skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Apart from the cure for cancer, I have one thing to say to all of these:

Booooooooring.

The goal has to be huge, extremely difficult to pull of, easy to measure and easy to rally around. It has to be something the tech geek and the redneck can agree would be awesome, something that screams USA is number one, something the entire country can take pride in.
So you need a war to unite the country?

How about the 'War On Corruption'™?
Verizon Wireless sells Lower 700MHz spectrum to AT&T for $1.9 billion
go read the descriptions of each of those in your state's criminal code and see the phrase "sexual harassment" used multiple times.
This wasn't even a lady, so that policy wouldn't have helped.
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>So, $.ajax in JavaScript (jQuery) and cURL in PHP. That’s it.

This is a bit confusing. "That's it" makes it sound as though this is the complete scope of what people mean when they say API. Somewhere it should be made clear that we are talking about one API of a particular type.

After reading the post someone could come away with the idea that if you don't have .ajax and jQuery or cURL and PHP then you aren't using an API.
- In the long term you should be more interested in developers you can work with than their ability as programmers.

- You're a skilled professional attacking a specific problem relevant to your profession, and you've bothered to try to learn to code even though it's probably not your strength. You're not as much of a timewaster as the other "idea guys" developers run into, which means that people who are genuinely good at what they do and ambitious will sit down and talk with you.

- In the short term, you should build something and test something before you leave that highly salaried physician job. Luckily, with your high salary you can pay someone before you go about forming a company.

- Pay someone you'd think about forming a company with - the sort of person that's not afraid to suggest ways of changing your idea to make it better. Even if they cost a lot more than an Indian outsourcing firm on elance. Get round to forming the company and giving them equity once they've earned their money and proved you want to work with them.
That site is a good example of how not to ever do web design. Really cluttered, bulky and sporadic.
How do we verify that any of the above is true?
Yes, everything is the same. They're going to present at Demo Day too (lots of rich people in that room).
Sorry! This is our (Watsi's) fault. Everything pg said is entirely true.

When we first launched Watsi we had absolutely no operating budget and because of that we had to include credit card processing fees in the cost of treatment. We are now paying the credit card processing fees out of our own operating budget (see our Transparency Document for more info: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/pub?key=0Ah3wJ9CRQzyHdDZ...).

Thanks for catching this. We've updated our FAQ to reflect this change.
It's broken on firefox too.

edit: ahh for me the stylish add-on helps. Add padding-top: 150px to .main-wrapper and padding-top: 75px to .killer-logo. Apologies to the designers, but it was really, really bothering me.
Looks like that applies to _new_ violations, with new contractors and new contracts I assume.
>Projects like the "car with ultra-high gas mileage" are instances of a very unproductive mentality when it comes to responsible environmental stewardship

This is an example of the perfect being the enemy of the good. To a partisan all pragmatism is bad.
According to the TIOBE index[1], it only shows that SO is very biased toward javascript, not that it is more or less used. StackOverflow is simply the new goto place for js programmers and seems to become more and more exclusively driven by web development, which might not reflect the whole programming industry.

[1] http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index....
I'm sure this is true of a lot of charitable endeavors, but the health care charities are generally about getting medical teams on the ground and deploying desperately needed care.

It makes sense to route contributions to reputable charities. In the medical space, you have not only PIH but also organizations like Médecins Sans Frontières/DWB-USA. One of the very cool things about what Watsi is doing is that they provide a front end that routes contributions to multiple reputable on-the-ground health care providers, like PIH clinics.
We built SnowPlow for exactly this:

https://github.com/snowplow/snowplow

Worth checking out if you're too big for e.g. Google Analytics free tier (10m pageviews+events a month)
Go read William K. Black[0] on the subject of accounting control fraud. He's the author of The Best Way to Rob a Bank is to Own One: How Corporate Executives and Politicians Looted the S&L Industry [2005] He was one of the lead regulators during the Savings and Loan crisis. Follow a few of the links on his Wikipedia page. It was fraud: massive and with regulators (led by Alan Greenspan) turning a blind eye.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_K_Black
Truthfully people still shouldn't make judgements after reading this either. When I read his blog I felt extremely sorry for him, and if it is true then he does deserve our sympathy. But I don't know nearly enough about him to make a judgement either side, after all if the allegations were true it's not like he would have written a blog agreeing with them.
That's why we have a criminal justice system. Lets hope it finds truth.
NASA works out how to build large, commercial flying wing
Techcrunch has confirmed it.

http://techcrunch.com/2013/01/25/rabois-left-square-over-sex...
Many forces shaping employment options are considerably larger than any one individual's choices about their own career, so I think it's fair (and important) to look at systemic trends, and what effect they have. Of course, in the short term, each person also has to make their own decisions with the systemic factors as they currently exist, so I don't entirely disagree.
Bisexuals are doomed.
Good to get his side of the story, but everything has to be known as alleged: we don't actually know (yet) whether there actually was a consensual relationship before the accuser joined Square, for instance. It's a fairly convincing defense and good tactics to get this out there immediately to the public mind--and it rings as pretty plausible for me--but it's still just a claim that might just be cleverly engineered to protect Keith.

