skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know, but modern Catholic nuns are kind of bad-ass. For instance, the Ursulines who taught Melinda Gates recently gave a middle finger to the Catholic hierarchy and vocally defended Gates' work despite its support for contraception.

Wherever you look for close-minded reactionary people stuck in the 1950s chastising members of their own church for unapproved good works, chances are you'll see nuns on the other side of the argument.

I don't doubt that there are a whole lot of bad nuns out there (though just typing those words seems kind of silly to me), but in the modern organized faith they seem like one of the bright spots.
The Not-a-Scientist’s Assistant
Considering the number of posts and links in the threads here on HN showing prior art, making the assumption that just because you saw it on IA first doesn't mean they invented it.
> Very well. This is still trying to incentivize equality through what is essentially bribery.

Its not incentivizing equality.

The major incentive is for getting any set of 15 or more students through the program. This is 75% of the potential reward.

The minor incentive is for getting 7 or more girls in the set of 15 or more students. This is obviously not an incentive for equality (as, at the minimum number of total students and girls for the incentive, its not equal, and, there's no ratio-based requirement -- if you get 30 students through and only 7 are girls, you get the same additional $250 on top of the base $750 as if you get 15 students through and 7 were girls.)

In addition to not being "incentivizing equality", I don't see how rewarding what works in acheiving goals is bribery.

> The rest of my claims still stand.

The rest of your claims are unsupported fuzzy generalities. In the one case you discussed an easily verifiable fact claim, it was completely wrong. I don't see any reason to assume that your generalities are based on any clearer of a picture of reality than your simple fact claim.
Waiting for the drone strikes to take out Bill Gates then.
Yes, it just says he invests in oil companies in Africa and child detention centers. I'm sorry you just are familiar with the mcdonalds logo and nothing else.
I always like finding new tools to help with this kind of thing. [awesome window manager](http://awesome.naquadah.org/) - coupled with vim window splits and tmux can work pretty well.

On mac spaces with full screen apps and the 4 finger swipe gestures work well. Feels awkward on medium or large screens though.

Since i switched full time to GNOME again, i've been trialling this [auto move windows extension](
https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/16/auto-move-windows/). Seems to be working quite well so far.
Checksums are also found in the PGP signed release email.
> Ah, the joy of having a huge box in front of my face telling me how good the App is and I should get it from the App Store. The irony: already have the steaming pile of sht app installed and much rather use the website. How about I just leave instead?*

This one always irks me. Anyone have A/B testing to back up conversions on this?

Even if it's annoying but leads to more engagement, than I'd continue to redirect people to the app.
I know HN is really, really focused on semantics. I know this. But seriously, every single time one of these articles pops up with the GP calling programming 'cs', the majority of the discussion is focused on calling out how it's incorrect.

Now I may be wrong, but I know that I personally would much rather have been creating something with some basic syntax as opposed to learning theory while I was in grade school. Being able to see your seemingly magical incantations create something cool is going to be a lot more encouraging than studying discrete mathematics.

Theory is cool. Theory has its place, but before you even encounter the situations in which it's applicable, I'd say try making something first.

EDIT -- Especially when these kids are low income. Discrete mathematics to inner city kids is about as relatable as Biggie is to Wall Street bankers.
Hustlers gonna hustle... welcome to business 101. Keep documentation. Set boundaries. Plan! If it's his prerogative to threaten the company's success, he is effectively diminishing his own returns. If mechanisms exist to oust him -effectively- in relation to what the company needs, those need to be implemented. This is why hiring decisions are important. Speak plainly. "Sneak a move" is unacceptable business language. Also, the marketing guy can't work with an unfinished product (just to make a point for his behalf).
I use video.js and host them myself, HTML5, no plug-ins, works on all devices. I host a very video intensive site that attracts a lot of visitors each day.
I was about to write something similar to this.

So someone with 40% of the company thinks the other guy with equivalent ownership isn't worth his share? What if that guy thinks the same thing about you?

The other guy apparently has employee loyalty, funding, and administrative controls on his side...

I am not at all convinced that the OP deserves sympathy for wanting to screw his business partner, and publicly soliciting strangers' advice on how to go about doing it.

If I were the other guy, I'd put this HN comment thread in the hands of my attorney and take my own case to the board. Sounds like the jig is up for this partnership, take it out back and put it down.
Every time someone approaches me about starting a company with a "brilliant" idea, I run a quick Google search and ask them, well have you heard of ___ or ___? 99 percent of the time they give up after that.
Circulate a petition to end the private prison industry? I will sign it. Come up with a credible plan to fix that public policy problem? I'll donate.

