skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't see how it's different than paying 5 times the cost of manufacturing for a Lipton bottle of lemonade at a convenience store.

Why is the lemonade from the kids' stand inherently charity, but Lipton isn't? If I'm paying $5 for that lemonade stand product, then sure, that might be charity because it's an extreme price.

I see no reason a 9 year old can't build a service, make a profit, and have it not be charity just because they're a kid.

The Lipton product sure sounds like charity to me on this scale. Because why would anyone pay so much for lemonade they can easily make on their own at maybe 10% the cost? And yet people do it every day, instead of making their own product they pay huge mark-ups for convenience. So why can't a child's lemonade stand serve the same function?

I remember running a little stand when I was a kid. We sold vanilla yogurt covered pretzels too, those were a big hit and you couldn't easily buy them at a store at the time. I never thought of any of it as charity, I thought of it as a fun expedition into an adult world. Plenty of people didn't mind paying $0.25 for a glass of lemonade on a hot Summer day when they were coming home from work. Maybe some buyers thought of it as charity, but we never charged those kinds of prices. $0.25 was a very fair deal.
A great way to express the term "Always remember to pursue your dream."

Awesome!
Sorry, got confused :) Was thinking mod_python.
GREAT idea. I travel with my girlfriend often and it's a massive pain to work out visa requirements in countries, especially with "com" companies now setting up pretending to be an embassy.

One issue though is how do you keep your database up to date? Some countries (eg Thailand) change their Visa requirements VERY often.

Good work!
Yup. Just as eBay doesn't care about shill bidders that bid up the price, Kickstarter doesn't ~really~ care about their users getting scammed through violations of their TOS as long as they make their cut.
Does HN not want people scraping HN?

I don't remember the details, but I think pg has expressed some desire to not have people scraping the site, or at least not to scrape often. I believe the justification was that too many bots crawling/scraping the site hurts performance for everybody else. You might try searching the old posts for more info on the topic.

How can I get access to all HN posts?

Try http://api.ihackernews.com/
The real question is, who are the naive suckers that actually donated to this campaign? I wish we could interview one of these donors. What goes through their head when they click the donate button? Do they just read the keywords like, "gender", "girl", "bullying", and pull out their credit card with tears in their eyes?
Prizeo (YC W13) Helps Celebrities Tap Their Fans For Charity Fundraising
It's like people don't understand that JavaScript is a language. The browser is just giving you a JavaScript API.
>ruining your reputation

She owns a collections agency. I think it's safe to say that she has no reputation that can be ruined by discovery of the fact that she will shamelessly grab every dime in sight, every chance she gets.
Debugging a race condition with client-side load balancing
I know there's a lot of criticism of the Obama administration efforts to open up technology in government, but given where we used to be I love all of these small steps in the right direction.

The CTO of the US - I forget the name - did a talk about how they want to open up and asking what they could do to improve technology in government. Dozens of hands shot up. "I can't do anything about the DMV that's at state level" he continued, as most hands went down again.
Ah, you're right. The link on that page under Experience underflow clarifies it.
I like your site, but why not show the color key below the map?
The Oak Bro logo is very subtle. You immediately see the leaf, but not the negative space line of busts on bottom and line of asses on top.
Should law schools be held to a different standard than undergraduate programs? Last I checked, colleges don't advertise the employment prospects for a typical bachelor's degree. If you are smart enough to get into law school, you should be able to do enough research to gauge your prospects after graduation based on the law school you plan to attend and your undergraduate GPA.
This is the first time I hear about bokeh and bokeh.js. They sound super interesting.

Does anyone know where I can find a demo of bokeh.js plots?
Oh sure, but at the end of the day some developer or group of developers is in charge of those repositories, and considered a trusted person (or effectively is).

Between them and the large number of developers who would have copies of the repo, reaching consensus on what the "true" repo was - while not easy - could be done in a secure fashion due to the hashes. You wouldn't have people declaring "no it's totally it" and not being able to verify.
The most interesting candidate in my view are the ones that want less money but access to the sharks' contacts or expertise. Usually those contenders have a product that aligns very closely with something one of the investors already does, eg some guy a few weeks ago who had printed facepaint masks that washed off easily, for people who like to support their sports team by painting their face in the team colors. Very low costs per unit, the sort of thing a parent would buy for a kid on game day at the stadium. Naturally Mark Cuban saw a perfect opportunity as it dovetailed with one of his first promotional strategies as a sports team owner, and they quickly agreed a deal with reasonable-seeming terms.
You should keep your current job and start a business in tech on the side. If you grow it, you can quit your lower paying job - you will have created your own. Maybe try IT consulting or mobile app development. If you go the development route, obviously no one needs to know or will care who was behind it. Even as a consultant, few if any clients will ask you about convictions, and you can simply decline the work from clients that do.
Thank u for yr advice.Unfortunately I find no way to edit my submit.Would u pls show me how to edit it?I tried to add some sentences to give more information,at last it just became a new comment.
It is a nice analogy, but not too accurate. In skydiving we drill & drill to execute be able to dive with a minimum of deviation of the plan (minimizing unknowns).

