skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Don't you have some monthly discretionary income? When I was making about $35/hour (and living in the Bay Area), I sometimes donated half of each of my paycheck. To be frank, sometimes I'm embarrassed by how much I make. Not that I'm not exceptionally good at what I do - I am good at what I do - I just don't know why I get paid so much while others around the world have to suffer. It is out duty, while we are alive, to reduce our own suffering and the suffering of others. And sometimes, the two are not mutually exclusive.
Or you could try reading the post before responding...
In my experience (family business is property rental) I think the point at which you can afford a property manager is pretty far down the line for most people.

A cheap property manager or estate agent is generally not worth it - their main goal being to rent the property as quickly as possible to anyone, rather than ensuring rental to a good tenant.

Decent property managers cost a fair bit of money and unless you own the property outright or have a very low mortgage it's tough to afford a good manager and have a reasonable passive income from the property as well.
What do you mean fail? Asana is doing very well. Does it boast replacing email... probably not. But still a very recommendable application for small teams.
Make a list of 5 growing startups you would want to work for as an intern. Then make a list of 10 things each of those 5 startup could be doing that would help them that you can do for them that would take you a weekend. Send them the list and offer to do one of them for free next weekend. Start the process over again the following week.

Also - read this => http://charliehoehn.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Recession...
It is just a question of viewpoint. What they do is, they try to change thinking and confuse what is acceptable in the society. Language aside, it is a sign of a weak society in my opinion, because they are allowed to goon with this.
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You save even more by buying at 3-4 years and keeping until 10 years or 150K miles. Cars today are remarkably reliable well past a 5 year mark. You'll have an occassional several hundred dollar repair. That's less than what most people pay every single month for their crazy car habit.

Plus, you only go through the aggravation of buying and dealing with your DMV 1/3 as often this way...
Great public relations campaigns make people think they are reading the news without even thinking of public relations.
http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html

SEO is sort of the same way in terms of there being a range of options. Some people might use SAPE, Xrummer or Fiverr or such (nude person with a URL streaking at a sporting event), whereas others might use more nuanced strategies where any SEO impact appears incidental.

Design itself can play a big roll in the perception of spam. Designs that look crisp can contain nonsensical content without feeling as spammy as they are.

But another factor here is that Google wants to keep raising the bar over time. Things that are white hat fade to gray then black as they become more popular & widespread. And as Google scrapes-n-displaces a wider array of content types, that forces publishers to go deeper (if they can do so without bankrupting themselves).
Expenditure expands to meet the funds available.

With that in mind, I've operated a tithe for over 15 years now. If I give before the funds are available to me I have always adjusted accordingly and never felt like I was burdened or put out by donating.

When I've tried giving what I have left at the end of the month (rather than immediately after receiving income), I find I can't afford it. Then I make excuses about how it's hard to afford it.

Give early, give when you're earning little, give a % and let the amount increase with your earnings.

What I actually donate has dropped significantly, because I moved from being employed to founding a company and my earnings collapsed. But it remains a similar % as always.

The original inspiration for this was speaking to some co-workers many years ago who are Muslim, and their sharing the fact that all Muslims give a tithe to charity and most target the most impoverished and hard-up people rather than a religious cause. I was quite moved by that and took up the practice. In some ways I think of it as just an income tax that I can target towards things I believe in: homeless charities, cycling causes, computers and education for those without access to either.
I wonder if n-grams could solve this automatically?

If we consider the actual words to be a latent variable, then we can use an n-gram model to compute the maximum likelihood estimate (sorry Bayesians) using dynamic programming.

There is also the Bayesian approach where you treat it as a Bayesian network and use belief propagation to compute the marginal posteriors over each letter.

EDIT: took a while to figure out the ML approach.
"I still don't feel like I'm at the stage where we can afford to" -- just... wow.

It sounds you may be lacking perspective. I highly recommend visiting the poorest places of your own city, much less the poorer countries of the world. You might be surprised at the effect it will have on you; I know it does me every time.
Yes -- I somehow worded that backwards.
Mel, in this context, indicates Mel Kaye which was a subject of the programming folklore called The Story of Mel [1]. More on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Story_of_Mel

[1] http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/mel.html
Thanks for the info. I had no idea chrome had that, I don't think I recall installing an extension that DIDNT give me a warning about access. It seems like developers just stick to the more unrestricted system out of convenience or narcissism ("must phone home my youtube downloader, for science!"). There's definitely something out of whack here if developers won't use the restricted access when their extension fits nicely within that model. It would be nice if it could be shown that extensions are penalized in terms of downloads by requiring unnecessary access. As it is I've stopped using all extensions in chrome except adblock.
> women don't really have it hard at all in tech + affirmative action

I'm sorry, but the facts are all against what you were saying. I've read numerous stories about female programmers having a hard time fitting in at work, facing prejudice all the time etc. Same about female tech-founders.

