skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
tldr: The Pittsburgh Community Foundation is a great reference to contact who can explain why some non-profits don't accept donations.

Yes, that is the organization and your points are spot-on. My point was not about the structure of Pittsburgh Foundation but rather related to part of their purpose.

In this particular example, a non-profit may be part of the geographical Pittsburgh community but is not necessarily a member(participant might be a more appropriate word) of the Pittsburgh Foundation "community" which receive donations/grants through them.

So why would a non-profit not be a "community member?"

Go back to my previous post: They should be able to tell you with more clarity and reference as to why some non-profits are not able to (added: or elect not to) receive donations and are possibly not members of their "community."
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3.3V and 1.8V are often used as VCC in embedded processors, and they're the ranges for hard drives & RAM. If you're dealing with those low powered devices, there's usually a dirt-cheap and tiny DC-DC converter on-board. And you're not going to see anything high-powered enough to use these voltages, I don't think.

RE: 12V. Your car's voltage supply has huge margins (ripple, DC offset, etc), but in general - sure.
My only complaint is about the mermaid one. I didn't recognize it at all.

Maybe cause starbucks is that that popular in Europe?
Just to play Devil's Advocate, this is what I'd imagine the average Libertarian response to this would be:

In a free market the consumers hold the power. An ISP that didn't restrict Internet usage or tier what it offered would become in-demand, and would profit and succeed more than the others. In other words, the market would correct itself towards those ISPs that espoused the principles of staying neutral. If that didn't happen, then net neutrality isn't a big enough concern to drive the average consumer's purchase.

It's a simplified generalization, but take from it what you will.
Gross revenue and margin rose. Slow iPhone sales were the only weak spot in the report, which is unsurprising given the age of the current model.
I whole-heartedly agree with the terms, if not quite the tone. I've had to chase companies that had the cash to waste visibly for late payment. I've had to chase companies that wanted to change terms after there was acquisition interest. In both cases, I had to waste time chasing them down and I feel that the usual "net 30" scheme was to blame. The companies see the 30 days as a way to procrastinate after the purchase and the opportunity for a situation change to make things weird creeps in.
In line with Apple's guidance. Who should we trust?
I just bought a house. We closed last Thursday and are moving in on Saturday.

I can tell you it's so true that it's really hard to figure out what's going on. Everybody will tell you different things, different banks and even friends and family.

I couldn't stand it, so I sat down and researched the mortgage calculator formula. It's actually pretty easy:

http://www.hughchou.org/calc/formula.html

I implemented this in javascript and was able to see my monthly payments and project my loan amounts over the years. This gave me a great way to fiddle with lots of parameters and instantly see differences. I was able to graph the results and see exactly where I broke even on different investments, etc, and completely decide, without persuasion, what kind of loan I wanted.

Most loan calculators suck. They don't really let you play around with the parameters, or they aren't clear on what they are including.

I'm happy to see this company because I'm all for opening up this kind of "fiddling" to people who can't program. I feel bad for people who are confused but don't have the skills to sit down and really figure it out. I wish you luck and I hope you better people lives with this.

EDIT: I played around with your tool a little bit. Here's where I think you guys should go: financial advice. Don't force people to tell you what down payment they need. If they don't enter one, suggest a few different amounts and show the difference it makes. If they don't specify a 15 or 30 year loan, show them the differences (pros and cons) and let them decide. In some cases, persuade people to make good financial decisions. You should rarely get a loan without any down payment. Tell people that.
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A bit of a quibble, but I don't like the "Done" button in the data-collection sidebar. I think "Submit," "Update," or "Save" would be better, but I can see where people don't like those words either. They'd seem to be a bit more on-point, though.
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Wonderful work, Nicholas. I'm adding you to my list of good role models for my little boys. The 17-yr-old sports stars get most of the press, because their accomplishments are easily seen. You are the equivalent of a 17-yr-old basketball star with ten years of training behind him, but you play on a court that is nearly invisible (mathematical terrains and state spaces).

You are the kind of role model I want for my boys. Now, I have my work cut out for me explaining to them why. ;-)
Show HN: A cloud based audio editor built in about 100 hours
Still in beta, looking for ideas and testers. Some nice features: You can import from your account on FeedForward (if you have one) and you can import from your desktop. Multitrack recording and editing (right now includes a few editing options, like cut, paste, copy) Publish and even sell your recordings on our platform, commission free. Some things to look out for in the next round: Electronic instruments, more effects for the editor, sequencing, and your ideas! Thanks, and have fun!

