skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They are! You can see them listed on the homepage as well as the community page, which lists organizations by country: http://government.github.com/community/

If you see any that are missing, please do open a pull request: https://github.com/github/government.github.com
You seem to be conflating "rich" with "not poor".
We bought a domain off of them a few months ago. Domain was transferred over and everything went smoothly.

Said domain is still for sale on their website.
Pay with loop
Ah, my mistake. I was confusing LastPass with 1Password.
And so, github claims this space.
Before we go on, please have someone fix this bug. We are making a lot of suggestion, but no WhiteHouse developers are interested in this. This is not how you do an open source project.

https://github.com/WhiteHouse/fortyfour/issues/3
Any interest in making personal accounting software as well? On the Mac, there are few good low-cost options if you want desktop software and not cloud-based.
I think R is a lot like JavaScript: there's a beautiful language at its heart, but it's surrounded by layers of cruft. It doesn't help that most people using r are not programmers.
Hmm. I've never read about constructive logic, it looks pretty interesting. Thanks for bringing it up, I'll look into it.

Maybe those two examples I gave are bad. But in general, I guess that the question itself (of whether or not logic holds true in all universes) sounds like it is fundamentally unanswerable by using our logical system. Since the fundamentals are axioms, and presupposing an axiom to be false would always be contradictory, we could never prove such a universe to exist.

What even is logic? The more I think about it, the less fundamental it seems, and the more it seems like just an aspect of our brains. It's like they are just descriptions of the internal consistency in how our brains are wired. What does it even mean for something to be true or false? Reality is just reality, and any "sense" we make of it is just a state of equilibrium in our brains.

Is a mathematical statement in our minds (like 1+1=2) true because of the nature of reality, or true because the structure and rules of arithmetic that we've created happen to trigger some pleasurable sense of consistency in our minds? And perhaps the whole derivation of mathematics is just a discovery of how our brains perceive "correctness".

Well, I'm rambling, I guess it's an unknowable thing, because we're always operating in the bias of our own minds.
"Ambitious employees tend to spend months having lunch and coffee with their boss’s peers to ensure a positive outcome once the topic of their proposed promotion is raised in an OLR."

Sounds like all those Microsoft stories that came out a few months ago.
Sure, but wasn't that exactly what I wrote in my first example?
Loved that talk! It was Clay Shirky "How the Internet will (one day) transform government" http://www.ted.com/talks/clay_shirky_how_the_internet_will_o...
Is your startup named right?
Keychain can store credit cards and secure notes too. As for the rest, I'm not sure. Other than passwords, I only use keychain for storing SSH keys.
Absolutely not. I was well into the 30s on mine, and the financial aid office still told me to fuck off. I suspect it varies a lot from state to state, hence a lot of people's condescending attitude and disbelief.
Good work. The install process was very smooth. I like that it doesn't require admin. Also a neat architecture. Looks like it's a .NET app running an in process web server.
> too ignorant to talk to Facebook and Dropbox

Many people I talk to have no idea how to start that conversation.

Another layer of your consideration for upside of the acquirer: what happens if one company does this and another doesn't? It's a lot like the seed funding changes that happened over the last few years, forcing later stage VCs to change.

Also, more transparency isn't perverse. The basic action here is positive, and you're talking about theoretical side effects. If your theories are right, then pull back.
I'm on a 1080p 15.6" display, and it looks pretty bad for me too[1].

1. http://imgur.com/bl9ZjNN
I have one recommendation, hosting knowledge on hn is really not that great, you should visit webhostingtalk forum for better and more honest discussions on hosting companies and their quality

MT is not perceived as a good host on wht ... it usually gets average or below average review ... so I dont know why everyone is talking as if godaddy will bring them down, MT was never a great company

And i do believe the MT fellow who is saying this will improve MT, sure it will ... godaddy is by far a bigger and more successful company than MT
What's US-centric about it? I don't see a reference to anywhere but Canada.
I barely knew javascript before I learned coffeescript. Now I know both pretty well as a result. coffeescript compiles to really readable javascript anyway (yes, that's subjective).

I use both in the same project. For example, I have a gruntfile written in javascript. It's easy for me to modify it. The rest of my code is in coffeescript. It's easy for me to modify it.

I think this is a really superficial line for you to draw in the sand. Use the best tool for the job. When you build a house, you end up using more than one tool.
Hey there! The software looks very good, although I'm not in your target audience. Good luck!

I'm curious as to why have you decided to package this as a desktop software, rather than a web app?
It's a pity this font can't be used in many countries due to lack of any diacritics... :(
If 18 years of it didn't work, I don't know that more will help. Haha.
Not on my seven year old Dell.
Because lamps, for example, cannot give consent and have no concept of a union/marriage/tax arrangement between two things. If you do not understand this then you should have no part in this conversation.

