skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People need food aid not because they are in a drought, but because they can't trade with the people who have the food. Solve that problem, and you solve the food problem. Lots of people live in inhospitable, drought stricken countries at a population level that the land itself could never support.

The key is in trade. The people have to develop something they can trade for food to escape from food aid.
It's funny... doing all this 'hacking' to create profiles with awesome match %'s... is pretty pointless. In my personal experience, a match below 80% is a red flag (serious incompatibilities), but above 85% there aren't any big differences.

Like he said, he went on 55 dates, but only three second dates. The 55 dates really isn't too hard to do without the hacking, it's just a question of time. And the "three second dates" means his filter wasn't even that great -- he probably would have done better just simply browsing on the site, and only directly messaging the girls he found interesting in the first place.

But the real interesting thing here is the clustering into 7 types of women -- that's fantastic! I'd love to read more about that -- if he could write it up in a blog, OkTrends-style, I feel like it could get a huge number of hits. I think tons of people, including myself, would be interested in the details, especially if he did it for both men and women.
I'd argue that Facebook does not solve the problem and is just one of many solutions. As always with first new market exploiters their limitations will be features on newer, smaller, and more agile 2nd generation exploiters. You won't see a demise, or a new facebook rise up somewhere else, it will simply be subjected to fragmentation of the market.
Many developers are complaining about an influx of 1 star reviews lately, so I doubt it's your competitor. More likely it's related to Google making the "Rate this app" box more prominent: http://forums.makingmoneywithandroid.com/android-development...
This would be an awesome project to contribute coding skills to - imagine a platform managing this type of program and helping redistribute that knowledge back out to the world.
Well accommodation should not be so expensive in the first place. That's why you get so many homeless people as well. Accommodation prices are completely up the roof for a number of reasons (some State-related), and there is no clear end in sight for this problem.
It is time we had a donotcall.gov equivalent for junk mails.

The UK has such a scheme: the Mailing Preference Service (http://www.mpsonline.org.uk/)

It is the mail equivalent of the Telephone Preference Service (http://www.tpsonline.org.uk/)
People need to have it at least slightly together mentally to successfully rent a place, even if they have money. It seems like it would be more effective to provide the housing directly, given that inability to do this is part of why they are homeless in the first place (especially true in the case of mentally ill homeless). Many homeless have attributes that make them a turnoff to landlords, so even with a basic income, they might still end up on the streets.
> managing

> 4chan

pick one.
Thank you so much for sharing this, for making it open source, and even more so for documenting it so well!

I've used F-Script (on the Mac) whenever I needed something like this. However, the Smalltalk syntax seems to limit its appeal, and I've wondered whether a similar tool leveraging JavaScript could really take off. What you have created is far more sophisticated than I ever imagined. Looking forward to digging into it more.
If every generation of a family marries and has kids as soon as marriage is legally permitted (15 in some states, if memory serves), one can theoretically be 60 when their great-grandchild becomes eligible for marriage. Unlikely, but certainly possible.
The guy you're replying to didn't say "Don't do X if doing so would make Y worse off" for any values of X or Y.
What King's ‘Candy' trademark really means
> Why do you Americans have to make everything either liberal or conservative?

Because there are different groups of people who have diametrically opposed views on how to solve many of the social problems modern America is facing.

> 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.

That's the problem with you Europeans. You refuse to make decisions, so you structure your society by averaging out all opinions. In the end, nobody's happy, and none of your problems are really solved :)
I hope it works. Cable TV is long overdue to die.
Cooling costs are an extra one third (and even that is only during the summer), not even close to double.
This is the other face of the "personal responsibility" that you've no doubt seen many prominent American politicians talk about. It's good because it means that you can succeed on your own merits, but it also means that if you fail, it must be because you suck.
Spam in your e-mail that is slightly annoying but not terribly terrible outside of excess bit and bytes on the net... Senate gets involved.

Spam in your real mail box which even at a quick glace effects:

- waste management resources

- recycling resources

- extra work for USPS (sorting, shipping, delivery)

- extra weight == more gasoline required

- environmental issues (litter, printing chemicals, trees = cut down)

And that is probably just the tip of the ice-berg on actual impact... nope, not an issue, this is how we make money.

I've had a problem with this for years, but there is no way to fix it besides charging the producers of such "mail" an arm and a leg.

Maybe we should push for the death of "Mailbox Neutrality"... or wait, should we support it so they'll kill it off?...

/rant
Ask HN: How do I invest in the Bitcoin platform, not the currency?
Rather than speculate on the currency. How does an average person(not a VC), invest in the Bitcoin technology centered around the blockchain? i.e. Bitcoin 2.0
The word "perverse" has been used on this thread and on other occasions to describe social improvement measures. I'm not sure all these people here are sadists, there must be something else at work.

