skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While you are right about lots of Kiva loans, you can pick what you lend to, which is what I do.

I agree with you about the attractiveness of direct cash. One thing to remember is microfinance has been around a long time. My guess is there is more evidence of effective microfinance than of direct payment. That is not to say direct payment isn't as effective but just to remind people while I think microfinance should have more evidence for effectiveness there has been some good research.

Based on the initial success it has grown a ton. And conditions change (including the large amounts of money being thrown into micro-finance). Studying how effective it is today, how effective specific orgs are (Kiva, but also specific banks Kiva works with) and specific methods and factors (how much does interest rate matter, does purpose the funds will be put to matter...) is important.

I think the rush to increase funding to microfinance has probably been good. You can suffer real costs to people by moving to slow and needing too much research. But I do think today, there should be more research going on (in a lean startup kind of way - what is successful, mini-experiments...).
Everything we know Google is working on in 2014
Maybe your design was the best out of the bunch, maybe it wasn't. All I can say is be honest with yourself and about your abilities.

Also, glad you admitted to your mistake, and kept the post up. In your shoes other kids would've deleted it and made their twitter profile private.
Nope not being pedantic. Actually interested.
Sublime is probably closer to Dreamweaver than Notepad. I think people who code in Notepad or Vim are nuts.

Sure, it's 'hand coded', but there's some point where your ethics are compromising your productivity.

It'd be like not using a framework because you want your site to have a 'raw HTML' feel.
Its high time this guy should realize that the problem is with him and his company.
It's not an awareness problem, it's a monopoly problem.

For example, I live in an affluent suburb of Philadelphia. The only ISPs we have are Verizon and Comcast.

The banner might as well read "Pick Your Poison".
HOW I MADE A FORTUNE$$$$$SELLING COMPUTERS$$$$
HOW I MADE A FORTUNE$$$$$SELLING COMPUTERS$$$$
And in no way was I comparing the works on that link to anything else as it would be irrelevant to the situation.
Hacker News
http://hn.algolia.com/legacy#!/story/sort_by_date/prefix/0/i...
Where "weighing" = merely considering the PR damage it might incur and how to go about it.

And by "American citizen" = "some arab guy that happens to be a us citizen, if he was some genuine WASP or generally white we wouldn't think of going this route".
Yep. Half of my news feed is bullshit stuff that my friends like because they haven't discovered true content aggregators. They use Facebook for the sort of stuff that I use Reddit for and it completely ruins my experience.

I'm there to see what's happening IRL with my friends, not to see pictures of stuff that I saw a few days ago while on the toilet.

For context, I'm a 19 year old student going into my third year at uni, so that puts me right in Facebook's original target demographic. It's disappointing that a service so useful for staying in touch with friends has degraded into little more than an IM service because the rest of it's been spammed to hell.
The company that made this pen is normally a car design firm whose clients include Ferrari.
Oops, my mistake. Didn't see it mentioned on the store page for Arq 3. Good to know.
Well taken into consideration that this was written over two and a half months ago while I was mad at the time (at this moment I'm not), yes. Satire all around.
You have written a bunch of nonsense. And of course you won't ever believe that you can fly off of rooftops, because it will be immediately apparent that you cannot do so. It's the same why nobody believes God will ever heal amputees. Nobody prays in public for someone who's lost an arm to grow one back. But vague beliefs where you can fudge the truth a bit with a little religious delusion, sure you believe that stuff. Now let's go all laugh at the Flat Earth Society.
JAY-Z AND BEYONCE HAS A NEW BUSINESS IN THE WORLD MARKET
I just git clone old projects into a Dropbox private folder. I can easily keep the whole repo history even if there are multiple branches, but it doesn't take up GitHub usage at all. Of course, if you had Issues or the like, none of these solutions really work.

