skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just need to find a CL developer for hire...
Give us a shot to get you perfectly fitted. We'll make the first shirt for you for free. send us an email at warriors@vastrm.com
We don't know yet what will turn out to be the most important questions for nonprofits

Evergreen funding source/s is (arguably) the definition of success, for any organization, profit or otherwhise, at least empirically. Competition for scarce resources is thus a key part of the game.

The CEO of MOMA (non-profit) has a salary approaching $2MM/yr. This is rationally viewed as a sales comission ($2mm/ on $XXmm in fundraising prowess) by the trustees. There is no other measure of 'productivity' at that order of magnitude for a "non-profit" organization (10x the statuatory salary of POTUS). Similarly, at non-profit universities. Both in the administration and elsewhere (multi-million dollar salaries for NCAA D1 sports linked with television contracts). Comparably, also the Clinton Foundation, per this recent note from the NY Times:

Worried that the foundation’s operating revenues depend too heavily on Mr. Clinton’s nonstop fund-raising, the three Clintons are embarking on a drive to raise an endowment of as much as $250 million, with events already scheduled in the Hamptons and London.
Which Wearable will you be buying [Poll]?
The Web Within Us - Ray Kurzweil at USI
can you do that on other networks? most of the phone reps say you can't use a smartphone without a dataplan, since "everything goes over data" as they say.. my wife would love a smartphone, but not the dataplan...
Just want to clear the air on this comment (apparently this led to some unintended backlash) -

I participated as a consultant dev helping out a company there, I own no stake in the company and my view on the experience does not reflect the viewpoint of the company I was there for. I left on my own accord which had nothing to do with participation in the accelerator itself, the rest of the company remained thru the duration.

With that out of the way, the "Yikes" was to the effect of "wow, that ended up in the worst way possible". The "too familiar" was noting some of particulars of the story, some of which 1) female led MP 2) extra month+ before demo day 3) some other particulars I won't care to name, but nothing to the degree as told in the story. Let's just say to point 3 I was expecting it to be more hands on, and from what I've learned since writing this comment it was.

I have no issues/beef with the people involved, other teams, etc. I found everyone pleasant to deal with, and the nature of my involvement was as such that many issues going on behind the scenes weren't in my periphery anyway.
The Microsoft CEO candidate no one is discussing: Sam Palmisano
what i'm saying is people who never "got it" when it comes to cars are now doing so, because of the S.

i've heard numerous people (i live in LA) and seen numerous comments on the internet say that now they "get it" - that is - they "get" why people would be "into" cars. like it was a huge mystery before, why someone would be passionate about automobiles.

it's mind blowing. how can you not "get" why people are into cars (even if you yourself aren't into cars?)... like, i understand perfectly well why people are "into" things that i'm not.
I don't see space glasses on that list.
I designed a very similar board. It's currently on order from OSH park. I'll see how it turns out.

http://oshpark.com/shared_projects/ltCSLIIB
Interesting if it didn't require a cellular plan to make Telco calls. A WiFi only smartphone would be acceptable to consumers if it was free. If you're not online then incoming calls go to voicemail, which is not great for emergency calls but it's free so stop complaining.
Trademe, the local equivalent of Ebay in NZ, auto extends their auctions which has pretty much stopped sniping. It works really well. It's probably a question of who they're interested in keeping happy, the buyers or sellers. I imagine fixed time auctions are better for buyers and auto-extending ones are better for sellers.
Only if the market is known to be unregulated. The problem is that the government, and companies that operate within financial markets, create the perception that the markets are regulated and fair.

Markets have rules on competition, that's just a fact, and no one wants to live with markets that have no rules. Taken to the extreme, a shopkeeper could just kill his competitor. It's still competition (why didn't the competitor hire body guards?), and it's still a market.

