skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Good point. But there are numerous apps available, are you going to choose anything not free? Actually I did once. I cannot find a good background for my Nook tablet, I spent $1.99 to buy one since Nook does not open to Google Appstore. But how can you make your app being listed on the top? So I think the apps builder are more for fun than making money out of it.
What are the odds that the people behind this are shorting FB?

There's no shortage of sensationalist stories about public companies – even a tiny bit of price movement can be leveraged for big gains.
They're also going after The Banner Saga for the use of the term "Saga":

http://ttabvue.uspto.gov/ttabvue/ttabvue-91214235-OPP-1.pdf

http://kotaku.com/candy-crush-saga-makers-go-after-the-banne...
Bill nice because Melinda?
Yeah! Who doesn't love the homeless bum taking up four seats on the subway? We can't let such a valuable part of urban scenery disappear!
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joker.com has pretty good reseller prices. end user prices are mostly a bit higher than other registrars tho, but if you have a bunch of domain names, it may be worth a look.
Those numbers didn't surprise me - in my online dating marathon, not aided by big data, I had roughly 100 first dates and less than a dozen second dates, before meeting my now-wife (via okcupid).

Hard to say the process didn't improve things for him, though - maybe he's distinct enough that compatibility for him is more rare than average.
I actually run a startup (in someways similar to draw quest) and was constantly told it is a lifestyle business; but I've only recently realized it doesn't have to be. That model is difficult to find, and will seem all too obvious once it's discovered (look at Facebook or Twitter).

I believe if moot had cracked it (that model) and had sustainable week over week growth, draw quest could have survived.

I was once told by the CEO of Kik, it's a lot harder to get to 100 million users than it is to get to a 100 million dollars. I couldn't agree more.
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I laughed at the following line:

"But Utah’s results show that EVEN CONSERVATIVE STATES (emphasis mine) can solve problems like homelessness with decidedly progressive solutions."

Why do you Americans have to make everything either liberal or conservative? Republican or Democrat?

Life is about tension. If you want to hold a bird in your hand, you have to hold it loose enough that it isn't crushed, and tight enough that it doesn't fly away.
Sure, just clarifying. I figured it was relevant to my mindset.
Normally I'd keep walking but, respectfully, I think you need to shut the hell up.

> All men might rape you!

Nobody says this. Nobody. There's this leftover artifact of overreach from feminists in the 90s that makes people think feminism is about castrating men and putting them in little cages until mating season, but most feminists don't think like this and certainly not most women.

> Programmers all hate women!

This wasn't feminism, this is the NYT spreading their usual ignorant filth about the tech industry.

> in some cases, like donglegate

Yes, that was ridiculous. That doesn't mean all women in tech are touchy and going to explode if you say "thrust" or "spurt" or whatever the hell else other words have double meanings.

> women don't really have it hard at all in tech

Are you a woman? If so, your experiences may have been great so far...good for you! If not, shut the hell up because you don't know what you're talking about: whether or not being a woman in tech is difficult or not isn't for you to say because you are not a woman in tech.
> It's not a high risk enough site to warrant compiling and maintaining the build myself.

Doing so would -- unless you're extraordinarily fastidious -- more than likely open you to more risk than the existing issues. Keeping up with security patches is more important, and your package manager is almost definitely better at it than you are. So keep doing what you're doing -- you're good!
an article hardly has only one point of view and does not throw quizzes after each pair of paragraphs to enforce the Indoctrination.
... or may not.
: we can't just let people die. But it means we have to send food aid all the time now, unlike decades ago, because the population is simply larger than the land can support, except in its best years, and it makes the people essentially permanently dependent on outside aid.

It is worth noting that the Samburu tribe is one of the smallest and live in the least sparsely populated area with the worst rainfall conditions.Central and Western Kenya are heavily populated and do not need food caravans to survive.

Basically, the problem you talk about has more do with the political complication of wealth distribution than with overpopulation.
4chan spends its money on male toys, anime paraphernalia, and (sometimes) videogames, all 3 of which are already advertised on the site. The avg. age outside /b/ is probably around 20-24, so it's not like they're jobless.
I expect we'll see a mix of both. Dealers will continue to stock the most common configurations, and offer them at a discount. Slightly less common configurations will be stocked at manufacturer regional distribution centers available for delivery in 1 - 2 days. And really rare configurations will have to be custom ordered, with the customer paying full sticker price and waiting much longer. As long as the manufacturer has excess plant capacity in the continental USA and a lean production process it ought to be possible to do custom final assembly and shipping in <2 weeks.

