skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Theres an option in your settings for google calendar that is something along the lines of "Automatically add invitations to Calendar" that you can turn off, and I think it will fix that problem for you.
Who writes the profiles? Is it possible that a field partner of Kiva writes the profiles? That might explain the similarity. They might well i) use a template to create the text, and ii) seek out loan candidates who match a very specific set of criteria. That might explain the similarities.
Reach and Revenue vs Dilution
I think it could be a great way of repackaging programming education in order to reach out to a different demographic, and we'll have to try out to see, so I wish this project all the best. Having said that:

> The book will be hardcover, 8x8 inches and 32 pages. The activity book is 16 pages and paperback.

I don't see how you could cover even just the basics mentioned on the Kickstarter page in so few pages without going too fast (remember this is a picture book). Maybe turning it into a series with different adventures (topics) makes more sense?
Probably the bigger concern is it will cost a fortune to fire or lay people off in Germany. Or if an employee gets pregnant they can disappear for something like five months at full salary, and you can't replace them. Hiring people in most of Europe is a daunting proposition.
Well, depends on your store, product, and supply chain. Wouldn't surprise me if you had to carry lots of inventory in Sierra Leone since your suppliers aren't exactly up to JIT.
You can build Android apps in Java. It's not pigeonholed.
Average age of first sexual intercourse in India - 23

Yah right...
And because of how fucked-up the system is, when they come to pick you up, any number of minor things during that encounter ("Fuck you pig, where's the warrant?", running, etc.) can escalate into resisting arrest, disturbing the peace, or assaulting an officer, and then magically you're in the system "for real" and screwed.
While you're at it, also ask for the taxes for a single person. It's around 35-42%. Of course some will claim that a large of that is not actually tax, but your pension. Because you know... countries always pay their pensions
when you're old .

Also ask what the tax is for when claiming pension, usually it's higher than a salaried tax, because you know what the government feels about old people. At least in Sweden.
One of my favorite Amazon experiences: I rented a movie via Amazon Instant Video, but had some bandwidth issues which caused the movie to pause and buffer at least 10 times.

The next day, Amazon sent me an email saying they noticed I had a poor connection and refunded me the rental fee.
Quality of execution is a big uncertainty but this is a wonderful idea.
Adding to good Amazon story, this time for their AWS platform. From one of my client, he was charged about $400 due to a bug in the code from his developer. He called up AWS billing support, explained them the situation. Not only they considered his case, they refunded this charge which is pretty awesome !
This is a valid point. As an employer in Germany you have a large number of overheads on top of the employee's salary, including social contributions, health insurance, pension, etc. These are expensive in Germany.
Absolutely. Years back, my wife bought me an AppleTV as a gift from Amazon, but had it shipped to an old address in the Bronx - whose current tenants happily signed for and took the package. When we realized it was delivered and signed for, we called them with the situation, and with literally zero hassle, sent us a new one to a new address, free of charge. I don't expect that this is common, and I would never expect them to do it for me again, but it won my customer loyalty more than any other company has thus far.
You cannot fire someone for pregnancy status in the US either, that's considered gender discrimination.
Run emacs as a daemon. Then in a terminal type 'emacsclient -t'.

Instant on.
There are mining pools available that automatically switch all miners to the highest profitability coin. People who utilize these pools will typically immediately cash out to less volatile options, either to BTC or fiat. (Multipool.us and Middlecoin.com are just 2 examples)

Some miners aren't in it for the immediate profitability though; While you may be able to mine .025 BTC worth of AltCoin A per day pretty regularly, I may choose to mine the much less profitable AltCoin B that only nets me .01 BTC each day because I believe holding it will make it much more valuable N months from now.
>Walk in to any datacenter. HP and Dell absolutely dominate. Third place is Sun. Fourth is Supermicro.

This is also what I thought. (though, places I've worked, ODMs and supermicros dominated, followed by dell, with hp dead last, but yeah, the quote from IBM never even made it to technical evaluation where I would see it.)

However, I went looking for a source[1] before I posted further up this thread. Apparently, IBM sells more servers than dell or hp (but not more than both put together)

Hm. reading further, I see numbers between 10% and 30% of IBM's server revenues being the high-end stuff they are keeping. So that could bump them below both dell and HP, in terms of just x86 servers, but even knocking 1/3rd off, they still sell a lot more x86 than I thought.

