skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are easier ways of doing startups in the developing world too: in most SE Asian cities you'd have 24 hour power and not be able to tell what continent you're on inside the spacious office you're renting for the price of a desk in SF. I can't help thinking the only real barrier to entry other than culture shock (not a big problem if you're somewhere like the Philippines) is terrible business regulations enforced by ridiculously corrupt officials. And some startups probably go under that radar anyway...

If you're bootstrapping with no need to network for sales, further investment or elite development skills, and don't mind adapting lifestyle a little bit, the developing world might be a good idea. If you're doing fairly time-insensitive contract work that can be done remotely or just fancy a break, it's a great idea.

(I spent most of the last 20 months in various developing countries. I'm not convinced going back to London is such a great idea yet...)
While I agree with you to some extent I am not quite ready to be an anarchist, if only for my grandmother's sake. I do believe that the founders of this country deliberately designed it to be mostly gridlocked to try to avoid the worst parts of government.
It is so distracting that I can't even be on this site anymore.
It's cool to see someone doing a startup in Nepal. I went to high school there and lived there for two years. It's where I first started programming and getting into online business. I hope the internet situation has improved. We used to have a 64kbps radio connection, and that was FAST for the country at the time.
The only suggestion I have is that it would be nice to see the patient's profiles get updated after being funded and treatment was given. We all like to see how our donations are making noticeable difference in people's lives.

I really like what Watsi is doing. They even "eat the credit card processing fees"
I have been using AeroFS ( https://www.aerofs.com/ ) for a couple months now and it works similarly.

The files sync between all your AeroFS computers (and supports selecting syncing too) instead of to a single server so I basically have literally 100s of GBs of 'cloud'/Dropbox-like storage available. And as a bonus, its completely free for all this 'unlimited' storage.
So it looks like they're pulling their data from MySQL. Is it feasible to use R on data "big" enough that it makes an RDBMS impractical?
Probably some of the US regulations would be relevant for US-based startups trying to develop and test the technology locally, even if it is to be used in 3rd world countries later.
If it were about the app store, why does Gabe have nothing to say about the Mac App Store?

In my poking around on this, I saw plenty of assertions that this was all about the app store, but nothing is ever attributed to Newell except his lament that the usability is off and the sales aren't there.
Not very often tbh. Probably about 5 times a year.
Aaron Swartz didn't face prison threat until Feds took over
Seems amazing, but I'd not love to see some screenshots of the product.
Or a crime has happened.

It's not uncommon for the accused to step down, or step away, while an issue is being investigated.
I'm leaning towards a platform where it's inherently a little more social. Care to explain why you think Squarespace is so awesome?
It's not a random person, it's an unnamed person. Without any details, I'm curious why the possibility the the claims might be correct are not even considered.
How would you know that it is a "mere allegation"?
Rabois Left Square Over Sexual Harassment Claim
> Now imagine we could all agree on some other goal that we would spend that much money on.

Then create a kickstarter page and leave my paycheck alone. Just an idea.
How we threw away everything & gained everything in a pivot
Achieve the lowest per capita CO2 emissions of any developed nation within 15 years.

Considering the amount of CO2 emissions from cars, here's a simple one: avoid using the car for personal reasons whenever possible. Use a bike, public transportation, your feet.

I, for one, would be very proud of my country if that became the norm for a significant number of people.
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This is really great to see. I am just curious, how do they ensure that the funds are actually used for the intended person's health issues? How do you prevent scammers and posers who just want to get money? I have a bit of experience here and would say it is a non trivial problem if you do not have an operation on the ground. You could donate to organizations that you trust but then you get back to the same old problem: Distance from the human face and actual life you are impacting.

For those of you who want to donate to non health related issues there is also SeeYourImpact.org founded by Scott Oki, one of Microsoft's early execs. They also ensure 100% of the donation goes to the person and absorb all the overhead expenses.

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When you type into the chrome omnibox, it sends your keystrokes to Google to give you search suggestions. Just using those would be sufficient, and I don't think they really hide that it's sending your input along. If someone does a Google search for a URL, we expect it to get added to the index; why is it different when the search occurs in the omnibox rather than their web interface?
While having the Bing toolbar installed in IE, any URL one types or visits is submitted to Microsoft, and they actively use this data to tune their Bing search results.

http://www.wired.com/business/2011/02/bing-copies-google/

I agree it'd be alarming and terrible, but hardly a new development.

Edit: it's doubtful that an e-mail provider would automatically fetch links from e-mails -- think about them clicking 'unsubscribe' links and links to reject the transfer of domain names. It would break in very obvious ways. IMs and texts, on the other hand, might be more opaque to that kind of meddling.
Is there any chance of expanding this to include Americans? Or even better - people that live near me, such as my zip code + the surrounding zip codes.

