skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"To really understand what happened, take a look at one of the Red Cross' marquee projects — a housing project. [...] He explains in Creole that about three years ago the Red Cross came with glossy booklets saying it was going to build hundreds of new homes, a water and sanitation system and a health clinic. None of that happened."

"They never had a real plan for what they wanted to do in housing," Malany says."

"McGovern wrote an email to her senior staff in November 2013 saying that a particular housing project was "going bust.""

"Now the U.S. government is holding the money and is currently trying to find a different charity to run this 4-year-old housing project, which has yet to produce a single home."

"But if you go in search of those tens of thousands of new permanent homes in Haiti, you won't find them."

I don't know about you, but the general vibe I got from the article is that Red Cross has not provided the housing they said they provided. Even if they provided some, this further undermines the claim of providing shelter for 130k people:

"Not long ago, the charity hired a group of consultants to review one of its projects in the north of the country. They found the charity's math unreliable when it came to counting people it helped. There was double-counting, undercounting, and in one instance the Red Cross claimed to have helped more people than actually lived there."
> So what you're saying is that Twitter withheld their MAU because the figures were poor?

No I am saying the exact opposite: figures where great, but they withheld MAU due to competitive reasons or business sensitivity.

> 350K per month for 2013, 100k per month for 2014, 50K per month for 2014

Ridiculous, your figures are all wrong. Growth is the same as in 2013. Here are the correct ones:

- 65k/month in 2013

- 90k/month in 2014

- 65k/month for the last 6 months (december 2014 to june 2015)

Unlike you I have sources to back it up: 30k user accounts as of https://web.archive.org/web/20130113061404/https://coinbase...., 834k user accounts as of https://web.archive.org/web/20140122052815/https://coinbase.... (note that at the time they changed the name of this metric from "users" to "consumer wallets"), 1800k user accounts as of https://web.archive.org/web/20141201063703/https://www.coinb... (at this point they split the metric, there are slightly more wallets than users), 2200k user accounts as of today (https://www.coinbase.com/about)

If you knew anything about Bitcoin, you would know there are always truckloads of people signing up on exchanges whenever the price is very high. It was above $500 per coin for the first half of 2014 so this pushed user account creation to 90k/month overall for the year. Now we are back to 65k/month which has been quite constant since 2013 with the exception of the bubble craze.
I agree strongly with everything here. I'm a fan of Brunch and would use it again if I ever work on another project where it'd be relevant, but if it wasn't for that I would have instantly written off Brunch after reading this introduction.
You definitely need a comparison with webpack. As far as I can tell from a quick scan, webpack has all of the capabilities that brunch does. More importantly, it's much more popular, so the plugins and help you need are likely to be available.
Ugh, what a disappointing and frankly inexcusable decision. I had thought StrangeLoop was one of the better conferences.
Absolutely invaluable. So how do we get more unsuccessful founders to add to this?
a friend of mine did the do recently, we were all pretty pissed off, me more so cuz i flew my wife across the country for a wake, and i didnt even get my lockpicks back. anyway, they were fairly close, it really hurt her as a friend, so if you are looking to hurt someone, hurt me instead dude, i will give you my d0x and you can call me and harass me to your hearts content, and give me grief about my (1).
Yeah, you can. Its quite nice, the only real problem with it is the reliability of the clustering is subpar.

If you are happy with a Master/Slave setup and occasionally having to deal with data loss due to Master failures [e.g. losing a second or two of data that wasn't replicated], it works nicely.

Just realize I wouldn't use Redis as a long term persisting of data because of issues like this:

https://muut.com/blog/news/april-2014-service-failure.html
Are you using Cassandra for analysis? What is your analysis workflow like?
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What ideas did they steal? Social networking was quite publicly known before fb was born.
Tim Ferriss' practical thoughts on suicide: http://fourhourworkweek.com/2015/05/06/how-to-commit-suicide...
Racism of xenophobia? Do you know why they behave this way? I this because they think they are superior, or because they believe that no good can come from aliens? Or because the way they generally behave is embarrassing and unpleasant to them?
Indeed!
Loved it
They also had the idea and didn't act on it. Or tried and failed early.
That's correct, it's a consistent system and so the majority needs to be involved on mutating writes. Reads typically can read from one designated copy of the replica directly (bypassing Raft).
I honestly hope Apple spends all of their money on failing business ventures and then slithers back into relative unpopularity.
First of all here's the good news: You have been deceived! By the media!

The media is making money by reporting on "things that could kill you". It's getting more efficient at that over time, so if you do watch the news - and I implore you not to - you will start to believe the world is a bad place. That is because you will never, ever hear anything positive in the news. Because it won't sell.

