skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think we need video of the process. If the people want to do it fine, but making them put on a show of themselves I think is a bit much. As a person, not only are you sick and need help from others but you need to be a documentary just to prove to people you aren't a scam, little much -- it's one thing to have a photo and story so it makes it real but as long as there is some trusted third party verification, I think that's enough. There are actually charities that have been doing this sort of thing longer than most of us have been alive that have figured this out, good idea to learn from them.
Ask HN: Would your startup pay for a QA service?
I'm thinking of launching a business that offers startups QA testing by seasoned QA testers.

Most startups don't have the time or people to thoroughly test out their apps. Our offerings would includes affordable packages that startups can buy to have their sites tested (based on their test plans) without breaking the bank - I'm thinking between $200-$1000. The testers would be professional QA testers who've done this for a living in the past and would offer a standard report of bugs they've discovered as part of the package.

Would startup founders on HN be interested in this sort of service? Thanks in advance for any feedback.
Hmm, too bad you need a Facebook account to read this. Anyone have a version cached somewhere?
The Hidden Subversive Message in Gangnam Style
The first advice you give is a good reminder for people like me who have tons of unfinished projects.
It's easy now; I don't think it was all that easy back in 1994 when they first sequenced BRCA-1 or when they first began work on it back around 1988.
I have experience running a website that made running costs + more from donations, let me know if you want to have a chat about what worked and what didn't!
It's really steady cracks in the underpinning ideas in the efficient market hypothesis. We've made a LOT of assumptions in our economic and tax policy around ideas that haven't necessarily proven to be true.
They're all Humanist fonts so there's a fair amount of family resemblance. So take the school of thought that finds Helvetica boring and corporate and apply to the new Segoe-based Microsoft logo. One thing I find interesting is that there was some legal brouhaha over Segoe a few years ago which appears to be all resolved but still makes it a little surprising to me that they'd go so all-in in such a visible context.
Google, Facebook censoring "inflammatory" speech in India as violence spreads
I addressed these concerns in the third paragraph, and am not sure what part of my argument it is that you disagree with.
Maybe at the medium or bottom segments, but the top-performers are more expensive than ever (e.g.: there's a war on talent for the best engineers).
Sure. But the simplest model for creatures evolving must include statistical behavior. Every decision is not driving evolution - its a series over (life)time, with lots of noise in the result. E.g. If sometimes behaving selfishly works well and sometimes it doesn't, likewise altruism, the statistics will drive evolution, not the logic of the situation.

In the end the Markov chain of of event-decision-state change will favor those decisions (genes) that avoid the early-death state and favor the lots-of-reproduction states.
I highly recommend using stow/xstow[1]. Pick a place to "stow" your "out-of-band" programs, then:

cd <awsome-src-distribution>
./configure --prefix=/usr/local/ && make
make install prefix=/usr/local/opt/<awsome-1.2.3>
cd /usr/local/opt
xstow <awsome-1.2.3>

(aptitude install xstow on Debian & Ubuntu)

Xstow is also small enough to fit it into eg: ${HOME}/opt -- and it is able to "unstow".

[1] http://xstow.sourceforge.net/

edit: formatting
That's exactly what I wanted to say. Please don't blow this. Your "service" could really make a difference for a lot of these people, and hopefully thousands more when you grow. But only if you keep it transparent and scam-free so people feel safe donating money (or "funding their treatment", as you put it).
I suspect this perhaps also has to do with the type of person you are as well. If you are a natural introvert and long for solitude to help you re-charge yourself, working from home can be a great source of productivity and general happiness. I am at times allowed to work from home myself, and I do indeed get more done that way. I am also a lot happier and less prone to stresses and downtimes when I've had one or two day break from the ''natural'' work environment.

In our day and age, I really feel as though traditional office work conditions are archaic and in fact do not encourage productivity, as they instil the idea that the employee should forget about his or her job as soon as the clock hits 5PM. I believe this is also why many children and students find it hard to do their homework after school.
We can get a lot more done now as we are constantly connected and online. Many of us still do our work outside of, and before, working hours. In return, there should be more freedom of movement and flexibility.
Facebook dogfoods Android
Good catch! Pushing the change now. Thank you!
The press room site is not their main site, and I believe is not even run by Facebook. Many companies outsource their investor relations and press websites. None of Facebook's primary site is running ASP or anything Windows-related (they use PHP). It's pretty safe to say that none of the people developing Facebook's main site, services and mobile apps are behind the press site...
Do you think people who need few hundred dollars to save their life have android phones?
tmoertel, this was meant to be a lil' secret, but I was hoping to send a revised edition of my book to the early adopters, therefore the PayPal account. I'm investigating if other distribution channels allow any kind of delivering happiness on a 1-to-1 basis with your users. If the publishers do, I will certainly take it up. I'm just signing off for the day, so feel free to email me any questions at aaron [at] brownieinmotion [dot] ca. Thanks for the feedback! Means a lot.
This… this looks and acts almost EXACTLY like the stock Android keyboard. The swipes to accept a correction and to delete a word are new, and the graphic design of the keyboard is more minimalist - but the core functionality of "spellchecks based on words you could spell with keys near the ones you actually hit" and "shows autocorrect candidates in a horizontal row above the keys" is absolutely identical.