Yet no one seriously objects to government interference in the market when it comes to declaring murder illegal and punishing murderers. So why is this? Probably because most people regard murder, or force in general (though not always) to be an invalid, or unproductive competitive dimension. We would prefer that shopkeepers compete on who has the best products rather than on who is the best at violently eliminating his competitors.

This suggests that there are other dimensions on which we do not want competition to occur. If one of those is "who can get their hands on information the soonest", then sure, we should definitely regulate this issue.
White House / SF opens up $142BN market to startups
I assume the experiment of considering people applying without a startup idea has not been successful.

What has been your experience with it ?
The app is also in your Applications directory, and you can Ctrl-click the icon in there.
I've been clean for four years now
thanks for taking the time to show us that. You would be charged in US $. We will look into this asap.
WxPython: Using PyDispatcher instead of Pubsub
If it's a modern Android OS on decent hardware it's going to look "high end" to 80% of the consumer market.
Famous Higgs analogy, illustrated
I wouldn't buy a sports or GT car without acceleration being it's "strength"...
Hey, I was trying to set this up. This looks really good. Sadly GitHub integration requires FULL GitHub account access with all permissions. So I skipped that one. I'm gonna try the RSS example in a bit...
That's a separate issue.

I am not a proponent of the government-sponsored education bubble.
> One of the fundamental, positive properties of markets is that there is information assymetry

The entire theory of the efficiency of "free markets" is predicated on the rational choice model, which takes as a premise that all actors have perfect information about the expected costs and benefits of all possible market decisions.

Information asymmetry is not a "positive property" of markets, it is a source of inefficiency.
Here's an example that I'll put in here. Let's say you have an array of strings, and you want to create a UL element with each string in an LI. You can do this with a for loop just fine and everyone's happy:

var ul = document.createElement("ul");
for(var i = 0; i < strings.length; ++i) {
var text = document.createTextNode(strings[i]);
var li = document.createElement("li");
li.appendChild(text);
ul.appendChild(li);
}

However, you can pretty handily turn this into a series of functional transformations:

var ul = document.createElement("ul");
strings.map(function (string) {
return document.createTextNode(string);
}).map(function (text) {
var li = document.createElement("li");
li.appendChild(text);
return li;
}).each(function (li) {
ul.appendChild(li);
});

The next step would be decomposing the functions into their own generic entities:

function toTextNode(string) {
return document.createTextNode(string);
}

function wrap(tag, child) {
var wrapper = document.createElement(tag);
wrapper.appendChild(child);
return wrapper;
}

function append(parent, child) {
parent.appendChild(child);
}

// Helper function to provide partial-application.
// This is usually built into functional languages.
function wrapIn(tag) {
return function (child) {
return wrap(tag, child);
};
}

function appendTo(parent) {
return function (child) {
return append(parent, child);
}
}

var ul = document.createElement("ul");
strings.map(toTextNode).map(wrapIn("li")).each(appendTo(ul));

And now you have a bunch of general-purpose, easily-tested functions that you can apply in similar situations all over the place.
I've been really pumped about core.typed since I first heard about it, and I'm excited about the possibilities of combining (or eventually replacing) schema with core.typed.

I think core.typed has come a long way since last time I looked at it (when we started developing schema). Obviously it's a much bigger and more serious effort, and schema was about getting as much bang right away as we could for a few bucks.

I'd love to talk in more detail about how we can collaborate, or at least make sure we play nice together.
Wow would love a US equivalent of this if it's out there? Could turn an older iPhone 4 into a cell phone for kid without an expensive data plan (they're without a wireless option about 12 minutes of the day)
Same, I got my house for free. IT sector has a long way to go to catch up with financial products.
Sweden's official foreign policy has been armed neutrality for a very long time, almost as long as for Switzerland. Sweden has not been a combatant power in any war in living memory.

But geographic reality compels Sweden to be aware of who its friends might be in moments of trouble. Some nearby countries that were not combatant powers (at first) were overrun during World War II. So Sweden arms, yes, to be able to maintain neutrality as best it can, and it also pursues an active foreign policy of making friends without making alliances with the countries that best support Sweden's cultural heritage and aspirations for freedom and prosperity.