For every crime in this world, there are ten million selfless acts of love. If the news reported on both equally, it'd be very boring. You'd constantly hear about somebody helping another, or putting somebody else before themselves, and you would never even get to the crimes. Not enough time.

For every murder in this world, there's a friend risking his own life for another. Or 10. We won't know. For every war, there's a million times more peace.

Look at the facts, people. Is it so hard to understand? Is propaganda, dull, dumb, and effective as it is really so hard to get around? Open your eyes, and turn off your TV, newspapers, and the associated websites.

There are three reasons why watching news is a huge waste of your time.
1 - negative bias to an extreme that is hard to imagine, as described
2 - non-actionable items. Each time you consume news in any form, ask yourself: What can I do about it? What do I have to do about it? Why did I need to know this? Am I just rubbernecking here (hint: YES, you are!)?
3 - Propaganda and lies. I used to read my local paper front to back every day. And there were a handful of reported-on news where I was an eye-witness. A demonstration, an accident involving me. And even for these harmless items, the news was just plain wrong. THIS WAS NOT WHAT HAD HAPPENED. But it was in the paper. Facts had been altered. Not even maliciously, just to make better story, or because the journalist on the ground couldn't see everything, or whatever. Now if the stories I had direct first hand knowledge of where wrong - how about all the others I knew nothing about? How accurate is that going to be? It's not.

And war propaganda. Just read up on Goebbels, every nation in the world is today doing the same things, and the patterns are so easy to spot you will wonder how you could ever miss them. All the media, particularly in the US, but also other countries, are full of it.
When I read about JS build tools online all I see is grunt/gulp, but when I talk to JS folks in person I keep hearing about webpack and how it does everything they need. Lately my frontend work has used ember-cli for all this stuff, but the next chance I get I'll give webpack some attention.
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This is a great summary. If you do a lot of speaking, there is a whole book on this stuff that is fantastic: http://presentationpatterns.com

It certainly made me a better speaker.

My solution to "The Notifier" is to take advantage of the fact that I can have multiple logins on my Mac. I have a "Presenter" account that has nothing installed, and has read/write access to my Presentations folder on my main account. Then I'm 100% sure I won't get a notification.
http://www.wsj.com/articles/greece-expects-primary-budget-su...
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/greece-says-eu-imf-lenders-095...

Greece hasn't had a balanced budget in decades, and creditors don't believe that 2015 will be any different. If they can manage to actually not run a deficit in 2015, that would be a great boon for them.
So, traction is a huge indicator of likely success.
Zuck stole their money, not their idea.
I think though that it's a good general term that distinguishes from the failure modes of: The technology never worked, founders/personal issues, priced incorrectly, ran out of money etc...

It tells you that they might have had a great team and great technology but had no clue how to sell it. Selling being something that the technology crowd loves to hate (myself included) it really drives home that marketing really does matter.
The Share button is over the meeting title on firefox, pretty cool otherwise!

How would you compare react+flux and angular and how are you handling testing?
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Of course you are right. I was talking in a more general sense that disaster relief.

All kind of charity organizations have problems with accountability.
> Message field names are mapped to lowerCamelCase

Why is a mapping to camel case necessary? I imagine it creates the potential for collisions, no?
Very interesting, and a stark contrast to the article about the Red Cross relief:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9664983

jbniche points out: "Just think the impact that would have had if it had been divided up and given directly to each Haitian adult. The adult population of Haiti is roughly 6 million, so we're talking about almost $100 per adult Haitian. Roughly, it's about 1/8 of the per capita GDP of Haiti.
Imagine what you could if you were a poor American and received 1/8 of the American per capita GDP after a disaster (~6000 USD). That's a new roof, or a replacement vehicle, etc.
It's not life changing, but it would have been very significant, and massive in scale."

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9666390

and the article supports his point, saying that "A 2013 study in Uganda found that people who received cash enjoyed a 49 percent earnings boost after two years, and a 41 percent increase after four years, compared to people who hadn't gotten a transfer. Another study in Sri Lanka found rates of return averaging 80 percent after five years. In Uganda, not only were the cash recipients better off, but their number of hours worked and labor productivity actually increased."

But for smaller amounts (like the U$ 100 proposed), "One program gave $200 to at-risk Liberian men who were either homeless or who made their income from dealing drugs or stealing. The lead researcher, Chris Blattman, summarized the findings in an op-ed in The New York Times:

"Almost no men wasted [the money]. In the months after they got the cash, most dressed, ate and lived better. Unlike the Ugandans, however, whose new businesses kept growing, the Liberian men were back where they started a year later. Two hundred dollars was not enough to turn them into businessmen. But it brought them a better life for a while, which is the fundamental goal of any welfare program. We also tested a counseling program to reduce crime and violence. It worked a little on its own, but had the largest impact when combined with cash.""
Absolutely, but your not going to put more than 8 hours a day into it. If that.
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The steam link is meant for playing on a tv, and most tv's are not over 1080p
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But maybe good ol' capitalism would have worked then, if many people had some income to spend, an enterprising importer could have shipped some stuff out of China or something :) . Relief can be very inefficient in those cases.