I do wish GitHub had a way to deactivate projects to save money. Maybe put it in a read-only state, still count it against your disk quota, but you'd have to make it active to actively work on it and update it. I feel like a lot of systems do similar things (eg. charge per user but allow deactivating users in case they go on leave or quit but may return--pause paying for that user without losing the data in case you want to reinstate.)
For a Lisp fan, merely learning another language is fine. It's the need to actually use that other language day to day that creates a lot of obvious wasted repetitive effort and friction. Without macros, much of what the software industry produces is essentially macro expansions done by hand (sometimes called "plumbing" or "infrastructure").
Then why did they have to start the article with "Oh GOD This is SO Boring. Please Kill Me!"?
The parent comment author is not the original video author, given his appreciative comments for the video. (Not sure otherwise what you meant by 'Well, since you're "here"')

As to your question, that's exactly what the video covers. With a nice animation and everything. And really, I expect Facebook to post some useful numbers rather than forcing us to do the research.
This is your brain on religion: Uncovering the science of belief
Right. Therefore it is better for both the employee and the employer that you fire people in the first few days if you do not feel comfortable with the worker. The employee can just continue their job hunt, and you will not spend so much on getting clear on the fact that this person does not fit.

And if a few days strikes you as being too short, then try a week or two. Personally the only time I fired someone that was just not suited, was after two weeks. But in thinking back on it, I already knew this aftera few days, just needed some time, and some conversations with the employee to convince myself. Of course, part of that decision was that the conversations did not lead to improvements, but the important take away is to act fast on your hunches.

If you don't trust yourself to fire someone after 3 days then at least set up some tests that will provide you with the data to know whether or not the employee will work out.

It is better for everybody that way.
On some pointers, for example function return types, restrict is defined to be meaningless. Also, restrict pointers can be copies of other pointers, and copies can be made of restrict pointers, subject to certain rules. So it's more involved than just "nothing aliases the pointer".

Here's another example:

// C has pretty paltry array support, so it's common for
// people to build their own stuff like this:
struct Array {
float *data;
size_t len;
};

// But then you use it:
void foo(Array *a, Array *b) {
for (i = ...)
for (j = ...)
a->data[i] = b->data[j];
}

and there's nowhere you can put restrict to declare that the two array references here are independent. The data pointer is one of the contexts where restrict is defined to be meaningless.

If you're a hyperactive squirrel, you might try rewriting all your code everywhere to do stuff like this:

void foo(Array *a, Array *b) {
for (i = ...)
for (j = ...) {
float *restrict x = a->data;
float *restrict y = b->data;
x[i] = y[i];
}

but then you'll just discover that most compilers ignore restrict in block scopes like this, because the semantics for that are tricky for compilers to deal with, so you still won't win.
Hint: never use Comcast for residential service. Sign up for business service, even if you're just one person in an apartment. You get better support, less BS, and (likely) improved immunity to copyright-trolling law firms.

They will still route about 10% of your packets via the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, of course, but that's just the nature of the beast.
Eventually went ahead and wrote a small chrome extension which injects some css and javascript into IAMA threads to make it easy to switch between the full thread and a simplified Q&A thread. See https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/cleanama-for-reddi... if you think you need something of the sort.
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reminded me of this
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silverpoint

Given they say

"Each pen will be sold with a notebook made of "stone paper""
I suspect, just like silverpoint, it doesn't work, or doesn't work well, on any random surface.
I think this post and the responses have given you a lot to mull over - at the end of the day I believe it was a good idea to post this because the feedback you're getting (mine was, admittedly, negative) could really help shape you to become better as an engineer on a team in your future endeavors. You're taking some lumps but at the end of it I think you'll take it as a big learning experience - good luck to you in the future!
Yes, this is ridiculous on many levels, so let it be.
My god you're a privileged, elitist, self centred... calm, be calm. The fact that you keep posting this crap on a thread about some I look up to who is DYING OF BRAIN CANCER is really upsetting. So please stop.
I've had a pen like this before. It was not practical, the tip becomes very round very quickly and it requires a significant amount of downward pressure to write. Furthermore, the pen doesn't write very well on anything but paper on a hard surface. Just a word of caution.
Why traditional enterprise IT sourcing is set to fail
I wouldn't worry that much about it. A lot of electrical cords have tiny amounts of lead in them too.
> Another thing that's interesting is that it's really not all about enabling entrepreneurship. Increasingly, I have noticed loans for education [1], home-building [2], and other needs.