Here in the land of the Swedish diaspora, where almost everyone knows somebody with Swedish ancestry, the local public university's law school has an exchange program with the law program at a Swedish university. I remember hearing a talk on Sweden's defense strategy given at the law school here in 1989 by a visiting Swedish professor. He, and almost everyone else in Sweden at the time, was quite concerned by repeated incursions into Swedish territorial waters by Soviet submarines on training missions. The Soviet Union and its successor state Russia have an obvious strategic interest in controlling access to harbors in Sweden, so Sweden has an obvious strategic interest in knowing whether or not Russia is planning any hostile moves. Sweden needs to be informed about the outside world to maintain its policy of armed neutrality. The cooperation described in this article is not surprising in that historical and current events context.

AFTER EDIT: I would be delighted to hear from anyone who can let me know what facts they think I have got wrong here, as the pattern of upvotes and downvotes so far suggests that someone disagrees with me, but I'm not completely sure why.
Report: Odom getting treatment after DUI arrest
This isn't hard to do.

A barebones, back of the monitor net top runs around $150 or so appears to be exactly what they're using:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16856119...

Then throw in a small HDD or SSD, a monitor, RAM, keyboard, mouse, and you're still at or below the $350 mark. These computers will get even better as the low-end battle between Intel and AMD heats up, and ARM alternatives appear.

I set up a bunch of systems like this that PXE boot into Debian off an older server last week. They run great, are nearly silent, and take up less space than the aging G3 iMacs they replaced.
Tell HN: Include job location when posting
I see pretty interesting job posting pretty often. Would help if you list where the opening is.

eg. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6342228
Heck no! That would spoil the fun.
I don't really see this being the domain of Kickstarter: ASUS already makes a very cheap 'nettop' box, for example[1]. Commodity Linux boxes are hard:

1) they're small volume, so there's always a premium

2) at the low end there are very few people who even see the benefit of Linux. It's got to be a gift from a geek, basically

3) if you don't get tripped up by (2), you're probably capable enough to buy an EEE box and install Linux yourself

I wish you guys the best, but I don't see this getting funded :(

1. http://www.asus.com/Eee_Box_PCs/
(I'm a co-founder of Balanced)

Balanced's mission is to increase the global economy by enabling new commerce. Our current mechanism to do that is with payments [1].

So we don't actually want to build a processing company, per se, but we're finding that's the best way to accomplish our mission right now.

At some point, it's likely that we'll have to make changes to our mechanism, but until then we feel building the world's first open source payments infrastructure company [2] is a great way to accomplish our goal.

[1] https://www.balancedpayments.com/about
[2] http://www.fastcolabs.com/3008944/open-company/why-i-made-my...
There's also http://logicalincrements.com/.
Elon Musk has stated that as his end goal. He said first he had to make electric cars sexy and sporty[1]. Next he wanted to make a slightly cheaper nice sedan as a high end family car, the Model S[2]. FYI the Model S starts at $71,070 per their website. After that the next goal is the Model X[3], and then a second revision / smaller version of the Model S, which will start around $30,000[4]. So instead of being so sceptical, you should be like holy shit! Elon Musk is a trail blazer and he is doing to the automotive industry what apple did to the personal computer and mobile industry. So far he has delivered on everything he's promised with Tesla and SpaceX, so I doubt he will fail to deliver his stated goal of a 30k car.

[1] http://www.teslamotors.com/roadster
[2] http://www.teslamotors.com/models
[3] http://www.teslamotors.com/modelx
[4] http://green.autoblog.com/2013/08/07/tesla-sold-5150-models-...
> "This is the role of government in this case - to protect the little guy from being taken advantage of by the big guy."

That narrative is nonsense. The government mainly protects the big guys and takes advantage of the little guys. That's what the banking bailout was. That's what a lot of Wall Street is today.