[1]http://www.forbes.com/sites/chuckjones/2013/08/29/ibm-regain...
Monkeys. After all, the HI virus originates from apes and they are similar enough to humans for clinical tests. And as for "ethical research", once you know the vaccine will not harm you, give it to a big enough group of "risk people" in Africa or another HIV hotspot and look if they, compared with a placebo group, are immune from HIV.
I live in Berlin ( working as a front-end developer ) and that is correct. My rent is 700 Euro for a small flat in Mitte ( city center ) and yes, Berlin is a cheap city in terms of food, party, rent, etc. Anyway most of the people are not here to make money as far as I can see. Lots of hipsters and other people just join the city for it's special "culture / party / art" kind of spirit.
A Teeny House Filled With Clever, Space-Saving Contraptions
IBM's software group made 8 billion USD last quarter, so they're not exactly small beer.
So, after this, what hardware does IBM build itself anymore?
Brix.io we're looking for Early Adopters, can you help? Thx in advance!
For human trials of this nature, typically at-risk populations can be used, and it's seen if there's a reduction in infection rates.
Great article. A lot of times these "you should be doing this" articles are really annoying. It is rarely true that some advice is good for all situations. This article, however, takes the time to explain, list the purpose, and point out relevant caveats for each header. I was not aware of all of these headers, so thank you for bringing them up!
Yeah just make a Google+ account for work. And when Google asks for your real name, and nobody at works knows you're transgender, what do you do? Put in your legal name that's still set to your old gender? Put in your new name that Google rejects because it doesn't match the name on your phone bill / credit card / whatever. Put in a fake name and wait until your account gets deleted?
I'd like to think that Google Plus/Hangouts/etc will go down as one of the biggest bungles social networking, but thankfully we have things like Digg and MySpace to point to for worse.

If any start-up or other smaller business had screwed up this badly, they would be bankrupt. Google survives this only because it's not their main revenue source.

I used to be a big Google fanboy, and I still buy Android stuff because it's the biggest OSS platform in its space.

But Google has fallen. Not because they're spying on us, not because they're "evil" or something, but because they suck at the big moves. They're scatterbrained and clumsy and they screw up incessantly. And then defend the obviously-bad decisions as "user error" when their platform is obviously inscrutable for users.

I just set up my wife with a fresh android phone and the process was miserable. There were days of it asking her to register for Plus ("I thought I already had a Plus account") or install some Maps support gadget ("I thought I already had Maps") and tedious errors. It all worked out in the end, but it was not a good user experience.

Google never planned to "out" this woman. That's the thing to remember. Google never sat down and said "we want to expose every transperson". They just screwed up. Because they suck. They ask repeatedly permission for dumb things that don't need permission, and then they wander over and make clumsy, grotesque changes without considering the consequences.

The whole "Social Layer" thing was a great idea, really. Google needed a Disqus-like platform to integrate across all their services.

But they completely dropped the ball on implementation. It's too opinionated about things it shouldn't be. If you're running a single site, you can be opinionated and say "Real Names Please". If you're running a framework you need to let the users and page-owners set the agenda.
Lets not forget that Kiva profiles are there purely as a way to entice the individual to lend. The money just goes in aggregate to the local lending org. The profile you see is mostly a gimmick.
I really fail to see what value this polls add. The sample size is usually too small, and then - only indicates values.. doesn't provide enough detail on level of skill or responsibility.
The Free HIV/AIDS Vaccine
If not truly educational, it's at least great to get kids curious about programming, or more important: the mindset.
Such an important project. Resources like this could go a long way towards solving some of the diversity problems we have in tech.
The betterment of the world as a whole?
Comcast acquired NBC recently, and with that came NBC's assets, one of which was EveryBlock (which NBC had only recently acquired and then shuttered).

Comcast brought it back -- not under NBC anymore, but under Comcast proper. The big question is why? What is their monetization strategy? As a Chicago resident and past EveryBlock user, I'm very curious about this. My first guess is that Comcast appreciates being able to correlate an email address with a neighborhood, for marketing opportunities.
I'm Ian Cinnamon, one of the members of the Immunity Project YC team.
We have in fact developed the vaccine. We've completed 2 years of animal testing, and we have one final experiment to run before we start our Phase I Clinical Trials in humans.
In order to test the efficacy of the vaccine in human trials, we go to Durban, South Africa, where HIV has a prevalence rate of ~15%. We dose a wide range of healthy volunteers, and we check back again at regular intervals to make sure they have no contracted HIV. We're also able to perform a wide range of laboratory tests to show the dosed human blood is now immune to HIV.
Optimizely Introduces "Preview As"
There is no way to ship $71 Billion of product and get every product and every shipment perfect every time.

I don't think it's fair to say that they're doing nothing to fix them. I regularly get product and packaging surveys, and I've seen products be pulled and descriptions updated based on content in reviews or based on feedback from customer care. I've returned a product for not meeting the description, and within 15 minutes of me getting the email saying they'd received the product, credited my card the full amount, I went to the site and the product was un-orderable. Several days later, the description was corrected and the product was again orderable. That violates the "[they] still make nothing to fix them" claim I think.