That way, there's at least a chance that I'd see the person that I helped someday.
Yeah, and there is a guy currently fighting in court because he changed some numbers in a URL and was able to get information on other customers from AT&T ... CFAA.
it's intentional and is a normal design aesthetic/style especially in typographically designers mind.
Wow. Despite the largely hideous comments here, it's beautiful. Great work.
That's my point exactly. In theory, even an unpaid intern has the power to bring down top-level executives by simply walking into a police precinct. For a competitor, it's a better and far quicker strategy than competing on product features.
Triumphant motel owner slams Carmen Ortiz
The difference is that it's not a pirate website. It's WTO sanctioned, thus a legal offer. This would make things harder to shut down, since it's hard to argue that it should be shut down because it's a pirate site.
>Achieve the lowest per capita CO2 emissions of any developed nation within 15 years.

The problem with this is that it's too broad. There are a million different ways to do it which are almost all trade offs of one thing or another, and the people who have to sacrifice for any given one will be fighting tooth and nail to make you choose a different one, so you spend all your time arguing with people and never accomplish anything.

Pick a specific goal. Build a working commercially viable fusion reactor. Take something like that and put moonshot resources behind it and it will happen.
That's so nice of you to say that! :)
Let me see if I've got this straight.

Your preferred explanation of this event is that a baseless accusation of sexual harassment was orchestrated by the big payment processors as a means of torpedoing Square's already breathless pace? And that, despite the baselessness of that claim, a major architect of Square decided to hop off the train? That despite a huge investment of time, energy and ego, the mere whisper of an accusation was sufficient to send him running?

If I may posit a more likely scenario: Square hires human beings. And human beings, thanks to a technology stack built atop a basal ganglia, like to fuck almost at the exclusion of all other things. And, due to imperfections of this stack, sometimes higher order objectives are subjugated by that enthusiasm for fucking.

And that as a result, maybe someone just didn't keep their willy in their pants, they knew it, and decided to step aside before their complicated mess got slopped on the company they helped build?

I dunno – I feel like I like the "humans are imperfect" explanation a bit better.

edit: Via a comment above by ry0ohki, this appears to be exactly what happened. http://keithrabois.tumblr.com/post/41463189288/a-note-from-k...
Key Iranian Nuclear Site Explosion?
Not sure how reputable the source is, but this sounds like a big deal.
Good question. Also, PayPal fees are only unavoidable at PayPal. Would it be a conflict of interest, on pg's part, to include donations via bitcoins using Coinbase? If so, what if a competitor, such as BitPay, was used?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weev is getting sued for inputting information on a public website which at that point gave him details about users...
Sigh.

Yes, because a conspiracy is more likely than one of the guy's at the helm of a company notorious for its poor working environment[0] actually turning out to, allegedly, being a douchebag.

[0] http://www.businessinsider.com/the-truth-about-those-brutal-...
Unlocking Your Mobile Phone Is No Longer Legal
A note from Keith
I don't think it looks sloppy. It's intentionally styled like a magazine. Magazines deliberately break typographic conventions.
You also have to take into account the amount of time it would take for PIH to deal with direct contributions. It's a non-trivial problem for these organizations to focus on that aspect when their core competency is to focus on the medical work they do. We've seen this a lot at Kiva where our partners are able to do things they could not have done otherwise because we are providing a source of funds that they don't have to devote resources towards, allowing for reaching new regions, providing different loan terms (for instance "bullet" loans for agriculture that pay off at the end and can be difficult for a small MFI to deal with), and for reach new groups of people with services, such as the completely unbanked.

That said Partners in Health seems to be a fairly robust organization and seems to have the donation handling and web presence problem solved, but Watsi is still providing a place to evangelize them to people who would otherwise never come across them.
Really insightful question. With Nyaya Health (the PIH org) we're funding treatments they don't normally provide their patients (specialty referral care, think heart surgery and the like), so yes, there's a big difference between funding organizations directly and funding via Watsi.

Here's a link to the first patient we funded via Nyaya (http://www.flickr.com/photos/nyayahealth/8405959818/in/photo...). She had to take a 72-hour trip from Far Western Nepal to Kathmandu to receive life-saving heart surgery. This is a pretty expensive endeavor by Nepali standards ($1,125 USD), and without funding from an organization like Watsi, specialty care for individual patients like Bageshwori is out of the question.
"I readily acknowledge the absurdity of all this: a portfolio of devices, swimming around various pockets, with deliberately hobbled and enabled in various ways, all to fit my mental whims."

We're in agreement there at least. All this work just because he's lacking the self-control to regulate his gadget usage without some byzantine self-imposed restrictions, it's kinda sad.
Looks like Heisenberg is ready to cook:

http://207.68.47.143:8080/anony/mjpg.cgi
For what it's worth, sexual harassment is not a crime.
Seconding git-annex.