As far as I can tell the standard argument seems to be that these homeless aren't productive members of society so it somehow makes sense to put resources into actively punishing them for it and making sure the conditions are reinforced that allowed them to become antisocials in the first place. Yet, at the same time, there are a lot of true parasites in society who actually get paid a lot, and who we kind of worship.

In the end, you might be right. But it's not a satisfying explanation.
I wish that too. I don't like the idea of having a demonstratively weak cipher in my SSL configuration, either. On the other hand, RC4 remains the only reliable way to defend against BEAST. Modern browsers might have addressed this issue, but there remain large numbers of users who are using older (unpatched) browsers and have (unpatched) Java enabled too. Plus, RC4 weaknesses are (as far as we know) not practical to exploit.

I am not afraid about BEAST, but I felt it would be wrong to penalize those who have legitimate reasons to be worried. In the end, it's all about context.

That said, perhaps the penalty for using RC4 with TLS 1.1 and better (which are not vulnerable to BEAST) should have been harsher. I'll consider it for a future update.
Can a government "back" currency by deeming it to be valuable, without offering to exchange it for a store of value?

If not, saying that Bitcoin is "not even backed" by fiat is meaningless. If so, we are using "backed" in the wrong sense.
Culture Built by Beer: How did it go so wrong?
> females will almost never initiate a flirt sequence

It's the opposite. In environments like parties and bars women subtly initiate most interactions. They maneuver closer and do the glance thing.
If you avoid the Wall Street lifestyle, you can make do quite beautifully on about $150K a year, which is what my wife and I do.

It's a good way to save for other life aims, for sure.
2,000 customers is substantial, especially when the feedback from those 2,000 seems to be "I would like to pay you more money"
There is no such thing as an "abusive address". There are only "abusive attackers", but what you are blocking are addresses, not attackers. Blocking attackers would require authenticating them. Which is impossible, because attackers usually won't cooperate in authenticating them. Which is why we usually authenticate legitimate users instead. Which is what the sshd would do if you just let it do its job. What you do instead is to offer a service which anyone without any authentication can use to block any address they like from accessing your ssh server by sending three packets where they put the address they wish to block into the source address field, with different source ports so as to make netfilter consider them NEW flows. Such functionality that allows anyone to reduce the availability of a service, especially when it takes as little effort as three packets, is what is commonly called a Denial of Service vulnerability.
Yup. We used this paper as one of the proofs for why we could continue to rely on economy hardware.
Interesting tip. I'm taking away the fact that I should transfer the nameservers away immediately after buying/transferring a domain (for Cloudfront, I presume?). Other than that, and ColdFusion hacks aside, my experience with them has also been fantastic.
Why do you think every generation forgets, if it's so obvious as you say? Perhaps it is not, in fact, so clear.
In order to make sure that their stocks stay as high as possible for as long as possible.

I would invest for sure if there was such a thing as Facebook X labs.

But nope lets go with timeline
actually it is around 14~24... and while the demographics would never spend money online (they do on the things you say because there is no other place to get that) they do consume lots of electronics.

i bet half of the gamers and people that influence game machine builds are on that site and would be exposed to nvidia or amd banners, were they ever convinced to build brand there...

see the conundrum? they are the tech savvy, so they will never generate CTR via banner impulse buys. and no brand would build its image on that site.

so, impossible to monetize. plain and simple.
An 11.88” Retina MacBook Air
How Apple might go Retina with the MacBook Air
Be funnier if half the people complaining about SWMs weren't SWMs. Ha.

I don't know what's gotten into the water lately.
Bee Deaths May Stem From Virus, Study Says
Azul Offering Commercialised Versions of OpenJDK 6 and 7 for Windows and Linux
He wasn't optimizing for "finding a good match". He was optimizing for "get dates with the type of people who might turn out to be good matches".
It's a bit strange to me, because several of the theorists who are supposed to be beloved across the ideological spectrum, even (especially!) on the right, also noticed this problem. One of F.A. Hayek's concerns through a number of his writings was: what about the risks common to all people, such as the risk you'll end up disabled and unable to work, or that you'll contract life-threatening cancer? The traditional solution was a form of "personal responsibility" that actually becomes collectivism: southern-European and Middle-Eastern families have large extended families who are expected to effectively provide the insurance policy. If you fall seriously ill, your family clan, religious sub-sect, or other such collective membership entity covers for you.

