skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Poor documentation, leaky abstractions, poorly thought abstractions (requiring multiple calls to the API to accomplish common tasks).
Having had a little experience with both, I'd concur that Stripe is probably going to be easier to integrate. (Although my Braintree experience is more limited and dates back 2 years or so.)
Great point. We'd love to have a lightbox that describes the country with a map, some info, and all that fun stuff. A quick note: there are approximately 200 countries in the world, and only 40 have a formal healthcare system. Pretty crazy...
Interesting read. I would say that this isn't something unique to the United States. It can also be said to be prevalent in the rest of the western world.
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I wonder how shareholders feel about this.. Do they think it will have a positive impact on Facebook's value and help them stay market share?
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We can't wait to enable recurring donations. It's at the top of our list!
Businesses (via surveys) have always complained about regulations, taxes, etc. While some regulations may be burdensome or unrealistic (and lets keep in mind that the federal government isn't responsible for all of them), the fact is a lot of them are sensible.

The one thing that has changed dramatically in surveys from businesses: a lack of demand. when private consumption is down, historically it has been observed that public consumption should pick up to end the cycle.

Even under Regen, states and municipalities received a lot of aid, and the public sector helped to pull up the economy. That's one aspect of a robust economic rebound, which includes an increase in public debt (which, adjusted for inflation, is negative -- i.e., a 10-year Treasury Bill for $1,000 will be worth less in 10 years -- people are paying us to hold onto their money because U.S. is so secure).

The point here is that one party is gone off so far to the right that Congress isn't able to effectively deal with this issue. We have Republicans warning of the dire consequences of sequestration (large cuts) and blaming Democrats for wanting to slightly increase revenue, when all along all the GOP wanted was large cuts...

I could ramble for awhile longer, but I think it's more nuanced than Washington can't fix anything. One party has been taken over by extreme ideologues.
Good catch. We are going to change that ASAP. Thank you!
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Pathod 0.2: the pathological web daemon gets an evil twin
pathod was submitted here a few weeks ago (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4306640), just as I was prepping a major new release and website. New features include a perverse client-side twin called pathoc, a public pathod server, and the ability to try out crafting requests and responses right on the website.
I love Klein, but this looks WAY easier to work with and much more specific. Klein includes a bunch of stuff for request and response handling, output buffers and views and stuff. Toro appears to completely leave all that to the implementer, which is very nice if you've already got code to handle those things.
Lots of people are led astray by this belief that there's a killer feature that causes people to pay. Usually, there isn't one.

For example, I run a data visualisation SaaS app. For a long time, I tried all sorts of combinations of free and premium, but no one was upgrading. When I spoke to my users, the most serious ones kept saying they would be happy pay for the free version itself because it solves a big problem for them.

I ignored them because how could I have any pricing model other than freemium, right? But, I kept getting the same feedback consistently.

And then it hit me - the most successful freemium companies give away the most valuable core part of their product for free.

Once they've got people hooked, they can sell premium services so that their users can get even more of the core value.

For example, the value of Dropbox is not lots of disk space. It's the hassle-free file sync, backups and easy file sharing with friends and family. 2GB is more than enough for most. But you can pay a bit to buy more space to get even more of those core benefits.

You pay for something mundane to get more of the priceless.

But, like I said in the other comment, the catch is that you have to have deep pockets to survive long enough to get to critical mass. Some people may get lucky and bootstrap a freemium business quickly, but the odds are low.

And that's why I settled on doing away with freemium and just straight selling a product with obvious value to a good number of people.
People are increasingly doing all those things for free, driven by the desire for social recognition and the pursuit of intellectual interests.
Can anyone think of any other options that would force all high income people to re-distribute their income largely together?

A failing economy or, failing that, an economic meltdown?

The problem I see with taxes as a solution is that it generally doesn't redistribute wealth to the middle class (if that is your goal) as much as it does redistribute wealth to those with political connections, and the rhetoric tends to catch the upper-middle class in the crosshairs - which, if I'm reading this correctly, would make the problem worse.
"This is not the norm in publishing, at least, the desirable kind."

Ah, it's good you said that. I always thought publishers like O'Reilly and Pragmatic Programmers were totally undesirable. Now I can point out why.

"In modern publishing, there's no need -- books are printed, one copy at a time, when they are ordered."

Cite?
I was a bit puzzled at first with the list of skills/languages and had to go to the "About" page to understand you're targetting specifically web developpers, you might want to make that more obvious at least in the introduction.

You should also add an "other" option with an input field to allow developers to indicate technologies you did not put in your list especially when dealing with IDE or frameworks.
They busted us less than a week after signing a 3 year lease.

