skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm disagreeing that the founders intended the government to be gridlocked.
When a company does not use or correctly use email confirmation [1], and I start subsequently receiving emails regarding an account I never set up, I consider that a form of abuse on the part of the company.

Please confirm the email addresses of your users.

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[1] And I've had more than one major player boggle the latter.
Who cares about the Watsi founders? Go help the girl!

I think the point is not that people particularly care about the Watsi founders; but rather, that they care about the hundreds of thousands of other girls whom Watsi won't be able to help if Watsi and/or its founders go bankrupt because they lack a sustainable funding model.
http://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=5758861728040203...
I wouldn't able to explain better!
And the people with some education and most of the money spend it all on imported luxury goods. I didn't realize Lexus made 4x4s until I got to Phnom Penh, where nobody would deign to own a mere Toyota (and maybe consider paying taxes with the difference...).
Yeah, I also don't understand what I am supposed to do with this "perspective".

Does it mean that I am supposed to be angry at the officials for wasting my money? I am already angry at them for much better reasons. Am I supposed to be displeased with such an award? That cost, even though it is (barely) coming out of my wallet is justified.
>No, but a quiet, brief, wander in the woods is generally what people expect

People expect stupid things. Everyone copes with adversity differently. Having something to occupy your mind is something I would expect. It doesn't matter as much what it is.
Because SpaceX already has engines that work. It also has a working factory that manufactures many engines per year and good knowledge base and testing facilities made just for its own engines so it can create improved versions.
"Of course, we're biased to the more vivid human character"

Not really, we're biased to the alleged victim (aka the accuser). Granted, not as much as if it was female but still.
I've been visting Hypem since 2007 and I've loved it the whole time. The nostaliga that this feature invokes is amazing. I'm also looking forward to the Hype Hotel @SxSW this year. I'll be living upstairs too. :D
That's true, but Kara usually does a pretty good job of actual journalism and verifying sources.
You don't understand why taxpayers are upset that government officials theoretically working FOR them can make idiotic decisions, and then get off consequence-free, and all the damages that they created are paid for by everyone but themselves?

What aspect of this should we elaborate on?
Great idea!

I have small kids, so we never go to movies in theaters any more.

I'd happily use this service if it provided Rental/DVD/Netflix/iTunes availability reminders.
The coroner and the medical examiner have different functions in most modern jurisdictions.

The coroner is in charge of the legal stuff, the medical examiner is in charge of stuff like determining the actual cause of death. There's a "coroner's jury" in some jurisdictions that hears evidence and decides whether the death was criminal, accidental, natural causes, etc. The medical examiner would (e.g.) determine that the person died from a gunshot wound. The coroner (or coroner's jury) would decide whether a crime was involved (rather than suicide, accident, lawfully shot by the cops or in self-defense by someone else).
Nicely done. Seems to be doing exactly the same as this one. Good for choice :).

http://trentrichardson.com/Impromptu/
https://github.com/trentrichardson/jQuery-Impromptu
another good example is the rollout of solar power to indian villages [see http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2012/11/30/1262301/will-ind... for example] - given that they are not already connected to the grid, building a solar plant suddenly becomes a very economically-sensible idea.
Would you like to live under such systems? What is the distinguishing characteristics between such systems?

The recognized importance of the protection of innocents is the demarcation line between a system that maintains order, and a system that maintains order in a civilized fashion.

North Korea is one hell of an orderly country. As they embrace generational punishment, they have zero respect for the protection of the innocents. The extent to which other non-extreme examples are more civilized is the extent to which they respect the importance of protecting the innocents more than North Korea does.
If you live in an actually civilized area, you shouldn't have to shoot people (or even brandish a gun at someone, or fire warning shots) in order to walk down the street without being harmed. That's pretty much the baseline threshold for living in a civilized area versus some kind of wild-west scenario where you barricade the windows and don't dare leave your home unarmed.

I can see that it'd be prudent to be able to engage in some self-defense in rare scenarios, but in a civilized area they really should be extremely rare scenarios. A functioning government and civil society to the extent that people aren't being regularly assaulted in the street isn't that high a degree of public order! I live in a large European city, and I certainly feel safe here without carrying guns (safer than I feel in most American cities).
Lower costs explain why child labor is in demand, but says nothing about supply, namely why parents send their children off to work in a factory, something parents in productive, wealthy economies are unlikely to do.
600k is nothing, the government probably wastes more than that on a daily basis.
offtopic, and i'm not a native english speaker, but he refers to his partner as "he and his". does this mean that it's a gay relationship?
you should probably know their stack.... obviously html, css, and javascript, most likely jquery, maybe slicing some photoshop images. Do a couple projects where you make some interactive clickable things to show them before you get there, i.e. use some jquery animations, ajax calls, hovers, widgets, etc
My point is, at this time we've only just now heard of the accusation. Until the time that I've personally seen all evidence, or it has been determined in a court of law that this man is guilty of the accusations, he has done nothing in my eyes.

