skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Imagine that all these 400k consumers were bringing just $1 of income (not profit) each. I suppose that operating the whole thing is significantly less than $400k a month. To sensibly kill a service that brings in a couple hundred thousand dollars of profit a month you must be a large corporation, not a startup.
Personally, I don't think this is great danger. The urge to have children is tremendously strong - it's primary purpose of our evolutionary dna, after all!

Although I'm a father of two, I look around me and I see that we could probably benefit more as a society if fewer people didn't bow to that pressure to procreate. Most people that choose not to have children are doing so for very good reasons (whether it is "not now" or "never").

Perhaps you are influenced by an immediate circle that shares a rather harsh view of children, but I can tell you that from my experiences, there is rather little bias in our society against the next generation directly - I will allow that we do a lot of things that indirectly cause harm to our children, and theirs.
They could return some money to investors.
And here I came to make this exact same point but you did it so much better than I ever could. You're my new hero. Thanks.
Yeah, but the upside for female founders to have a female-only event is much bigger than the downside for men not being able to attend such an event.
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Should be lower friction for our users!
So, can I keep the keys myself instead of storing them in the cloud? Or do I have to trust Virtru instead of google or some other company that they don't buckle when someone comes knocking for the keys?

Based on the feature list, I can't have the keyserver on my own server. I have to trust Virtru. This is no different than sending the text in plain IMO.
Something like 80 or 90% of USPS revenue comes from junk mail / mailers, companies pay them to guarantee that it shows up in your mailbox.

There are services that let you unsubscribe from junk mail (after a ruling that said that there has to be a way for consumers to unsubscribe, similar to like in email) like https://www.catalogchoice.org/
While there are a lot of responsibilities that might vary company-to-company, the CEO reports to the Board of Directors (who represent the shareholders). Shareholders have control over the company because they can elect the Board of Directors (and depending on structure the CEO). The board has control because they get a vote on important matters like major officers and big expenditures. Depending on structure, they may elect the CEO. In the case of Github, it looks like the transition was driven by a friendly consensus of everyone involved. The CEO may need to get Board approval for changes in major officers, acquisitions, and major expenses, but they have the most control over those aspects, and thus the high-level corporate direction.

Because the CEO represents the shareholders, legally his or her main job is to protect the interests of the shareholders. For a public company, the CEO is the one sweating the most about the stock price; for a private company, the CEO is usually responsible for raising investment and driving the financial structure of the company. If someone is a potential investor or acquirer, they will be working with the CEO. Because they're selling the vision of why the company is a good long-term investment, the CEO tends to be the voice of the long term strategy.

The president may still have some of those responsibilities, but in most cases is less directly involved in fund-raising and more focused on the day-to-day operations.

That said, there are a number of other responsibilities around direction, operations, hiring, etc that can be split between the president and CEO.
"Analytical solutions are considered necessary for a model to be accepted as a genuine theoretical contribution."

That's hardly true, the usual macro model is solved numerically using approximate dynamic programming.
Just an fyi, moot is always written with a lowercase
It would've been a bit funnier if suddenly his half of the gif was transported to the Github Oval Office replica[1].

1. http://thenextweb.com/shareables/2013/09/07/githubs-new-offi...
Ok, thanks very much for expanding.
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I truly have no idea what you're talking about.
I base that conclusion on a comparison of students' performance on various aptitude tests, the likelihood that they will go to college and the percentage of those who find jobs related to their fields of study.
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I think building an app around a demographic that does not have a credit card or spending money might have been challenging from the start, it looks like a very fun app but at the end of the day, people put down their money because they think you are going to make money off the userbase. This is why I feel valuations centered around future profits is bound for major market correction.
Is there any label that people apply to themselves or others that successfully filters out the lunatic fringe from reasonable people?

I'm not afraid to call myself a feminist (even though that puts me in the same camp as some crazy people) in the same way that I'm not afraid to call myself a hacker or a man or a parent or an urban farmer.
Higher frequency means less range (everything else being equal) but not more interference. Interference depends on how used / crowded a given piece of frequency is, and the 5 GHz band is much less crowded than 2.4 GHz: there is more spectrum there, less 5 GHz devices, and because the range is smaller the interference from neighbors is lower.
I feel your pain with JS dependency resolution and management, I have yet to get it with grunt, either. I solved that problem with RequireJS. Have you given that a shot?