In California, there are no protections when you do a commercial lease to make sure the space is legal for you to use. The tenant is responsible for making the space usable.
I think it's pretty trivial to change the htaccess rewrite rule into an nginx/lighttpd rule.
A shift in energy production is good news, so now we can use our coal generation capacity to desalinate water. We get new sunlight every day, but the fresh water that we have is all we have.
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Spam rewrite on a spam site submitted by a spam account.
> There's always the argument of abstraction vs simplicity.

This is a false dichotomy. A good abstraction makes things simpler.
While one western user might be produce more income than a single user in a developing country, that isn't really relevant as long as twitter can provide massive scale at almost no cost. Wealthier users might subsidize ongoing growth and development, but not the operation of the service. This isn't socialism, just economics at work :/
The only reason Ronnie Reagan was able to sell the American people on his trickle down snake oil was because the middle class sees itself as temporarily-not-rich. So they believed his bullshit not because it would benefit them in (what they saw as) the short term, but because they believed they would soon be rich.

There are advantages to the fact that the American middle class sees itself as temporarily embarrassed millionaires, namely that it encourages the sort of risk taking that has put American companies at the top of the global economic charts. However, for every Gates and Zuckerberg, there are hundreds and thousands of people who actually end up struggling to make ends meet. Unable to accept their failure, they continue to believe in low taxes for the wealthy, thinking they'll be in that group as well one day soon.
Great to read things like this and gives us a reminder that there is a person behind everyone of these "Show HN" posts and every comment written (at least besides the few bots and spammers on HN). Love the advice on how if you "actually finish your side projects", you'll be well ahead of the pack - very true.
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This strikes me as somewhat misguided. As a modern, wealthy society, we shouldn't have to content ourselves by just easing the pain of not being in the 1%. Furthermore, while it's certainly true that the tech revolution has brought about some changes that get rid of human labor, there's a lot more going on to this growth of inequality than that. If it was just about unique skills or education, you'd expect to see the top ~20% dramatically pulling away from the bottom 80% of the distribution, not the 99/1% that you see in reality (we can quibble about the numbers there a bit, but the point is that the inequality we're seeing isn't just a skills/education/technology revolution structural thing).

I don't pretend to have a great answer for "how our community is equipped to address such an issue in any meaningful way," except perhaps to suggest that we try to find more tech solutions to "bigger" problems (energy, grid infrastructure, etc.) instead of inventing more social widgets. That, and trying to hold politicians more accountable to interests besides those of the super wealthy.
Sounds like technology driven disruption to me.
Hey Buster - Gaining trust is our single greatest challenge, as well as our top priority. We really appreciate your support, and I'd love to hop on the phone with you and answer any/all questions you have. Feel free to email me at Chase (at) watsi (dot) org and I will send you my number. Or, if you are in San Francisco, I'd be happy to meet in person!

Thanks for your support!
"What you'll get: Free Room & board [...]"

"What is expected of you: [...] You pay for your own food"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_and_board
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If my name were published as a list of humans who view pornography, I would not care.
I don't buy the contention that's being bandied about that "the middle class has shrunk in size." If you look at the Pew report, the relative size of the middle class is only established as a function of responses to a survey question asking people to self-identify into economic class.

Comparing the results of this sort of survey over time isn't scientifically supportive of that claim because there is not a universally accepted academic model for class -- even the experts disagree.
I was only referring to your bad "pair programming" experience, in that you felt it held you up from actually getting stuff done, that's just wasted effort.

However, my experience is that pair programming would work well in a senior/not as senior pairing, with the caveat, you need to have capacity on your projects to roll with this also technique.

regarding you choosing to sweat on your startup, fair play thats your choice, and possibly a good one if that's what you are passionate about.
hopefully your end goal/mission is not just to make loads of money though!
Another good take-away, though not directly mentioned in the post, is befriend HN users both in the real world and online.
DuckDuckGo has really fallen behind Google in the zero click information department, which is one of DDG's key selling points. DDG needs to have one or more major competitive advantages over Google in order grow. Privacy is great, but zero click is something obvious and usability orientated that really stands out. I'm not going to use DDG if Google gives me more zero click information no matter what; it just makes too significant a difference in search experience.
May i suggest a "I just funded <person>'s medical treatment
with XYZ$ on http://watsi.org Facebook-share option?

Or "<Person> just got new medical treatment from watsi.org", with a name and picture of that person..

Something like that to encourage people more to do the same as their friends do :)
We had an old permit which did not require these things, only a fire alarm system (which costs $35K and we had installed).
thestoicjester, this is one of the funniest blog posts I've ever read. This line is especially good:

"A 'co-founder of a mobile development startup in SF' was a humorous creature I’d read all about on the internet — I may as well have been replying to a hobbit."