I think you're ascribing a mercenary "screw it, it's cheaper to not fix" mentality when an alternative and more likely (IMO) possibility is "look, we can't fix everything, so when we fail our customers, we need to be very good at making it right".
Who do we send to jail?
Big Brother panel at World Economic Forum
Does anyone know why this approach is "viewed as a rogue project by the immunology community"? Is it just because it's new, or is there something more fundamental that conflicts with established immunology?
Is anyone else having trouble compiling level3.jar on OS X? I get a lot of this:

[error] import java.nio.file._
By which "touchstone", "Three-pronged Test" or "Most Holy Doctrine" are we supposed to know this? That is, you just wrote a very lawyerly thing that doesn't translate well to what everybody knows and feels.

Mass surveillance is a crime, dude. Somebody needs to be punished to set an example so that civil servants don't overstep their bounds again. Somebody needs to be punished to stop what will certainly turn into an instrument of repression.
Exactly. In this case, we're lucky enough to use an amazing clinic set up in Durban, South Africa, which has a ~15% prevalence rate of HIV.
When I run this with pypy it is far too fast to see what is going on.
My app has a 7-day trial, and requires a credit card up front. I try not to beat people over the head with a note about an upcoming charge - what I do is, 3 days before the trial ends, I send an email asking how the trial is going, and if they have any questions I can answer.

It serves as a subtle reminder that the trial is about to end, while offering to help at the same time.
It'd say something incredibly bad about NSA hiring practices if they hired people stupid enough to not be extremely prepared before stealing data from them... Personally I'd have been planning for situations where I couldn't even return home if I'd been in Snowden's situation (and who knows, he might have). Redundancy everywhere..
It's simple, it isn't an investment in the financial sense.
Now the advertisers and the NSA know who tdicola really is. That's the point of real names as far as I can see.
Link to the actual project page on kickstarter: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/lindaliukas/hello-ruby

Her illustrations are really great.
And another... I ordered a wake up light clock from Amazon, whilst under a free prime trial. There was a problem with the courier so I contact them and a week later they send me another which arrives the next day. Later, they get the original clock back from the courier, and refund my order (so free clock). Additionally they extended my prime trial by another month.
Hey everyone! Ian Cinnamon here from the Immunity Project YC team. The crowdfunding link in the article appears broken (we're working on getting them to fix it). In the meantime, you can visit our campaign here:
https://pledge.immunityproject.org/
Content-Security-Policy would break ads. That's the main reason why so few sites use it.

X-Frame-Options is fine, since modern ads use JS and not IFRAMEs.

X-Content-Type-Options is fine because you are essentially telling the browser to trust the mime-type and not speculatively parse the resource. You know what the mime-types should be so no problem here

Strict-Transport-Security is fine as well. It also has the added benefit of forcing SSL for all traffic, and thus could be used to force SPDY instead of HTTP for 50%+ of a website's visitors, which is a huge performance win.
I like the concept of treating the smallest unit as a function. If only the emacs mode wasn't so light weight!
Here's an article from the Chicago Tribune that gives a little more backstory on its resurrection: http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/breaking/chi-everyblo...
Yes, but EveryBlock was up to speed and pretty widely used (as far as I can tell) before it was shut down. Whether the people that were on there return remains to be seen.
Looks better than a touchscreen, but still not even close to a real keyboard. On the other hand, mobile devices are rarely if ever used for more than 140 chars at a time, I guess.
The kickstarter page states that this will be the first adventure and includes a work book with exercises.
You can use OPML to import, you can export the list from iTunes or most other major podcast clients. The aim of the app is make things simple, so you don't have to worry about refreshing or changing settings, the app just gets new episodes, downloads them and has them ready the next time you want to listen and hopefully I made things look and feel good to use as well :)
You should be fine with anything around 2.5k a month.
If learning more about 3D rendering means I'm going to end up being disappointed by donut.c, I think I'm going to put off learning more about 3D rendering.
I like the design language Microsoft came up with for Windows Phone. So I bought a Nokia Lumia phone. I quickly regretted it. This was before Windows Phone 8 was released but we were promised "many of the features" with Windows Phone 7.8. I waited, and waited, and waited. Eventually I was told that they had changed their minds and Windows Phone 7.8 wouldn't even be coming to my particular phone.

Windows Phone 7 is missing a lot of very basic features. It's time consuming and frustrating using it even for the most basic tasks. The web browser is terrible. It lacks most popular 3rd-party services and apps. And the camera seems to be programmed to take out-of-focus photos.