I posted on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9666194 that jbniche's theory seems to be supported by the studies in that article.

Edit: I think a combination of both approaches might be needed. I'd really like to know what the Red Cross did and the effect it had, but we can't if they're being so opaque.
On a similar theme, Kano is a Linux-and-Raspberry Pi-based computer for children: http://www.kano.me/
There are different types of communication. You certainly can learn interpersonal skills that way, but blogging is a great mental exercise on getting your thoughts on paper. The only way to become a better writer is to write, and blogging is just that. Tweeting is actually another great writing tool; it teaches you to communicate while being brief. And teaching is always good -- it helps you learn the subject better and exposes you to different perspectives.

Basically, if you want to ever be more than a code monkey, you need to speak up both in person and online.
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yes some more data based analytics on metrics you could calibrate on such as months alive, rounds of funding, profit margins, basically any type of portfolio you would present to an investor for value assessment.
It's just another move from the corporate elite to break down the ability of democracies to fight against them. They have corrupted the US system and aim to do the same everywhere else.
Easy. Just build more unsuccessful businesses.
They do publish their financial statements and tax returns, see here:

http://www.redcross.org/about-us/publications

This seems to be a common pattern with non profits, to separately issue their financials and annual reports. I'm not sure why.
It's not trivia. If someone doesn't know the difference, they're going to allow bad data into our database. Large webapps with poor model validations are security and maintenance nightmare.
Agreed. This is the start of something brilliant. Voting on utility of story would be great.
> that's the point of PC gaming usually : you upgrade often.

No. That hasn't been the case for years, now. I built a machine in 2010, and gave it its first upgrade a couple of months ago.

And to tell the truth, I could've gone on a couple years more before I really needed to upgrade. The biggest bottleneck was the GPU (an nVidia GTX 460). However, I splurged on a few upgrades (GTX 960, up to 16GB of RAM (from 8), and an SSD). It's once again a beast, even with the same CPU from 2010 (AMD Phenom II X6 1090T).

And that extra money that I've put into this system? I've made most of it back in the way of cheaper games.
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It's natural to have loving disdain for the things you had to make do with.

Share in the nostalgia.
"Just as usable by end users as Windows."

Have you seen a non-programmer install a printer on a Linux machine? It's terrifying.
You may be interested in earlyretirementextreme.com which details how to do exactly what your friend did.
I don't know how much value I would place on a degree in "web development" because it would raise the question: Where are the gaps that would have been covered in a CS or Software Engineering curriculum but weren't? I don't think that the issues that exist in web development are the generalized cases of a narrower set of CS or SE problems.
HP unveils new test automation solution for app developers, testers
Google Docs and you don't even care about whatever word processor you have.
Yes, for the exact same application using golang and java, golang one startups faster, much faster, and uses less memory, much less.
I've hired a lot of people who didnt finish their degree, but had some college under their belt and a strong portfolio. I would have a very hard time hiring a HS graduate, unless they expressed a very high level of maturity, and even then, I would not pile a lot of responsibility on them for quite a while.

Problem is, college is synonymous with gaining maturity, since for many, its the first time they're truly on their own. Responsible for their own grades, responsible for day to day life, responsible for projects and outcomes. Being able to handle your life, handle deadlines, not think you can boil the ocean - is very important for me as a manager. Having a bit of higher education under your belt gives me a warm fuzzy feeling (maybe wrongfully so) that you can hack it in the real world.

There are exceptions, but the stereotypes do fit most of the time.
right, I guess it's a bit more 'both ways' in Japan, maybe because of the aversion to phyiscal contact and love of politeness....but same thing basically. I recall seeing them in Berlin/DE most often at train station cafes/Bäckerei etc
It would probably be less questionable to take the money the firm would have donated and tie it into the creation of new functionality by the software's authors.
Hunter S. Thompson on finding your purpose
The worst part about web dev is the amount of time spent investigating every little new tool that comes out. It could be useful, it could not, how do you know unless you investigate it yourself? You could easily spend 20+ hours a week just evaluating tools. And not only that, but some of the most adopted tool aren't performant. Grunt sucks. It really does. Angular is needlessly confusing and overly complex for what it actually does. It also doesn't scale and you need to get super hacky with it to perform properly. You spend more time trying to learn new tools than you do actually coding, then find out the tools aren't even well thought out.

Then what happens when you leave your position and someone comes in a year later? Oooh, that sass preprocessor doesn't work? What's an angular, some kind of measuring tool? The entire system has a "doesn't matter I'll be at the next startup in 2 years" kind of feel to it.