What's the name of the company you're working at now?
I'm not sure if you're being obtuse; this is basic organizational politics.

Pretend that Facebook's hitherto web-centric engineering team is external to Facebook -- they're a consultancy. Now imagine Facebook comes to them and says: We want a mobile application. Who benefits if they manage to convince Facebook to pay for them to produce a web application?

Let's reel it back to reality. How do people inside an organization benefit if they expand their area of purview, responsibility, and increase their value to the organization? Likewise, what power dynamics come into play when a new, potentially distinct engineering team garners additional purview, responsibility, outside of your domain, skills, or control?
What you'll get: and potentially Google Fiber!
> you need to develop a great backend that can filter results well and troll the web

Trawl. The web gets trolled enough as it is.
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Parent was speaking of the Bay Area in the last sentence. Housing is much cheaper elsewhere.
I would say 100% pair programming would be a highly draining experience! may result increased productivity, but at what cost!
A significant chunk of the $250K does go into permits. Also, we have done all of the work ourselves that we are legally permitted to, the remaining work has to be done by a licensed contractor (by law).
I envy everyone who has access to public transportation to work. My commute is 1 hour maximum, but usually around 30-40 minutes, but even then, I daydream sometimes about being able to read or write while commuting.

I have started listening to podcasts on my commute, and it's much more enjoyable than my music collection or any of the radio options here. I definitely should have started doing it earlier.
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We have a share option, we just don't have the pre-populated copy. We will work on that!
So disable Flash and selectively reenable it for those few sites that require it. Chrome has click-to-flash functionality built in.
You know it takes talent to write a statement that is so completely wrong.

Others have addressed the JS point but Apple originally wanted developers to only build web apps and it took a lot of convincing to get them to change their mind. Also Apple has a lot of free apps. So this idea that Apple is somehow obsessed with monetizing apps is simply not true.
I'm a bit uncomfortable with this. Who picks the people that get our help? Is it better to pick a few and fix their lives, or should we aim to slightly improve the lives of many?
The most embarrassing thing is you got caught and therefor "can't into internets".
The concern is that we teach classes, which people don't do in a glass factory.
It's just a matter of altering your nginx configuration to rewrite requests.

https://gist.github.com/3441804
If I understood, the first 3 points can be considered as outliers. Typically, you do want to ignore them, do to them being mistakes in measurements or special cases. In any case, handling of the special cases does not do well for generalization of the algorithms.
So I would be against those points.

4th points is true, except that it's more of a zen advice then actual useful information.

5th is a comercial.

Not a very good read, and I generally found that no machine learning knowledge gets explained in 5 short paragraphs with no technical terms (except "sigma", which I guess is standard deviation).
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I also strongly suggest this humblebundle ui on 'Question 2' on the bottom. This would be ideal... HOWEVER, there also is the possibility you end up having not enough for the patients and plenty for the salaries.

Maybe make it 'what is the max percent you want to see spent on admin cost'. that way you are allowed to use as much as you'd like to for the patient.
The same error exists in the hosts section.
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I suck at Reddit and I apparently shared in the wrong subreddit and got downvoted. We would love help from any Reddit experts out there. Feel free to post!
this is awesome! please do write more about your new life in san francisco.
I.e. Learning math is not a pre-requisite, it's a byproduct.

You don't need to know math to program, but as you become a better programmer, you _want_ to tackle more challenging problems - some of which inevitably involve math (and knowledge in general) that you aren't familiar with. To solve these problems, you have to learn as you go and that, as others have noted, is the real hallmark of a good programmer.
What sort of level of public consumption would be appropriate? Currently the deficit is 10% of GDP. Do you believe it should be 20%?

Edit: (Increase in outstanding public debt)/(GDP) was actually only 8.1% in 2011. Lots of people prefer to define the deficit as "the budget deficit," but this is beyond silly.
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Yes! We plan to. They recently rated our Medical Partner, Nyaya Health, as being in the top 1% of all non-profits for accountability and transparency. http://blog.nyayahealth.org/2011/12/10/nyayahealth1/
Yes, i was just thinking.. what instantly got me was the personal link/story/background/picture to the people you fund on the website. That get's lost with the normal sharing, doesn't it? :)
There are multiple problems with this chart:

1. It looks like it tracks the average compensation, which is easily skewed by a few high income earners whose wages grew disproportionately (investment bankers, lawyers).

2. It doesn't say anything about the hours worked. Even when hourly compensation is up, total income can be down if the number of hours worked goes down.