PS: No need to sign up to record or export individual tracks or your mix.
Yeah, even when I got the right "colour" if my colour was too dark, or too light, it really punished me. Like downwards of 30/100 for the wrong shade. :(
Pretty fun. It'd be neat to be able to see your choice next to the correct version so you can visually see how "far" you were off.
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You mean Shell? It's a gas and oil company.
The internet has a lot of porn... but I don't think it would be reasonable to conclude the internet promotes porn.

The world has a lot of racists... but I don't think it would be reasonable to conclude the world promote racism.
Minor quibble, but having lived in Atlanta for a decade I feel like I need to mention that the Coca-Cola logo is more typically white text with red background. (for example, at the world of coca-cola: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/9c/Wc_spectacular...)
There's lots of companies already doing this. Every morning in SF you have hundreds of buses filling with young folks commuting to work down at Apple or Google or Facebook. Uniformly, the age range on the bus is 22-35.

The larger tech companies aren't moving to SF any time soon. Too many of their execs and employees want to live in houses, and there just isn't space in SF for campuses that will hold ~10,000 employees, nor many skyscrapers available, either. Plus there are still prohibitive tax issues to being in SF, unless (like Twitter) the city cuts you a break.
thanks for the feedback. we've been trying really hard to simplify the application as much as possible. however it looks like there is an 'advanced' group of users that wants a lot more detail (which we have a-plenty). we have been thinking about letting people play with the raw models > is this something you would be interested in?
The big problem is there isn't any place to have a legit open discussion about IT things. Ever since Joel closed the old JoS board (due to him demanding everyone sign up), there isn't a place to shoot the shit. Half the questions that used to be asked on JoS aren't allowed on SO, and their black and white attitude towards what the site is and isn't makes it feel very unfriendly if you ask something that isn't on-topic, you get it closed without even being pointed to a better site, it's literally just telling you to GTFO and slamming the door in your face.
I agree with Ted Stevens...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f99PcP0aFNE
So basically, it is a triple-store with keeps track of time and no mutation of past.

They have their own query language but it looks to me that they did a great job at making it as close to SPARQL as possible, which personally I am familiar with.

Pretty neat stuff.
I think there is a significant difference between copying data, and just giving pointers to CL's data.

However,

If I blogged that I was renting my apartment and linked to the Craigslist post describing it, I would be doing exactly what Padmapper is doing.

This doesn't line up in a few ways. Padmapper is a third-party, not the original poster. There is also a distinction between doing it as a one-off and doing it in an automated fashion.

Padmapper needs to make it trivial for people to "upload" their listings from CL to PM. It could be a single bookmarklet.

Now, suppose that Alice tells Padmapper about Bob's apartment for rent on CL. That's getting even weirder, but PM might be okay if they follow DMCA safe harbour procedures.
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"I honestly wish they'd take names off the comments too."

I agree with the halo effect. On the other hand knowing that you are building a brand in your handle gives motivation to put in more effort. Not everyone thinks like Job's father ("you will know that the other side wasn't painted" (or whatever that quote was))

I thought an interesting idea would be to run a test of the top karma-ers and have them post replies w/o their actual handle and then compare the karma rating they get.

There are of course a few problems with this.

If the comment is of high quality the fact that it's associated with a brand new handle might paradoxically get it higher votes. "Hmm this new guy knows his stuff.."
Add: The other issue is that there may be a little cousing of Hawthorne effect on the part of the commenter. Trying even harder to prove a point that it isn't their handle.

Sometimes the top comment is from someone where you recognize the handle. And the comment is good. But it doesn't seem that good. Same many times PG says anything. He gives brief answers and the way they rank sometimes it's like SCOTUS is talking to someone low on the food chain in the legal profession. (Same with what Fred Wilson says on his blog btw.)

I don't typically upvote anything PG does. To me it's like tipping the owner! And it's not like he needs the karma score. Off the top I don't ever remember seeing a PG comment that is not near the top of the thread or subthread. (I would love if PG were to do the anonymous handle idea and then publish the results.)
I'm willing to bet I'm not the only one here who had no idea Yahoo's logo is now purple. How the mighty have fallen.
I had hoped it wasn't true, because sooner or later meddleing in Irans stuff is going to piss them of then one of the two sides will do something stupid, or Obama needs to be a hawk again, or Israel gets enough, or something else and vola, we got another war in the middle-east going on.

I hope that the any government protest will resume and the people in Teheran will overthrow the priests. I have no sympathy for the Iranian goverment, but I fear a war more than I fear a neuclear armed Iran (what are they going to do with them, anyway? Blow up Israel? Attack the united states?).
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this is an amazing validation of the pain point. sounds like you and I had similar experiences. we want to get to the point where people do not need to do this themselves.
I want the opposite of punching more data into your tool; I'm just suggesting that if you're smarter than financial calculators, you show the user a naive calculator's predicted values alongside your own.
Any idea why Go uses tabs for formatting? (A google search didn't provide the answer but did suggest I may want to find out why God does!)