I should really move into Java or C....
This. I know plenty of people who literally cannot tell any sufficiently user friendly distro of Linux from Windows.
While it means mixed, at least in Mexico the concept carries a different connotation. Rather than being an outsider, it's the national identity. See for example http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plaza_de_las_Tres_Culturas
A lot of these are. One beauty of math is ideas from one part percolate into others.
The analogy is to show how knowledge of the mean of a population group does not preclude impartial treatment of any individual in that group.

Or to pick an example with with similar moral connotations: "It's my opinion that black people have higher blood pressure than Asian people on average, but I will treat every patient fairly."

Would this (accurate) opinion prevent a doctor from providing appropriate care to hypertensive Asian patients?
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multi != several
> I wonder if recent Linux distros and desktop environments actually run better on 10-year-old hardware than Windows 7

One of my main machines right now is an old HP workstation laptop that came out when Vista did. I can't run recent versions of Windows due to driver issues (random blue screens apparently due to the wifi driver; I only had a key for Windows 8.1 and the drivers were incompatible), but I can run Ubuntu perfectly fine out of the box with no special configuration required. In my opinion that is the biggest advantage to running old hardware with Linux - as long as you're not using oddball hardware there's a great chance it will run better than it would with Windows.
For some users, the year of Linux on the desktop has already arrived (barring some problems like the ones lambda mentioned).

Now, I won't use myself as an example, because even though Linux fulfills almost every need (gaming, watching videos, programming, browsing the web, printing, burning DVDs), I'm aware I'm a power user. So it's probably not useful to mention I haven't used a Windows computer at home in more than a decade.

Therefore, I'll use my mom as an example instead: save a few exceptions, I could simply replace her laptop's Windows install with a user-friendly Linux distro (such as Ubuntu) and she wouldn't even notice. Maybe I'd have to tweak it a bit and install some useful software, and explain what some of the icons mean -- which is exactly what I did when I first installed Windows on her laptop. Honestly the biggest hurdle would probably be explaining to her the differences between LibreOffice and MS Office.
It is possible, maybe not now, but very possible later.

UI just is graphics painting using OpenGL ES.
MessagePack worked great for us, fast, compact serialization, easy to use, great platform & language support. I've never used protocol buffers, mainly because I really dislike that you have to write .proto files that are then translated to code, which IMO In many situations is an unnecessary kludge. I understand it can be useful especially if you need to serialize the same things from different languages, and don't want to write the same serialization code twice (or more), but if that's not a concern for your project, I have no idea why I should prefer protocol buffers over MsgPack
Market stabilization/liquidity is the effect that HFTs are supposed to have. If they didn't have a benefit they would have been banned long ago.

And arbitrage is always zero-sum: when your purchase of an asset drives the price of that asset up, there is a finite maximum on the number of shares you can buy without driving the price up so high as to not be profitable. There is also a finite number of shares out for bid at any given time; if you buy all of them then there aren't any for anyone else to buy.
Steam Link uses Steam In-Home Streaming, which is a different technology than nVidia's GameStream. Steam Streaming will even use the CPU for video encoding/decoding, so it isn't necessarily dependent on your GPU. Though, for best performance you will of course want hardware encoding. I do not know which GPU's Steam supports hardware encoding on. A quick Google and browse through Steam's FAQ on this topic indicates that they at least support nVidia GPUs and Intel GPUs for hardware encoding; no mention of AMD. But again, Steam will happily use your CPU to do the work if it has to.
This is only just now making BBC news? This took place ages ago.

It's not uncommon for vocal minorities (ie. nationalists who take some pride in being "pure" to their race. Not necessarily in a "nazi like" way) to speak up when a "half" wins a contest that is supposed to represent them as a people. If you read through the comments on this thread you'll find several other examples from different nations about this very same problem.

How can you say a 50% Japanese person represents a 100% Japanese person? They are not representative of a 'Japanese person' if they are not fully Japanese!

That is the logic of the nationalists. Does it sound racist? Yes. Is it racist? To most people, probably... especially to PC-minded liberals. Do I consider it racist? Not really, but it brings a host of its own problems regarding these sorts of contests.

How would a ハフ compete in beauty contests? Would there be "African-Japanese" classification? What about people who are a mix of 3 races? 4 races? Do we have to do genetic fingerprinting? Would it be based on a majority of which race you are?

Who cares if she was "selected by Japanese people"? A democratic vote does not guarantee 100% of the people agree with the decision. Let's say she won with a 95% approval rating. That means 5% of the people who voted are either unhappy or neutral that she won. If that 5% is vocal of their disapproval... that's to be expected? Her being selected by Japanese people for the contest does not mean there won't be a vocal minority opposed to it.