In venture projects we specifically prepare to go and handle what we don't know.

Two classic quotes that exemplify this very different thinking modes are:

- Skydiving is not inherently dangerous, it is just terribly unforgiving of your mistakes.
Vs
- On the WWW the one who makes the most mistakes, but faster & cheaper, wins.
Don't know if this applies to your case - and kuddos for making the commitment here - but some of what you say resonates with me. I recently discovered Raptitude, and this post blew me away by elucidating so many things I've felt but couldn't give voice to:

http://www.raptitude.com/2011/05/procrastination-is-not-lazi...

I've recently taken steps to improve my lot in life and live up to my potential. Best of luck on our respective journeys!
What is wrong with questioning someone's motives? Also, how is this a distraction? People are still giving her money, but some people believe that money is all for naught, and should not be given.
The good news is, if you're doing Ruby in order to do Rails, there is such a thing.

http://ruby.railstutorial.org/ruby-on-rails-tutorial-book
(Include every section labeled optional)

For general Ruby though, less so. I've heard good things about http://tryruby.org/, and I liked the Pickaxe book (though I didn't love it).
Thats how I originally had it, then the legend increased in size and refused to fit cleanly under the map and I pulled it out. Would you consider it a huge deal or a minor distraction?
He's saying that one data point doesn't indicate a trend.

...but I'm guessing you knew that.
Pebble: This is your intervention. Sell before it’s too late
"When we become overwhelmed by trivial information, we start to hate substantial/meaningful information"

Doubtful. When the media can overwhelm us with trivial information, ~they~ start to hate substantial/meaningful information that requires investment of time and quality journalists.
There is a viable middle ground. Sometimes these days, when you build a solid business, an investor is willing to let you cash out with some of their investment. Essentially, they are moving you from the left of the line to the right, so you can be rich and then focus on "king".
What's sad is that, as bad and wasteful as that trajectory sounds, it's the 99.9th percentile outcome.
Even better, using the IP / language settings, they could probably make an educated guess! : )
Not with that attitude, just put them in a 100% oxygen environment and heat with an arc furnace and Bob's your uncle you got CO2.
I tried a similar approach and kept going back to jQuery first. For some reason it was learning jQuery that aloud me to really understand Javascript.

I really like the way codeschool teachers their javascript track.
>she was tweeting sexual innuendos while at the conference

besides the point. It's not about the sexual innuendo, it's about the context of the sexual innuendo. Clearly she is not a prude and against sexual jokes in general. But in that specific environment, they were inappropriate. Twitter is a different environment.
+1 Also, you could preselect the value in the 1st box using Geo-IP DB and/or browser geolocation API[1].

[1] http://diveintohtml5.info/geolocation.html
Flagging content is broken too - or at least people's behaviour in flagging. Take for example, there was a very interesting link to Teacups and Storms re: gender politics. I had wanted to continue reading what other HNers thought about the article, not 40 minutes after the link was posted. But I couldn't find it anymore.

Then I revisited my history to find that the story is now marked [dead]. Seriously?
how does voting work
Professional Javascript for Web Developers is really an excellent book. Also, I would like to mention a blog post [1] by Richard Bowell which was front-paged here recently who also recommends the same book.

I'm currently learning JavaScript and the thing that sucks is reading about IE incompatibility/workarounds on almost every other page of the book. Any advice on how should I handle it? Is it really necessary to keep in mind all those quirks or can I skip through those material right now and learn what works on most browsers?

[1] http://javascriptissexy.com/how-to-learn-javascript-properly...
I always wanted a school bus. Something to build into an rv for far away hunting trips and weekend tailgate extravaganzas. I did some searching, and running buses are suprisingly cheap. Someday when I have a place to put it, I'm going to jump all over that.
That's explained in one of the threads linked: "I spawned two Yoshi's by hitting the block with Mario and the p-switch at the same time. I jumped on one Yoshi, got the p-switch in his mouth and let him die, so the second - invisible - Yoshi becomes visible and have a null sprite in his mouth."
I don't think "don't end up with a sugar daddy" is an appropriate motivational tactic for a little girl...