To Hayek, this was not in keeping with the ideals of individual liberty. Instead, he preferred a state that assured everyone basic personal rights independent of their family/clan/religion, including both things like enforcement of contracts (even if you're not from an important enough family to enforce your own contracts) and protection against the threat of indigence (even if you're not from a close-knit religion that takes care of its own).
I wonder how it would turn out if they just asked facebook for the data instead of google trends
The Unfathomable City
Solution: Arrange it so that you end up working on more open source projects :)
I'm probably not the first to think of this, but it'd be awesome to be able to sell bitcoin and have the fiat appear in your account instantly.
So does PHP, though this is fixed in 5.5 IIRC.
LeftoverSwap
What a splendid marketing campaign for attracting new users to visit 4chan?

While we are busy discussing about the failure or success, while we are feeling the ups and downs as if we are experiencing, 4chan is way bigger than the two apps.

Why whining? It's a joke. But now I got caught by 4chan. I became one of the unique million visitors of it.

From this perspective, I fail forever, because I don't have this level of marketing skills. But hopefully, I have better product to show. http://kck.st/JNqv8z
"First dates" in the context of this article sound more like "approaches" in real life, rather than actual dates. In real life dating, you'd go up to someone first, chat for a bit, then ask for an actual date. OKCupid removes the physical/verbal interaction and visual cues (along with body language), which are really important to most people.

I wonder if the next generation of dating sites will match people based on facial expressions and body language (captured by a Kinect, for example), instead of all these stupid quiz questions.
This finally convinced me to move the last 5 domains I had hosted there out.
The point is well made - if raise the survival rate it quickly lowers the birth rate, because parents are no longer gambling against unknown but seemingly low odds of children making it past the age of 5. But it has to be backed up by enlightenment of the type mentioned in the article. The work also has to tackle patriarchial societies, child brides and superstitious beliefs. There are a lot of women still suffering under the classification of being a chattel in this world. Perhaps it is a generational thing, and solving child mortality is the first step in bequeathing a generation with better education and thus a rollback of barbaric practices.
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Well, he did answer questions before but with thousands upon thousands to choose from it would be pure chance that he would answer the same ones as the type of women he was interested in. Is it wrong when a person does something they wouldn't normally do to get noticed? For example, is asking for directions when you're not really lost to strike up a conversation "lying and manipulation"? Literally, I suppose it is but I hope dating sites learn from him. The point should be to get more people together to have more chances for "success".
That is a more reasonable response, since it actually addresses the idea.

Anyway, there is certainly room for, and a need for, specialized social programs in a basic income scheme. However a major benefit of [basic income|negative income tax] is that they have the potential to prevent homelessness (particularly when coupled with universal healthcare).

In theory basic income would greatly reduce the strain on specialized programs; the fewer people who become and stay homeless for long periods of time because of basic income, the fewer people need to be serviced by programs such as Utah's.

Basic income treats an underlying cause (income inequality) instead of treating a symptom (people without homes). It may be necessary to stabilize the patient by treating the symptoms in the short term, but that only goes so far.
Nice deductions. Let's see if it plays out!
I didn't know women counted as a minority?
One HTML5 Game Per Week
A Trust metric
I think Chris Rock summed it up best (NSFW, language): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3s5XYHQdAs
The same way you invest in any new technology. Learn it, learn it well, and look for opportunities to apply it to make people's lives better.

If you want more than that, you're basically asking people to do your research as a startup-founder for you, so why would they do that rather than get rich off it themselves?
Before resorting to name calling ("troll") or useless stereotyping ("the insecure") of people disagreeing with you please try to understand what some of these people are trying to say. I don't think the comments made by ravetkn and obstacle1, for example, do not quite fit the typical troll pattern.

This is a grown up forum, differing view points should be securely discussable, including race and gender issues. AFAIK, offensive comments were made by users on "both sides" (whatever that means in this case).

The problem is that people come from the angle of "we hold these truth to be self evident" and/or universal and become upset when people try o argue on the contrary. This is normal human nature, but on HN we should be able to do better.
We certainly want all of you as customers, but the truth is, there's a time and a place for overt marketing. Covert marketing is so much more interesting, it's stealthy! Plus the discussion sometimes leads to ideas that we use and better our product and storage pod design. It's a win/win and we absolutely love it.

We're glad you're enjoying the write-ups as well!
I was a big fan of CarWoo! I got my mazda3 at a great price thanks to you guys. Best of luck man!
It's online dating. It means nothing until you're in the room with the other person. I don't see where your anger at this is coming from...
Not OP, but here's the relevant portion of my Nginx config that scores an A+

https://gist.github.com/ryankearney/8552425
The topic of debate is whether bitcoins have intrinsic value. Taxes are not the deciding criteria here. If the government did away with taxes, currencies (whether it be USD, Euro, BTC, etc) would still have value as an instrument used in barter.
Sorry, I should have clarified. I meant the average long term homeless adult. Sorry for the pdf http://aspe.hhs.gov/hsp/homelessness/symposium07/caton/repor...