A better analysis: http://www.epi.org/publication/ib330-productivity-vs-compens...
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User experience is the not the only governing factor in software development. As the John Carmack post on HN front page says, software engineering is a social activity, which as you can imagine has more than one goal factor influencing it. I don't know what politics went on in this decision, but choosing a HTML/JS platform on mobile phones on definitely has its technical advantages. Though it doesn't apply to Facebook, a financial advantage would be to save money on hiring iOS experts/programmers.
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The problem is you are using a rounding of the balance across the million tries to decide on game B. The choice of which game B to use need to not be dependent on the other experiments.
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> 100% of your donation directly funds treatment!

ITYM 98.6% - 96.6% - £0.20 GBP of your donation directly funds treatment!

Or is there some awesome charitable PayPal fee structure that you are using?
In lighttpd, enable mod rewrite and:

url.rewrite-once = ( "^/(.*)$" => "index.php/$1" )
Joseph, thank you for buying Ice Cream Startups. Ironically, it was partially inspired by Zappos: Delivering Happiness. Writing it was indeed a lot of late nights, which my significant other didn't take too kindly, and I hadn't meant to share the research originally (kinda selfish like that :p), so thank you for your kind words. The feeling of finally shipping and signing on early adopters is ecstatic! Will address the whole debate on pricing low in my blog once I catch up on some rest. If you have any questions, feel free to email me aaron [at] brownieinmotion [dot] ca. Thanks again!
We love Kiva, and we hope to implement a "tip" option very soon. We just need to head out into the real world and raise some cash from grants, philanthropists, whatever, so we can pay to build all the features we want!
Not that I've looked at it in much depth, but those just look like simplistic examples to show how the routing works. If it's just a router, then how you render views is beyond the scope of the library, and cutting corners in examples for the sake of expediency doesn't seem so bad.

I'm fine with the idea of a router simply being a router; I really take exception to yet more PHP examples illustrating bad coding habits being on the web though.
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This breakdown needs to advertised more on the site. i browsed around a little and didn't know this is how it works. youre going to have a challenge of people trusting you... and this breakdown really helps get past that.
Was an early adopter of FB. Left around 2009.

Its opening to and popularity with people outside my age bracket had something to do with why I left.

Its increasing commercialization was probably inevitable, but it was annoying.

Spammy apps added to the bad experience.

Its first big UI changes were the last straw.

And of course, there's the fact that I'd rather support a lean startup than a world-crushing monopoly.
"We get new sunlight every day, but the fresh water that we have is all we have." Actually, we get new fresh water every other day - it's called rain.
actually the service gets WORSE
Because when it was taking me 1 hour to get to work it was about 20 minutes walking to train station, wait 5-10 mins for train, 20 minute train ride reading books/magazines, 5-10 minute walk to work. Fairly enjoyable.

After the move, it was about a 7-12 minute drive to work. Much shorter, but I liked being able to walk before and I could read or nap on the train. Had I been driving to work (instead of taking the train) before, it would have been a 1-2 hour stressful commute in heavy traffic.

As I read what I just wrote, I wonder if the reason for the "loss of limb" comparison is that the 20 minute commute they used as a reference is in heavy traffic. I have a 35-45 minute drive to work 2x a day now and again, dropping it to 15 minutes wouldn't be a big deal for me, but it is a very relaxing commute mostly along country roads where I get to drive at a consistently high speed.
Excellent point. I am so glad you brought this up. One thing we want to do is partner with microfinance organizations and enroll all of our patients in financial literacy courses, as well as have them open up savings accounts, so they can better prepare for medical emergencies.
Thanks, we really appreciate the love!
Actually it works (according to the documentation) for more than debs:

http://asic-linux.com.mx/~izto/checkinstall/
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Sounds familiar?
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/08/mugshots/
This post really spoke to me - all my life, I'd lived in the Midwest - first in Minnesota (coincidentally enough) then in Illinois for college. In October last year (the beginning of my senior year in college) I received a nice, safe offer as a Software Engineer at Google and that was my plan: do the 'Google thing' and see how I felt two, three, or four years down the road.

Fast forward to May of this year, I saw a job posting here on HN for a YCS12 company that was looking for a summer intern. I sent them a short email, not knowing really what was going to happen - one thing led to another, and before I know it I'm flying out to San Francisco the day after I graduate to begin my internship!

I can honestly say that this summer has been the best summer of my life - I've learned more than I thought possible, worked more than I thought possible, and had more fun than I thought possible.

And that safe job offer from Google? Well, I'm not doing that anymore - I'm the first hire at a very promising YC startup that I'm in love with.
Those are examples, with example page handlers.

Right - and examples are meant to illustrate how to best use a library.