skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't like the time it takes to get to their bottom line price. I only buy cars from private parties now. There's usually a little bit of negotiation but it typically takes about 5 minutes to get to an agreement... no mystery departures to a back room to talk to the "manager" etc.

I don't think buying a new car makes any sense anymore. At one time, when cars started to fall apart after 50,000 miles, it may have made more sense. Today, when with routine maintenance almost all new cars will go 200,000 miles or more with few major problems, it isn't a good deal. Let someone else take the depreciation hit.
It's still there. Actually, I think I saw they've launched some kind of car selling service.
Ya know what else is funny about these guys...go to their home page (https://www.networksolutions.com/index-v2.jsp) and tell us how much a .com domain registration costs, without creating an account or signing in.
If what you say is true, and will be true in the future when Bitcoin goes more mainstream (I don't think it will hold true for the long term) I'd still rather give my %'s to Bitcoin companies than the banks. And I think a lot of consumers are similarly motivated to do the same.
Oh yeah, I hate the "what do you want your monthly payment to be" line. I hate being treated like an idiot also hate canned sales line, talk to me like a person not a mark.
OF COURSE!

Donating to charity has been painful sometimes.. In some case I believe my donation was eaten up by greedy man-in-the-middle handler and that sucks. Example: donate 5 euro using your phone and find out the phone carrier charges 12% for the service! :O

My last donation/charity: 50000 DOGES to the Jamaican Bobsled team! Easy, secure and without any compromise - crypto ftw \0/
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I have been married for about 20 years now (with a little hiatus between marriages). Had we not used any contraceptive methods, I'd have about 20 children. While it could be argued that propagating my genes would be in the best interest of mankind, I think that 20 kids would be way too much. Of the various contraceptive methods we used, every one of them prevented fecundation and, therefore, not a single life was lost to them. This is not destruction of life, but the means to prevent its creation.

People are entitled their own religious ideas, but nobody has the right to impose those values on someone else. If giving access to contraceptives to someone who wants them will make lives better, I'm in favor.

Having a larger number of humans disregarding our ability to feed and educate them is cruelty, pure and simple. It's not investing in human potential unless you are able to ensure all of them live to their fullest potential.
> Once we have a more stable financial picture in the next 10 years or so

Dream on. You'll never donate. How pathetic. Who do you expect is able to give except Gates and Soros?
At least make it so you can only select 1 option (I realize there are _some_ polls that are better with multi answer)
Or virtually all of the Persian Gulf. Some of the fastest-growing populations, in what's empty desert without even sufficient water for cities let alone agriculture.

The economist's answer is that these regions have economic outputs (financial wizardry, advanced manufacturing, tourism, oil) which the rest of the world wants, and the rest of the world (which in the case of the Atlantic seaboard is largely the US's own inland agricultural regions -- breadbasket to the world) is willing to exchange its agricultural produce for those goods.

There's a difference between economic self-sufficiency and ecological self-sufficiency. Arguments can be made over which is preferable. Comparative advantage means that the economic argument leads to greater overall population and productivity, sustainability means the ecological argument leads to greater sustainability.

There's also that little matter that agriculture has largely transformed into a factory system for converting petrochemical energy to food energy via modest sunlight inputs.
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$100,000 (net) household income would get you comfortably into the World 1%:

http://www.givingwhatwecan.org/why-give/how-rich-am-i
Have you considered moving to Europe? Better schools (AFAIK), mostly, better work-life balance, safer (less guns), better social security (e.g. pension).
For a counterpoint by people who actually study language: http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=992
I have not, and will not donate anything to charity.

I much rather invest the time, money, and resources, into avenues where I can measure the impact and determine what a successful ROI is.
Question as someone who doesn't donate yet but would like to once it's financially feasible: what are some good charities to donate to?
Analyzing income distribution is a lot less telling to the kind of persistent inequalities that exist in our society than wealth distribution. See http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/01/17/measuring-the-t... -- to be in the top 1% of wealth in the US you need to be worth around $8.4 million.
Male Founders Conference???
The Augmented Reality tattoo is pretty cool and functional. I could see that catching on. I can imagine a screen floating with text massages instead of a animated character.
Really?

Please make careful note of what I'm actually saying here:

The fact that the NSA was guilty of overreach doesn't mean that Snowden's actions to reveal that overreach WEREN'T assisted or prompted by a foreign power with everything to gain from seeing our security apparatus reined in.

His actions would have had FAR more impact and been FAR beyond reproach if he had made his disclosures and stayed right here in the USA to face the punishment the government sought to impose. IMHO (and my opinion is the one that matters to me), you cannot categorically deny with any assurance that this whole episode isn't connected in any way to a foreign intelligence operation.

