skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To add to that, charitybuzz is a for-profit corporation. Not that I am against that, but it is worth keeping in mind as there have been a number of scandals in the past, where money from charitable non-profits gets re-directed to 'non-profit services firms' that are for-profit entities (The Wycleaf Jean scandal is a good example).

In general it is good to keep your eyes open when dealing with the non-profit world. There are some very good, well meaning organizations out there, but there also a lot of organizations that solely exist as tax shelters, influence peddlers, and resume/ego boosters.
I really wish kickstarter didn't hold project updates to backers only. I'd love to see some of the updates before I donate to a project.
It is not unreasonable to construct prime numbers to include 1. It is just that, over time, the mathametics community came to the consensus that the set of primes that does not include 1 is more useful.

If primes were constructed to include 1, math would not be seriously different, we would simply have to say 'prime greater than 1' when we want to exlude one. The same way that we often have to say x/=0 when we divide by x.
I work in the Downtown Crossing section of Boston, which has the one of the highest visible homeless populations in the Boston area. I was also consistently troubled by the number of homeless people I encountered to and from work.

It really helped to volunteer at a nearby homeless shelter (Pine Street Inn). I was comforted to see some of worst cases (including people I encountered daily) have access to meals, a clinic, a shelter, and treated with courtesy.

I was also struck by how many people seemed normal - not someone who was mentally ill or spent time on the street.

In general America fulfills a lot of need with private charity - which can occasionally be really impressive. When I worked at a large financial institution there were lots of opportunities for matched giving and volunteering opportunities. I wish tech companies would do this more.
No, we're not... The default assumption for anything cryptography is American, yes, but Satoshi's original claims of being Japanese (which no one believes given his great English and complete absence of any displayed Japanese phrases, allusions, references, knowledge, or anything) aside, the timing of his posts and some phrasing suggests he may've been in the United Kingdom.
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Google Is Expected to Start a Music Service to Compete With Spotify
It is essentially impossible to prove PED use in elite sports because athletes take care not to get caught and there is no interest in catching them.

I don't know much about gymnastics but if performance in that sport is dominated by strength or endurance, that is a stronger or better conditioned athlete will normally win, then it is likely that the top athletes in the world use PEDs. Otherwise it would be inconsistent with evidence of PED use in every other strength or endurance sport.

I don't know why you think having competed against an athlete would give you some special insight into their PED use especially if you aren't competitive enough to beat them; it would clearly be precarious to have other people find out.
The way I see it there are basically four types of exercise. Basic fitness, sculpting what you look like, preparation for some specific activity, burning calories.

But the dirty little secret is burning calories though exercise is basically a waste of time compared to simply eating less and it takes vary little to get basic fitness. So assuming your diet is reasonable you can look like someone that spends 2 hours a day in the working out by doing to same basic routine without the cardio.
Erlang User Conference 13-14 June Stockholm: one day of Early Bird rates left
I had no idea "quire" was another way of saying "choir," with the exception that "quire" may also refer to a measure of paper. Interesting.
To play devils advocate, the driftwood lamps are all unique pieces made with lighting parts that probably couldn't be made by an individual. A clockwork is outside the scope of individual construction as well.
For me the worst thing is that I get completely thrown out of context. Usually I've got 3 apps open, I quickly need to bring up another window to do something (say, calculator to do some simple numbers) and now wham! my whole context is gone, my brain is jolted out of the 'flow' that I was in. It's a mental thing so it is hard to explain, but I just find it jarring, unpleasant, and kind of hostile, like someone coming into my office every 10 minutes and shouting in my ear or something.

But if you want a practical consideration, the start 'menu' now obliterates whatever I was looking at. So say you were following instructions in a web page (open start menu, type 'control panel', click in menu ...) - well you can't, because the web page you were looking at is not visible now, all you can see is a bunch of stupid tiles trying to distract you from what you actually wanted to do.
I didn't know about win+W. Is there a list somewhere?
Minting your own coins makes you a terrorist
Is Regenerative Medicine already advanced enough to cure that, or is it still a long way to go?

I don't know a source that I would say is the definitive and best source of information to learn more about Regenerative Medicine, that's why I encourage you to do your own research. I don't want to convince anyone, just give you hope. =)

* Hope you get better dude!

Larry Page did sponsor research in the field of his disease, but I don't know why he didn't consider Regenerative Medicine or something else promising. Maybe he didn't know about it, or it's less promising than I think.
I disagree about the Apple part. If Apple tells you something, they will generally tell you what you will get, but not how it works.