My father sold new cars ~30 years ago and custom orders were actually more common back then. Many dealers and volume manufacturers actively discourage custom orders now, even when customers would be willing to pay more to get exactly what they want. I think this is because of badly aligned incentives and will probably change.
You could probably negate resentment from the working poor/other people working hard just to survive by making the facilities kind of basic, but available to everyone. People who want something prettier, in a better location, or with more amenities can pay for that experience. People in desperate situations will likely take whatever they can get.
I started the book "Node.js in Action" recently and its been solid; haven't finished and maybe a seasoned node dev can give better comment, but my pros:

- Well written
- Covers multiple aspects of Node (e.g. not just its use in Web Applications)
- doesn't try to teach you programming at the same time (e.g. aimed at intermediate to advanced audience)
I'm under the impression that the program is aimed at the chronically homeless, who tend to be disabled and or mentally ill. Also, after reading more about the program here http://jobs.utah.gov/housing/scso/hprrh/ it seems that when possible the program is focused on reentry into the workforce. The state claims that its successful and saves money, and its not like the place is run by Bernie Sanders.
Here's two cool thing about this experiment: Normal Hydrogen atoms do respond to magnetic field feebly. They feel repulsion while travelling in a field gradient. Anti hydrogen has same property and that's how you keep it away from normal matter.

Second, they were able to produce 25 anti-Hydrogen atoms per hour. They measured total 80 of those. A long way from anti-matter weapons :).
uh... that was exactly my point.

openbds, wikipedia = no proxy, hence YES

red cross, bill&mel, etc, = heavily proxied, hence NO
Those pages all do look super spammy to me. The Truecar one doesn't, at all. Weird!
Look up Henry George, specifically "Progress and Poverty."

His land taxation regime is to say the least controversial, but it's still compelling and it's something. It's also considered responsible for much of the rapid progress out of medievalism in the Far East late in the 19th/early in the 20th Century. Singapore, Hong Kong, Japan all had periods of very rapid industrialization under land taxes.

No less than William F. Buckley referenced Henry George more than once.
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What is it with telecoms? I have had issues like this too but in New Zealand. I actually beg them not to transfer me to their fault team in Manilla every time they decide its a fault I have. If I have to speak to Peachy, Pricilla or Daisy again I'll scream. I eventually found that all Telecoms here have their accounts departments within the country. So any issues I have I choose accounts to talk to. The locals have always been rational so far.
Yes, but he ONLY answered those specific questions that were deemed important to his target audience. The fact that he answered these honestly is great, but he left out the set of questions that was important to him which would give him differing results and be more honest for his date. Also, weighting is somewhat important, by having an algorithm maximize this defeats the purpose.

Yes, if the point was to get two people in a room I could possibly go with that argument, but he could've spent a fraction of the time answering questions and then following up with people and end up in the same room. This feels like a rube golderberg machine for a date.

In any case I'm of course happy for him, but it rubs me the wrong way that this lying, manipulation, and outright disregard for the other users is being celebrated.
Damn. I have a post office box located in SF that's my main mailing address, but I live in Seattle right now. I suppose it was my own fault relying on them exclusively and not having a backup plan, but does anyone know any service that does something similar to outbox mail? I'd love to keep using my SF address.
This is yet another short term positive but long term disaster.

1) This creates an incentive to become "homeless." Now any kid can drop out of college, declare himself homeless, and get a free apartment. While it takes time for such incentives to kick in, this WILL happen.

2) This creates classic housing projects problems which inevitably turn into centers for crime, over time deteriorating neighborhoods and creating tension that is bad for everyone.

Every generation, we forget how terribly housing projects work out.

The solution is a basic income, possibly phased out slowly with earned income increases. This allows for a mobility and rational incentives housing projects can not provide.

Public housing projects perpetuate poverty and crime and this will end no differently. It's great that some homeless people have a place to sleep today - just wait 10 or 20 years and see how it turns out. Look at projects and low income housing in every city across the world.
Across the plains in their stagecoaches?
Just like e-mail failed back in 2001, or the time the telephone the the deadpool in 1985.
Why do you (an armchair critic?) assume that the Gates, with direct data and experience, are wrong and overlooking reality with their statement? I'm pretty sure they have available decent data showing them overall progress and are not visiting one development and making a blanket extrapolation based on that.
Earning low three figures with my Android apps[1]. Haven't touched them since August, so I guess that counts as passive income. It's even still building momemtum[2], so maybe if I had spent some money on marketing it would have grown faster?