This report states that the average age of people enrolled in services for the long term homeless is 40.
Neil deGrasse Tyson: Science & Religion Are Not ‘Reconcilable,’
www.mediaite.com/tv/neil-degrasse-tyson-science-and-religion-are-not-reconcilable-so-stop-trying/

Heres the full interview with Bill Moyers:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=da3G2ezt9R0
357 words before they get round to saying "your credit card will be billed $1,850". Unacceptable.

This would be more honest:

---

Dear valued customer,

blah, blah, blah, blah, have you fallen asleep yet? We're going to charge you $1,850. You will not notice this charge on your credit bill. You will not request a chargeback. You will wake up when I snap my fingers in 3 ... 2 ... 1 ... and you're awake.

kthxbye
But giving people a free income doesn't create a perverse incentive?
I need a full 13"
Hasn't happened in the last 8 years---the programme's been running since 2005). And from a national point of view, better to house the homeless in cheap Utah than in a more expensive state.
Not sure if this is true in your case/where you live, but here in Europe, the vast majority of door-to-door-canvassers are actually employees hired either by the charity or an agency that works for the charity.
The USPS employs 522,144 [1] voting humans who depend on junk mail for paychecks and pensions; email considerably fewer.

Edit: source
[1] http://about.usps.com/who-we-are/postal-facts/#H1
The main reason housing projects failed in the first place is because they were located in mostly urban places and at that time cities were deteriorating fast with the transition to service economy and the rush by federal government to move all white people from the cities to the suburbs thereby moving all the capital. How exactly can affordable housing that's spread out throughout the city be bad? Affordable housing is not just for poor people you know?
I think once you start to scroll a bit you realize it's not, but the bit above the fold definitely looked like a domain squat.
That's really not a helpful reading of the situation, I think. In both cases, a significant pile of benefits is being given to the person in question. The US may very well be spending more on our person, since we're talking about pushing them through an expensive medical system with some frequency. But the US does it poorly.

I think part of how we've gotten there is our political class is satisfied spouting exactly that sort of glib generalities about "the evils of capitalism" and then just throwing more money in the general direction of the problem from too high a level with too bureaucratic a process (Federal or State), instead of letting people think and act on their thoughts. Nobody in the US situation is allowed to think, all the benefits are too rigid, and probably being administered from a thousand miles away or more.
Ask HN: Shall I continue or pivot? 
I want to hear your suggestions on whether I should continue on my startup (or project): TaggTo (http://www.taggto.com).

The original idea of "TaggTo" is: a platform for people to create "picture product reviews" (tagging product pictures). In Jan. 2013, we released first version of our app. However, there were very little downloads even after weeks. I tried my best to market it, but none of them worked. Finally we did a survey among those users who were active but stopped coming. The survey showed they stopped coming because:

1. most of the users don't want to write anything;

2. not enough content to consume.

Eventually decided to drop the "review" feature and shifted our focus to "social commerce". To make content more interesting, we pre-seeded many products, and focused mainly on Fashion and Home categories. We re-launched "TaggTo v2" in late Oct. 2013. This time we got more users signed up, but it's still not significant enough to make a difference. And the worse news was, my co-founder had to quit due to family reasons. And since I had been out of job for two years, I also took a contract job since last Sept. So now I am the only person working on it, part time.

Now I am facing a difficult decision on whether I should continue on this project --

Reasons to continue:

1. One of the biggest problems for the current TaggTo app is it's not engaging enough. I already have some ideas to tackle that.

2. We already put in a lot in the app -- we have a very solid foundation thanks to over engineering, :-D

3. Many people (including some angels / VCs) are actually impressed with the quality of the app.

Biggest fear for continue:

After moving away from our "picture review" feature, TaggTo lost its uniqueness. I am afraid even if I am able to attract a good amount of users with the new features, TaggTo still cannot standout due to lack of uniqueness.

Please click here to continue (sorry can't squeeze in 2k chars):

http://www.taggto.com/ask_hn.htm
Working with a new client this year and I've been coordinating with the old developer migrating their hosting to my hardware. Long story short the client wanted to move registrars also. Moving from Network Solutions required a phone call from the client to Network Solutions. They proceeded to confuse my client by explaining they really didn't need to transfer the name out, just request the new name servers from me. They also tried to up sell a garbage SEO package. I've never used Network Solutions, but the way they operate is ridiculous.
Meanie!
nope,I think that's was just to add some pressure on protesters. Telecom companies even told that security forces was use fake cells to broadcast those messages
This made me laugh, as my 3 year old daughter heard someone say Jesus, and assumed they said cheeses. She still think people are discussing cheeses every so often. Christmas was a very confusing time, as other food groups don't get birthdays.