Microsoft, in this example, tells you neither. The three items of information are "it's Windows 8.1", "it's a free update", and "we will tell you more" (that third one is counting liberally)

With Apple, this would either be a new OS X release that gets a page showing its new end user features, or it would be an update that simply showed up in System Update.
Your's is my favorite comment here. The harmful fitness relativism that plagues the industry and this whole thread is actually making people weak and more likely to die early.
This exactly why I think Bitcoin has no future. Soon or later it will be regulated and we will go back to the same thing.
Like what? I said a lot of things.
After seeing enough things that meet that description I'm starting to think that, no, really, that's it. That's exactly, and all, it is.

Apparently "Scheme to sell some social app to stupid industry behemoths" is in fact a thing.
I see it more as people trying to solve problems they come across. If you contribute to the ones you are close to, and others do the same, things improve.
> That's less than $80k USD per year. I'm not sure how much of a factory you can afford with that in Bali

You could also sell through multiple channels (Alibaba, Amazon, eBay, Etsy, etc.) concurrently. Etsy would make up a small fraction compared to, for example, Alibaba.
It's not OK.

Advertisers don't want you to do this since you're spending their money for no possible gain. They only advertise with the expectation they'll earn more than it costs in new sales. Too many clicks for the purpose of donating to website owners and that won't happen, so they'd have to stop advertising.

Networks don't want you to do this because if advertisers can't make a positive return on investment, it doesn't make sense for them to advertise with that company, and they'll go elsewhere or go out of business. Either way, it's a threat to the network's existence.

Morally, it's very much not OK, for two reasons:

1) Small businesses have to market themselves to make people aware of what they're selling in order to survive. Simply opting out of advertising because some people are abusing it to give their money to website owners is not an option. Neither is advertising somewhere else for millions of businesses; Google controls too much of the ad space and traffic. There are no substitutes in many situations.

2) If you work a normal job, telling advertisers to accept this situation is the same as telling you that a condition of receiving your paycheck is that random people on the street have permission to reach into your pocket and take some money out whenever they want. That's what clicking on ads just to give money to website owners is. You may or may not have enough left over to pay your bills. Sound good?
It's bias if you decipher a logical point, and continue to believe something that is counter to it, without providing countering logic.

Deciphering a logical point may or may not happen depending on the context. It's more likely to happen in an HN thread than by listening to a crazy person.

Efficiency would necessitate not blind rejection, but a decision to simply not judge. Rejection is a judgment. Judgment without logic is a bias.

The "blind rejection" comment you originally replied to, was pretty clearly referring to judgment without logic. This is something different from intellectual efficiency, which would simply be deciding to not form a judgment at the time, if one reasonably decided that there was not enough information available at that moment to do so, and the importance doing something else outweighed the importance of judging the idea in that moment.

So, while I agree with a concept of efficiency or temporary non-judgment, I disagree that it's the same thing as auto-rejection, which is judgment.

By countering a counter to a comment advocating auto-rejection of ideas, you seemed to be advocating auto-rejection of ideas, as opposed to advocating non-judgment.

I guess auto-rejection is also technically an "efficient" approach, but it is definitely intellectually lazy. Non-judgment is not intellectually lazy, if actually used for the sake of efficiency and not avoidance.
If more programmers did volunteer (or their employers encouraged volunteering), even for a little bit, by being exposed to the problem and having an opportunity to interact with the homeless, some new solutions might arise.
beautifully designed!

I'd love to see some sort of retention limit, and the functionality to manually remove an uploaded design. An export function of all comments and a special stylesheet for printing (i.e., showing all comments below the picture) would make it perfect!
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people choose it because "it is web scale" while having no idea what they are even supposed to be comparing it to

Some compare it to relational databases... http://www.mongodb-is-web-scale.com/
Show HN: babygra.ms - Send real baby photo postcards to grandparents on iPhone
http://www.regretsy.com/2010/09/22/cause-for-alarm/

...probably didn't build actual clock himself, he's just cutting a base for it and applying a photograph. So, that's interesting w/r/t the article. (Edit: Oh, someone below me said that already.)

At any rate, thank you for showing me Regretsy. I didn't want to work today, and this is a good start.
Not what I said. I was specifically calling you out for this comment: "Health has nothing to do with luck."

It was either naïve, ignorant, or a bit of both.
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-8/new-keyboard-sh...
MindSumo improves student job hunt process (VentureBeat)
I'm so happy to hear that! It's nice to find a corroborating opinion in the sea of fitness relativism :)
As your strength declines, so does your life.

Correlation is not causation (you might as well flip it around). And I'm afraid that even for the strongest person, they're will come a day where they won't be able to get out of bed.
> I'm not a Perl user, I don't consider running sed on my source code to be a "bonus".

That was completely unnecessary.
>Does the NSA store all text messages? Yes, more than likely.