I absolutely hate seeing innocent people have their reputations and lives trashed by someone who places a false claim against them. Innocent until proven guilty is a good policy to maintain, especially as everyone contorts a story to fit his or her views and agenda.
One step after the other. I just donated, despite ever having used PayPal before, and with a non-american credit card. And - it worked within a few minutes.
I have my objections to PayPal, too, and would like to see alternatives but that doesn't have to be the focus right now.
How about creating a temp firm/staffing agency branded for ethical treatment, real benefits, focus on keeping people in longer-term roles. Then if tech companies used them first, even if they cost a bit more, they could feel good. Tax law should perhaps incentivize contractors receiving benefits.
The State has had incredibly broad latitude during Grand Jury proceedings since well before these cases. They've also had significantly less freedom to engage in shenanigans in other circumstances, AIUI. (I'll defer to someone with specific knowledge to the contrary, of course. I'm a technologist, not a lawyer.)
Obviously better interop is a Good Thing, but we're talking about relative weights of good things. My point is that it's nonsensical to ascribe "fitting together" a higher weight than "creation", because "fitting together" is a subset of "creation".

Now as to the manner of creation: you're reacting against the "just hack it together" philosophy of ghc. But the alternative in ghc's mind, I think, was people not creating anything for fear of not getting it right, or not knowing that building something for themselves is even a possibility. Sub-optimal creation is usually better than nothing, especially when nobody else has to use it.

Fitting stuff together is hard, especially now when we don't have good protocols. While we're working on those, telling people who just need to get stuff done to "wait until we figure some stuff out" is not acceptable. Those people (who may not even be "Programmers") and their products will still benefit from "fitting things together" to some degree that depends on the application (OS or fart app?), but that needs to be balanced against the need to actually finish at some point, all of which is in the service of some non-software need. They just need to get it done with whatever works, whether it's Haskell, PHP, or a spreadsheet. That, I think, is the point ghc was getting at.
Boy, I'm sure disagreeable :) An ad can be enjoyable regardless of how you feel about the product, but it cannot be a good advertisement.
Does anyone know if there is any nice Kanban board software like exists in the FOSS community? (besides TeamBox3)
Regarding the Rehberg v. Paulk case - is that the end of the story? Did the chief investigator or prosecutor suffer any consequences for their actions? How could a prosecutor do that and not get disbarred?
It seems inevitable that if "average Joe" read that far, he would continue reading to the next paragraph, where Swartz's crime is explained.
Thanks, that is an interesting decision to read.
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How does this compare price-wise to MTurk, out of curiosity?
Geithner was instrumental in guiding Obama away from this heavy handed approach, as he recognized (I think quite accurately) that confidence was really the only thing keeping the system from crashing completely.

Which means that system deserved to crash, die, burn to ashes, and leave us clean ground on which to rebuild.
I don't know that I'm following your last statement.

Just to clarify, when you say "eliminate H1B and utilize the people who are unemployed", are you saying that we shouldn't allow immigrants and look to US citizens only?
I'm curious if there's a reason Watsi couldn't or shouldn't be a for-profit company?

I like the fact they're not taking a transaction fee. But, it seems to me that they're also a benefit to healthcare providers, insurance companies, and big pharma (after all, the money raised is going to end up in their pockets). Aren't there ways Watsi could make money from these companies?
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lol... why is this comment not on the top of this page?
Kudos for your work! Do you plan to integrate Amazon S3 the same way you did for hdfs?
The home page looks terrible on my 13" Macbook Pro, the illustration takes up almost the entire screen. Everything feels oversized and unbalanced.
What does "the use of formulas" mean? Could you give a concrete example of what you're referring to?
True to a degree, but it's not as if TIOBE is unbiased.
If your goal is purely to reduce amount of oil being burned, then making it impractically expensive to use oil-burning machines works. Making them extremely inefficient is one way to go about this.
Adding this css changed my whole impression of the site. (I just inserted at the top w/ firebug, had to add !important to the .deadly-subtitle styles.)
I don't think your example is really what's allegedly happening here. Isn't it implied that the relationship was required in order for the accuser to keep their job?
And then later we'll pay even more money.
Agreed. It was a great post, but #2 (not informing the employer of the relationship) essentially vetos the rest of the statement.

If you are a C-level executive then this sort of disclosure is fundamental - a good lesson to take away.
Hypem is essentially an internet staple for me these days, you guys have done a really great job with it as far as I'm concerned.
Yes, you are right, but, AFAIK, it hasn't happened ;)

This is, after all, one of the reasons section 1983 was enacted.
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I re-read all of the comments on here and didn't feel like ANYONE said anything about victims being 'restricted' from defending themselves.