I haven't used git-annex assistant, but git-annex alone has revolutionized the way that I think about and interact with my filesystem(s).
First, OMG, thank you for all this information. I'm super interested in this field and spend all my time thinking about it and applying these ideas in practice as the co-founder of http://devbootcamp.com

Second, everything you said is true and doesn't surprise me. I admit my ignorance. I disagree WRT Bret, though. He's playing a clever game and I think his success is a directly result of that. Ironically, that game is nothing more than practicing what he preaches.

He applies these principles and ideas at every layer, including the meta-layer where the problem is not "help people build models around computation" but "help people build models around how to build models around computation."

Put another way, Bret's essays and presentations are themselves applications of these ideas. They practice what they preach.

"Learnable Programming," for example, is both a critique of Khan Academy's approach and a itself for the better approach he's advocating. Bret is giving me many representations of the idea he is trying to express around how people learn: symbolic, visual, and structural.

What I'm learning, though, is not how to program, but how to teach people how to program.

I'm going to read http://llk.media.mit.edu/papers/ch-phd.pdf for sure, but let's be honest: a 121-page PhD thesis about real-time programming and computational literacy isn't practicing what it's preaching. :)

Or maybe "show, don't tell" is a better way to put it?

This field is all about teaching and communication, right? It's about giving people the tools and models they need to explore their environment, get feedback from it, learn, and build, assimilate, and synthesize new models.

So, what more is there than being a "great communicator," at that point?
Ask HN: Feedback from Heroku users?
During the process of building a few Heroku apps I found that the provided scheduler addon, while very useful, was somewhat limited. So, I scratched the itch and built a more flexible scheduler supporting full cron expressions and one-time jobs.

I'm trying to publish it as an addon and would love to have some input from other Heroku users on what need, if any, they have for something like this? Also, please let me know if you want to check it out in alpha (email is in profile).

Thanks HN
It's intentional. I can't say I care for it - I've tried to scroll the missing part of the type onto the screen a couple times now.

You can fix this pretty easily if you use a browser extension like Stylebot to customize your page styling - it's great when something just annoys you aesthetically.

Here's my first pass at a correction that seems to work with the main pages, although I'm sure I'm missing something somewhere:

.home-page .killer-logo {
top: 40px;
overflow: visible;
}

.killer-logo {
top: 82px;
overflow: visible;
}

.home-page .wide-hero, .issue-page .wide-hero {
padding-top: 136px;
}

.wide-hero {
padding-top: 98px;
}

.global-footer {
padding-bottom: 100px;
}

.deadly-subtitle {
bottom: 10px;
height: 60px;
}

.global-footer .inline-items {
margin-bottom: 2px;
}

.main-wrapper.stacker:first-of-type {
margin-top: 198px;
}

.single-column-display, .two-column-display, .multi-column-display {
margin-top: 198px;
}
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Unless you have IPv6 turned on ... in which case many of these printers will automatically grab an IPv6 and be publicly accessible.
You should check out giveforward.com.
I wish they would have styled actual text for the header and footer logo/tagline. As it is, they are just huge images that do not scale AT ALL. I guess you could call this art-directed, but it seems sloppy to me.
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360 view of london
Good! Thanks for your comment. I thought of an amusing way to think of a rather unamusing situation, so I figured I'd share it. Maybe you'll laugh, I hope.

Let's say you have a large extended family and elderly grandparents that have boxes of family photos. You know that the family would love to flip through these, and digitizing them and putting them online is beyond your grandparents' abilities.

So you offer to help them digitize and share the files. On your time and dime.

But your grandparents surprise you by saying "no". The first thing they're worried about is that, mixed in with those photos, are some risque photos of grandma when she was younger. She doesn't want those shared. But also - and this is the part that really drops your jaw - unknown to you for many years your grandparents have been charging family members a small fee to access the photographs, and it's quite a little side income for them, especially around the holidays when they need it most!
that is a great place to look for help
I know I probably shouldn't ask, but did you tape it?
Man, I've been working on my iOS client for hacker news for like three weeks. When I started there were already like 5 in the store, since then I've seen three people announce the ones they wrote on here. sigh

I'm going to release mine anyhow because I've put a lot of love into it but damn if I'm not frustrated.
I disagree. I enjoyed the nostalgia, but it did not make me long to use IE again. I ended up blogging about it. Below is the text from my blog, but the version on my website has links to the Draper Carousel speech if you haven't seen it: http://www.bradlanders.com/2013/01/24/hes-no-don-draper/

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Anyone who has seen Don Draper’s iconic Carousel speech knows that nostalgia is a terribly effective agent for emptying consumers’ pockets. Apparently, a reader at Daring Fireball saw a correlation between Don’s work and a recent advertisement for Internet Explorer.