I will never buy another Nokia phone, or Windows Phone, again. They had their chance.
Please correct me if I am wrong, but I believe the books aim to teach kids to approach problems using programming logic, like loops and if else statements, rather than actually getting them up and running on Ruby.

But this is just what I remembered from reading her Kickstarter!
> How exactly would they go about and test if it works on humans?

Presumably, the same as the other HIV vaccines that are in trials.

> Are there people who volunteer to get infected with HIV?

There are people who volunteer for vaccine trials. They don't need to volunteer to get infected with HIV -- basically, you get a large enough experimental and control group, study risk factors in the groups, and track infection rates, and evaluate whether, based on that, the vaccine reduces infection rates.
for android and elderly/non-tech people there's big launcher :
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=name.kunes.and...

and samsung devices have an easy mode

http://www.verizonwireless.com/wcms/consumer/videogallery/de...
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You can check taxes for yourself. Here's a quick link in English that correctly calculates taxes based on tax class, and has a short explanation about different factors.

EDIT: Sorry, the missing link is http://www.parmentier.de/steuer/steuer.htm?wagetax.htm

Also, if you would like to see what is an employers overhead over a given gross salary, this link (German only) can also help: http://www.brutto-netto-rechner.info/gehalt/gehaltsrechner-a...
Zimbabwe: Could it be Africa's first cashless economy?
Very interesting thing you've got going there, and I love the visual aesthetic. Two quick tips that you probably already know, but just in case it's useful to you or someone else:

* Emacs can wrap lines at word boundaries, while intelligently preserving/extending indentation (something like this: https://gist.github.com/anonymous/8581161)

* If you're using emacs on the mac, it's worth taking a look at the railwaycat fork ("brew install emacs-mac"). Some improvements over vanilla emacs: Emoji (and other fun unicode) display works, fullscreen and maximize work better, scrolling with the trackpad works in a reasonable way.
Ohh! I've been using Cmd-Ctrl-f like a loser all this time!
I don't understand what you're saying at all here. "Doesn't need additional speculations"? Speculation is all that we have here.

If you're saying "we should all shut up about Snowden", I'm right there with you.
Annyang.js HTML5 SpeechRecognition library wrapper
You may be aware, but some of your readers may not. So some may think you're a fool to say that and other's may think it's a good way to stay safe. Both not really desirable.
If Immunity Project (YC W14) succeeds, they'll offer AIDS vaccine for free
I changed this because I found M-x to be really really difficult to type. It may be my hands or my fingers, but I have a hard time doing that key sequence correctly. Apart from that I think that you're absolutely right. I shouldn't have advertised this as it will probably confuse users.
Obviously the professional way! By inviting them to the center of the office to discuss frankly their viewpoints on sex until everyone quits from misery. I'd also scatter conservative religious pamphlets and dildos around the office to encourage everyone to participate.

Because obviously it would deprive a reader to explain how to remove GUI widgets from an emacs frame [window], without making a metaphor of the window as a naked female, and the widgets as clothing, and the process as a striptease. This is exactly how a mature team of mixed-sex professionals discuses emacs widgets. An HN thread on removing emacs widgets without overt sexual analogies [0] would be a unnatural, stilted place full of repressed sad people.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6983088
I'm baffled by how you can simultaneously hold these two thoughts in your head --- that NSA surveillance has improved so much that it's impossible for foreign governments to plant moles in the giant NSA org chat, but that it's so bad a random kid can download gigs of documents to ship off to Glenn Greenwald.
Where has the discussion search filter gone?
Always thought those were called, "Bug out bags".
pretty much the same reason I made Network, good luck with your app
The hard part about a site like this is getting me to keep logging in.

Turns out my block club in Chicago has a very active Facebook group, so very local news gets integrated into my feed already.

My other source of "extremely local news" is a blog called Uptown Update [1]. If these sites had a way to attract and fund local bloggers, they would have more staying power.

[1] http://www.uptownupdate.com/
Seems like OWL never caught on, but doesn't OWL allow you to do quite a lot more useful reasoning? Whereas oftentimes people seem to be using RDF or its variants as a more complicated version of XML/ XML Schema.
Absolutely true. My rent in the early '00s was equivalent to $200 / month for a 3 room apartment. Granted, I had a coal furnace in my bedroom, a tiny gas furnace in my living room and no heat in the kitchen or bathroom (except for a pull-string infra-red heater over the door for when you step out of the bathtub). Everything was cheap from beer to food to clubs to travel. I made half of what I made in the States but I didn't feel it at all.
That's great, but the job of investors is to make money, not to better the world, isn't it?
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Very interesting. I noticed the article mentions that the algorithm used is "similar to the techniques of spam filtering" (paraphrasing). Would it happen to be a Bayesian Network or a logical agent?