People on here were stating that the woman should get a gun, or get pepper spray, or get a taser.
Telling women they need to defend themselves in a certain way and it's on them to get a gun and shoot an attacker is what I and a few others were upset about.
Pressure on prosecutors for an unrealistic 100% "success" rate is what leads to the abuses of plea bargaining that are the worst side of this case.
Apple Co-Founder Wozniak: Parts Of Jobs Film 'Totally Wrong'
Analytics for CSS3, Please!
I did not mean to imply that electric cars were a bad idea, a friend tried to buy a Tesla Roadster and I was excited to drive it. I just meant it will not be a panacea in two years or even ten, but almost certainly eventually.
One could argue that unlike the Java runtime, ZDNet arguably exists for the purpose of slime-o monetization.
I'm pretty sure that GiveWell (whom I adore) wouldn't like Watsi very much.

It doesn't maximize the utility of donations to spend lots of money saving the lives of a handful of people vs. other interventions that can save the lives of many more people suffering from diseases like malaria at a much lower cost per patient than the interventions that Watsi is promoting.

I think Watsi donors will feel good about helping specific people, but I'm personally interested in my donations actually being maximally impactful. If you want to save the most lives per dollar, the sort of extraordinary treatments that Watsi funds are not a great way to do it.
The sensationalist aspect here is the idea that Antigua might set a far below-market price on intellectual property items

What's the price of something that has no incremental cost? We've been trained to think it's ~ $15, but there's no real basis for that.
>I can't imagine the day when "apt-get install default-jdk" prompts me to install a toolbar...

How about the day it doesn't prompt you and installs it anyway...
Please solve corruption. Corruption is a social issue that could be mitigated by using online media to catalyze critical mass for acting against corruption.
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Who Cheats More, Men or Women?
wow, I wonder what the backstory is to that incident.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith_Rabois#Early_life
Unless you're running Java processes that need gigabytes of memory, is there a downside in using the 32-bit JRE?
You're right, and I understand your point, but I would also like to add my voice to those pressuring Watsi for a PayPal alternative. Personally I had pressed "Fund Treatment" and was 100% committed to converting until PayPal loaded. I don't have a PayPal account any more and I won't reopen it for anybody, not even Watsi.
Congrats on digging in and trying to learn coding for your MVP. That will go a long way to helping your recruit a co-founder.

+1 on orangethirty's "A weekly or monthly charge ends up being easier for both sides." Hourly wage isn't a great way to hire. For an MVP, focus development items in terms of days and ( at most ) weeks. Go to a developer and tell them what you are looking to do. Then, ask them what part of it can they implement in one day or one week. If you like what you hear, hire them for that time frame and see how they do. If they're terrible, you'll know quickly and won't be out a terrible amount of cash.

I'd be interested in chatting. I'll shoot you an email
Sometimes, the biggest issue with designers is that they design. They're a lot like programmers that way; further optimization is often only a step backward.

The old, JSM design was an absolutely stunning example of what web design can be. It looked like a magazine. It read really well. Hell even the ads fit like an accessory.

It's really hard to improve something so good. And this new design pretty much proves that.

Unfortunately, their audience are people more concerned with trends and 'what's new' than those of us that prefer neat and predictable content delivery. I'm sure in their echo chamber, they will overwhelmingly agree that the design is "fresh" and "great".

Let that be a lesson to developers everywhere about spending too much time with our own kind and not enough with the general population.
Official Response from Square's Keith Rabois on Harassment Allegations
Yes, it looks odd.

I think it is due to a combination of using a wide-angle lens to fit in the entirety of the motel front plus the flash/lighting seems to be hitting him more from the side (our right, his left) than straight on (maybe bounced off a reflector off to the side to avoid harsh facial shadows). Combination is a weird forced perspective effect that makes him look flat.
Wow, poor guy; http://keithrabois.tumblr.com
It does feel like a shake down.
More details:

http://news.stanford.edu/pr/92/920212Arc2432.html
It's hard to speculate in a vacuum and obviously we don't want details in this medium, but here's a sales pitch:

Salesman: "By a MagicSuperAwesomeLotto ticket! There's no chance to win 50 million if you don't buy one. It's definitely a very risky investment. But it's an extremely small loss and the payout could make you generationally rich. We sell them in increments of $1, $5, and $50 if you want 50x chance to win, and we accept wire transfers."

Client: "So do I have to match all the picks in a row to get a payout?"

Salesman: "I'm not sure. It's a new product. We'll have to check."

Client: "Oh don't bother. I'll take $5,000 of them."

Overheard... "What a moron."
I would also love to see these kinds of reminders. Going to the movies is fun when it's something I really want to see, but I probably watch 5-10x more at home than I do at the movies.
I was clearly too short because of the downvotes.