[1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/developer?id=Smartician

[2] https://fbcdn-sphotos-h-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn1/t1/15...
It's true that it costs some money to maintain this kind of thing, but it costs a lot of money to maintain the current solutions, so the bar to beat is not exactly low. The current solutions for housing long-term homeless include, in varying proportions, such expensive facilities as: jail cells, hospital rooms, 72-hour holds in psychiatric facilities, and homeless shelters. My own guess is that Americans don't actually care about the cost, but are extremely paranoid that someone is getting something they feel they don't deserve. If someone is locked up in a prison cell for 5x the cost of renting them an apartment, then that's fine, because at least you know they were "punished" for spending the taxpayers' money, not getting something subjectively nice.
I'm sure you're right. It was on whatever version of Firefox was on my work laptop the week I learned Golang, since my first project with the language was an HTTPS/SSL proxy. I even griped about it on Twitter (it breaks Golang's crypto/tls), and (after we'd hacked support for it into our local tree) got a link to a patch. That would have been... meh... a year and a half two years ago.
people cancel, gets charged, did not get the job (most positions were fakes anyway), get the credit card bill, says wtf I'm still looking for a job, might as well use it now.

you'd be impressed by what unemployed people looking for a job puts themselves thru
'nostromo is advocating an alternative solution to homelessness, not advocating that we not address homelessness. The aim of his solution would still be to get people off of the streets.

Your sarcasm, and comment in general, are misplaced.
Yeah he shouldn't be getting married now, he should be following the ToS of some website.
Bitcoins can be exchanged for the ability to add a new transaction to the blockchain, at the very least. It might be abstract and of questionable value but there is certainly such a thing.

And this is getting a bit whimsical, but why is the gold valuable?
Google and Apple shuttles will pay to use San Francisco's public bus stops
I thought I gave some good support for my position. The alternatives are contraception, killing people, or an Earth covered deep in human beings. That seems like a fine counterargument to me. It may not necessarily work, but it's at least an argument.

There's nothing wrong with arguing on ethical grounds, but you need to actually show how something is ethical, not just say "it just is" as is effectively being done here.
Hey, if you can come up with something better, there's a market opportunity. Matching people up by scent isn't the worst idea I've heard.
this may be a stupid question, but how does the cap of 21 million coins affect bitcoin? does it not matter because each bitcoin is infinitely divisible?
Sounds good! Just remember, if the Internet Police show up, this never happened.
I agree with the substance of your post, but "quite flattering" pushes a bit far.
But a business model that depends on having enough users to support the business is a gamble as well. What's the difference between a company hoping for one more user before the end of the month and one more penny to keep them in business versus a company hoping for that buyout offer before the end of the month, that $300m that would pay off their investors and be enough to start the next business? I guess it's the difference between starting a business versus starting a company. But any business is a gamble at first.

"Starting a startup is so hard that it's a close call even for the ones that succeed. However high a startup may be flying now, it probably has a few leaves stuck in the landing gear from those trees it barely cleared at the end of the runway."

http://paulgraham.com/mit.html
True love sometimes comes unexpectedly! Best wishes to this couple!
Of course we have. Soldiers going off to war. Marriages between two families in different towns or countries for political or economic reasons. Moving from the country to the city in the hopes of a better life. Becoming a travelling merchant. Etc.

Maybe the need was not as great as it is now, but the need certainly existed.
From a humanitarian point of view, it seems strange that the money-saving aspect is the deciding factor on this, as opposed to improving quality of life. But even so, even if it saves costs, people - including the prevailing winds on HN - are still against it.

There seems to be a large number of opponents who'd rather spend a multiple of that housing and social care cost on jails and other measures designed to make sure these people stay away from society without any chance of coming back. I'd genuinely be interested to hear why. If a program exists that re-integrates a majority of these people, wouldn't it be worth the expense even if it cost more (which it apparently doesn't)?
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It looks like you've spent the last few months ignoring all but the worst arguments against your position. That sort of insularity doesn't help you understand the other side.

> I mean, do these guys think that they are such brilliant thinkers that they are the first ever to try apply symmetry to an asymmetrical context?

You need to read more charitably, because I can safely say that everyone recognizes the asymmetry.

There are a couple of issues here, the first of which is that contextual asymmetry doesn't always matter.

One example:

Sarah and Amy walk up to John and Christopher on the playground at school. John is enjoying a strawberry ice cream cone.

The two girls slap Christopher, who retaliates by slapping them both back. John, ice cream cone still in hand, yells for the teacher to come over.

"Christopher!", scolds the teacher, "Slapping is wrong! Come to the office with me."

"But Sarah and Amy slapped me first! Why aren't they getting in trouble?"

"Because John has an ice cream cone, and you're both boys."

Second, some of the asymmetry in this context is actually inconvenient for your position.

A few examples:

1. Society is far more sensitive to the plight of girls than to the plight of boys. As such, it's often politically unfeasible to ever reverse a program that elevates girls at the expense of boys. For instance, there are still far more scholarships available to girls than are available to boys, despite the fact that women have outnumbered men in college for decades.