It's a shame iOS is so monolithic, if you could wedge in a new keyboard like you can on Android, I would totally be willing to shell out some bucks for this because I really loathe the iOS autocorrect experience compared to the Android.
If that fails, perhaps you could appeal to Heroku to waive hosting charges for this.

You never know!
Reading the comments here it is painfully clear just how much Hacker news has changed (and definately not for the better).

Once PG wrote an essay on exactly this topic (http://paulgraham.com/wealth.html) in which he argues convincingly that wealth inequality isn't really relevant because while we can expect that technology will act as a lever to make the absolute differences bigger than they are now, at the same time everybodies relative wealth will get closer and closer together.

And that is true. I know a guy who has a higher networth than I is likely to ever earn. He has a Masaretti, a plane, a nice house, etc.

But while the absolute differences between the two of us are great, the relative differences between us are small, compared to what they would have been historically -- after all we eat mostly the same food and while he can fly first class that is not going to get him to the destination much faster than me in coach.

200 years ago, he would have been the owner of a corporation, making a ton of money and living in a that would look like the set of Downton Abbey. I would have been living in some shack somewhere with no running water and and outhouse that was likely to be frozen in the winter.

So yeah, I don't give much of a crap about income difference and I don't buy that the middle class is bankcroupt due to the very rich (1% isn't very rich, btw). I believe the middle class wealth has grown slightly less than it used to because it hasn't produced as much as it used to.

Remember wealth is not a static quantity, it can be created and it can be destroyed. It is created only when people produce and as far as I can see, the middle class has not produced very much at all.

Of course the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have a great deal to do with the destruction of wealth too, as have the bloated government system.
Thanks for posting this. I hadn't seen Klein before and the simplicity and minimalism of the API really appeals to me. I'm using Slim so far and it has some serious drawbacks (no namespaced routes, no response()->write(json), overly complicated view system)
Could you offer some form of explanation as to why you find conditional includes so odious?

It boils down to sloppy thinking; your objects should be well defined enough that you're not having to include extra pieces of code in the middle of execution.

You could argue code reuse - but why isn't that code either part of the object in the first place, or an object in its own right?

If you know some examples of elegant code written with includes scattered throughout it, conditionally or otherwise, I'd love to see it.

I will make exceptions for some parts of page rendering; it can sometimes be a good idea to put page elements into their own files and pull together when necessary. But for including code? No. Just no.

Edit: I took exception in this case, as it's non-obvious what happens once the view file has been included, not to mention the lack of a base example handler class implies and encourages people to write code like this.
What platform are you browsing from? There should be a login link at the top right of the landing page.
"Thank you" micropayments for IRC
Kenya’s technology start-up scene is about to take off
And that's not necessarily a bad thing. If individuals are willing to accept tradeoffs where they have a certain probability of winding up less well off, versus a certain probability of becoming very wealthy, who is to tell them which choice they should make? I mean, if a given person is quite fine with a boom or bust scenario, and says "I'll either be rich and successful or die a broke, poor, bitter, broken down old man," then so be it.

Income equality would be nice in many ways, but if the inequality is a reflection of the underlying values of the culture, maybe we should quit trying to fight the culture.
>> The unspoken fear of all utility managers is the “Death Spiral Scenario”.

>> In this nightmare, a utility commits to build new equipment.

>> However, when electric rates are raised to pay for the new plant, the rate shock moves customers to cut their kWh use.

We have a "death spiral" in water prices in my local (southern California) water district.

There was a drought. People were asked to conserve. People conserved too much. Drought ended. Water use did not return. Water companies then need to raise prices to meet their distribution costs. Which lowers demand further.

It can only end ugly.
You do realize that a significant portion of that new sunlight we get every day ends up producing new fresh water?
Their choice to use their own Segoe typeface is what will make this a less-pleasing logo than it could have been.

Segoe looks good in its intended use for text on screen, and printed text at small and normal sizes, but Segoe does not look good at very large sizes.