RequireJS is incredible when it comes to managing dependencies and organizing JS code in general. Combine it with a requirejs task in Grunt to automatically optimize your JS code and you've got a real slick development-to-production JS pipeline on your hands.

Granted, RequireJS may seem a little funky at first, but I promise you taking the couple of hours necessary to learn its basics will make your life (at least when it comes to developing JS) much easier.
This is one of those things that seemed sorta cool (but not really) and probably the future will look more like it than what we have today. But then you start thinking about the cost to operate it and trying to get people to pay for very marginal value. And it's pretty easy to predict demise. I'm sure folks will say that's not always the case so please provide some examples.
If a flock of employers were requesting this feature it might be more reasonable. A candidate requesting this feature seems odd when the solution is obvious, and you know what the solution is already: write more code that you own.
How would you triage what you're saying against preventing the spread of HIV which, according to the WHO, is greatly helped by condom use?

Would your solution be abstinence?

I've read each of your replies, and it honestly seems to me that you're not treating the subject like these are real people. Additionally, that you would prefer to make their decisions for them.

High minded ideas have a definite place, but until the entire world is up to the standard of living of a mid 20th century working class America, it's hard to see anything else as a priority.

If I may ask a question, do you believe your religion is influencing your views on this subject? Anecdotally, there aren't many non religious people that hold similar views, but correlation is not causation.
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"It's a complex issues" == Ruby Security Fails again.

It is a crackers dream that so much Ruby code is being exposed to the web these days. Such low hanging fruit. Even the script kiddies laugh at the ease of compromise.

Sigh.
Using total number of github commits as any sort of qualifier for employment is as bad (maybe even worse) as asking for a wc -l LOC count on your last project.

To be clear, I don't have an issue with github contributions being seen as a plus for hiring... but trying to turn this into something concretely quantifiable via total commit count (especially on commits you can't even see) seems crazy to me.

Please let me know which employers are asking you for this information so I can avoid applying to them in the future!
Here we go, they contradict themselves later: "Computational general equilibrium (CGE) models provide an example of accepted computerized problem solving in economics."
Encryption has been used in the past to keep emails secure from surveillance(PGP), but it has always been cumbersome to setup and use on both ends. Virtru's focus has been to make powerful encryption available to everyone by making it easy to use and with the services you and those you communicated with already use. Right now we have Chrome/Firefox support as well as an iPhone app...but many other clients soon.
No, it's not far cheaper - it just has a different way to compensate its processing costs. In fact, without even considering Coinbase fees, it's still more than credit cards: https://blockchain.info/charts/cost-per-transaction-percent
No, it's not safe to reason general facts about a technology and have the masses interpret them / invest in a particular implementation.
> However, I wouldn't attribute to malice "attempts to conceal by presenting it as something it is not" what could otherwise be explained by the difficulty in getting a different globally available metric.

Using GDP per capita can be explained by its ready availability compared to better measures.

Calling it "income per person", which it very much is not (and not, in explaining what metric you are actually using, noting the very significant way in which it is not "income per person"), cannot be explained that way.
doughj3 is right, postal mail would have been in the toilet so to speak, a long time sooner if it wasn't for the massive amount of junk mail that as he puts it "subsidizes" the service.

Up here in Canada I've almost got my mail to a point where I can tell them (Canada Post) to suspend service to my home. My estimate is that I'll have about 6 pounds less paper waste to drop into the recycling bin every month.
Sorry, are you saying that statement made you understand as in the statement is an explanation of some essential point of feminism? Or are you saying that statement made you understand that feminism often (not always!) has a tenuous grasp on reality, tends to make baseless or meaningless statements, and is purely ideological much of the time?

Because that statement -- which btw is the standard "I don't want to have to argue with you" brush-off used by campus feminists everywhere -- means nothing.

Every other organization is already a men's organization? Really? In what sense could they possibly mean that? What assumptions must they be making for that to hold true? By virtue of the fact that they're on a university campus, they're part of an organization consisting of well over 1/2 women [1]. Men are a minority on most campuses in the states. So does the university as a whole qualify as a "men's organization"? If not, why is a "women's organization" necessary on campus? If there's no need to be 'shielded' from a broader, all-encompassing men's organization constituted by the university, it seems that a men's organization is just as justified as a women's organization in that environment.

[1] - http://www.forbes.com/sites/ccap/2012/02/16/the-male-female-...
"total yield from the waitlist was under 10 percent" that's 10% paying customers that's definitely not as bad as they made it sound.