Yeah, that screamed 'fake' to me as well.
The best analysis on the subject I have seen so far. The fact that "the most reasonable people are now afraid to speak their mind" is a strong indicator that we're heading the wrong way.
"There's no feel-goodery in helping a rich mom sell her daughter out when there are plenty of girls out there without money or mothers to exploit them.'

If you didn't know the mother was rich, would you feel the same way? If the mother was destitute yet really creative, and wanted to teach the child certain lessons so that the child could avoid the same fate as the mother, would you be so offended?

"Spamming people over Twitter and Facebook for attention?"

When I was young, I used to go around town with a stapler and a bunch of flyers. Twitter and Facebook is the digital extension of that.

"That whole part of her campaign is distasteful and doesn't do anything but emphasize discrimination"

Suppose you wanted to teach your daughter the fundamentals of business. The fact still remains that there were at least 1100 people willing to chip money into that storyline. And if the lesson here is to find an underserved portion of the market and cater to them (many many many articles discussing this very matter brushed the front page), this project fits the bill.

"The rewards are continued proof that she has the means to fund the course herself."

To put it in perspective, many of the projects on kickstarter could have been funded by the project creators. The Tim Schafer kickstarter could easily have been funded by the man, yet I don't see anyone complaining about that.
Google's decision to scrap Reader influenced by cost of privacy compliance
> Is there some sort of crazy game of one-upmanship in the USA as to who can drive the most impractical gas guzzler?

Not at all. It’s just that in the USA, things are on a different scale, and it makes sense to have larger vehicles.

For example, a couple of years ago on eBay I bought a second-hand carrier battle group. Now, if you’re not from the USA, I can already hear you objecting that “it’s impractical” to drive a small fleet of ocean-going vessels on suburban streets, or that “it’s wasteful” to retain a staff of thousands just to make the daily commute, or that it’s “not all that great, environment-wise,” to knock over city blocks every time I make a Starbucks run. And, in your country, I’d guess you’d have a point. But here in the USA, once you factor the need to carry back all the stuff we buy at Costco, you can see how the extra capacity of a carrier battle group would actually save you trips and, in the long run, be more efficient than a smaller vehicle. So, once you think it through, it actually makes sense.

It’s all a matter of scale.
In my experience, I've found that it is much more reliable to use message queues instead of databases as the backing for job scheduling.

Learning a complex but powerful MQ like Rabbit can be a little bit of a chore, but it more than pays off in the long run.
There's some more discussion on a [dead] duplicate link: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5434142
Jacuzzi/spa in place of the water tank(s)? Are they set up so that would be possible?
The quote isn't false per se, just wrongly attributed.

That does create a sort of tragic irony I suppose, because like I said, Barnum was a pretty great guy all told (philanthropist, abolitionist...)
This is a publicity stunt and/or money grab by Susan Wilson.

This reddit post sums it up:
http://www.reddit.com/r/MensRights/comments/1awr1n/millionai...

The authors dug up some of her old tweets, and it's clear that Susan tends to behave unethically.

Also breaches Kickstarter rules:
You can't fund your life (i.e. pay my tuition, or camp expenses).
She is spamming all over twitter, including celebs.

Older siblings give younger siblings a hard time in general, regardless of gender; it's an evolved behavior, similar to baby birds pushing siblings out of the nest.
>I don't see how it's different than paying 5 times the cost of manufacturing for a Lipton bottle of lemonade at a convenience store.

So you have no logical or emotional differences between buying overpriced lemonade from the following sources?

1. http://t2.ftcdn.net/jpg/00/43/34/25/400_F_43342520_VKrcDJlV8...

2. http://insidebiz.com/files/ibiz/imagecache/fulllsize/picture...
That was my first thought as well. Just extending the white translucent box all the way to the bottom of the page would make a big difference.
It's not in the best interest of the individual colleges that make up a university to discuss the prospects of their graduates. This article could be written about many of the liberal arts degrees or even about the lower-end students in science degree programs.
Oh no! I drink a lot of tea...

47 year old woman...drank a pitcher of tea made from at least 100 tea bags daily, for 17 years

Whew, not even close. Also, WTF. Glad to see that simply halting the excess consumption should allow her body to repair the imbalance over time.
Meditation is not essentially a "non-white people" activity. Christians in Western Europe and the Americas, both lay people and clergy, many of them white (and many non-whites too, of course), have developed and engaged in various forms of meditation over the past two millennia.