Edited to add: There's also the altogether not-minor point that even a consensual relationship preceding and concurrent with Square employment wouldn't mean sexual harassment was impossible. Imagine the accuser, say, breaking up with Keith and getting stalked or threatened by him as a result.
I was thinking of a different essay:

http://www.paulgraham.com/start.html

"One of the best tricks I learned during our startup was a rule for deciding who to hire. Could you describe the person as an animal? It might be hard to translate that into another language, but I think everyone in the US knows what it means. It means someone who takes their work a little too seriously; someone who does what they do so well that they pass right through professional and cross over into obsessive."
To be fair, positions 1, 2 and 3 (JavaScript, SQL, jQuery) are "common" languages in that most web developers use/need them in addition to their core server language/framework (apart from node.js of course).
Seems like that action would suggest the rule was what he had an issue with, not any particular illumination on his sexual orientation. In fact, he probably wisely decided to go after a group he could claim to be a part of rather than spouting sexist or racist stuff, right?
Congrats @pg and team! I love seeing YC used for so much good. The impact continues
Manhattan project focused on climate change.

Pros: lots of disciplines to get involved, obvious ways for ordinary people to take part (monitoring and reducing home energy use), and a regulatory environment that is in need of reform (tragedy of the commons for pollution, carbon market). And obviously, a dire, human-race affecting need.
Saddest news I've read all day. Sex happens. Why ruin someone for this?
except since this case since it involves two men, I don't exactly know what sexism has anything to do with anything
Shall be there!
I agree high-quality writing is a solid skill, but I worry whether content-farm writing is a particularly plausible inroads into that. I suppose it can help improve writing skills from completely nonexistent up to the level of being able to string words together, but I'm not sure writing articles along the lines of what you find on eHow is going to help you land a more solid writing job, like technical documentation. In the worst case, it could count as worse than no experience to mention on your CV, since that kind of writing has a poor reputation.

Hopefully I'm wrong, but I think there are a lot of entry-level jobs that are sort of dead-end and don't really develop into a skill ladder, which is something to watch out for.
from Square:

“The first we heard of any of these allegations was when we received the threat of a lawsuit two weeks ago. We took these allegations very seriously and we immediately launched a full investigation to ascertain the facts. While we have not found evidence to support any claims, Keith exercised poor judgment that ultimately undermined his ability to remain an effective leader at Square. We accepted his resignation.”
Seems an odd anecdote to exist there without any citation at all. Assuming it's true, he was clearly doing it to make a point, and therefore maybe he picked a subject that would make the point (i.e. it had to be something that wasn't politically correct) but wouldn't tarnish his reputation - if he had stood there making racist remarks then people might consider him a racist, whereas a gay person making homophobic remarks he could, if called on it later, say "of course that's not a reason to judge me, I'm gay myself!".

(Alternatively, it's not too uncommon for people to be homophobic either because they don't understand their sexuality, or because they understand it but want to hide it from other people.)
This is a great suggestion. We do send updates to all donors, but as soon as we integrate Stripe we're going to enable optional user accounts. These accounts will enable us to create new features like one-click donation checkout, recurring donations, and a donation history so you can easily view all the patients you've helped support. If you have any other ideas, please let us know!
Agreed. It is very readable, and eye pleasing.
I'll definitely check this out, thanks lxdvs! I've been doing some research into Android apps and agree that the jumping through all the hoops with dex2jar, jd-gui (which fails to work for me on Linux), etc manually has been a pain.

Another similar tool you might want to look into is Androguard:
https://code.google.com/p/androguard/
If you're willing to fund overhead and give up the direct-to-recipient portion, you "should" contribute to PIH because nonprofits have a much easier time covering their program costs compared to overhead costs. Nobody wants to contribute to office supplies or fundraising costs, they're not sexy, even if necessary.

Of course, you should also support Watsi because as they succeed and drive a ton of extra contributions toward program-costs-only, even if there isn't enough existing overhead covered, there "should" be strategic donors who see this happening and decide to fund it.

This is all assuming Watsi's average partner is interchangeable with PIH, along with the treatments you'd be funding, which of course they aren't. Based on Chase's comment on Bageshwori, it may be very different-- it sounds like by directly funding PIH you'd be contributing to basic (though still potentially lifesaving) care through PIH, whereas with Watsi-via-PIH you have the option of (and often are?) contributing to more difficult, expensive, and perhaps otherwise-even-more-unavailable care.