Likening gay marriage to interspecies marriage is demeaning and offensive. I would appreciate it if you would stop.
I'm tired of the term "hacker" being thrown around this way. Authors just attach whatever meaning they want to it.

http://www.catb.org/esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html#what_is
Why take the chance? From the leaks, the companies have "cooperated enough", especially when we're talking about "foreigners". We don't need proof for absolutely everything and for every single case, to stop trusting American companies, until there's a dramatic change in laws, and surveillance policy in US.
In the Article:
"The previous year, 45 percent had essentially failed the math section, and 31 percent had failed Spanish. This time only 7 percent failed math and 3.5 percent failed Spanish. And while none had posted an Excellent score before, 63 percent were now in that category in math.

The language scores were very high. Even the lowest was well above the national average. Then he noticed the math scores. The top score in Juárez Correa’s class was 921. Zavala Hernandez looked over at the top score in the state: It was 921. When he saw the next box over, the hairs on his arms stood up. The top score in the entire country was also 921."

Granted, it's a fairly limited sample, but it's a sample that shows incredible results as well. Based on this classroom of children, that came from circumstances as far away from privilege as possible, the scores shifted from:
45% Math failure -> 7% Math Failure
31% Spanish failure -> 3.5% Spanish Failure

I don't think you're giving the majority of children/humans enough credit for their potential.

To counter argue myself, there clearly wasn't a 0% failure rate. And while 7% is somewhat low, there is a high probability that some of the children in the class were close to failing with others a little better than that and so on.

Why can't we have an education system that does both? Why not have open ended classrooms that let kids learn at their own pace with personal tutor's to help kids that aren't thriving in that situation.
It's pretty well known around Seattle that Amazon pays their employees very well, and has a tendency of giving ridiculous signing bonuses.
Like run your own Google server so you can create an account and log in?

(I'll give you that after logging in you could probably exclusively use your own services. But that's a big exception.)
Many JS implementations use type tags already. SpiderMonkey, for example - they call it 'nan-boxing'. See http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9435338/what-is-the-aim-o...
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Is there a marketplace where similar domains are traded?
Brazil first locally made large passenger hovercraft
Ritter, for instance, recently met an insurance executive who always pays for meals with cash because he believes some day that data will be linked to his coverage. “I’m not saying this is a definite thing that happens,” Ritter says. “but I don’t see any definite reason why it couldn’t."

Don't let it stop there. Buying a six pack for the weekend? Watch your healthcare premium go up by like 0.001% or something like that because insurance companies have calculated precisely how likely one alcoholic drink will cause them problems down the road in terms of them administering costs related to alcoholism or something. Very scary stuff.
Great resource thanks!
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The "dumbphone" he uses as an illustration is a Samsung feature phone with a big color LCD (there goes battery life) and keyboard. That's just a pseudo-smartphone.

And it goes downhill from there.

I can see someone writing a love letter to Series 40 before it, too, grew a bunch of pseudo-smartphone features. Super-clean UI, insane battery life. It had an OS built around the operations of mobile telephony that successfully translated into simple human interactions. A masterpiece. But the neither-fish-nor-fowl-phones will not be missed.
Maybe if you weren't trolling the github issues section relevant issues could be worked on.
The original point of Chromebooks was to be a cheap and disposable thin clients primarily for businesses and schools. That's still their primary purpose, but they've shown to be more popular with home consumers than original anticipated.

Google isn't bending Chrome OS from it's vision at all. The only thing they've really changed about them (from a big-picture perspective) is that they were originally planned to be netbook sized (in order to be cheap) but that fad died and you can now build notebook sized computers for the same price, so all Chromebooks are notebook size now.
Really looking great! If you could attach files to bills (i.e. a PDF scan) it would fit all our needs perfectly! :)
Histolines, a database timeline of all history
Histolines is a platform that compiles a full record of precise occurrences in lives of historical characters with account of time and place.
As this platform matures the collection of these events will give us an infinitely precise view of history.But unlike disjoint books and websites the composition of all the events will give us a refined perspective of historical interactions and relations that might not been seen otherwise.
To imagine how it would work pretend that Facebook and Wikipedia had a child.
when you enter the main site you will see a story line of occurrences much like the Facebook news feed.But instead of the latest rants and check ins of your friends you will see the real life events of historical figures.Unlike Facebook, this site will borrow the original attributes of Wikipedia. No one will have a personal account, instead anyone will be able to add a life event of any known character.<p>Each event that one will post, at least initially will be confined to a predetermined collection of event types.For example birth, death, battles won or lost, music composed, war started treaty signed, novel written...This will guide the creators to actual, factual occurrences and prevent the usual bias and interpretation.
To control for less relevant details we will create a significance indicator that will be populated by the reader.Also to account for garbage posts we will create an accuracy measure which will again be determined by the reader.Each event will allow the creator to link a reference in order to justify their claim.And the reader will be able to filter out events based on lack of reference or low significance or accuracy.
The structure of this website will allow the public to generate precise historical timelines and make detailed history more accessible to view, write and interpret its significance and accuracy.Thus eliminating the influence of the victors on history.
Yeah, most people did not. I know, I have been saying this for years... ever since I studied ipv6 in the olden days (the 90's). All but one or two people I ever discussed the "trackability of everything" with was like, "What the hell are you tripping on?"