I don't mean here to exclude parallel developments among Eastern Christians (i.e. Eastern and Oriental Orthodox and Eastern Catholics), I'm just making a particular point about meditation not being essentially non-Western or "non-white".

At the risk of oversimplifying, the Western Christian tradition breaks down into two schools of thought: one school advocates active contemplation, while the other advocates passive contemplation.

Since the 16th Century, the school of active contemplation, also known as discursive meditation or mental prayer, has been strongly influenced by various writers and preachers in the Jesuit[1] tradition, but stills feels the influence of great figures such as Bernard of Clairvaux[2] and Benedict of Nursia[3].

The Western school of passive contemplation has, since the 16th Century, been profoundly shaped by the writings of two Spanish authors, John of the Cross[4] and Teresa of Ávila[5], together known as the Carmelite[6] Doctors.

Personally, I am more drawn to active contemplation. In 2007-2008, I had the opportunity to read a classic work on the subject by a 16th Century Spanish Jesuit -- Fr. Alphonsus Rodriguez[7], The Practice of Perfection and Christian Virtues[8]. That work's "Fifth Treatise"[9] is a detailed treatment of personal development with respect to the practice of mental prayer, and I can't recommend it highly enough to persons with an open mind.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Society_of_jesus

[2] http://oce.catholic.com/index.php?title=Bernard_of_Clairvaux...

[3] http://oce.catholic.com/index.php?title=Benedict_of_Nursia%2...

[4] http://oce.catholic.com/index.php?title=John_of_the_Cross%2C...

[5] http://oce.catholic.com/index.php?title=Teresa_of_Jesus_%28A...

[6] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discalced_Carmelites

[7] http://oce.catholic.com/index.php?title=Alonso_Rodriguez

[8] http://bit.ly/PPCV-1of2 http://bit.ly/PPCV-2of2

[9] http://bit.ly/MentalPrayer
Yeah, there is just no way anybody who answers "they are both Russian" to Nabokov can beat him at this game. Even by accident.
So Shinta of Destructoid declares a "scam" and all these commenters here take their word for it.

I am by no means a millionaire, but we're reasonably comfortable. I don't hand my children money, they have to earn it. Yes, you get a place to live, food, clothes, and some reasonable toys. Anything else? Well, you need to find a way to earn money for it. If I did have millions, I'd still do this because I'd rather not raise spoiled little brats that grow into adult-sized spoiled little brats.

Others have said it better in other comments here, but the sheer number of people jumping on the scam bandwagon with this article, without a bit of independent reasoning, is appalling.

Now, if she's breaking KS rules, she's breaking the rules. That doesn't automatically classify it as scam material.
India's rice revolution
I would argue that relying on the behavior allowed by a standard is the only way to make it actually be allowed. Otherwise, people code to your unwritten, stricter standard, relying on nobody else ever sending them something that is allowed. Then, when something allowed by the standard does happen, they blow up.

But once you introduce other software in the ecosystem that is guaranteed to send you these sorts of things, you'll damn well better release a new version of your package that works with them.
To be fair, there are approximately 200 countries in this world. So you'll need data for about 200^2 = 40,000 different connections, and that's before considering subtleties like length of stay, PR statuses, etc.
I don't have data for Silicon Valley, only anecdotal evidence. If you look at Indians and Russians around 30, they are mostly married and having/preparing to have kids. It is a well-known fact that immigrant fertility is higher in US than native fertility.

I don't know where 35 years at first child came from. This is way too high for an average, even among well-educated. There might be a trend but at that age you will have all kinds of problems even with modern advances in IVF.
DESIGN IS A VEHICLE FOR MEMORY

Beautiful.
I think the reason this article came into existence was the other thread discussing this issue got renamed to a innocuous title (Under the title should be the original articles title rule) and hence didn't make sense.

Millionaires asking for money to create a product that requires a dev cost of millions which they often then give to donators is a little different.
You are adding nothing here. Please leave.
Jacques, Taligent is a well known troll here - Two things you never talk against when Taligent is around - Apple and MongoDB. And he will start poisoning the threads. Just ignore him.
Charts are also powering Google docs, so they are probably safe in the near future.
I just tried to visit but got a "can't find the server" error.
I read "JavaScript: The Good Parts" after having been using JavaScript for a couple of months and still found it overwhelming. Douglas Crockford moves through the topics at a very fast pace.

However, after a few more months of learning the language I went back to the book and was immediately thankful for how quickly he moved from topic to topic. I understood the references and was receiving quick tips on what to do and what to avoid doing with all the different elements that make up the language.

Also, I agree with the author, Professional JavaScript is the ultimate JavaScript book in my opinion.