You might be right in the business world or more "female-like" industries such as fashion, but definitely not in tech.
This has got to be a hack? or something. No company could possibly this charging this sort of money "opt out" is even remotely acceptable.
Keeping all our money to ourselves, not only having enough to keep us warm and our stomachs stuffed, but actually being able to spend on a lot of luxury, e.g. most of the tech gimmicks around, while other people are literally starving is obviously inhumane.

However, donating to "charities" is just not gonna do it. I'm not talking about details like "don't give 'em fish, give 'em a fishing rod".

Rather, considering that we, at a minimum the so-called "West", have been and are still collectively robbing other countries and regions blind, all that we individuals are able to give back is way less than that. Just have a look at Indonesia now and in the last couple of decades, or check what most African countries export vs. what they import to see it is still ongoing. Lately, at least most of South America is finally getting out of the morass. But not due to charities from the West, rather due to their standing up against Western capitalist interest.

So after understanding that we - as a society, and everyone living in it benefits from society - are not really philantrophic by giving a little back having taken a lot.

Our time and money needs to go where we think we can change this system. A big task, but just giving to some charity is not gonna cut it.
This doesn't seem logical to me, sorry.
Ask HN: Looking for an html template for API?
Is there a free html5 template that is well suited for APIs and one liners? Basically I have a product centered around one line commands in the terminal and would like to build a good introductory webpage.

something like heroku's cloud page with the terminal commands
https://www.heroku.com/
I really wish it wasn't possible to get an A- with RC4 enabled.
Preventing the creation of a life is not the same as destroying it. Many Christian groups conflate contraceptives with abortion in order to further their cause. Pay attention to this.
My wife and I give to different charities. I'm a strong supporter of advancing education so you'll find me giving the most to my alma mater and the wikipedia foundation. For her, it's charities like UNICEF which have a very low operational budget and do tons of good and local charities such as animal shelters. We generally split our donation budget in half and distributed that way.
Relentless with new functionality? Yes, no, maybe, I don't know.

I'd love to see things fixed up in their issue tracker, and you still can't apply a label to a pull request while looking at the pull request.

I love GitHub for many reasons, but I question whether the push towards 'managerless-culture' means some less interesting things don't get done sometimes.

I do note the ability to see web traffic prior to someone's implementation of a hack to do it on HackerNews, but on the other hand, I still miss the impact graph. How about being able to see number of clones and updates instead of just web traffic?

The ways to spotlight interesting new projects is great, but I think the social and discovery aspects could be upgraded too.

But #1, the bug tracker needs help. Code review tools seem nice, but are seemingly enterprise only. While I welcome and encourage that kind of business model, large open source projects could benefit the most from that kind of functionality.

So, yeah, GitHub is becoming the standard for code sharing. It's great... but there's a lot of opportunity not being capitalized on too relative to their organizational size.

From the outside, it looks like they are probably dealing more with internal plumbing than new functionality to me. Which is also understandable. It's just a shame that some features that are quite useful (say, impact graph) get cut or uninteresting to work on (issue tracking) don't get worked on.
Jessica and PG if you see this - there are some assumptions I made about you guys and the conference in this piece that I will correct if they're wrong (namely - the timing of the conference is somewhat in response to the Information incident and the goals of the conference). Just let me know. It's not the core point, so I'd love a fact check there.
Sure about that? I'm not sure if a country the size of 1/50th of the USA can be easily comparable when it comes to physical infrastructure sunk costs.
My alma mater (UC Santa Cruz) does exactly this, all course were pass/fail and if you passed you got a narrative evaluation, which ranged from terse sentences that obviously encoded traditional grades as text ("He did very good on the midterm, and excellent on the final, and excellent overall.") to some that were several paragraphs in length and discussed specific merits of the work done in the course. Amusingly they also had a committee that would translate your narrative evaluations into numeric grades so you could apply to grad schools that required a GPA.
I've been experimenting with this lately. Specifically, I've been comparing my thoughts on money vs. time donations.

I ran a charity:water campaign for my birthday last month and donated a third of my goal personally. I am amid a 6-week experiment of volunteering for 2 hours every week at a local shelter. Between money and time, I am able to see my impact more with my time.