Remember, we had Ames and we had Hanssen. Both of those guys stayed hidden for a LONG while. If Snowden hadn't been tipped off to the NSA investigation of his activities, would he still be working for Booz-Allen?

Think about it.
that would be bad
Indeed, I think that's what Miller is referring to when she writes in the 2nd-to-last paragraph:

Just this weekend, we learned of a tool that replicates YBB+'s efforts without violating Yale’s appropriate use policy, and that leapfrogs over the hardest questions before us.
That's basically Catholic social teaching right there. Try to donate at least 10% of your income, more if you can afford it (known in Catholic theology as solidarity), and preferentially donate to local causes (known in Catholic theology as subsidiarity).
15€ every month to Amnesty International, ever since I first got a job (2.5 years ago). However, my income has increased since, so I'm considering giving more, but I want to choose the organization with more care and consideration (i.e. less money for bureaucracy, more for the actual aid).
http://phys.org/news/2012-07-particle-physics-.html

Edit: Or to be more direct, and therefore less helpful, "scientific progress" is not a measure of "things that are useful to me". Scientific progress can, and historically is, made when we expand our knowledge of the world, not exclusively when we find practical applications of that knowledge.
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I'd love for you to actually read the post if you have a second - even if you stand by that opinion, I think you'd have more to say if you read it.
That was my confusion as well. They are using actual photographs of people for a randomly generate profile!
One word... sexist. It would be called sexist. While I'm totally pro female, exclusivity is still bigotry no matter how you look at it.
Unfortunately business pushes these kinds of people out. At the top of the ladder are those with high measures of psychopathy and those who inherited the keys to the throne. All the good guys find something else to do to pass their days.
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I love it! Productivity : down.
Every year without fail I keep getting a letter to my business address asking to renew my domains. Lucky I'm the one that deals with such matters so the letter can go to the correct place for such things (the shredder). But I can see how the non-technical person at a business could be fooled for transferring away their domains to a very expensive provider.
Agree, at least in this case it's become clearer that you don't need to be employed by a group of specific companies to get the protections of a journalist. What an absurd idea.
Amazon Considering Online Pay-TV Service
Personally I love Kiva, "Kiva is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that allows people to lend money via the Internet to low-income / underserved entrepreneurs and students in 70 countries." http://kiva.org
If what you say is true, and will be true in the future when Bitcoin goes more mainstream

I wasn't making a prediction. I was just doing the math for bitcoin-as-payment-technology plugging in what I think are reasonable values.

I'd still rather give my %'s to Bitcoin companies than the banks

This is a popular sentiment on HN and I'm not quite sure I understand it, but if Coinbase (or similar) companies get big enough the banks will just buy them.
They say it's a art.
"People are entitled their own religious ideas, but nobody has the right to impose those values on someone else."

Actually we do in most democracies, just in the form of a vote. The reason behind our votes are almost always "religious", even if they aren't explicitly so. For example, the statement: "If giving access to contraceptives to someone who wants them will make lives better, I'm in favor." That's based on a belief that you hold, that you can't prove one way or another.
Too bad Gates doesn't think the Internet helps progress in countries, because technology and the Internet are huge factors in the progress and conditions of living in a country.
Eh, SSNs aren't linked to location in any usable way. Obviously your SSN will not change when you move cross-country (so they're not linked to current address), and I think they're only based on the mailing address entered when the card was applied for, which may not even be where you were born.
Yes. I don't have friends or family, so I donate the amount I probably would have spent on gifts every Xmas. I donated US$250 to GiveDirectly (direct cash grants to Africa) this season.
Kickstarter Pledges Are Risky Investments, Not Purchases
That's the move. I think you ask that all charges be declined for a specific merchant (at least with amex) Call your CC company.
Apple accused of selling customers’ personal information
I give some money to people doing awesome work on open source that I want to support via Gittip [1]; does that count as charity?

[1] https://www.gittip.com/shurcooL/
This looks promising! Will definitely check it out.

This sounds like an example of Path where you can Like something offline, and will sync when you have internet access.

However doesn't solve the "who stored your data" privacy concern.
Sorry, it should have read: "Because the CEO represents the interests of the shareholders".

While the CEO is not (absent other roles) a representative of the shareholders (as you pointed out), there is a legal duty of loyalty to act in the best interest of the shareholders.

So while not a representative of the shareholders, the CEO is always responsible for representing the interests of the shareholders.