Meanwhile: if you're going to manage a forty billion dollar endowment to maximize its impact on global poverty and disease, you're going to be working with large-scale corporate debt and equity. It would be very difficult to maintain diversified exposure to those markets without investing in something that would piss someone off.
This doesn't necessarily mean they'll work directly as programmers, or that they'll have high-paying jobs. There's lots of average coding jobs that are unremarkable. The workforce will also end up becoming diluted, a natural consequence of making a craft compulsory. Everything has trade-offs.
Everyone's focused on the problem of whether the foundation should be focused on societally responsible investment, but without noticing the problem with the article's analysis: to get a handle on whether they're investing in that fashion you need to measure the market cap of those decidedly irresponsible companies against those same companies representation in the overall market.

My reaction looking at that list was "wow, he managed to invest less than a billion in oil companies." They do make up a fair chunk of the market, after all.
Thanks! I had no idea
Getting angry at me isn't going to make your argument any more valid.
1. Can't argue of course but use case, for me, is my cousin's daughter's daughter. A long heredity chain I'll confess, but being from an old school large family, that child is the same age as my own. That means that I have a point of contact with a relative that I would not otherwise have. So, thanks facebook, really brilliant meaningful connection I would not otherwise have.

2. I agree.
To "Alpha Black Lotus Depository Certificates" I hereby add "Saudi Arabian Dildo Vouchers" as a synonym for cryptocurrency.
Do also note that the top of that hierarchy, the current Pope, is dragging the ethical values of the Catholic Church forward through the centuries, despite significant baggage he can't be expected to just discard (though he should if he could)
Professor admits faking AIDS vaccine to get $19M in grants
Personally, I prefer Harp[0] over Jekyll, simply because while it provides the metadata features of Jekyll, it also does all my asset pipelining and allows me to use a multitude of templating languages. It's also less opinionated in terms of file structure, and I host my blog with it on github pages for that reason as well.

[0] http://HarpJS.com
In similar articles referencing mise-en-place from a business/programming/hacker context (such as http://thirdhandworks.com/2013/02/noted-mise-en-place/ ), there is a great quote from Anthony Bourdain's Kitchen Confidential:

“I worked with a chef who used to step behind the line to a dirty cook’s station in the middle of the rush to explain why the offending cook was falling behind. He’d press his palm down on the cutting board, which was littered with peppercorns, spattered sauce, bits of parsley, bread crumbs and the usual flotsam and jetsam that accumulates quickly on a station if not constantly wiped away with a moist side towel. ‘You see this?’ he’d inquire, raising his palm so that the cook could see the bits of dirt and scraps sticking to his chef’s palm, ‘That’s what the inside of your head looks like now. Work clean!‘”
My two cents:

⌘ + K => clears console
inspect(element) => inspects element
$(query) => equal to document.querySelector
$$(query) => equal to document.querySelectorAll
$_ => last output
clear() => clears the console. in your code your can `console.clear()`
console.count(label) => counts with a label that you pass
console.log("%cThis will be formatted with large, blue text", "color: blue; font-size: x-large");

a lot more info here:
https://developers.google.com/chrome-developer-tools/docs/co...
The Gates Foundation is unlike any other charity or foundation:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_%26_Melinda_Gates_Foundati...
Kung Fury
Yeah and in so-called "English language" why are they teaching kids how to use semi-colons and paragraphs instead of etymology and James Joyce.
Adrian Cockcroft: Looking back at 2013, with pointers to 2014
I think the reasoning and references I've provided justify that claim pretty strongly, but I guess we'll have to wait for a linguistic poll to be sure!
Glad to hear it :) Have fun!
Guys like that in general have never seemed all that convincing to me.
How to Become As Rich As Bill Gates: http://philip.greenspun.com/bg/
The point I suspect is not to make them all into little Knuths. It's to make sure they have at least some exposure, so they can decide if this something they want to pursue in a focused way later on -- and, importantly, regardless of their parents' own professional background (or lack thereof).

BTW, perhaps you're forgetting -- they're just 8th graders. We're luck of half of them can pass a pre-Algebra class. Any coding skills we can get them to learn on top of that is a huge, huge win.
How is what Rap Genius any different than selling ad space, Googles core business? It seems to be that this was just an interpersonal request for an AD to link back to Rap Genius.

What is wrong with that anyway? Adwords and Adsense are just an affiliate program anyway.