About the only good pro-tab stance I have seen is that it allows the viewer to choose a level they prefer, but I would expect consistency would be far better.
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I'm not sure I'd want to rank problems, but I'd like to see everyone working on the problems they can solve (such as pricing and discoverability) before they start saying with certainty that piracy is killing everything.
1) I had the same problem that citricsquid mentions below. I would say provide the user with a select option from like 5-7 colors.
2) Add game mechanics to show a leaderboard to see where you stand
3) This idea could be pretty attractive to brands -- helps in brand engagement and brand building without the negative connotation of advertising
I hope this doesn't further impact the quality of discussion on hacker news. It seems that every day I notice more and more people posting completely non-contributing crap in the comments that you'd expect from Reddit or something (one-liners, stupid jokes, etc). I go to Reddit for that, I come here for insight (which, granted, you can find a lot on Reddit also, but HN is supposed to be a bastion of intellectual thought and discussion).
The Internet definitely promotes porn.

Reasonable people have observed that Google profits off piracy in other contexts.

Your last sentence is a non sequitur.
Maybe, if we get a rule that people aren't allowed to say no, they didn't _steal_ your work, because you still have it.
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It's a European gas and oil company

edit: just went through this again and the "mermaid" logo referred to is the Starbucks one. I never really thought about it being a mermaid before
It's obviously not right for the government to mandate that certain corporations must deliver certain messages. The only justification for this is that telecommunications companies are heavily regulated and are granted franchises which are effectively monopolies. So the libertarians should solve the monopoly problem, then the free speech problem. Fixing them in the wrong order is worse.
Grooveshark will probably have started out knowing they'd run in to trouble. Jury's still out on how that's going to end though.
I kept looking for the same but the closest action was to add to a reading list.

OP, also check out Amazon's affiliate program.
>My personal opinion is that it degrades the site tremendously not to be able to skim through a thread and see which comments others have deemed interesting/noteworthy/insightful by upvoting them.

I completely disagree. The crowd is not always right in upvoting, as PG pointed out in his statement of the problem (dumb or useless comments getting massively upvoted).

Relying on comment votes as a heuristic for rapidly scanning and deciding what to read is a good idea. Read for yourself and decide, and if you lack the knowledge to decide then bookmark it for later research if it's important, or move on to something else if not.
How many visits can this website get with no content whatsoever?
This reminds me of the "libertarian" argument that business owners should be allowed to choose not to serve black people.

Civil rights were something the government had to step in to protect. I think that net neutrality might be the same kind of thing.
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Not to mention that further tensions is not desired right now -- with Obama neck and neck with the Republican and Israel getting impatient and Iran getting offended, this could turn very nasty, very soon (and the west can ill afford another war in the middle-east with the current economy and gas prices).

I hope the regime fall, but it has to be internal or it won't stick.
And maybe new iMacs? Need more than one sub-model to show off that OS X "retina" support.

(please please please...)
At Knewton, we'll cover expenses for anything that might be useful for getting your work done. In my case, that means attending SciPy 2012 last week and learning about tools (scikit-learn, Cython, Numpy/Scipy) that will help me prototype and explore various models, as well as speed up our production Python code.

That's just one example, of course. Our head of infrastructure (@dzwieback) attends various systems engineering and DevOps conferences, and other members of the adaptive learning team attend data conferences (Strata, for example).
I also saw quite a few errors, such as the logo I was supposed to be coloring being very out of place from the center of the page, or off to the side. Also, my "average" score seems to have been calculated in a very odd way. It looks like this: http://puu.sh/LniU
Curious to know your revenue model as you advance. Are you planning on 'referral fees' for presented loan offers? And would that approach threaten your appearance as source of neutral information?

I recently bought a house and used this[1] mortgage calculator, which was the best one I found. I liked how you can pivot from calculating on monthly income, purchase price, or a total monthly payment. An easy way to play with the numbers. Of course, since it's a simple calculator, it does require more manual input. I will say, though, it might be nice to have a manual mode with places you can input all those numbers a broker will throw at you.

[1] http://www.mortgageloan.com/calculator/mortgage-qualifying-c...
B/c of Computer Science's current popularity, it would be a huge mistake to start an education initiative and not start with Computer Science.
Users would vote on comments randomly just to see their score...
It's all framing, I'd be happy if we stopped arguing over the word "steal" all the damned time instead of addressing the finer points of copyright and its role in our society.