The point is that everyone is a target. For a mugger, an ex lover, a political opponent, a boss, an employee... everyone is a target. That should (IMO) make everyone at least a little wary.
Several posts are talking about 'hacking' and the meaning thereof. In my mind, it is pretty simple - it's a reference to Zuckerberg's "The Hacker's Way", which goes to considerable length talking about there being no need to get it right the first time, just prototyping and releasing something to see if it works, and so on. Great for Facebook and the like (debatable, but I digress); a disaster for payroll apps, dialysis machines, and most of the rest of the engines of our economy.
"Ruby is failing to help businesses engage customers. It is seen as inefficient and inferior to other languages."

This is pure bullshit. If your business is advertising a particular programming language in order to "engage customers", you are doing something terribly wrong (unless you're in a niche developer market). Your customer doesn't even care about the programming language your site is written in at all. All they want is business value. If the value of your software outweighs the cost, THAT is how you engage customers.

Ruby and other dynamic languages like Python and PHP will always have a place, no matter how they do or don't scale. The danger for 95% of startups is complete failure - not succeeding and not getting any traction at all, not "OMG how are we going to scale this with the hundreds of millions of pageviews we have?". A focus on rapid prototyping and productivity for a small team is exactly what most startups need, and Ruby/Rails is a great fit for that. It's not going anywhere, and it's certainly not going to die.
Whoops, my misunderstanding then! :)

I also didn't realize GoDaddy was explicitly shown, so I stand corrected on all points.
The man behind the "rich Serbian bachelor" meme
Instead of memorizing all of my passwords, I memorized an algorithm that I use to generate passwords. So all of my passwords are unique with fairly good entropy, and I can recover any of them, but I don't necessarily have them memorized. The ones that I use often are saved in muscle memory.
Making taxation optional or voluntary doesn't seem like a viable system. Everyone would just pass the buck to someone else.
You should tell everyone on that issue. And caring about your government is not trolling. It's funny to see those suggestions, but they carry a freakin' point.
Very nice! Does this pull in transactions from your bank accounts automatically? I'm using Xero right now (awesome BTW) and that is a killer feature for me.
"I can't say that it's something humanity isn't or wouldn't be capable of."

You can't say?

It's certainly something that humanity is, and will remain, capable of.

I just can't say that it's something humanity wouldn't choose over some other option.
There aren't really many opportunities for glbt scholarships. I appreciate the thought, but it's not like trying to google it has never crossed my mind.
That's an interesting philosophy. I guess it's like that, with the exception that eventually I'll withdraw from a persistently hostile conversation because I know my own limits and I want to avoid getting destructively angry. Similarly, I'm learning to avoid saying precisely what I think on certain topics around certain people, even if I know that it's a balanced position, because dealing with the aftermath isn't worth it. But yes, it's nice hanging out with friends who don't get all worked up just because I happen to have an opinion that they don't share.
Ok then, good luck with your project! I'll take a look again when there is something visual to see ;)
Rise Of Selfie Surgery - A new class of apps promises to fix you.
Your old camera fixed your red-eye, and Instagram fixed your photos. A new class of apps promises to fix you.
As an outside observer, it seems that providing the desktop app allows the developer to have a freemium model without incurring additional hosting costs for those users. Users who want cloud storage offset his costs directly with the $5 charge.

Just guessing

Side Note, for those who haven't downloaded the app. There doesn't seem to be a mention for the cloud storage option on the home page. The app stores data locally, but offers the option of cloud storage with additional benefits for $5/month. Screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/zWYpv7I.png
An echo chamber fosters confidence in a single perspective, or a small subset of many perspectives. And not everything we speak about is mathematical and can be formalized so that we can have confidence in a single perspective (social, political issues).