Do you have any evidence for this? The Wiretap Act clearly prohibits it, if they are doing it, it's definitely illegal.
Are you speculating or do you know it's being flagged? An alternative could be that only people with low karma are voting it up which is what's keeping it from having more staying power.
My question
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Writing unit tests is reinventing functional programming (2009)
Parent and grandparent claims look false. Apple generally doesn't make announcements unless they have a real demo, or often until the product is ready to go. What we're talking about here OTOH is Microsoft providing a product (update) announcement without much substantial, soemthing MS is well known for. The stark differences between their current approaches have been extensively documented, for example:

http://www.roughlydrafted.com/RD/Q4.06/922B4392-850C-4CA6-92...
And which assertion was that; the one that Mongo fits a niche which it obviously does, or the one that many people find relational databases a pain, which they obviously do. Neither of those require me to provide evidence, they are self evident facts to anyone with even moderate experience in the field. I don't have an unspecified problem, not once did I even mention a problem, so take your childish argumentative b.s. somewhere else.
Feds seize money from Dwolla account belonging to Mt. Gox
I would like some of what the author is smoking. In addition, I would like to see them explain exactly why they think that a full language with flexible syntax qualifies as bytecode. There are so many useless assertions and falsities in this post that I'm not sure where to start, and I'm not sure that a piece-by-piece refutation is worthwhile.
I'm really worried about this to be honest. It doesn't seem that Spotify is doing that well to begin with according to past articles, and now they'll have a competitor that has the ability to sink money into this? The future is nigh for Spotify.
Good spotting. I'll fix that.
> If you aren't committing your dependencies then you're doing it wrong.

Disagree strongly (and hate absolutes like "doing it wrong"). Their metadata, yes, by all means, commit that. There is absolutely no reason, however, to have the source code for a dependency in my tree, Go or not.

Give me a binary I can link against, or at least the temporary source in a .gitignored location, and let's call it a day. When I want to bump to a new version my commit should be a one-line version bump in a metadata file, not the entirety of the upstream changes as a commit. I've seen a sub-1MLoC project take 10 minutes just to clone. Internally! You're telling me you want to add all the LoC and flattened change history of your dependencies in your repo? Egads, no thanks! Where do you draw that line? Do you commit glibc?

There's just no reason to store that history unless you are in the business of actively debugging your dependencies and fixing the problems yourself, rather than identifying the issue and rolling back to a previous version after reporting the problem upstream. I guess it's paying your engineers to fix libopenal versus paying your engineers to work on your product; one's a broken shop, the other isn't. Some people will feel it's one, some the other.
I don't think the issue is they believe it's mass-manufactured or something. The issue is whether it falls into the niche of what etsy wants to sell.

He's admitted that he doesn't actually design the circuits, and there's still some question about how much of the actual assembling he does.

It seems he's certainly doing some amount of work with his hands, the issue whether it's enough to count as "handmade" in the sense that etsy's customers expect.

I know as a musician if I purchased a "handmade" synth and later found out that it was basically just a kit that had been assembled for me, I'd be a little irked. Though if the store was up front about it, I would consider purchasing it to save myself the trouble of assembling it.

Personally I think it should be allowed as long as the seller is honest about it, though I could see why etsy might find it a bit dubious.
The video features F. Komaya, Product Development Director at Bitwize SARL and Lead Designer for Crypteks Inc.

Bitwize is a web design company in Lebanon.[1] Sorry, but I'm not going to be sending money to someone in Lebanon no matter how good the CAD renders look.

[1] http://www.linkedin.com/pub/bitwize-sarl/62/b19/256
Yeah, in theory they would check the heights in the atlas versus the effective height of a given load, not just the height on paper. Why the truck was overloaded also begs a look at company policies. If this particular site is experiencing this issue 2 or 3 times a month then I wonder if the cost of guessing wrong and congesting the tunnel isn't high enough compared to just sending two trucks.
Yes, but that would require that the road close for debris to be picked up. The water wall solution allows the tunnel to resume operation quickly. A small jam in the Sydney Harbour Tunnel blocks the whole city, so we want to avoid unnecessarily large delays.
This shit comes from the fact the industry consider tech-savvy people like inhuman monsters. Nerds and geeks and otakus and such, are considered like a plague, while in fact there were pioneers.

Computing is still considered like magic, and it will stay like that for a long time.
Fellow HN'ers - I'm slightly disappointed.

How come I go to the comments and all I see is a battle of the anecdotes? Where's the fact-checking?

This being HN, I would at least have expected someone pointing out that 12 exercises à 30 seconds plus 11 x 10 seconds rest between them is closer to an 8-minute workout than a 7-minute workout ;-)
Alpine 2.4, 2.5 and 2.6 are not vulnerable even though PERF_EVENTS is enabled:

[5126545.172128] BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at ffffffff1de68048
I don't think that getting attention reduces his chances of being reinstated at all. Makes it more likely they will just reinstate the account to make the negative story go away.
Groupon charges 1.8% + $0.15 per swipe for Visa/MC/D, Amex varies.