I dont see much of a problem with it.
I know that $150k+ straight out of college is the norm on this board, but "unremarkable" "average coding jobs" are nonetheless a solid foundation for a middle class life. Just 1/3 that amount is enough to pull a family of four out of the "low-income" category, a category that encompasses the families of 87% of students in Chicago public schools.
The Jesuits are another bright spot in the Catholic church. I had four years of Jesuit high school, and everything people like us seem to like about Pope Frank plays right to the Jesuit type.
I imagine this will get ugly if you just change the passwords and revoke his access. He owns a decent share of the company so my suggestion would be if you want this company. Buy his share and give him the money.

During this period of time you can hire a team (or someone) to secure your companies credentials. Hiring a team to review your assets both physical and virtual; code base and otherwise would be wise.
The Gates Foundation is different than other charities:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_%26_Melinda_Gates_Foundati...
Unfortunately if they're showing sponsored content, all of those things suck.
Is all this media coverage making rapgenius more popular?
Yeah right. Most of the people on HN will never quit the game, and will keep trying to make more money until they have one foot in the grave. (And no, I don't think there is anything particularly wrong with this.)

Gates got to a point where he knew his time as a competitive capitalist was over, and that his time as a generous philanthropist had begun. This isn't about net worth, this is about making that choice at a point where you still are physically, mentally, and financially able to have an impact.

Anyone who has a good exit has sufficient resources to no longer work and could make a similar choice, even if they won't have the same net impact as Gates. But most of them don't. Most of the people at Gates' level don't either. It's commendable.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behavioral_retargeting
Multiple virtual desktops, my friend.

If clients pop by and want to see how you are doing on their project then swap to the required desktop and every terminal window and every browser tab relates to their project and nothing else.

You can also have a desktop with your own stuff on it, i.e. with all the distractions, and not have to fret about closing it all down. Pick up with your distractions where you left off.

When you are done fixing whatever for project whatever you can simply close down the browser and terminal windows on that desktop, you don't have to sift through your tabs.

If you do need to change focus from project A to project B then it is a simple switch, not a mess to wade through.
>I especially don't think that the act of charity somehow excuses the dodgy business practices or Microsoft or the long-term damage done to the tech industry.

How much damage do you think that is? You don't think all the lives saved have "made up" for that? You don't think the world is better off than it would otherwise be without Bill Gates?
What causes the most death and disability in each country?
That's a link to the Wikipedia article about the foundation, which I'm pretty familiar with. You haven't really provided any evidence that the Foundation is significantly different. It's large, but in what manner is that qualitatively different and better?
My god, people. Why is there so much dickish nitpicking in this thread? This is great news! It is mind blowing (to me at least) that basic knowledge of programming is not a general requirement – and this is a step in the right direction, regardless of whether the terminology is exactly fucking correct or not.
So having actually seen what Code.org's small hour of code assignment was (my sister in 6th grade had to do it), I can say that it's not as evil as you're making it out to be. For one, they're not taught a specific language -- they're given visual blocks to work with (and the ability to show the corresponding javascript).

I assume that without real instruction you're not going to learn the theory, and yes someone will have to advocate for OSS, but it seems that the goal is more basic -- not to pump kids full of impressions that 'this way is the only way' and 'just type code don't think no think'.

One thing I noticed more from my sister than the hour of code was that thought processes for programming that we take for granted haven't been implanted, and need to be taught. For example, my sister when faced with a path for the zombie to take would start by telling the zombie to move forwards many times then take a left... etc etc. Conditions and loops are introduced gradually and the idea that you would use a loop to do multiple things instead of just manually doing it is part of this. How should kids understand complex CS concepts without this? They need to start somewhere.
Even if it isn't "true" CS, they're likely to learn useful skills that can help them automate repetitive tasks and things like that, and give them enough exposure to decide if it's something they may want to do in the future. If they decide to study it more in depth, awesome. If not, the worst that happens is they got a few skills that may help them in the future
Come now.

If unethical corporations faced divestiture, amoral investors would expect less profits, which would drive down prices all the way to the IPO/VC buyin and the RSU packages for management.

You can't seriously believe that the stock market exists while disbelieving that buy-side demand is a fundamental component of launching and running business.
Hackers may have just exposed entire database of Snapchat usernames
No can do. It got downvoted and HN does not allow me to edit negative karma posts. So please upvote my previous post so I can fix the layout of these comments :-)

I'm assuming the negative votes are due to the formatting and not the message. I hope you, dear reader, don't miss the irony of this situation...