I'm a little surprised why did they think it would be a cheap operation. They send someone to pick up the mail from your house, that's insane. Of course that will be expensive. And it's only $5 per month. There are a few old school services that do the same but they ask the customer to redirect their mail to a specific new address. I wonder why outbox didn't go down that route.

Definitely sad to see them go.
From what I've seen online, people with the new 64 bit chips have seen more crashes. I'm not sure what's to be expected when such a transition occurs, but it's safe to say the amount of crashes should reduce with each update.
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But by creating separate group we make stigmatization worse

I hate to be that guy, but... is there any proof for this claim other than the fact that it aligns with what you already believe?
Employee unions at the USPS worried about further job losses due to technology. Can't do anything that would decrease revenue, even if it means technological progress.
I probably wasn't clear on what I meant by "creating an unfair bias against it in future members of society".

When children grow up in a world where sex doesn't automatically mean children, it biases them towards having sex without having children, and prevents them from considering the option of children as often as they naturally would have. This violates the integrity of future generations, implicitly taking away some amount of their individual personal choice.
Sadly, USPS sees bulk mailers as their customer; American citizens (and our kitchen tables) are their product. It's like the old line: if you aren't paying for the service, you are the product. If curious, listen to a full story of it here: http://kut.org/post/austin-startup-says-you-ll-never-touch-s...
> Edison's contribution was to pay them enough so they could eat and live, and point them at a project.

Edison's long string of inventions suggest his contribution was far more than that. (And the money used to pay his staff came from his prior inventions, Edison was not born rich.)

> elephant-electrocuting nonsense

We find that reprehensible today. But people at the time did not, and it's better to judge him in the context of his time.
It seems that many people are intent at proving your original point, which is sad, but not entirely unexpected I guess.

Regardless, I agree 100% with this comment of yours. I can't extend the rational to not supporting contraceptives, however. To me it doesn't connect.

Allowing a young couple to increase their earnings/career potential by delaying childbirth directly relates to making the smart investment over the long term, as you relate. I should know, as I've done this myself. My children are much better off now and in the long term with a solid roof over their heads and two loving parents in a committed marriage than they ever would have been with a 20 year old father who was in the army and dating a woman that really wasn't good for him at all.

Your intentions don't seem to connect with the methods you are suggesting; I don't see any issue with your intentions however.
GitHub, please don't spend time pandering to employers who have indefensibly poor metrics for evaluating employees.

Instead, please spend that time improving things for your users.
I read this kind of quickly but did they actually say that they raised $5,000,000 6 months ago, decided in that time that their business model would not work then decided to go into 'stealth mode' and work on their next fancy?
This would be a really big deal if it happens, essentially bringing Square Cash to the masses.
I agree with the second paragraph, but not the third. It's not really childish to remove data that is being used incorrectly. Once the information is removed, then it becomes up to the people using it wrongly to gather that data, and then use it wrongly. Till then, you could be reasonably said to be trying to reduce harm.
Hey, that's a great question. We've put a lot of time and effort into thinking about this and have been working with some key people in the industry who have a lot of experience in this area.

We've comprehensively addressed this issue on our blog. Here's the direct link: https://blog.virtru.com/faq-on-government-surveillance/

Let us know what you think.
I think 'complexity economics' is well out of the mainstream. I sincerely doubt this type of modeling is taught in economics departments (outside Iowa State). That being said, there are departments that teach "experimental economics" - which sounds like the same thing. You are now just doing "computational" experiments.
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A problem with simulation in economics is that there is always a feeling that that simulation results are inferior to what could have been done if the writer was better at math. Let's say you derive some insight on heterogeneous agents transacting on a network. This is likely quite hard to tackle without simulation, but most of your peers reading the paper will hope there is some cleaner way to get the insight of the model. The result is that it's unlikely that economists will consider your result a classic, which is ultimately what is required to have a big influence in the discipline.
I just added the "EDIT" section before I saw your question. That was what made me start questioning my beliefs. Here's a few things the letter said that eroded away the assumptions I had built regarding:

POVERTY:

> There are still slums and pockets of poverty, but by and large when I visit there now I think, “Wow, most people who live here are middle-class. What a miracle.”

> There is a class of nations in the middle that barely existed 50 years ago, and it includes more than half of the world’s population.

AFRICA:

> “Sure, the Asian tigers are doing fine, but life in Africa never gets better, and it never will.”... Seven of the 10 fastest-growing economies of the past half-decade are in Africa.