The problem here is that there is no good reason to build this large rocket. There are already rockets capable of launching humans and lunar expeditions into space from American soil. NASA and the government are wasting precious resources by duplicating that capability.

The usual justification given is that big rockets are needed for lunar expeditions. But that is not correct - you can easily just launch more of already existing rockets. Apollo only used Saturn V since there was so little time and so little experience in orbital rendezvous, which turned out to be possible quite easily. There's also a reason why the Saturn V was not flown beyond the Skylab mission or why no more were built. It was just too expensive and only few payloads would justify using it.

If american space policy was more rational, it could achieve much more in a shorter period of time.

In an industrial sense, the F-1 tests are always interesting and probably don't cost a lot of money. The engine was not that advanced, a normal, if big, gas generator kerosene engine.

The same "ancient artifacts", could be said from the NK-33 engines, that were built in the seventies in the Soviet Union but are going to fly this year in Orbital Science's brand new Antares rocket to resupply the ISS. The engines are still state of the art high pressure oxidizer rich staged combustion with thrust to weight rates of around 100.

In what other field can you reach such levels of technological advance that they stand unsurpassed forty years later?
When life gives you devestating sexual harassment shakedown lawsuits which require you to suddenly resign from a prominent position at a prominent industry company, make the best of it and use that traffic to tease the audience on the big things to come!

Yeah - that was a really weird thing to end it with.

Almost as if this post was written under the intense emotional stress that such things can cause - and make you do and say weird things.
Thanks for the input! I believe the first four ideas derived just from the fact that I wanted to start a business for profit and if I acted upon them at the time they would have been lucrative but Im searching for something that I would be more passionate about. Potential profit in the future doesn't necessarily drive me. I want to make an impact.

Thats why Im currently working on standUP. It hasn't technically been done with the business model and structure I have plus all the features my competitors dont have. There is: http://demandprogress.org/
But they focus solely on issues of civil liberties, civil rights, and government reform.

But I appreciate the advice! Im working on a landing page right now with the option to sign up on waiting list or help fund! Thanks!
Yes, there are many more gays and vegetarian in anglo-saxon countries.
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It could very well be the opposite, the case is probably alleging that in order to get / keep the job the accuser had to continue a sexual relationship.
I've occasionally tried to work out a sensible rationale for the non-mathematical meaning based on the mathematical one. Perhaps this is etymologically unsound, but hey, words are fun. But how do you get from "remainder when divided by" to "except"? I guess `x % y` gives you "the leftovers," which is close enough to "except."
Functional Programming is discouraged in Python. See the various statements by its Benevolent Dictator starting here:

http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=98196

then here:

http://python-history.blogspot.de/2009/04/origins-of-pythons...
It's great that you've isolated those funds, and are accounting properly. I think a number of "failed" crowd-funded projects fail in this regard.

I know on the project you referenced using Harvest to track time - perhaps you could use Harvest's API to publicly disclose how much of the funding has been "burned down"? (I think this would be a good idea for all Kickstarter projects)
That's it!!!!!! Thanks dude!
To be clear, the specific question answered in Rehberg was whether grand jury witnesses enjoyed absolute immunity. See: http://www.scotusblog.com/case-files/cases/rehberg-v-paulk/

I don't think it's particularly crazy. People focus on the cases where prosecutorial misconduct is protected by immunity, but ignore all the meritless suits and appeals prisoners file against anybody and everybody because they're in prison and have nothing else to do.

The justice system is a system. Designing systems is about making trade offs (something that should be obvious to an engineer). Any system of justice is going to put innocent people in jail, just like every drug is going to kill some people who would have otherwise survived. You have to deal with that fact the best you can to construct a workable system.
Here's the original report:

http://news.stanford.edu/pr/92/920212Arc2432.html
I posted about this on my Facebook wall yesterday. This is one of the coolest features on a music site that I've ever seen.

Can I ask, what inspired you to do this? I know there's been a bit of time-shifting with HypeMachine with quite some time, have you had the vision of being able to reference any week?

If you're looking for feature suggestions, I'd love to be able to trace an artists path through the hypemachine top 50. A simple line graph of an artists hits in the top 50 would be really cool.

Thanks for developing new ways for people like me to enjoy music.
I've had this exact idea burning in my head for a little while now. I was going to go ahead and start scraping the popular list myself to do it! Great job Anthony & co!
Oh, absolutely. I thought that went without saying. My point was only that the US is not powerless against other nations like a queen under attack by a knight that is also attacking the king. There is a way out other than US copyrights going away, though I'm not sure what it is.
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I'd love to implement that, but couldn't find an API that provides that information. I'd settle on scrapping the information if I could find a site that displays the dvd/netflix release with some consistency. The site is using the tmdb.org API for everything right now.