2. Boys and men are less risk-averse than girls and women, and as a result, they find themselves more numerous at both the top and the bottom of society. Programs that ignore the men not at the top of society, in favor of elevating women toward the top, end up hurting disadvantaged men.

3. STEM jobs are perhaps the only good realistic job prospect for young boys today. Programs that whisk girls ahead of boys for STEM jobs end up leaving those boys with nowhere to turn, because there is insufficient (not non-existent) political pressure to open up other opportunities for them (as point #1 above demonstrated).
It is the main biblical reference for the Catholic Church's position on contraception. It is the very kernel of faith that the mountain of logic you were claiming is built on. What are you standing by, if not scripture?
I always thought that the messaging asymmetry on dating sites was purely a reflection of the real-world asymmetry of dating, where females will almost never initiate a flirt sequence themselves. The universal expectation is that it is the role of the male to manifest interest in, and worthiness of, the female. Not that I agree with this, but it would be difficult not to observe it.

I remember reading somewhere that there were actually more female users of these dating sites. So the difference would be purely one of behavioral habits.

Thinking about it, I can't think of a single animal species where the female is the one seeking out the males. Then again, evolutionary analogies are very un-PC around here.
> I'd genuinely be interested to hear why.

Many Americans are sadists who think the poor deserve what's coming to them, and are actually willing to spend extra money to ensure it comes to them.
The key isn't so much the home but the social workers they provide. Most homeless people are not just folks like you and I who happened to be out of work a little longer, they are people with various mental illnesses and addictions. It's no coincidence that homelessness skyrocketed when deinstitutionalisation started.
I think that, in considering their options, "Yale's stance on a fly-by-night improvement to the course catalog" has a very low weight, and will be forgotten by next admissions season.

Because Yale has options too - if a few students decide to make a principled stand, there are others waiting in line just as good who care slightly less.
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>It's only provably false because you're making a semantic argument against it, sticking on the strict definition of "every" rather than interpreting it as heard by others.

Yes, forgive me for making a 'semantic' argument. That is, an argument that is concerned with the meanings of words people use. How petty of me.

Unfortunately many people who say things like "every other group is a men's group" believe and mean exactly that. That is how they justify seriously arguing that men forming men's interests groups is inherently oppressive.

>Right. That's a problem, too. It's just not a feminist problem.

Right. Which is exactly what I'm saying. It's not a feminist problem, so why don't certain strands of feminists want men's groups to worry about those problems? What are these men supposed to do? Tough it out and hope for the best? Why don't they deserve advocacy just as underprivileged females do?

>Surely not EVERY feminist! That statement is provably false and anyone caught saying it should be instantly discredited.

Nice catch :)

>if you don't take a polarizing stance, it's incredibly hard to provide compromises when it comes down to actually deciding policy

I don't disagree with much that you've said. I don't have a problem with feminists or any other interest group taking a polarizing stance. I have a problem with those who do so but then completely deny the other pole on the dialectic legitimacy. If you're going to polarize the issue, admit that there are two sides, and allow both to exist. Fight it out on the merit of the arguments.

"Every other group is a men's group" so men's groups should be prohibited from existing?

Nah. If you want to take the binary stance, fight for your issues and let The Other Side fight for theirs. Otherwise admit that you just want totalitarian control, and tell The Other Side sorry, you're screwed, enjoy fighting us every step of the way.

The MPAA pretends it is fighting for consumer's rights, and we all get pissed off because that's obviously a lie and the MPAA's only interest is furthering industry goals. Yet when this strand of male-exclusionary feminists that I'm speaking of pretends to fight for men's rights as well as women's, while obviously not doing so, we're all like "yeah, that's cool". It's bizarre.
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"but from what I understand the average long term homeless person is a middle aged disabled man with either a mental illness or some form of substance dependency."

That's stereotypical homeless.. what we imagine when we think of homeless people.

The average homeless person is 9 years old. Children represent 1/3rd of the homeless population (1.35m out of 3.5m).

These were the first results from Google:

http://www.opendoormission.org/about/fast-facts

http://www.coalitionforthehomeless.org/pages/basic-facts
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See also: just-world hypothesis:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just-world_hypothesis
Hitch-hiking.
> but especially that it's more proactive

this was my main shock moving to work in the US. americans sell the image of workaholics. but...

from dmv, cafe baristas, to VPs on the fortune 500 companies... nobody, bloody nobody will move a finger to do something that is not strictly what they are being paid to do.

sometimes i think that if any of my coworkers would drop a pen during a meeting, it would be socially acceptable as an excuse for not taking any notes, since it is not his job to pick up a pen.