However, economically the question does become raised of whether the opportunity cost of volunteering for a fairly basic job makes it more reasonable to work for an extra hour and donate that cash for the shelter to hire somebody on my behalf. It may sound heartless, but donation ROI is something worth considering. That being said, I can see the impact of my efforts while volunteering, which is rewarding and makes it a sustainable habit.

I'm also amid some estate planning. Upon death, I am planning on donation of both my assets and my body[1] to charity.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body_donation
Providing actual values sounds like a great idea to stand out. I would like to hear if you have tried this yourself or seen it done before. What was the result?
As usual in cases where journalists report on first amendment issues raised by other people, the headline (and some of the text of the article) here is a misrepresentation based on the myth of special privilege for journalists under the First Amendment: the 9th Circuit, here, did not find that "bloggers are journalist", it found that the First Amendment protection of the "freedom of the press" protects a freedom of the people generally to publish information; "the press" referred to being the act of publishing -- as by use of a printing press -- just as freedom of "speech" refers to the act of speaking.

Institutional journalists want to see "the press" in "freedom of the press" to be read in the sense of "institutional journalists" rather than "the act of publishing information", and want it to be a basis of special and superior rights for those in their profession over the masses, which is an understandable, self-interested desire.

What is more problematic than that desire is the way they misrepresent the courts, every time the courts explicitly reject that interpretation in favor of interpreting the First Amendment as protecting rights of the people generally, as the courts accepting the idea of special rights for journalists, but including some other group in the definition of "journalists".

The Court didn't say bloggers are journalists, it said being a journalist isn't the basis of First Amendment protection, saying "The protections of the
First Amendment do not turn on whether the defendant was
a trained journalist [...]" and "In
defamation cases, the public-figure status of a plaintiff and the public importance of the statement at issue--not the identity of the speaker--provide the First Amendment
touchstones."
I don’t think it solves the problem. From what I’ve seen so far, for an engineer job paid $100k/year in the US, you’ll get only €40k/year in France (~$50k/year), and some things are more expensive.
If it could be run as a lifestyle business by a few partners and be profitable, why not do that?
Totally agree with this. Their business never made much sense in charging only $5 to "undo" what USPS does, but it worked great and is really useful when travelling. They should have tested a $19.99 price point before shutting down. I'm not sure i would have kept paying it for too long, but worth a shot.
Argument's kinda extensible to say Huston is both cheap and well equipped as a city but neither them or you or I are in Huston. It's a bit of a stretch to say to wanting to live in areas with desirable weather is delusional.
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I try to donate 10% of gross income. Rationale: A lot of religious people tend to tithe. Religious institutions tend to support socially conservative causes. To counter the monetary influence of religious institutions, I need to put my money where my mouth is and "tithe" to socially liberal causes.
In a former life I was an economics grad student, spent a few weeks at the Santa Fe Institute, and returned to school full of zeal for simulation and complexity.

At which point it was subtly suggested to me by senior faculty members that -- if I wanted to graduate and become a "real" economist -- I should really focus on proving things, not on simulating things.

(Shortly thereafter I left the program, although not particularly because of this episode.)
Grad student that makes a stipend of $1,900/mo with a rent payment of $400 and car payment of $300 here. I do not donate because I do not have great insurance nor do I have sufficient savings to last more than 2 or 3 months if I were to no longer be funded at school.
Very impressive, thanks for sharing! I'm more interested in how you grew the user base plus any other growth hack tips you might have? There is the obvious free SEO and social media publicities, but it's always tricky to get engaged users.
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Not at all. Why must there be a label associated with everything?

I supposed girls nights out are now sexist as well, or just chilling with the guys and no girls.

How far will it go?
On a meta-level, I think you are observing the vocal minority bias. As evidence, consider the fact that your comment currently holds the first comment position, suggesting that it received a significant amount of upvotes relative to the other comments. I observe the same effect on other, similar, threads, where the first comment tends to be a response to the overwhelming "If it's just for women, it's sexism, same as if we said something was just for men" you are observing.
How about working to change America? In theory, it is a democracy, so if what you say is true, people should be able to change it.

50 million on food stamps in "the richest country", while "poorer" countries fare much better - you should have some voters here. The only problem - you need gazillions to make it to the TV screens so that you end up being electable. There goes your democracy.
I think the male equivalent of the Female Founders Conference would be a Male Elementary School Teachers Conference -- or possibly a Male Daycare Workers Conference.
I rarely use this phrase, but I LOL'ed at this one.
I don't agree with the mirroring proposed by this post. A true mirror would be a Male Founders Conference focused on the problems that male founders specifically face (maybe dating / work-life balance / fatherhood / fitness / ???). Closing the gender gap is the wrong takeaway (I think).