This is actually a not-uncommon catch with regards to micro-credit in general, both in the US and abroad.

At one point I worked for a micro finance institution, having been very impressed with the concept (applied generally) and the goals of the company.

What I realized shortly after joining was that the overwhelming majority of loans issued were for "life expenses" - which often translates to "buying stuff", although this is of course not always the case.

Ultimately, then, micro-credit in this context is really just lending targeted at an under-served demographic with not-quite-awful interest rates. Certainly not evil by any stretch (and on the whole, a net-positive) - but not living up to the very serene ideals of more Grameen-purist micro finance.
It seems like MtGox is dealing with a technical issue that all the exchanges face. From other exchanges I've received unclear, pretty floppy emails, and some just plain ignore the issue. MtGox isn't handling it particularly well, but isn't this something positive?
Adjusting GPAs: A Statistician’s Effort to Tackle Grade Inflation
At least someone here gets the gist... Thank you for realizing what I was trying to portray.
Right you are. I have taken down the post so that I can further explain myself.
> to defeat the null hypothesis that the programmers should be fired and no idea should be pursued

Now I'm imagining a website like oDesk or ELance, but which requires employers to "defeat the null hypothesis" for any job contract they want to post. What a wonderful world that would be.
Galileo works, and works well
Winning schminning....

War is never about winning anything. It is about profiteering off death and destruction and paying sacrificial homage to the god of chaos to whom all politicians worship.
Those ads typically perform pretty terribly
Don't worry about it man! To me, your biggest mistake here was not throwing up screenshots. Could've flipped the whole tone of this thread from a car crash into an actual hate-fest for crap design.
Can you use Shift+Ctrl+ then?
Here's a look Ron's 2013 (and summary of 2012) predictions during his tenure at androidpolice.com http://www.androidpolice.com/2013/01/01/android-a-look-back-...
Is there anything public as to methodology, coverage, and other test info? I'd really like to see how this test was performed and what was achieved during that time, for curiosity's sake.
Flappy Bird: Type to jump
This also prevents you from using your own modem and requiring you to lease one of theirs (not to mention requiring a year contract), doesn't it?
These are some design resource pools I visit:
http://www.awwwards.com/ (all website design)
https://news.layervault.com/ (Site Designs)
http://sidebar.io/ (UI+UX too)
Sorry to hear that. I lost my mother to that exact same thing ten years ago. Her husband had barely OK union insurance (which he was forced to purchase even though it sucked, as a kick-back to the union), that quickly got tapped out (couple hundred thousand dollars worth). She was randomly fortunate enough that the state she was living in had a mandated twice per year, take any patient with an existing condition, requirement for insurance providers in the state, and she was able to pick up a new policy. I don't know about your state, but you might look into that, a lot of states have programs of that sort apparently (the cost was a little high relatively speaking, around $600 per month, but it gave her another million plus in coverage).
That's why I qualified it with "if you're lucky to live long enough".

So, yeah, you might be lucky enough to unexpectedly drop dead before some other scourge takes you

However if you don't happen to fortune into a sudden unexpected death, your body will inevitably decay to the point that you will become a large financial and emotional burden on someone. (Or die homeless and friendless). But we can't take care of those people, cuz socialism! They should have had the common courtesy to just hurry up and die.
"Make up numbers" glosses over a bunch of actually-useful techniques, though. You might not have any data to begin with, but you can certainly get some.

For example, since a time estimate can trivially be converted into probability estimate for something happening on time, all of this is relevant: http://lesswrong.com/lw/3m6/techniques_for_probability_estim....