As you stated, those goals aren't necessarily related to the stock price or maximizing revenue. However, if the interest of the shareholders is something other than those goals, the CEO still has a legal fiduciary responsibility to act as a representative of the shareholder interests that do exist.
That would only be an issue if they wrote 0.001c. $0.001 is very clear.
Why? Starting companies just for the hell of it is the worst part of start-up culture. Go find something actually useful to do. The world has tons of needs but that doesn't include having yet another random startup with no deeper mission than being successful.
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Agreeing with co-commenter shmerl, I'd urge you to look at gfycat.
I think the idea is that food aid isn't just being given out on its own but as part of a development strategy. I agree that just giving food isn't enough, and it's wrong to pretend that the drought is the problem and not the practices that resulted in a population dependent on favorable weather to live.

Hopefully, we feed the people now so that starving to death isn't their top worry, and societies with food security are more stable societies that can make improvements in other ways (on their own, or with help) which eventually lead to prosperity and independence.

Manhattan has more population than the land can support--the Manhattanites are entirely dependent on delivered food to survive, and have been for many generations. It's hopefully a permanent situation. Nobody worries about it because they've reached a place of development where they can just buy the food shipments instead of getting charity.
A couple issues with this:

many topics tend to bleed across niches

sites themselves will change purposes over time

how sites are monetized (and other user experience choices) may change over time

people buy and sell sites

sometimes the desired information is only accessible on sites which are not particularly popular because they are not aligned with moneyed interests

sometimes sites that are popular might be popular because they are inaccurate, conforming to an expected + desired bias

if the whitelist is black and white, entities may change their approach after being well trusted (one of the elegant aspects of Panda is how it can remeasure over time)
This was not the case for me. I recently transferred a domain from Network Solutions to Hover for reasons similar to the OP.

These instructions worked for me: https://help.hover.com/entries/21240798-How-to-Transfer-a-do...

This requires patience; it took 2 days to receive my transfer code from Network Solutions but I did not need to make any phone calls.
Yes but it's ok when the minority does it.
Not to get into specifics, but like I said, I'm probably a 1%-er.
Non-SSL expert here and first time poster (not trolling). Python also uses a wrapper for OpenSSL and has similar issues with default settings. Is this problem specific to Ruby or also Python apps as well?
I regularly donate to the EFF, their cause is the most important to me at the moment.
this whole tempest in a teapot reminds me of Morgan Freeman's sage comments on "Black History Month":

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mh8mUia75k8

To paraphrase:

"I'm going to stop calling you a 'female founder' and I'm going to ask that you stop calling me a 'male founder'. I know you as Jane Doe and you know me as John Smith."

If your goal is to create unity and harmony, it is a funny tactic to focus on and amplify that which separates and differentiates rather than that which is shared and common across any of the perceived 'differences'.
To each their own. I really dislike Javascript, and while Python is not perfect, at least it has the right set of core values and a community process that results in tangible improvement. I mean, you're complaining about the finer points of Python OOP - to me, Javascript OOP is broken, and there is no community standard to fix it.

What's wrong with raising exceptions to break iteration or with the import behavior?
the Tuskegee experiment??

Just no, no no no. I don't think any black person nowadays thinks "Wow, can't go into the medical field because of that experiment that happened 40 years ago!" That's just illogical.
http://changefol.io is a site that I use to set up micro-donations that's based off my daily spending, e.g., donate $0.05 for every $1 I spend at the gas pump to Sierra Club; $0.10 for every $1 I spend at the grocery store to WWF (World Wild Life Fund).
How many employees total?
Worrying about ecological self-sufficiency and sustainability at a smaller than planetwide scale is essentially throwing away the entire advantage of how much our massive global logistics network has shrunk the world in recent decades.
So, no, it does not "drive science forward"--it may, one day, lead to more interesting questions.

There's nothing wrong with that, but acting like it is generating ROI today--or has in the past--is disingenuous.

Without validating your assertions or disclaiming them properly you are perpetuating the sort of nastiness science is supposed to fix.

EDIT:

Your addition about "drive science forward" as opposed to "drive engineering forward" is a subtlety that is worth repeating.
Hopefully she did just forget to turn off the scheduled post, in which case she's not actually missing and the consequences are less bad.
This is really cool, thanks for introducing it!
Ask HN: I want to work at your company as an intern. How do I approach you?
Hey Hacker News,

I am a college student in CS looking to work at a startup this summer. I go to a good college, but few startups recruit through our on campus recruiting system (probably due to the fact that they do not need that many interns). If you were a start up, how would you liked to be approached?

I have experience with a few side projects in Rails, Coffeescript, and other web technologies. Right now, when I find a start up that I want to work for, I try to find a friend who has worked / interned there before and get a referral. But the problem is with start ups I know no one at. I usually try to find a human that I can email and then ask them if they are looking for interns and provide some past side projects I have worked on as proof that I can code. But I find this code approach usually a lot less effective. Is there a better way I can be doing this?