If you're feeling generous, support both :)

(PIH spends a remarkably high 94% of its donations on program expenses, fyi: http://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?bay=search.summary..., though there's long been a philanthropy-wide consensus that over-focusing on overhead is common and unhelpful: http://blog.givewell.org/2009/12/01/the-worst-way-to-pick-a-...)
Quoting from his blog post above (http://keithrabois.tumblr.com/post/41463189288/a-note-from-k...): "I decided to resign from Square so my colleagues could continue to do great work without the distraction that a lawsuit would most certainly bring."
among other issues, it has poor handling of draft posts, private posts, and recently published posts in terms of editing and workflow.
We don't know, but it's pretty easy to figure out when their relationship began. There will be records of personal calls and emails between them.

Unless Keith is colossally stupid, he didn't just make up a bunch of stuff when his lawyer told him it's time to be quiet. People have been known to be that stupid in that past , so like someone else said it's good we have a court system to deal with the serious allegations being made by each side.
The smoking barrel of a 9mm is far more effective, if legal to get a CCL in your state.
I just bought two dumb phones so I could cancel my verizon data plans. I also cancelled our SMS plan. 60 x 12 + 10 x 2 x 12-30=$930 savings per year. I'm almost always using wifi, so the 3g was useless. I'm also a mobile developer. But honestly, I don't care! I don't need a data plan to use a smartphone, and I'm done letting the phone company rip me off.

I wish more people would follow suit and do what I'm doing. The price of service is absurd.

$930 a year going into my stock portfolio instead. Sorry verizon.
This is pointless. Solutions like keepass are just as good and don't require existing services to hook into new authentication API's. In fact, they're better because they don't run the risk of opening a whole new central attack surface.
Because when you are a high level executive at a company, part of what you are being paid for is understanding you need to protect the company above your job.

I'm not talking about fraud here, or things like that. I'm talking about when you get into a situation which can only cause the company harm and embarrassment, the generally appropriate thing to do is remove your link to the company.

If he was a random employee, sure, they don't pay you to do that, but executives, yeah, this is one of the reasons they are paid well.

I'm sure he also holds enough options/stock that he has a financial incentive to not cause the company financial trouble through his alleged personal indiscretions.
Woz On What's Wrong With Kutcher's Steve Jobs Movie
It takes a highly developed sense of cynicism to see a transparent effort to curb child labor as an attempt to hurt their competitors.

Furthermore, Apple has publicly committed to bringing more manufacturing to the US, which isn't exactly pool of cheap labor.

There are plenty of Apple's business practices worth criticizing. Making a forthright attempt to end child labor in the third world is not one of them.
It was fraud, executed at the highest level, with an associated Gresham's law corollary: honesty was driven out of the market as CEOs who failed to follow the "liars loans" trend didn't survive. As I said upthread, go read William K. Black's Wikipedia page, follow a few of the links (his appearance on Bill Moyers was good).
As sexual harassment cases have typically been matters between men and women, sexism can easily color perceptions of the problem.
Huh? From what Keith says, his accuser is claiming that non-consensual acts occurred. Whether that is the case will be up to the courts to decide, but this is not just "Sex happens"
Based on the last line of his post, it looks like he was working on his own startup anyway. While the timing is suspicious, I think he might have felt that a clean break was the best solution to a situation where no one wins.
It is speculated that eventually Square will cut out credit cards, creating their own network (perhaps using ACH instead) to reduce their costs. This would be a threat to Visa.
You can discover a URL through finding a link to it on a publicly-accessible web page, even if crawling that link itself is not possible.
indian government should pass a law on allowing tazers
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In France, Twitter walks the tightrope on freedom of expression
The YC blog. More people should read it.
>It was to show the world, once and for all, that communism wasn't better than capitalism. For that you need a big hairy audacious goal. Better millage isn't one.

I understand and it achieved its purpose (yay freedom) but now is different. Freedom has won, commies are laughed at, though mildly problematic, and the planet is one, sort of. The problems we face are less epic which makes them seem dull and we should be thankful for that.
Come now! Surely the rapist would just snatch it from her trembling hand!
So, basically they have come up with a novel way to track their women.

Might be a bit of a doubled edged sword.
Everything you just said, plus the non-scaled header and footer image/text gives it a non-responsive feel, the search bar intrudes on the top nav...sheesh. The design of the comments is cool.
It's interesting that he says Square had no knowledge of the relationship until the lawsuit. I've heard of companies requiring that you tell HR if you are in a relationship with another employee- seems that level of disclosure would be very smart for someone at the top of the company, at least.
If Square was also sued, it's still going to be a huge distraction (large number of emails produced, employees deposed, etc) unless they settled.