Can you, in particular, handle being confident in one perspective and being able to acknowledge, understand, and evaluate another? Maybe. Can most people? I don't think so.

"Having a informative and effective discussion at a high level, and having opinions moved, predicates a high degree of common ground."

We can agree on definitions, but that's not necessarily an echo chamber. An echo chamber, or the negative kind of echo chamber, is when a (nonmathematical, nonformal) perspective or conclusion is reinforced by the entire community.

Example: "everybody has the same opportunities and therefore everybody is equally capable of achieving success". You get people on hacker news asserting this all the time. This is not a definition. This is dogma.

"Being bombarded with information and viewpoints you consider wrongheaded doesn't expand your horizon, it galvanises you."

Key phrase: "[ideas] you consider wrongheaded". Nobody has all the right ideas from the start. A priori, there is no reason to think that you will never encounter any ideas which appear wrongheaded to you at first.
Ask HN: what is your favorite stock photo website?
And why?
"accidentally"?
I remember this in the beginning. Even with something as simple as email. Many people check there email way to often. Crank your "check for new emails" down from once every minute or 20 minutes to something like once every 4 or 8 hours.

With time I've slowly turned notifications off and lower timers. I think most people start to realize that they aren't contributing anything positive to your life. Everyone usually loves it in the beginning but with time. I think everyone levels off. Also it saves battery life!

Strangely as much as I love saving battery. I just can't come to disabling my highly animated phone background. Just love it too much :P
It has fastboot just like unlocked Android devices. More details here: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Firefox_OS/...
downloaded, can't get it to work. /sad
What I like most about this article is that she is not just bashing flat UI. Many of her suggested improvements still fit within the flat UI paradigm: adding rounded corners, underlining links, etc. A few times she suggests bending the rules a little bit: "You’ll go a long way to making your flat form usable if you make your fields look hollow and make your buttons look raised."

As with most things, I think a balanced approach is the best. Going too extreme in either direction on the skeuomorphic <-> flat scale results in a poor user experience. Personally, I tend to use a mostly flat design scheme with subtle shadows on choice elements.
I agree, it's incredibly less clear. I re-watched his TED interview and started researching different ways of determining first principles. Thought this was an interesting perspective. I found this post particularly interesting in relating first principles to software development: http://www.mytechfetish.com/2013/04/first-principle-reasonin.... I can relate with how this article states that there is more reasoning in analogy than examining processes through looking at the first principles. I just started a new job at a tech center and I finding a lot of "that's just how it's always been done" going on.
This is awesome. I respect GitHub more and more every day. However, despite how much I love the GitHub model and think it's a great way to collaborate, it's still (mostly) inaccessible for non-developers. Shameless plug: I think there is still some room for innovation here, so I'm building a GitHub for everyone else:

http://madebyloren.com/github-for-writers
Or just a pump.
One interviewee had a credit card in a fake name. How legal is that exactly?
As with everything else, it depends.

You start with your strongest suite. So, if you're an extremely early stage startup with a stellar team, you start with that. If, you're technology/traction/investment thesis is stronger, relative to your team, you start with that.
They've earned it though. Every single time I've dealt with MT support it's been a nightmare. The response times are terrible (until you get on twitter and publicly tweet at them) and their support does not understand their own cpanel software well enough to be helpful. Nearly all my support requests (usually for fairly basic things) required "Tier 2" support, which meant at least a 24 hour wait.

This deal seems like a perfect match.
I thinks ZFS is more appropriate than git in this context

http://grigio.org/diy_your_dropbox_backup_zfs_sshfs_and_rsyn...
IMHO, the thing that makes the post compelling isn't what they claim they aren't hiring (hackers, of course), but the detail they go into about who they want to hire.

It's annoying to me when job descriptions like "hacker" or "rockstar" get thrown around, mostly because they tell you nothing about what a company is actually looking for. If you're looking for a hacker, are you looking for someone who can conceptualize problems quickly? A person who feels OK editing a production database directly? Heck, most nontechnical people will assume that "hacker" is probably some sort of security vulnerability tester. The problem is that I'm only some of those things - and, frankly, nobody is all of them.

What's impressive to me about this post is how much time they spend stating the things that they do value, and why they value them. That's much more meaningful than the headline about who they aren't.
The thing is, you are who you associate yourself with.

Until GoDaddy actually proves they've turned a new leaf, I think you're going to have a hard time convincing your customers (myself included) that this acquisition is about anything other than money.

It takes momentous effort to turn around a notoriously bad brand, and with such fierce competition, there will need to be some serious benefits to convince me to stick with MT.

Truth be told, if your service is comparable to other services, I'd rather not give my money to a company owned by GoDaddy.