Take a moment to watch both the Carousel speech and the Internet Explorer ad before you move ahead. I’ll wait.

I don’t doubt that the agency responsible for the advertisement had this in mind when they scripted this piece. Unfortunately, the ad falls flat for me.

I grew up in the 90s. I saw a lot of things I remember fondly when I watched the ad; if not with a chuckle at the absurdity of the 90s aesthetic. I did feel connected with the images, but why didn’t I feel connected to the product?

Don Draper tells us we should be nostalgic, but not because we have a strong sentimental attachment to film slides. We feel what we do because of what the Carousel delivers. We insert our slides, dim the lights, and we are taken back to “a place where we know we are loved”.

Sob.

Unfortunately, yeterday’s Internet is gone. Internet Explorer cannot bring it back. Therefore, the product fails to deliver on the promise of the ad. That, I think, is the disconnect, and it’s the reason the ad falls flat for me.
I assume the issue is building the backend to store all the data. I don't see why instrumenting a popular site is any different to instrumenting an unpopular site.

This is vastly different problem, which is mostly about distributed systems and algorithms.

Alex Smola's Hokusai paper is good place to start for analytics on truly massive traffic: http://www.auai.org/uai2012/papers/231.pdf
Show HN: DreamZook
So I built a platform for users to enter their goals , track them and share them. The mobile version in the works and would love comments from the community. Its got its kinks and I should fix them one by one. I had applied to YC and ERA and TechStars and fortunately or unfortunately all of them rejected, maybe no one even saw it or just they do not see a potential for the idea. But I got to try it out.

The reason why I built this is because it took me long time to do what I liked doing. I always did stuff that was safe and because I never knew how to get to my goal. I had to find the path eventhough there were people out there who knew how to get there. But I had no access to them.So I had to take the longer route.

www.DreamZook.com

a platform to set, track and share goals. You can inspire and cheer others. Watch the path taken by others, comment on their stuff, provide advice, seek mentorship, brag about it to your social media etc. I plan to add more stuff and I would be happy if there is somebody out there can be helped by other community members. Its good to have family and friends cheer your goal but many times they do not have the same passion for that goal as you do or someone else who has that same goal as their dream. You can reach out to other community members and ask help. Most likely they will help you. Some might do it for free and others might charge for their time. Its a market place for Dreamers to ink their goals and share it and in the process achieve it.

Would love some feedback on the idea and whether it is done in an intuitive fashion.
Worth mentioning that patients in the US, and particularly children, are guaranteed medical care regardless of ability to pay. Medical care funding can bankrupt you in the US, but it cannot prevent you from having a broken femur fixed. States also run "CHIP" programs to provide health insurance coverage to children.

The same is not true in Haiti or Malawi. Without the funds to pay for care, a child can live for years --- their entire life, even --- with easily correctible medical conditions.
This will make future Rails Girls events a breeze. :) Thanks for all your hard work on this and everything else.
Antigua: come for the beaches, leave with a truecrypt image of every book worth reading, every song worth hearing, and every movie worth watching.
This is why Billy Graham had a policy to avoid being alone with any woman other than his wife. Hard to do in a modern office, but a good rule for high power folks who might be a good lawsuit target. Works equally well for other partner combinations.

Although I doubt this case was some conspiracy.
But those are intended to be public, are they not?
We use Segment.io at GatherContent and it works really well.

Using it with

* Intercom
* Mixpanel
* Vero
* Errorception
Keith's response to the allegations http://keithrabois.tumblr.com/post/41463189288/a-note-from-k...
Thanks for the info. I didn't intend to imply that they (or other nonprofit startups) would face opposition by all established players. It's just that I found many "nonprofits" showing questionable behaviours: The people working in the field are often very interested in helping, (some but important) people in the administration became cynics or bigots and working for a nonprofit became less of a mission and more of a job option and power play and protecting their org's income streams and spheres of influence is more important than helping.

This is a POV from Germany where you have a wealthy population willing to donate and many sharks eager to catch the fish. Add to this that some legal circumstances make it possible for the established players to keep fresh competition out of public money streams or eat plenty of the private donor money (e.g., up to 49% for admin costs).
It's an exciting idea. Why should server software run on OS's designed to let you play Tetris or compose emails at the same time? It's not like you get all that for free. In theory, specialized apps have a lot to gain from running on more specialized platforms. There ought to be more experimentation in this area.

The name "Kerlnel" is going to be a problem, because it's so awkward to say out loud. You don't want your name to be difficult for people to say; you want them saying it. "Kerlnel" is a clever pun but that doesn't last beyond the first time you read it.