Square charges 2.75% + $0.00, so the
transaction amount breakeven point is $15.80
and Groupon is cheaper for amounts > 15.80,
but Square is cheaper for amounts < 15.80
The public relations drone(s) who wrote this and thought it would be a good way of announcing the point release is fucking terrible at their job.
I want them to take their lobbyists, and go to Washington like they already do, and tell Congress to stop harassing their fucking customers.
Oddly enough, it looks like bitcoin has an obscure feature (m-of-n transactions) which could be used for a group of arbiters (major backers?) to reach a consensus that a milestone has been reached and release funds for the next milestone. They could also use secret sharing to give the project the private key of a wallet with the funds.
Nice site. :) I won AngelHack SF with a similar project last weekend (http://coderang.com), so there's definitely interest in this space.

JSRepl is super cool, I can't believe people are just now starting to use it in their own projects.
I think your pricing is a bit over complicated and feature list too wordy.

300 pads/month - clear makes sense

Unlimited pads under 15min - This shows up for every tier but I'm not really sure what it means.

Save pads for later review - Just "Save Pads" gets the point across.

Custom pad branding - Just "Custom Branding" gets the point across.

24/7 support availability - Just "24/7 Support" gets the point across.

Just my two cents. Don't get me wrong, I think you did a great job with the design and execution.
The market for unique/ handcrafted looking stuff would probably be even bigger than the market for actual handcrafted. Handcrafted takes a ton of time and adds a large premium to price.
A lot more tech companies are started now than maybe, 3 years ago. Also, it takes companies time to reach $100M in revenue.
Agreed. The hardest part is waking up, but it gets easier because you realize how much better you feel afterwards. I'll be discussing strategies to overcome this daily morning hangover, as I like to think about it, in the next post.

One of those is to really stick to a good bedtime and to plan a bit ahead. This, in fact, will be one of the things you'll naturally do after your pre-frontal cortex begins to work on all cylinders without you being fully conscious about it.

All in all, you'll find yourself making better decisions throughout the day.
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>>>I know as a musician if I purchased a "handmade" synth and later found out that it was basically just a kit that had been assembled for me, I'd be a little irked.

Ah. That makes it clearer for me. Thanks.
Jerry Garcia was missing half of his middle finger on his right hand, lost after a wood-chopping accident.

One of my favorite bars has a lot of cool rock memorabilia including an ink print of Jerry's truncated hand. It's fun to compare the size with your own.

SPOILER ALERT: His hands were huge!!
I would say it is progress, if

1. The browser executes programs in a totally platform-independent way, which the underlying OS cannot (a website should be able to run on all browsers and on all OSes). So having the browser run code is useful too.

2. That "half speed" number was the status as of a few months ago, and is still improving.
> I promise you it's not hordes of people saying "WE WANT TO DESTROY AMERICA" everywhere you go.

Of course not. But like everywhere else it's full of people who see no problem using force abroad to further their own prosperity. The difference between Americans and Chinese is that Americans are in a much better position to do so.

> Can you please explain why "I want to live in a world where the U.S. has the upper hand in it, not China"?

Because China would be a far less benevolent world hegemon than the U.S. Because being a citizen of the dominant world power is, all else equal, better than being a citizen of a country that lives in the shadow of that power?

> I find it odd that many Americans tend to adopt this Us vs. Them mentality.

There has never been, in the history of the world, any sane population that thought: "gee, wouldn't it be great if some other country had military dominion over ours?" Now, most people have to resign themselves to that state of affairs, but Americans do not, which makes them particularly conscious of the fact that they do in fact enjoy many benefits from their place in the world.
Yeah, and if he wanted to sell a table on Etsy--should he have to go chop down a tree and fashion the wood himself?
Not putting a stop to traditional Chinese medicine, in my opinion, is evil.

Plundering the worlds oceans in attempt to feed the billion+ population is borderline.

Are those issues just cultural differences or seriously unethical?
Well, I know that going on an internet stranger's word alone isn't much--but hear me out.

I know the man. Known him for years; lived with him. I watched him teach himself how to build electronics simply from books he checked out from our college's library. I've been in his workshop and watched him build his devices. He's legit, and this is fucking unfair. He's unemployed and this is one of his few sources of income right now.
It remembers me the movie "revolver".
Matched giving seems to be one of those benefits that is more common at the larger employers (e.g. Microsoft employees broke the 1 billion dollar mark last year) and doesn't appear on the smaller tech companies benefits sheets
What about Quest Love mothafuckah!
Yes, but DHS can't eliminate cash. However they can restrict the amount you carry across borders without declaring to around $10K. Bitcoin does make it very easy to transfer a million USD worth of coin to anywhere in the world in minutes. It's impossible to do that with cash, unless you go through a heavily regulated and monitored bank.

And there is always the Tor network for anonymity.
US Healthcare is an Embarrassment