Having nitpicked the author's take on the FFC, I'll throw out my own: it seems like a mistake to make it a female only event (or am I misreading that?). I could see a lot of value (for women) being generated by having high profile (male) VCs and tech advisors attend the conference as well. Right or wrong, the vast majority of advisors and VCs are men at the moment, and educating them on how to help female founders seems just as valuable as educating the founders themselves.
This is actually really funny to me. I got an email from them a week ago telling me that my "auto billing renewal" had failed because my card expired.

I checked "don't automatically renew" when I first signed up.

I removed my credit card a month ago, when I realized it had been saved.
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Canadian government invites coders to Hackaton
I don't have a URL to give you but I know several sites have this info available. It is not a secret. You just need to locate it. So most people could have it.
That’s true, especially with FreeBSD and NetBSD both having ports.
Go for Henna tattoos ... They are temporary .. like a few days/weeks. :)
she merely claimed that she can't be held liable for anything she writes because she's a journalist

This sounds like S&P and Moody's arguments about why nobody should listen to (or hold them liable for) their Credit Ratings. The question of acting in good faith or with malice, however, seems to be still an open point. That is after all, the difference of expressing your opinion and shouting 'fire' in a movie theatre.
It does not have an exact API demo, but I think some of the stuff over at http://www.startbootstrap.com would be well suited to your needs.

In particular this one, http://startbootstrap.com/sb-admin-v2, could be a good start. It is made with all bootstrap styles and easily changeable and extensible.
didn't know about this, kind of cool, we use some D3 at work. however, would be nice with some graphics ...

just sayin.
I adore Omni products. Looking forward to peeking under the hood in this one!
I'm super confused by this (you're one of a few people to say it), because that page doesn't look spammy to me at all. A little corporate, maybe. The list of car links on the front page is workable as a UX.
Sounds like you're giving yourself a choice between donating nothing and donating a substantial amount. Why not donate a little here and there? I'm just a poor grad student, but my wife and I fast for two meals each month and donate what we would have spent on food for those meals (usually estimated as a couple times more than we would actually spend on the food) to charity. Is this a huge amount of money? Not from us individually, but if everyone did this it would be a considerable amount (I get $30 billion per year for the U.S. alone). Just because you can't make a huge difference individually doesn't mean you can't be part of something meaningful.
I'm not saying anything like that. I'm just saying that in a democracy, individuals vote based on their world-views. Sometimes that world-view is informed by a religion, sometimes it's informed by "spirituality", or sometimes by something else. But whatever it may be, a person's world-view is always informed by ideals that can't be proven one way or another.
That's definitely not true, on a 1gigE connection I was uploading at well over 200mbit/sec.
> ”People trivialize pivoting but it’s truly a hail mary, and it’s rare that people can pull this off.”

That's not what pivoting is..I think the real reason nobody really respects "lean" in this community is that all the concepts have been completely misinterpreted.
I think real capital Open Source is what matters here. In that case, anyone can fork and redistribute the good parts of any plugin. In the case here, someone owns the code and reserves exclusive monopoly and that's what gets bought out and that's harder to revert or fork.
Easy, add a domain to your cart. When prompted to create an account or sign in, click on the little "Cart" icon at the top right.

$34.99 / 1yr
…
$999.00 / 100yr

edit: If NetSol still does domain name front running, they may now be the proud owners of correct-horse-battery-staple.com
"It is highly likely this opinion will change sooner rather than later"

Which opinion are you referring to? I can't answer your question until I understand that part.
clever.

probably more clever to warn your attacker that people know where you are, or not go in the first place though
Disclaimer - I hate NetSol with passion.

Correct me if I'm wrong but don't the following excerpts imply that you need to opt-in first?

"In addition WebLock enrolled customers will have access to a 24/7 NOC and rapid response team in the event of any security issues."

"We strongly encourage you to take advantage of this security program and register Certified Users before the program launch date. Thank you for helping us protect you better."

"To establish Certified Users and pre-register authorized phone numbers and email addresses please call 1-888-642-0265 Monday to Friday between 8:00AM and 5:00PM EST."

"Replying to this email will not secure your services. Please click here to unsubscribe. Please note that unsubscribing from our marketing emails will not affect important transactional correspondence such as administrative and renewal notices related to your account"

Key words here are - "established", "enrolled", "encourage","marketing email","not secure your service".

To me it just looks like this is just a sales letter that makes you think like you have no choice...

Edit: added even more proof that most people have trouble understanding what they are reading.