skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree micronutrients are a very promising intervention, along with some other cheap, proven health interventions like malaria nets (I mention Against Malaria Foundation in the post).
Here's a list: http://www.givewell.org/international/technical/programs/201...

You also need to find a competent group to implement the intervention. That's basically what the charity evaluators GiveWell and Giving What We Can do.

Here's a promising group specialising in micronutrient supplementation in particular:
https://www.givingwhatwecan.org/top-charities/project-health...
If you're looking at stuff on Amazon, CamelCamelCamel is your friend. Check out historical prices for most items and create alerts for when the price drops to what you want to pay for it.
While I'm not a fan of systemd (same thing can be achieved with upstart/supervisord for example), there's just no point to run daemontools on top of the new inits.

deamontools provides: logging stdout, restart, keeping things running. That's pretty much all. The exact thing is already provided by systemd/upstart/supervisord, with additional benefits: resource limits, namespaces, different behaviour on multiple failures (daemontools will just keep restarting your process as fast as possible, taking 100% CPU if possible and flooding the logs), support for syslog/journal rather than just local files.

By putting daemontools on top of systemd, you're just adding simple system on top of a complex one. You're losing features, but not gaining anything instead.
Planning to give later is a VERY effective use of money for early career professionals (who will be able to make stable investments over long periods of time and then give larger payouts when their own situations are more stable as well) or people who do not as strongly believe in a given cause as you do (who can wait until the causes they believe in are more stable or until they have researched more sufficiently).

I have a retirement portfolio and a wealth building portfolio. The latter is currently funded by my credit cards cash back policy, aggressively seeks market gains, and forms the basis of my personal philanthropic efforts. My giving currently focuses on arts organizations and local community development, as that's a personal passion. My long term giving is hunger focused, where a $50 donation is less meaningful and it makes sense for me to grow my money first.
Did you read the article?

Their top two recommendations were invest in a startup, or give to the Gates foundation.
My reasoning is that if you accept something like the efficient market hypothesis, investing in startups is higher risk than investing in the S&P500, so the return should be higher. You could also just buy the S&P500 with leverage.

I've also seen some empirical evidence in support, though I haven't vetted it: http://sites.kauffman.org/pdf/angel_groups_111207.pdf
This brings up an interesting question. What exactly comprises "the common good"?
The question was framed in terms of helping the "common good". If you want to support your local community that's a different question.
What's really interesting is that if you are (far) less intelligent than the average person you should almost certainly destroy it (assuming you can't just give it to someone smarter than you.)

This assures you don't do something stupid and guarantees everyone else is at least a tiny bit better off (because their money is now worth more).
Empathy failure. I hope if you ever screw up really badly there is someone else to give you a hand.
Source?

I've worked in finance and for several publicly traded companies and have never been barred from trading stock in our competitors (other than if they were a takeover target or potential acquirer in active talks with us and that I knew about that, which is vanishingly rare).
Does not mean Uncle Sam won't extradite your ass and hold you up to his law. 'Murica!
Depends on intent. Connecting just to say "cool it works" - while illegal no one will care. Connecting and making malicious modifications to the system and you might have some unfriendly people knocking on your door.
This was up a few days ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9748195
It's not only in US. We've had the phrase 'three highs' (三高) in Japan, about height, income, and education, though people openly express this are getting downplayed these days. Not sure how it matters in the dating market.
Use it to lobby people of influence to release even more funds for your hobby-horse charity. More abstract; use it to fund the creation of a site that's a merger of Getup.org and Kickstarter so that we can crowd-source lobbying. That way the common person can compete with the petrochemical and military industrial companies by dropping a dollar or ten on their chosen hobby-horse issue. Small donations multiplied by many participants will result in considerable funds.

Politicians are an interface to policy and money is the API.
That's a tricky philosophical question, but quick answer would be the long-term flourishing of sentient beings, treating everyone as equal.

https://80000hours.org/career-guide/framework/the-meaning-of...
Perhaps you're new to Linux. Let me assure you that Debian is a very popular distribution upon which many other distributions are based, and is in no way equivalent to suggesting support for one or a number of niche or less popular distros. I don't even use Debian myself, but I suggest it because I know that if Debian is supported then getting support for my preferred distribution will be effortless; the same is true for Ubuntu.
Earth's First Selfie
That's not covered by my current company's policy (and I don't recall seeing it in any of the other ones), but if you entered into such an arrangement, it would be plainly obvious what your intent was, and the fact that you didn't technically violate the company's agreement wouldn't be an excuse for the company's compliance department nor for the SEC.