If it's downvotes because of the message, well I feel bad for the downvoters and wish them much luck with using their framework.
Brookyln
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I can't believe it. I just searched google (public results on btw) for "Rap Genius". Their homepage wasn't even in the first 10 results. All links to news articles. Wow.
No, because I don't think that positive or good acts can somehow "cancel out" (or as you say, "make up for") bad or negative ones. Karma is not a concrete concept, and the question "is the world better off" is objectively unanswerable.
Unf—ks the user model?
Not sure I'd call the McDonald's clienteler rich. But richer than average Africans.
Is all this eggnog making me fat?
I have found the opposite to be true. Good leaders of companies and workers are level headed, their energy is flat lined as opposed to spiky. They don't burnout.

Fanatical resolve sounds less than desirable, I'd far rather settle for 'consistent'.

If you're interested in building a company it will take several years to decades; take your time.
> Yeah.. it really doesn't. The DoJ would be all over their ass if there was really a case to be made there.

This just shows that you don't understand what a monopoly is. Monopolies are not in themselves illegal, so there is no reason for the DoJ to get involved unless they break one of the laws regarding what monopolies can and can't do.

And, of course they are being investigated for doing exactly that in Europe.
JSON’s Eight Year Convergence With XML (catching up in popularity)
I agree it's probably better to teach children some basic syntax instead of discrete mathematics but I think part of webo's point was you can teach basic syntax without calling it "Computer Science"
The same as Google IME, except google has a evil virus-like secret upgrade popup.
If you want pattern matching, check out core.match
This article acts like Rap Genius just got put out of business by Google. That is not what happened. They've suffered a serious short term penalty that will fade, and assuming they clean up their SEO mess, six months from now it'll be like this never happened.
Time-to-reimplement is not and should not be a measure of patent validity, because a patent isn't about difficulty of writing the implementation, it's about the cleverness of the solution. What needs to be measured is "given the same problem and existing tools but no knowledge of this solution, how long does it take to come up with this idea". A clever solution that takes 20 minutes to implement but that nobody would think of in a dozen years should be patentable while a solution that takes months to implement but seconds to imagine shouldn't be patentable (but is copyrightable).

In this case though, I'm not sure "we took a first-party API and applied it like other products, but we used dimming instead of highlighting" qualifies.
Snowden himself has used that word to describe his work.

And your example (someone involved in "covert" activity) fits the colloquial use of the term "spy".

In any case, this isn't an English lesson.

What I'm trying to say here is that Snowden wants the world to believe he was doing much more important work than he was actually doing. I don't think the public discourse is served by misstating his role within the "black" world.

He uncovered some wrongdoing but I don't buy the story that he was just a good American that is trying to right a wrong. He had an agenda.
For starters: that it was a "revolution".
RapGenius is not that good. It's heavy. AZ Lyrics has many ads, but it's pure text. Good for lyrics. I don't really want comments in the lyrics I search for.
I searched http://hunch.com and the 'launch' news comes up first, otherwise I like it. Nice job for a couple nights. I did one of those once, Free Ideas, http://insidepeace.com (now down), and I still get inquiries from designers who want to give me 5% for nothing. Best of luck to you, though, tao.
Yes,

I have no problem with learning an idea which might for someone and so might work for me.

But whenever some approach of this sort gets currency, it has the danger of going from a useful idea to use if you like to a stricture managers repeat useless.

I would hazard to say coding is different from cooking or woodworking in that the coder has to draw from many more sources and leaves many more open loops (And I actually cook and code professionally, oddly enough).
> Most apps are just buttons and pages and pictures and videos, and for that kind of stuff, I honestly don't see what the advantage of native is over HTML.

This is true for very simple apps. But native platforms have developed UI conventions that should be followed for non-trivial apps, and modularity capabilities that should be exploited. Taking Android as the example:

Fragment is the way Android apps scale between small and large displays, and how such apps are modularized.

ActionBar is how commands for fragments are added to "global" UI elements as the Fragment objects appear.

The Share action is how data is moved in the highest-level, user-directed way; Intent and startActivityForResult is how apps borrow UI and capabilities from each other; bound service RPCs is how apps can call each other's APIs. You can't do that with Web apps.

Android arguably has a more powerful feature set for modularity and inter-app cooperation that has been held back from achieving its potential fro users because too many apps started with a Web app or an iOS implementation. Android also has UI conventions that are sophisticated and good-looking and that users will increasingly value apps for adhering to.
Nope. See their FAQ https://support.google.com/ime/japanese/answer/166771?hl=ja which states otherwise.
What happened to bearer certificates?
That's a circular argument. Google has only been able to punish rule breakers since it became the leading search engine.