The best technique from that set, I usually find, is betting (with actual money) on results: setting up a intra-company prediction market for when your software will ship can tell you more than you ever wanted to know about how much time it'll truly take.
> He got 39 Likes from fake accounts.

>> Fake (and low quality) likes are bad for everyone.

> But they're endemic to the advertising product you sell. "It sucks for us, too!" is no comfort.

Not only is it endemic, it is well-known at Facebook. Thousands upon thousands of Facebook employees at all levels have known this deception has been taking place. We are not talking about a few days, weeks or months....

This multi-billion dollar company is knowingly generating revenue via this nonsense. It's not a mistake. This has nothing to do with cat lovers reflexively clicking like.
> "As you write, tiny amounts of this metal are deposited onto the page."

Does it also have regenerative qualities that continuously replenish the metal that is deposited onto the page? If not it's an open-and-shut case of a journalist blindly parroting the marketing definition of "forever".
Are you sure it's x^2 and not x2? Perhaps sympy does extra foo to feel more like mathematics.
Living in the US: I've been using tunnelbear (https://www.tunnelbear.com/) to proxy through the UK to watch the BBC streams.

NBC is worse than horrible, their commentators rarely understand the sport they are covering, they don't show events they want to cover in 'prime time' and they cut massively short the events they do cover in prime time, often times in order to substitute political bullshit.

I would love to pay the BBC to access their content, but there isn't a way to do that. Please BBC, fix this, I'll happily pay you a premium to consume your content, just let me.
Pininfarina actually does the industrial design for quite a few products besides cars. I've even seen their name on video projectors.

Same with Porsche Design.
I am the author of mbox. Since I got too many emails regarding mbox, here are a few things to clarify.

- naming: pkgfile mbox || echo looks like a good name
- support: sorry, I don't have Mac or Windows.

I particularly like to use mbox for redirecting modification to another directory. For example,

$ mbox -- git checkout file

You can checkout a file without overwritting the current file. You can imagine tons of usecases in this vein. Of course, blocking networks, restricting accesses of other directories, and rootless pkg installations are cute. However, to be a mature tool, I have to admit that there are lots of engineering works left -- support of 32bit .. compatibility layers .. still lots of corner cases.
To answer your question seriously and without any implied political bent, the reason is: healthcare in the first world has become considered a right or entitlement. It's really no more complex than that.
NvScene 2014 in San Jose this March
Funny thing: (a) I don't watch live TV and sign in to Chrome everywhere so my Adblock follows me from computer to computer and browser to browser. Therefore I don't notice many ads.

(b) I notice ads more than ever now that I block them. I'm not as used to ignoring them, so when I see them, they stand out. Especially on mobile. Oh, not the content, not unless it's irritating or advertorial (or YouTube without YTO), but even so, it's interesting to notice adblock backfiring.

I wonder if there's a common ground between adblock and annoying that won't require advertorial?
Dunno. I've never tried any other modems besides the one they gave (leased?) me.
Usually people share a link to the app of piece of content they are denigrating. Might someone share a link to this "Secret" app he speaks about.
You're on FIOS and you're getting 3-4MB/s and you're feeling lucky?

How sad.
This is just not true. There is much, much, much waste in online advertising, but there are companies who make it work and then go on to go public or get acquired for large amounts.

Right now at Perfect Audience, we have many customers using our tools and seeing anything from $5-15 in sales from each $1 they spend. It takes time and work to get to the high end of that spectrum, but people get there and it grows their business swiftly.
http://fakeroot.alioth.debian.org/
Maybe not so great, I still have no idea what show this is about. I don't think I'll ever care, either.

edit: Wait, skimmed the article again.

Nathan for you?

pbtbtbtbtbt
If after few days you can tell employee is not a good fit, maybe the problem is your hiring process?
Happy 10th Birthday, Flickr
How one professor’s American dream turned into the American nightmare
I've found unblock-us to be a superior solution. It doesn't actually tunnel the traffic, instead, it proxies the original request to the content site (BBC, Netflix in another region etc.) via an appropriate IP to authenticate. After that, the content flows directly from the origin to your device.
All you need on the client side is to use their (unblock-us's) DNS. This allows you to use any device (and not just a computer capable of running some VPN client) to access the remote content while pretending to be in another region.