If he was sued personally, but Square was not, then yes, cutting this link probably would help.
If you missed it, I recommend listening to the following American Life episodes in consideration on the light shed by this news:
454: Mr. Daisey and the Apple Factory http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/454/m...
460: Retraction http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/460/r...
As someone who has multiple Padrino apps running at customer sites:

- Almost nothing is activated without explicit choice (except security-related things and really default things, like sessions, mind you). This mitigates the risk of attacks that hit a component that you didn't implement without knowledge. See the XML-parsing attack on Rails (CVE-156) for that hit everyone, even if they were not conciously accepting XML. Padrino users using MiniXML would be affected, but those are only the ones that actually know that they are using it.

- You can learn the whole stack in just a few days. And by learning, I mean: including reading and understanding most of the source. This makes it much easier to get new people on board that didn't learn this specific framework for a few month already.

- Everything that can be changed can be changed via an API. (Almost) no need for monkey-patching.

- Very Rack-friendly. Programming Padrino well means that you leverage a lot of technologies that are standard in the Ruby anyways.

- No unneccessary magic for saving a few lines. The whole bootstrap-process is very straight-forward. If you want to know why something happens, its very easy to figure out the series of events from your code.

- Very low on stack frames. I hadn't figured that out before, but that makes debugging that much easier.

- Theres another thing that I call "load to memory", for lack of a better word: the mental overhead to understand and remember how that part of the framework that you are currently working with really works is low, so its easy to get it into your head once you need it.

- Its _very_ flexible. Everything that Padrino _doesn't_ do also means that you are free to implement things and it won't break during releases. For example, it doesn't really expect a fixed application layout - its just a very well chosen set of default load paths. If you want to change that: go ahead - organize your project in a fashion that makes sense.

- The best convenience parts of Rails (I18n and active_support) are available to you.

And finally: a completely different philosphical approach. We don't serve omakase, we provide you with fresh ingredients, pots and pans, because we believe that _you_ are the best chef.
That's often the view of the Supreme Court. But for some reason, they don't apply that logic to plea bargaining.
Yes, I meant to say that these are things that Kevin has added to the record, and they may or may not actually help his case, but they do shed more light on the exact nature of the claims.

In the end, it'll be a matter of perspective...it's possible that the accuser is out to blackmail him. It's also possible that Rabois misjudged his role in the relationship, and that the accuser felt pressure to accomodate him because Rabois, indirectly or not, was his boss.
We prevent scammers by going through trusted organizations. The funds go directly to the organization that is providing treatment (i.e. the hospital or clinic), and never into the hands of the patient.

As well, patients aren't able to solicit Watsi funding. In fact, they don't even know we exist until a doctor at one of our partner organizations has identified them as a candidate and presents them with the opportunity to have their care funded by Watsi. You can think of us as an "Emergency Fund" for on-the-ground healthcare providers.
Yes it does. In California, sexual harassment includes assault and that, most certainly, is a crime. So you could face both a civil complaint and a criminal charge (for the assault part of the harassment)

http://www.equalrights.org/publications/kyr/shwork.asp

Note this quote: "The conduct of the harasser must either be severe or it must be pervasive to be sexual harassment. A single incident is probably not sexual harassment unless it is severe. For example, a single incident of rape or attempted rape would probably be sexual harassment (it would also violate criminal laws)."
would have been impossible without your work :)
thanks man
I used spideroak for a year (paid) and slowly grew to hate the client. Everthing else about the service was great and I had a large amount of trust in the company, but the client was extremely slow and unpredictable.

I wish Dropbox and SpiderOak would mate and have a child product that was as smooth, fast and easy to use as Dropbox, but with full SpiderOak grade client side encryption.
The landscape of just-in-time compilers for number crunching in Python
Carmen Ortiz fails again
http://news.stanford.edu/pr/92/920212Arc2432.html
I had publicly started Tilde about six months before starting the Kickstarter.

I said that I would use the money to take time off from work to dedicate to Tokaido. I naïvely assumed I would be able to take that time off in a large block, but that wasn't possible. Instead, I took off time as I had it available, in spurts rather than all at once. I isolated the money so that I would mark portions as "earned" only as I (or Patrick, who did much of the OSX work) actually worked on the project, so I did use the money to dedicate time to work on the project.

I am extremely sorry that my original plans for dedicating a block of time turned out to be infeasible. It was my mistake and one that I have learned from the hard way.
I take this legal obligation seriously and am in the process of fulfillment (see other comments on this thread).
A gun? Pepper Spray? You have no idea how the rapist will react to that.

And someone shouldn't have to have the burden of ending another human's life just to not be attacked.
Who is mwally and why is he/she at the center?
thats totally sweet. Actually had not seen that, which is surprising considering the research I've been doing for this project. Thanks for the heads up!