Thanks a bunch in advance!
Who are the miners? Mining pools? Mining pools don't do the actual mining, they contract that out to their users. Anyone can run mining software pointed at any of the major pools and see what blocks they are building off of. There's no way for a mining pool to "build a blockchain in private."

If not mining pools, then perhaps the concern is large hosted operators? There's only one of these that qualify, although there is insufficient data about their exact size (CEX.io, part of GHash.io, but only an unknown percentage of their hashpower is hosted).

Mining is sufficiently decentralized so as to make large-scale selfing mining detectable, and the economics are such that small-scale selfish mining is unprofitable. I'm not claiming this will always be the case - there is sufficient cause to be concerned for the future as we are trending towards more centralization and hosted mining, not less - but it is certainly not a real concern now.
I can relate to your point about income being relative to circumstances.

I'm lucky to have a very good salary, at least for a young guy in one of his first jobs, who doesn't have many financial obligations.

Until about a month ago, I felt very comfortable with my finances and, on paper, would definitely be able to donate to nonprofits. But I recently had a medical emergency that cost thousands (even with good insurance).

Things will work out fine, but the situation has completely reshaped my financial situation and ability to give.
They will send you coupon on the renew notifications. Last year was 30% off, this year is 20% off, mostly on new products.
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Actually I would be against most forms of target supportive outreach. The one exception would be experiential targeting ( I have no issues with a "First time founders" conference ) I don't subscribe to the notion that the way to fix the imbalance in anything is to treat groups of individuals special. That has never worked through all of history so I don't know why we think it will start working now.
No, but having an MBA certainly helps you understand why it's a brilliant idea. ;-)
Can someone explain where the antihydrogen winds up after being created? Is it annihilating with something?
So, your misremembered/wildly incorrect/completely made up 'facts', and repeated false rumors don't matter? And yet it's a 'lie' to correctly point out that multiple bitcoin store lists online only list a few dozen stores that accept bitcoin and sell hard goods? Think I'll refrain from feeding this troll further.
There are plenty of domain name registrars that accept bitcoin now which is currently impossible to setup automatic recurring payments for. https://www.namecheap.com/support/payment/bitcoin.aspx
What conspiracy theory? Do you really think that if there was real evidence that a foreign power was involved that the administration would be up-front with that information? What if the whole purpose of the action is to make them guess if the Russians and/or Chinese have copies of the documents?

Not knowing for sure what the exposure is fuels the nightmares of the whole NSA. What if the Russians and Chinese know EVERYTHING?
About half an hour ago, somebody came to my door collecting money for a legitimate veteran's group, and I gave them a small donation. It's -35 out, and somebody is volunteering their time to go door to door for a charity. My large donations are more carefully chosen and usually done at the end of the year -- this year we did them at about 11:30 on New Year's Eve...
So, no, it does not "drive science forward"--it may, one day, lead to more interesting questions.

Leading to more interesting questions is, in fact, a significant part of "driv[ing] science forward".
I did this when starting a new job as well. I used (and still use) XMind. Now that I'm a bit more familiar with things I find myself using it less than I did at the beginning, but it's great for rapid brain dumps.
Why would that be wrong outside a specific set of religious values? It's not atheists (or the defenders of a secular state) that should prove a religion wrong. It's the participants in that religion that should prove their deity exists and its moral code should be applied to everyone regardless of their opinion.
I predict that in that world, the buy it today, drive it home tonight makes would capture market share. Honda already does a great job of building just one or two configs (very limited option space, other than color) and sells a lot of cars that way.

In an "Amazon Prime" world, few people want to wait 21 days for their new car is my hunch.
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^ One researcher recommended similar approach, the data stored centrally, and give other users access keys as the means of granting them permission to read those data. However the issue here, don't I end up 'storing' that access key as well? Unless its a password-type, where user have to remember and manually enter it every time...

He also suggest taking a push model (the central storage) rather than pull model (device storage).

I am still debating, and researching. Any other thoughts?
I was really pleased with the instantaneous load of this blog.
Not really, I create first version in about 5 hours and only marketing I did was to post it into Chrome web store and I was really surprised that people actually using it few days later
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"It seems you need a bit more than dclowd9901"

How arrogant and condescending.
Enough Pretty Apps
I’m curious. On one hand she does “commissioned pieces” for “Misogynist Shaming”, on the other she’s actively looking for a SB/SD (that’s Sugar Baby / Sugar Daddy) relationship? “I want a relationship that’s primarily driven by money, but not from someone who devalues the worth of a woman”?
More frozen designs: "Mel would have *loved* it"