And yes, I'd just as happily pay directly for bbc content if they'd let me. BBC, why can't you let me pay your annual TV license fee and let me watch your internet content from anywhere.
Not cancelling service and quietly billing you until collection departments are harassing you months later seems to be standard procedure at all carriers/ISPs.
I really hope the author adds the ability to generate log files for individual Arq backups runs. It's a great product overall, but it seems like a huge flaw to me that it's so hard to monitor the status of backups without manually launching the app. (I don't necessarily want an email every day, I just want an easy way to detect if the backup has failed.)
Sandboxie (http://www.sandboxie.com/) is a similar tool for Windows.
I donated $25, don't know this guy, but thanks for all he did on PHP that all my websites run on.
As a separate note, php.net probably can have some donation button, that it can use to boost PHP community, including helping key contributors like Richard too.
For some reason, the other side basically looks at interstates and then calls it a day, ignoring that the vast majority of road expenditures isn't federal.

(OK, the reason is pretty obvious: it's the only way to make the numbers come out "right".)
Our company has seen lots of profitable campaigns run through us onto Facebook. We know this because our customers track the sales they get from the ads and it can be easily compared against the amount they spent.
It's definitely possible for people to have dev environments that are objectively insane. Dreamweaver isn't too crazy though — some people use Vim.

I've not really used Dreamweaver in years, but I assume most people disable the visual editor? Unless it's possible to preview using Chrome rendering and get some sort of LiveReload setup going? Does it even have a built in server, or does it just show static sites?

The concept of Dreamweaver isn't a bad one, it's just their technology and standards support that's all mangled.

Someone could probably create an awesome Dreamweaver-like integrated IDE using a mashup of Blink, nginx, Git, FTP, and Sublime Text. It'd make your local environment loads easier to set up.

My combination of tools works great right now, but feels a bit cobbled together. Step one in web dev is figuring out a solid setup — took me years to get to a point where I'm really efficient. It's probably a barrier to entry. A single integrated thing, that followed standards, would definitely make it easier for new people to learn.
When I signed up for their business class service about a year ago, it was not required that I use their modem, but they did suggest it (noting that any failure of equipment would be taken care of on their end). It was the bosses dime and my time if a failure happened, so I just went with their leasing options.
Judging by the history that appears on the Wayback Machine, there may never have been any card trading infrastructure to begin with. There are a few blips of activity on the domain back in 2007, but it doesn't look like the site ever even came close to going live. All that ever went up was a beta disclaimer and a contact email, but no sign of any actual content, not even any real static content. Next activity's in 2009, when the domain began hosting an online strategy game called Far Wilds. That was apparently an abortive project, too, because nothing happens again until Mt. Gox's launch in February 2011.

No disputing that the domain name itself was an acronym for "Magic: The Gathering Online eXchange", but I'm failing to find any concrete evidence that Mt. Gox's code started out as a card trading platform. Just circumstantial evidence and speculation - that Wired article that the Mt. Gox Wikipedia article cites as its source included.
Hmm. Seems very secure.. I can't run anything.

./configure
make
./mbox ls

Stop executing pid=20987: It's not allowed to call mmap on 0x400000

Same error no matter what executable I try. I'm assuming that isn't by design?
I have never used a setup like that - all I've done is throw an SSD in front of 3 disks.

That said, the zfs log and zfs cache command supports mirror disks for log and allows more than 1 cache per pool.

Using more than 1 SSD as a cache (and of course, using mirrored logs for safety) would be recommended if you had a production box with this.

To repeat, I have never tried ZFS-on-Linux anywhere near a production setup - but if I had to, I would use multiple SSDs just in case one locks up its firmware.