement talk: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CWrzVJYLWw

Hack for Change (http://hackforchange.com/) might be interesting as well.
You'll have to see the film :-) Should be available soon on iTunes and shortly thereafter on DVD. Or, if you really can't wait, drop me a line and I'll send you a copy. Sign up for the mailing list to get updates.
The popular site is called Craigslist, one word. If he had called it Craig's List, then yes, you would be able to make your own. It's your given name and a common English word. Not trademarkable.

See also: Windows.
It's not a matter of being happy or not. I believe the desire to redress injustice or unfairness is an evolution trait, just like altruism. Fairness ensures limited resources are distributed to the biggest population in the group, thus increasing the number of members getting the benefit. It helps human as a species to survive better.
It's my understanding that in 1.0, the card barcode/number never changed, so it couldn't have been automated. Someone correct me if I misunderstood.