Short the index and long everything but your SECTOR is probably OK. That's just a bet against your sector. Short the index and long everything except your specific COMPANY is not going to be defensible. (In my policies, it's more straightforward to just short the sector directly, if such an instrument exists.)
The Chirp Distributed Filesystem
I'm skeptical that Hotspots GC can provide the same behavior, but I'm not familiar enough to challenge that claim. My skepticism arises from most JVM benchmarks around latency (for example, a webserver) having a significant standard deviation, which I had always attributed to an overly broad GC.

I have a chip on my shoulder about limited concurrency abstractions. I've been burned too many times by Akka and thread pools and Scala Parallel collections etc.. I've always appreciated the fact that while I won't get the most performance out of BEAM, there's very little I can do wrong that will break my application.

I'm going to have to spend some time with Quasar. If your claims hold up, then Clojure plus Quasar seems like fantastic platform.
Yep, and so as a savvy consumer, I'm willing to modify referral URLs, construct false histories by sharing cookies or making cookies specifically to visit other sites which would lower my price, switch user agents out, and do quite a bit of other stuff which would take me only a few minutes to save possibly $50-100. My competition is the average consumer who will do none of this, so in the arms race, I can always be far ahead of I'm willing to invest some time to experiment and reverse-engineer the algorithms.
It has to have a default whitelist to expand beyond the userbase of hardcore tech people, so that when Kim Komando endorses it, people don't find that their Facebook, Google, and Gmail are suddenly broken.
”if you are one of the exceedingly few people for whom the clock being off by a second actually matters”

I would be interested to hear if anyone has examples to share about those systems :)
Ask HN: Largest/most successful business without offices
With the advent of the internet, it's very possible to build location-independent businesses. It's fun reading about small software companies that are based in 3 different countries.

Is this model scalable? Also, it might be better for products that are smaller and niche. Building a AAA game, for example, might be almost impossible to do without an office.
All of what you just provided are examples of methodology. What GabrielF00 was referencing is something like "Prime Minister Alice contacted Secretary Bob and discussed their recent dealings with President Carol." This is different from saying "This information was obtained by tapping Secretary Bob's Skype account", which in turn is different from saying "The NSA can tap Skype accounts." Most of what we've been seeing in the news is stuff like "The NSA can tap <technology>", and occasionally "the NSA spied on <person/group/country>" rather than "the NSA obtained <specific information> from <specific person> on <specific date>", which is what we're seeing with the recent Wikileaks disclosures.
Have you seen followup.cc?
> processes that daemonize themselves for good reason (like nginx or Unicorn)

Is there a good reason? I assume you're thinking of the ability to fork and exec a new master process, running, e.g. a new version of nginx, then handing control to that new master without dropping any connections, possibly even waiting around a bit in case the new master dies and the original master needs to take over again.

I suspect with something like s6-fdholder-daemon [1] could be used to orchestrate a similar process, though I'm not enough of an expert to know. Instead of inheriting file descriptors through forking, an entirely separate, supervised nginx-newversion could be started, get the file descriptors from fdholder, then coordinate with nginx-oldversion about who's going to accept new connections.

Certainly depending on such a service is arguably more complex then just having the functionality built-in. On the other hand, just as every service should not implement its own daemonization, one can argue each service should not implement its own hot restarting. If the technique was more common, the argument to not duplicate such code would be stronger.

[1] http://www.skarnet.org/software/s6/s6-fdholder-daemon.html
The Open Philanthropy Project is aiming to fund research. I'd prefer to let them do the research working out where to donate, rather than picking scientists myself.
I've been struggling with this a little bit - my income / spending currently results in me taking the standard deductible, so I'm not able to take advantage of this tax deduction. Therefore, it makes the most sense for me to hold off on donating, and save the money until I'm not taking the standard deduction, and then donate it all at once.

I've been shuffling money off into a separate savings account every month to get into the habit, and then I plan to use the balance of this account once I am in a situation where I am able to take advantage of this tax deduction. I do still donate money out of this account, just not a substantial account.

edit: I went back and read the article now :) - this chart [0] was helpful. If you're at the beginning of your career, this makes the argument for holding off on significant donation even stronger.

[0] https://3d4k2r1b9zry49ki142owdm5-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-...
It's not about cost, it's about speed and scale, which China does very well.
despite the many ways you could interpret "common good", i'd bet that feeding a couple of kids healthy food for several years would rank up there with just about anything.
Do you mean something by "break" a network that is distinct from the game theoretic distinction Vixie is already drawing?

Are you talking about something specifically technical like VPN technologies, or something entirely different? It's not like the ocean of CPE devices Vixie references are all trying to advertise BGP routes.
Interesting awful business model idea: make lots of bots to click around flight reservation sites and hold seats to drive the prices for those seats up, then sell the seats your bots are holding for more than they're paying and less than the now-inflated price available to everyone else. I'm sure there's a name for this, not sure if it's legal.