When nobody can use force on anybody else to get their way, we are all players in a market. Our society has gotten very, very far away from that ideal.

> But what you can't argue about is that the knowledge of the tiers must be made public.

You are just making an assertion without any principle to back it up.

I think people who produce knowledge should be free to sell it in whatever way they want, per whatever agreement they come up with with their customers.

In this case it's more complicated, as the people producing knowledge (University of Michigan) are doing it via government handouts. In such a sitauation, there is no "right" or "wrong" except for the government to stop bossing people around.
Pynchon is a lyricist and a madman, and he's damned good at being both. I wince when I read others trying to cop his style, even if momentarily. Troy Patterson is good, often really good, but he sounds fake here.
When I said "like to help nonprofits out of the goodness of their hearts" I was being sarcastic. I'm skeptical that this is just a charitable action. I was wondering if anyone has any ideas how this might benefit them financially.

I don't want to seem like I think this can only have bad intentions, but finance people and investors aren't typically known to be charitable.
Introducing the Qualcomm Toq Smartwatch, Mirasol Display (Video)
Sure, we're happy to consider pull requests.

Schemas are already optional -- you can have a s/defn with no, some, or full schematization. You can also put the schemas in the meta if you don't like the :- syntax. I'm not quite sure what you mean by the other point though. My email is in my profile, let's talk :)
One is a manufacturing technique, the other is an assessment of quality...
> cars that cost as much as some homes do

Homes in London? Not even close.
> entire theory of the efficiency of "free markets" is predicated on the rational choice model

Whatever theory you are referring to is probably bullshit (definitely, if it's the one I think it is), but it's not the only theory supporting free markets.

So you argument is basically a straw man.
If the police in my town were Federal agents, then yes, I would expect to have a somewhat different relationship with them. My town would feel "occupied," just as my computer now does.
Another market where this might be awesome is corporate gifts. I also wouldn't buy a $115 polo shirt for myself, but I probably would consider it as a gift (as long as I could put my branding or message on the gift certificate, and ideally in the packaging of the actual shirt.)
In reality Firefox/Firefox OS apps can run in other browsers as well and equally so in Chrome since it regular HTML/CSS/JavaScript. This has been one of the points Mozilla has been highlighting and sometimes they blog about it too.
Yeah, but it's not a real ThinkPad... it's just another laptop.
I rather liked the Buckyball article personally, but I wanted to note that Ken, while probably the best author on Popehat, isn't the only one and the Buckyball article wasn't him; it was Clark. Clark's articles are often the explicitly libertarian ones.
"It's neither illegal nor unethical for a private entity to invest money and manpower to compile <news articles>, to release it in a staggered fashion..." etc.

Actually, it is illegal to manipulate markets through selective disclosure. People have gone to jail for trading off of pre-published news articles. Not sure what your point is, if you consider data market moving, its news.
The Tesla S costs in the $70-100k range. I cannot image that it would be too hard to find houses in that price range in the UK, given that I found this after 20 seconds of Googling. http://money.uk.msn.com/mortgages-and-homes/30-homes-for-%C2...

Finding a house here in Sweden in that price range is easy, as long as you're willing to live where no one else wants to.
>money-laundering seems like it would be tricky. The income is very consistent, and the buying a lot from an existing owner would be pricey.

If you're the type of person that needs to do a lot of money laundering you might also be the type of person that wouldn't mind negotiating with existing owners demanding lots of money as you would probably have some unorthodox means of swaying negotiations in your favor.
tapeworm vs bacteria, parasite vs parasite, symbiotic or otherwise. and you have plenty of other parasites.

edit: maybe a simpler example. Try to describe why tapeworms are different from bacteria, without using "multicellular". both can cause harm. both eat your food. both can result in weight loss.
Cool, kind of expected findings...if Apple is using ratings explicitly in rankings, I'd like to download only 5 star apps.
I'm amazed that someone with a computer science degree cannot learn vb.net on their own.
> fully functional

FTFY
Paul,
I've read Hackers and Painters, and you can't imagine how HAPPY I am that you've been in Florence, and have been influenced by what you saw there.