When this logo appears on billboards, and in other large display settings, its weaknesses will become apparent.
The more you know, the more you know that you don't know. As you throw logs on the campfire, the perimeter of darkness grows.
I really like that you brought up third-party verification. We think that's the most efficient and responsible way to scale our due-diligence process. Currently, in addition to being verified by us, all of our partners have been verified by multiple third parties (Partners in Health, Givewell, CNN, ABC, HBO, etc.) and they are all 501(c)(3) organizations which means that they are also overseen by the US Gov.

I agree that learning from other charities is the best way to evolve. Kiva has a pretty awesome due diligence process that we would like to pick and choose elements from as we grow: http://www.kiva.org/about/risk/kiva-role
Not only that but why is "Welcome to Microsoft" an image(png) and not text?
I see a lot of profit potential here.

Step 1: Send blind links of over-the-top porn videos via email to people
Step 2: Ask my victim (i.e. customer) for $800 for viewing the video
Step 3: If they don't pay up, publish their name on a website as a "porn pirate"
I wonder how many people would pay?
Following this advice... If any other Minneapolis/St Paul based HN users are lurking out there and are interested in meeting up (or know of any similar events) then please reply here or email.
Bahahahaha, it's pretty much the old telecom New Zealand logo [1] . that makes me laugh. a lot

[1] http://www.underconsideration.com/brandnew/archives/telecom_... - the one on the left.
Not if it is BDSM (it is abuse claims those who don't like it), rape porn (rape is bad, but murder is worse, yet action movies routinely kill a lot of people but somehow that is not a problem but fake filmed rape is), goat porn, midget porn, etc.
Well, I can sort of understand what you're saying. But, it's like letting the perfect be the enemy of the good, which actually is a common theme in many of the criticisms. There are people with real problems that need help now or they could perish; I don't see how providing ways to help them could ever be a bad thing. The other alternative is to fund nebulous water projects that might get off the ground in 1-5 years or something like that -- no that there's anything wrong with that but I don't think it is a mutually exclusive thing.
Guys, truly a great service. I was thinking of start something similar or join an forces with existing service like yours. But I wanted to do it truly at non-profit level where we don't take a single penny out of donations.

how are you guys funding your operations? Are you taking a % of the donation?
I have been wondering why metro Kansas City is home to a lot of interesting projects: Open Source Ecology, The Urban Farming Guys, Google Fiber. For a mid-sized city, it has a maker space and a Ruby User's Group. But what's in Kansas City?

Tax-write-off wars and the Big 5. Awesome.
Many open source projects enjoy contributions from some of the most highly regarded engineers around, though it's possible a significant number of these are paid for their trouble. There are volunteers of every skill level out there, including some of the best talent available at any price.
I used DDG for a few weeks, but ultimately switched back to Google. It was mainly for two things:

1) It's slightly slower than Google, which became more apparent after the fifth or sixth search of the day.

2) No images integrated with search results. I didn't realize how often I searched for images until I used DDG. At Google I usually get a few images and an "Images" link to click. At DDG I needed to add a !gi to my query.

Like JohnsonB said, there really need to be another draw besides just privacy.
Most frameworks hide including views by way of extract() and output buffering. There's no real benefit to doing that on a small app. And no benefit on an api.

There's always a benefit to not copying and pasting code, which is what writing an include in each of your handlers boils down to.
I could be wrong but most government employees I have met in management normally gauge themselves and their peers by the number of reports that they have.

Also, an area where I feel government does a good job of driving economic growth is infrastructure; these tend to employ more in the lower income brackets, the "builders" and and middle income brackets, the "designers" and "managers". Obviously you can have too much infrastructure, like some examples of housing in China. However I don't think the US is suffering too much from over infrastructure.

Another point is that government jobs could be paid more, especially for critical jobs for "future proofing" like teachers, however in the US there is a disconnect between federal taxation and local / state employment in teaching, especially at the earlier age portions of education.

Another idea may be to extend unemployment benefits if you elect to work part-time for your local / state / federal government on short term projects; I realise that normally short term and government don't always wind up on the same page.
I think freemium is a great model if you can find the right mix of bringing in new users as well as upgrading existing users.

Some are going to stick with free forever as long as it fills their needs. However, some are going to use it so much that, if the price point is right, the upgrade is a no-brainer.
I think it's below 10%, to be fair. Anyway, I don't have a number. I'm not an economist. Modern governments need to run deficits during recessions / depressions, and surpluses during good times. Or at least that's what history has shown, including recent history (Ireland, for example).