EDIT: bonus round: screw with airline algorithmic pricing algorithms so hard that all their models get so screwed up that they end up ditching the idea. Victory for everyone except the airlines. Use the arbitrage profits to push this agenda. I'm sure you'd get sued out of existence long before it ever worked (unless e.g. It's open-source and ran by individuals), but it'd be hilarious. This is the kind of stuff I'd fund if I were rich.
1. You definitely do not have to be in Silicon Valley to create a hugely successful startup.

2. Silicon Valley startups have a number of unique advantages that are sometimes critically important.
The article does a reasonable job of describing why our current innovations are less significant than previous ones such as the internal combustion engine and so forth, but is much weaker on predictions for the future. To cherry pick: The author claims, without any support, that "Three-D Printing is a niche activity-- fun, but unlikely to revolutionize manufacturing." The reality here is that 3-D printing, by supporting rapid prototyping, is already revolutionizing the development of products. See for example https://www.nsf.gov/about/history/nsf0050/manufacturing/rapi...
I'm reasonably certain this sort of thing is some degree of illegal just about everywhere.

Not that that doesn't make it fun, but still.
I also started toying around with a stack-based language [0]. It's surprisingly fun!

[0] https://github.com/rbaron/stacky
Cash for secured, credit-worthy borrowers is extremely cheap.

Cash for startups with strongly and increasingly negative cashflow is NOT cheap.
Define "inspired". I became aware of Forth while implementing Elymas. But the decision to make it stack based was actually because I was too lazy (after some attempts) to implement a correct LALR-parser-generator.
Absolutely. It's a good point, but I think that option is actually even more of a hassle in practice.

From much more experience doing this than I ever imagine I'd have, having to enter each and every purchase manually, deal with alerts, and then manually go back and forth with customer service is painful. There's more work to do on our end (we're early stage). But extreme user simplicity is what we're going for.
This is exactly what I wrote. Not having a community-level support for cases of "you screwed up badly" is a failure. Same for no benefits when "life screws you up badly". Not sure where you see the empathy failure.
So, stupid politics rather than technical merit.
That should have been the takeaway of the story, it's certainly the most alarming part. I'd certainly assume there'd be a thorough vetting process.
There is a theory that we can read by recognizing the entire shape of a word without processing individual letters within it ("gestalt recognition"). If I understand correctly, this is the same as or similar to the "lexical route" of perceiving words without sounding them out:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual-route_hypothesis_to_readi...

I'm pretty sure I learned to read mostly this way, with a big assist from having adults read aloud to me and so memorizing particular stories and then recognizing the appearance of the written words within those stories. Learning about all the letters might have come afterward, and helped me to understand why words are spelled as they are, and also to acquire the "non-lexical route" of systematically sounding out words I didn't know.

Reading acquisition is a pretty complicated process, and I think if we're not teachers or psychologists we might forget that there are so many sub-parts in this process, and that they might also happen in a different order for different children.
I'm specifically not talking about CPE devices. Nobody cares about the network configuration on a 2Wire gateway.

I spent several years working on backbone DDoS stuff (I was the lead dev at Arbor Networks for Peakflow DoS, starting at version 2) and I remember large networks having trouble getting address verification working non-disruptively. Of course, the tool they had for it at the time was reverse path filtering; maybe things have gotten better since then.
This just sounds like a massively bad idea. It would likely be akin to taking the worse possible scenarios from autonomous and traditional cars and combining them.

I don't see where there has been thought given to older vehicles? Or are older vehicles required to retrofit this.

What happens when someone driving an older car exhibits abnormal behavior (because some people don't drive like erratically) and it gets close to a bunch of V2V enabled cars? Would that potentially cause a chain reaction as avoidance algorithms kick in and alert/intervene??
It says a lot about HN's general self-styled adherence to meritocracy that a stupid, baroque, and ill-thought out technical decision driven by political spite is top-ranked on a system discussion.
The constitution provides for the protection of intellectual property "To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts," not to extract money from it. Besides, financially successful inventions are already taxed in a variety of ways.
He's wrong. Spending 20k on a hybrid car facilitates demand for a hybrid car, which leads to better hybrid cars. If your buying it to better the environment, you don't get what your are doing.
Cool. I've been wanting to build this, glad to see someone make it!
There was a phenomenal study on that done last year (see: http://www.wsj.com/articles/why-you-cant-trust-youre-getting...) by a group of Professors at Northeastern. Totally worth a read.