I love, love the fact that (at least in words) there is a care for beauty, for design.

I am a geek and a hacker at heart, but I also love when something is crafted beautifully.
Thanks for the reminder. I actually used some apps early on but there weren't many and somehow forgot about them. I'll use some of these desktop apps more especially Wikipedia and SoundCloud.
Why is commission a bad thing?
For this to work beautifully, we would fathom pearls when finding or collecting them. afaik only depths of water can be the literal object of the verb to fathom. It doesn't quite succeed, here. Which is likely why Pynchon is celebrated and the reviewer is reviewing him, rather than the reverse.
Give better specs. My first thought was that it only had a VGA connector, which was outdated fifteen years ago and is bad. Zooming in on the picture, I think I can make out an HDMI connector. I would try to get a DVI connector on the box as well - this is the level where the cheap monitors get their digital input.

VGA should be thought of as an emergency, not a standard, due to it's analogue crapness.
Since Amazon doesn't seem to care about profits at this point, I suppose they can pull it off. Not sure how'd it work without telco involvement. Wifi only maybe?
I'd have to think about that a bit -- I'm hesitant to create names not provided by the user, but maybe there is another way.

Quite honestly that part of things (turning validation on and off, etc) isn't really done yet -- we have plans to make it much more flexible and powerful, but haven't got there yet.
Hello there, as the principal data scientist at Appurify (a mobile testing and automation company) I'm happy to field questions on our findings here.

Krishna
Hey there! You might try using Github webhooks with our "Webhook" service which enables you to be a little more granular on the Github end about what gets sent.
I think the below sentence is missing an adjective (e.g. "most affordable").

The Shan PC is meant to be THE affordable, small and portable desktop with Ubuntu pre-installed that you would ever want or use.
Please do not link to auto-playing video pages without indicating that you are doing so in the headline.
Nope! The best part is, if you bring your own phone (or hold onto one longer than 2 years) - no savings! You get to subsidize someone else's phone (or bonus). Frankly, this is something I wish the CRTC would sort out.
There are no details in the FAQ about the $80k YC VC note, when do selected companies get it? Is it automatic?
There is a fundamental dividing line here that you are missing.

It is ultimately in every honest person's self-interest to disallow the _initiation_ of physical force.

When you have that, you can have markets and a free society.

When you don't have that, you have anarchy on the one hand, or some form of mixed or total authoritarianism on the other hand.

Financial markets should have rules, and people who break those rules should be sued and disbarred from the market. People should be free to choose to participate only in markets whose rules they can agree with, and create new markets if they see the need. Such is a robust, free system. All of this is possible in a traditional market system that disallows initiated force. The SEC and other regulators use initiated force and do not permit such a system to exist.
I am anxious to see your presentation of any theory supporting the efficiency, in utilitarian terms, of "free markets" in which the claim that information asymmetry is a positive property is defensible.
On my way to work I see many kids going to school. Some are neighbors' kids. They are almost all from two-parent households, they are all children of college-educated parents, they are all from families who can free up time to volunteer now and then, some have parents who are or have been teachers. Other kids I see on the bus. They are from families with a good deal less money. In many cases the parents are working long hours, perhaps at two jobs. In most cases, the parents are not college educated. In a fair number there is only one adult in the household. Probably the parents haven't much time to volunteer.

I suspect that if anything the parents of the second group think more highly of teachers: the teachers who are not positively incompetent are teaching their children something that the parents likely cannot. The parents of the first group often think that in many cases they know better than the teachers. Some such parents--not, that I know of, my neighbors--regard the teachers as servants to be kept in order.

So I think that as a proxy for respect, volunteering has its drawbacks.