The modern GOP, however, believe that we have a debt crisis (we don't; the U.S. has held a much higher debt-to-GDP ratio, WWII, over 100%; Japan currently has a much, much higher ratio, like close to 200%). Long term, yes, we have to deal with the debt. Medicare and Medicaid are going to grow a great deal over the coming decades (both programs serve the elderly and disabled to a great extent, a growing population). The Affordable Care Act takes some measures to control the growth of the programs. So does Ryan's plan, although his plan essentially avoids any real work and offloads the cost on citizens, drastically changing Medicare. A good overview here: http://www.tnr.com/blog/plank/106298/guide-to-medicare-debat...

Interestingly enough, while they (the GOP) say we have a debt crisis, they refuse to increase revenue by any means. In fact, they want to lower taxes (one of the largest drivers of debt because of Bush tax cuts v1 and v2), largely for the wealthy (although both Romney and Ryan and the GOP as a whole claim they'll make cuts revenue neutral by ending _unspecified_ loopholes, which, according to the Tax Policy Center (can find link, but it has been in the news) would result in ending loopholes for middle class brackets (i.e. mortgage deduction, etc.).

In short, I don't know a specific answer, but providing aid to states and municipalities would go a long way in picking up growth.
I think you are completely missing the point the top 20% _are_ dramatically pulling away; in the last ten years _all_ the gains in income have gone to the top 20%!
As for answering the first question, maybe this might be a hint:

http://sources.redhat.com/autobook/autobook/autobook_109.htm...

"In our experience, uninstall is not a very useful feature. Automake implements it because it is mandated by the GNU Standards, but it doesn't work reliably across packages. Maintainers who write install hooks typically neglect to write uninstall hooks. Also, since it can't reliably uninstall a previously installed version of a package, it isn't useful for what most people would want to use it for anyway. We recommend using a real packaging system, several of which are freely available. In particular, GNU Stow, RPM, and the Debian packaging system seem like good choices."

Note this refers to GNU Stow[1] which is implemented in perl
-- I much prefer the xstow variant[2] as it is more self contained. YMMV.

[1] http://www.gnu.org/software/stow/
[2] http://xstow.sourceforge.net/
In the beginning was the Command Line
Training yes. It's the best parts of my week; keeps me in shape in a different way then just going to the gym does, and gives you a calm mind to go with that body.

Writing movies or books? No. It's a lack of time. I work 50 hours a week and then when you add in exercising and family there isn't much time left. I much prefer to relax with a movie on then I do to sit down and try and write when I don't have but 2 hours here and there to focus on something.

People fail to realize that having money isn't really being able to buy whatever you want...it's having the security to buy whatever you want. That sense of security changes everything.
The scale problem still remains. Going from 10 users of your webapp to 1000 does not take much in terms of technology and capital investment. Going from 10 hand-assembled bits of hardware to 1000 units manufactured in China is a difficult and expensive leap.

They're right though, it's definitely going to be a growth market. Looking forward to learning more about what Grand St. is doing.
That is not the point of the article. You're talking about quality-of-life, while the study is talking about the health of the national economy:

"The reason the decline of the middle class is important is not just about fairness. It's about the health of the economy as a whole."

So, even a hypothetical world where even the poorest person in the country has a stellar quality of life would be bad if there was no middle class, specifically because the economy would suffer. Corporate revenue would be hobbled, and so would R&D. You'd get a country of happy people that didn't do anything. A few decades of this and it would be quickly left behind by the rest of the developed world. Those few citizens who are motivated to actually do things (like found companies) will move to countries with economies that can actually support commerce.
I tend to reply to "Does working from Home work?" with "Does working from Work work?"

Having spent a few years in a corporate environment, and many more as a consultant in other people's corporate environments, I can tell you first hand that the amount of work you do has very little to do with where your chair is located.

Either you are the type of person who gets stuff done, or you aren't.

There are huge distractions everywhere you go. People who get things done incorporate them into their schedules & stay productive. Others use them as a welcome escape from actually working.

That said, home workers are 1) monitored more closely and 2) fresher from not having to deal with commutes, so no surprise to see the numbers show them as "more productive"
Why you should not be displaying relative dates.
Talk radio helps a bit, and I know my dad has done the same as you. I might just give that a try, I know my local library has quite a few on hand.
As you noted, the financial advantage does not apply to Facebook. Contrarily, there's a financial advantage to shipping a better product, if you can afford to do so.

I'm interested in your supporting argument for other governing factors or software as a social activity, and how that relates to making engineering choices that sacrifice product quality for some notion of engineering perfectionism.
Not maybe, surely.

That would be publishing of an information, and i think the media law would kick in. The reputation of a person is protected and may only be harmed by proven/qualified allegations. So this would surely be illegal over here.

As Argorak also stated, the german public - the lawyers giving statements - also believe this.