The people who will whip out dictionaries over "steal" are crudely trying to inject an emotional response into the debate and trying to override rational discourse with rhetoric.

The people who are constantly whipping out "you still have it" are naively pretending that, just because it doesn't fit within all the criteria of physical theft, it also means that the other moral concerns associated with it are equally moot.

tl;dr: Both sides of the "stealing!" debate are being incredibly disingenuous.
Lanyrd is the place you should check out.

http://lanyrd.com/topics/web-design/

I'd recommend An Event Apart, Breaking Development (BDConf), and dConstruct.
Volunteer time is valuable, but it can help to have full-timers in administrative/organizational positions.

Of course, this observation is mostly based on larger charities, with assets and property and non-trivial operating costs. I could see how a tiny charity without these burdens could get along fine without.
Good point, most brands have multiple versions of their logos so we used the one off their Wikipedia page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coca-Cola
Good to hear, I was frustrated when searching for a particular author, ie "Robert Jordan" would return results with "Robert" or "Jordan" anywhere in the title or author name.

Also if you search for something like "The X of Y" you'd get results that had nothing but the "the" or "of" in common. :(
That argument would hold sway if being an ISP did not have such a huge barrier to entry. Having to run physical cables GREATLY reduces the pool of business that can afford to enter that market. This of course, reduces the number of competitors, and the market pressure to compete.
most def...we need to differentiate them better.
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--Amazon has more than 15,000 full-time employees at 69 different warehouses (fulfillment centers) in the United States and of course the program is limited to full-time employees. What industry or job have you ever seen a employee working 20/hrs work week getting benefits?

Where are you getting your information from?
The actual article (not the comment section) - http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/07/libertarians-make...
The current model is less then a year old, I think the problem is people are waiting for 4g.
You can record, edit, and export from the editor. Also import into from disk, from community, and from your works if you have an account. Look for electronic instruments in coming versions, as well as sequencing, and notation tools.

Thanks, HN!
I guess this week would be a good time to buy some AAPL and wait for the iPhone 5 frenzy.
Actually PhpStorm is a product of JetBrains ;)
The listing data that is presented and rendered on Padmapper's site isn't linked (e.g. the price & # of bedrooms). That is, I don't have to click a link to go to the original site to view the content.

Padmapper does link to images, but Padmapper would be useless if it didn't also re-publish the content jacked from Craigslist.
"The OS X Mountain Lion Up-to-Date upgrade will be available at no additional charge from the Mac App Store to all customers who purchase a qualifying new Mac system from Apple or an Apple Authorized Reseller on or after June 11, 2012." - http://www.apple.com/osx/uptodate/

(I'm sure the site will be live tomorrow to get the free update.)
This is one of the best out of the rest.
I left Amazon just over a year ago, but have just over two years as a manager across three of their large fulfillment centers. I can offer some perspective:
-- Yes, the ratio of temp associates to "blue badge" Amazon associates can be 50/50 at best during off-peak (though trending worse as Amazon expands) and during peak season temps will be 80% of the workforce. And yes, temps get absolutely nothing from Amazon as far as benefits. This is in stark contrast to a company they own - Zappos.

-- Very few tier 1 associates made it three years. Very, very few. On my last shift of about 50 associates, I can only think of about 5, and this was one of the older fulfillment centers.

-- Maybe it has changed, but there was no option to work part-time. Standard shifts are 10 hours. Mandatory OT can be frequent off-peak and is every week during peak. I had plenty of associates that took college classes during the day (I managed on nights). They did it, but were really dragging ass at night. They got maybe two or three hours of sleep a day. Many just couldn't make their productivity goals and would eventually quit before being fired.

This initiative is what I would call a good start, and better than nothing. But as some have mentioned, the ability to move to a part-time schedule would be nice. As would a higher reimbursement amount. But maybe that will come in the future.
The target demographic is anyone active on multiple online services and the usefulness of an app that unifies these services would be more efficient because you could go to one place to consume information rather than many. Considering this is for social media power users it might be lost in translation if you are not actively engaged in social media or the common practices with the goal of making themselves more accessible to people interested in them. Much like About.me where a homepage is created by you and you say who you are and what you're interested in, my profile allows you show who you are through your actions, not just a short paragraph about what you like.

An example of tracking engagement of your posts is like in Facebook when you have a notification that you have 3 "likes" on your picture or on Twitter your tweet got retweeted 5 times or favorited by people. These instances can be tracked across all authenticated services a person creates content on and right now my app connects facebook, twitter, foursquare, instagram, tumblr, and linkedin so each social network has its specific type of engagement (a few examples above).
Perhaps. But the smart people working on these problems are very different than the politicians who make choices on how things will operate.