Here's their full paper: http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/cbw/pdf/imc151-hannak.pdf
Would it be possible to provide an address that receipts could be forwarded to? Similar to how Tripit works where you forward travel plans to plans@tripit.com and they are connected to your account based on the sender address. Reciepts could still be sent automatically by creating an auto forward rule.
Wish there was an example on their front page
The README claims easy Domain-specific-language creation. Here is a concrete example how code which utilizes these features looks like: https://gist.github.com/Drahflow/c463717d5c72e114ac63
He's wrong. Spending 20k on a hybrid car facilitates demand for a hybrid car, which leads to better hybrid cars. If your buying it to directly (rather than indirectly) improve the environment, you don't get what your are doing.
Okay, I'll bite...

I'm looking for a cofounder for a small business deal. I want to sell GNU Octave. Something like what the Julia folks are doing[1]. I do not foresee this will be a startup, not a build once, sell infinitely often kind of deal (I don't consider what the Julia people are doing is a startup either). We are in all probability not going to become millionaires. But hopefully we will be doing good in the world and we will find a way to fund others who are. Matlab is huge, and while Julia and Python chip around the edges of its market dominance, we need something like Octave that can take it head-on and be a drop-in replacement.

I do mathematics and programming. I know GNU Octave well, and I also know its community. I don't know how to do market research, advertising, how to negotiate contracts, or how to look for funding. If you think you could help me, contact me at jordigh@octave.org

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9516298
GiveWell is great, and I seriously considered making "give to GiveWell recommended charities" the recommendation of the article. However, I think it's even better to give to the Open Philanthropy Project (a collaboration between GiveWell and Good Ventures) or to give to GiveWell itself, rather than their recommended charities (which has the effect of increasing OpenPhil's funds). It depends on the extent to which you share GiveWell's values though.
Not sure I agree. Airplane seats are a scarce resource. The flipside of getting discounts for booking early, is paying more for booking late.
haha, well I think that was implied. It's not as if you can literally write "the developing world" on a shipping label and just pour in a ton of morton's.

I agree that the advice given is overly vague. GP should list an actionable way to to give iodized salt.
You will be OK. ~hugs~

You won't find peace with a job or a girlfriend or yourself if you are not ready. Even if you are trying things and they are not working - like exercise, therapy, volunteering, religion, hobby groups, etc. - keep trying. It will take time and you will have good and bad days, but you will find something that you connect with. You will find yourself in a good place before you know it. There are some great (free!) motivating resources online that may be helpful during dark times (health scares, medical bills, rejection, finance troubles, etc.).

For example, this TED Talk by Aimee Mullins: http://www.ted.com/talks/aimee_mullins_prosthetic_aesthetics...
-Feynman
Increasing VAT means increasing taxes. The funny fact is that the experiment backfired totally in other countries and both Tsipras and the Troika know it.

When Spain increased VAT forced by the Troika, revenues dropped instead to increase. People just started refusing to buy at the new prices and the government lost millions in its expected tax revenue, increasing the crisis instead to solving it. Maybe by design.

The troika for instance force the government to raise VAT from 4% to 21% in barbershops. As result of this, more than 13.000 small beauty salons, otherwise doing reasonably well, closed in only two years. This means adding about 34.000 people to unemployment statistics (and also that VAT revenues from those business fell suddenly from 21% to 0%).

Finally, as expected, troika nonsense is hurting also Deutschland. As companies were earning less and being taxed more, some closed or relocated and people get fired and stop buying as happily as before. German products are losing grip in the market at the new tax prices imposed by germany, just because China can always offer cheaper replacements. Germany industry was selling 'trust', not 'cheap', but troika repeated failures blowing up the middle class had damaged seriously the trust or the need to the germany expertise.
I've never seen that at all. There are trading ban windows, sure, but nothing against trading in stock or options outside of them. I am sure for sales / executive that is different,
"They want that nobody would be rich"

"My granddad wanted that nobody would be poor"

Do you want everybody to be poor, human-interaction-wise?
On free accounts, it only lasts for an hour after a deploy.
It's not a particularly interesting question. It's almost the definition of a wrong question.

Most smaller church / religious outreach organizations that focus on poverty _within their local community_ end up being very efficient. But a soup kitchen is already a huge asterisk on the word common. You can't reliably feed humans with a global strategy: successful charity only happens locally.

This blog post looks like a reasonable assessment of the allocation of US$20,000 of capital in isolation. But it's clear that such a small amount of money can't possibly have an impact on the global population of humans, taken in isolation. By definition, any assessment of the common good depends on all common actions:

If you want to know what the common good is, it always depends on what everyone else does.
ULA is already dead in the water. The only reason why they're around is because of the monopoly they have with US military launches.
I have a lab that's trying to find a way to use beer consumption to prevent cancer.

But seriously, make sure to find an objective measurement of a research topic's plausibility before you give the money. There's no lack of research projects where a donation is statistically identical to setting the money on fire.