> The percentage of children in school has gone from the low 40s to over 75 percent since 1970.

AID:

> Also remember that healthy children do more than merely survive. They go to school and eventually work, and over time they make their countries more self-sufficient. This is why I say aid is such a bargain.

> Here is a quick list of former major recipients that have grown so much that they receive hardly any aid today: Botswana, Morocco, Brazil, Mexico, Chile, Costa Rica, Peru, Thailand, Mauritius, Botswana, Morocco, Singapore, and Malaysia

The above one made me realize I can think of foreign aid like student loans. I needed the financial aid to afford college education. My loans are now paid off and I am significantly better off thanks to them.

CORRUPTION:

> Suppose small-scale corruption amounts to a 2 percent tax on the cost of saving a life. We should try to reduce that. But if we can’t, should we stop trying to save lives?

> On the other hand, four of the past seven governors of Illinois have gone to prison for corruption, and to my knowledge no one has demanded that Illinois schools be shut down or its highways closed.

Basically, don't throw the baby away with the bathwater.

> The horror stories you hear about—where aid just helps a dictator build a new palace—mostly come from a time when a lot of aid was designed to win allies for the Cold War rather than to improve people’s lives. Since that time, all of the actors have gotten much better at measurement. Particularly in health and agriculture, we can validate the outcomes and know the value we’re getting per dollar spent.

This was another big seller for me. Gates is brilliant and everyone who has ever worked with him ends up calling him the smartest guy they know. It was naive of me to think that he didn't have measures in place to measure the impact of his investments and make sure waste was minimized.

And then pretty much everything in Myth #3. I was a fool.
PGP - one can store the keys on one's own server. In Virturo, it appears it has to be on Virutro servers. So hypothetically, we could have a Lavabit moment.
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Russian names - Ramiro? Rice?? Nicodemus???

Where the hell did they get those from:)
Running a video service without even thinking of a distant possibility to make it an ad platform or a paid video-on-demand platform? I can hardly believe that.

Running a centralized messaging service without ever thinking about selling aggregated data (e.g. sentiment analysis) or anonymized ad targeting data (e.g. based on keywords in recent tweets)? I can also hardly believe that.

I'd like to hear about a monetization model for DrawQuest, even as far-fetched as the ones I listed above — besides simply putting hard-to-target ads on the page.
"Why would USPS do that ?"

About 80% of the mail in my mailbox is junkmail. Someone is paying to send that. It seems pretty obvious why the USPS wouldn't want to limit junkmail.
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Your self-sufficient space colony can still be destroyed by asteroids too, so that doesn't solve the problem either. Deflecting asteroids is entirely possible so it isn't a "patch" either. And building a self-sufficient colony would be so ridiculously complicated and expensive, it might not even be possible at all. That sounds more like a "patch".
No and no.

One of the big reasons that the US moved towards central banking and eventually paper currency is stability.

Any finite commodity is subject to rapid swings when supplies are constrained. In recent memory, copper, silver and electricity are all commodities whose price went crazy when either demand got wacky high, or supplies got very limited.

In history, the economy was traditionally very vulnerable to economic shock in the fall, because when agriculture dominated the economies small banks were starving for capital as they waited for the harvest (and payment of crop loans). Any hiccup would rapidly cascade through the system and lead to bank runs.

With the fiat system, capital is made available to smooth the bumps. Instead of a depression and widespread bank failures in 2008, the central banks flooded the markets with capital and blunted the impact of the crisis and avoided panic.
Thank you. This is very insightful!!!
A throwaway troll account, how novel.
This is pretty awesome. Never heard of them until today - looks interesting.
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You're just telling us what you feel. You're not giving us any reasons why we might agree with you.
Unfortunately, when you ask important but controversial questions, people tend to simply jump on you for "lacking compassion and humanity". Sometimes the most uncomfortable discussions are the most important to have.
Being able to understand and interpret evidence properly is not a universally held trait. That has implications on both sides of any debate. Related note: I often wonder how many people are victim to argumentum ad populum.
Much more informative than that Slashdot summary and the horrific comments that follow.
Stats like commit count could easily be juked with a bot. Can you get testimonials and references from the people you work with instead?
because it will govern him.

comparing a 30 yr old that will be subject to the laws to a kid that can't even wipe properly is idiotic. Just because you can't afford to be dedicated to the law does that mean your opinion should be excluded?

I take it that you are a fascist then?
The website does actually say advanced users can run their own keystore, but this does seem like the weak point in the service in general.