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P.S., I love the arbitrary down votes because I don't agree with the HN hivemind.

It still doesn't mean that their implementation is right, because it's not.

Here, let me elaborate: Stop trying to tie yourself to the individual and look at the greater problem. It's a west coast elitist mentality that gives you the "hey, look at this person I'm helping out!" Ever see those commercials they've been doing for decades now where you make an generic donation, and the charity sends you photos of people you're helping? That's a much better approach.

Way to shill for yourself.

"But along with the cash, Watsi has also raised eyebrows. To some critics, there’s something distinctly neocolonialist and off-putting about the spectacle of well-off do-gooders in the U.S. choosing which brown people live and die in the developing world based on who has a cuter picture on Watsi. Others wonder whether focusing donations on individuals, no matter how worthy, diverts funding and attention from efforts aimed at tackling the more systemic causes of inadequate healthcare in impoverished parts of the world. Watsi must also bear the misfortune of coming of age during a simmering backlash against Silicon Valley. We’ve gotten tired of hearing the name brand Silicon Valley bigwigs who have invested hundreds of thousands of dollars in Watsi talk about the merits of “disrupting” existing industries, when all that really seems to end up happening is that a few people get rich while the competitive screws tighten on the many."

You have an urge to save a life? Make a direct donation yourself or to one of the hundreds of charities that exist. Some charities are certainly better than others, but the options are out there. Watsi is a pathetic excuse for a "company" where this sort of pick-and-choose comes across as a form of good when it's really quite creepy and saddening.

Startups don't need to exist in order to do good, and you don't need to hide behind the veil of backing a company in order to seem like a good person. Give someone the money yourself or go visit those countries if you really give a shit, because there's more to their problems than individuals who happen to need medical care. Most of them don't have any at all.

This whole thing is pointless because it doesn't do anything useful. There is literally no difference between using the website or simply asking your friends if they know anyone you might hit it off with, and in Facebook's case, there are plenty of superfluous "friends" people have who may actually be terrible people. They allege "social pressure" in these cases, but on the whole it's a stupid term that generally doesn't mean anything.

OkCupid is still the pinnacle of online dating and probably will be for a long time, because the whole point of dating is that you actually go out with someone and see if you hit it off. Just because someone is a friend of a friend doesn't mean they're any better or different than Random Person A, and if anything, you're greatly limiting your pool of options. And lastly, if you're having trouble meeting someone and don't live in the sticks, the problem is likely you.

P.S. -- The site name is exceedingly dumb.

I just quickly installed this in a VM and it's literally just a poorly done OS X skin laying on top of Ubuntu, all the way down to dock icons bouncing when clicked. The installer is the standard Ubuntu-derivative fare without much modification whatsoever.

It's not really much of an upgrade from just running Xubuntu or one of the more minimalist window managers out there.

A bad idea run by someone who has no clue about what he's doing combined with another bad idea supported by people who have no clue about what they're doing? Sign me up.

The presentation is very well put together, but CoffeeScript is a hack built on top of JS in order to use Ruby semantics. You're correct in that it's not really used outside of Rails, and not knowing JS proper (not that I personally recommend using it for much more than jQuery and a couple other libraries, when you absolutely must) poses a problem for when someone runs into the 97% of code that is JS.

No, it's not just you. It's completely undeserved.

JavaScript "developers" feel the need to not use any other language than JavaScript, so they decided to shove it into as many unnecessary places as possible, even if their code more frequently ends up being an unmaintainable mess with no noticeable performance gains.

What is stopping any of these kids from, I don't know, just staying home like a normal person and working on the game in their spare time as a hobby? Nothing indicates any of these children are homeless, fosters, or abused in any way, so one has to assume they're (presumably) regular kids.

Are we (and by we, I partly just mean the tech community, or whatever you wish to call it any more) seriously so introverted as a society any more that we have to encourage 13-year-old boys to sit with their headphones on, near-silent in a house with a bunch of developers potentially ten years their senior instead of going out and acting like a normal person?

There's nothing wrong with wanting to develop something, but come on. Why can't people simply engage like regular human beings any more?

It's going to be interesting to see whether or not the development market collapses in the next couple of years when SF is finally either out of ideas or full on people (if it arguably isn't already), and the rest of the country can't keep in step because most other cities' markets are clamoring just as badly (if not worse) for the seniors. The issue, though, is that it's a catch-22 right now. Companies in smaller cities want seniors so they can get work done and not have to train anyone, but the seniors generally don't want to work in places that aren't SF/NY.

Someone has to budge, unless the market is to die completely. I can't mention how many times I've seen companies posting for the same position for upwards of a year instead of simply taking a chance on someone. Sometimes it doesn't work out, but that's business. Don't run one if you can't take the risks.

The icon in the article looks fine and the huge irony about iOS7 is that non-Apple graphic designers voicing their disagreement have generally been nothing but wrong.

Minor anecdote, but I'm overseas on vacation and was in a restaurant when one of the waiters/runners almost freaked out when he noticed that I was running the beta. He was completely enamored with it. Everyday, average people absolutely love the design and that's what's going to be what matters in the end.

People who go to Ivy League schools typically have wealthier parents and/or families who can fund their education. Subsequently this can likely carry over to their receiving support while they start a new company, not to mention the connections gained from attending such prestigious schools.

Granted that this does not apply to every case and there are true bootstrapping stories out there, but the fact of the matter is that wealth generates wealth and capitalism is the trademark of the startup industry. It has very little to do with the actual education in the end.

People on here think he's a demigod, and most of the world shouldn't have a reason to give a damn because he isn't all that important.

I have a Nest and the only thing I wish it wouldn't do is turn off the air at all when the weather system knows that it's very hot outside (perhaps this has to do with poor insulation, though). Otherwise, if you turn off auto-away during heat waves, it's great. The home I live in has pets and the thermostat is located on the top floor (it's old and the layout is less than efficient) so having access to it from anywhere in the world in an easy-to-use manner is incredibly useful.

I'm fine with a program like HS existing if people want to join it, but I'll have no respect for them until they treat both genders equally in terms of the tuition assistance.

Note that I'm all for women joining the program, but I'd presume people with the time to commit to the program are a) not working, and b) don't have much money, so it's completely unfair to exclude men to receive assistance just because they happen to be of the majority who are interested the field.

The 1000 friends minimum thing is hilariously high.

I'm not really understanding what you're attempting to imply.

I'm of the apparent internet minority (read: most Americans still don't know or care about PRISM/who this guy is) who doesn't care if the government looks at my porn history. None of this stuff matters at all and the fact that anyone was surprised by PRISM's existence is nothing but foolish, in my opinion.

With greater technology comes inevitable supervision over such things, and it isn't in the name of reading about your browsing habits unless you enjoy children being abused or bombing buildings. The only shame is the lack of transparency about the surveillance, but again, this whole thing should have been completely obvious to just about anyone. Snowden is a traitor and a coward for leaking the obvious (while running off to hide instead of facing the demons he accuses so arrogantly) and Assange is a horrible person for a bunch of other reasons.

I'd like to see both Snowden and Assange in prison, but we can't always have what we want, unfortunately.

Why is this a thing? Are people so lazy to go through their own mail that they need to spend money to have someone else do it for them? Even if you factor in far-off edge cases, there is little to no money to made here except for the most insane of people who are almost never at their home address, and that number isn't all that large.

You could ask the same thing of 90% of the stuff here

If a Lisp-like was ever going to explode, it would have done so within the last 55 years.

CEO spouts off a lot of words to say "we're cloning Vine"

A TDD zealot is the most annoying kind of developer. More at eleven.

If you are making someone a profit in any context you deserve a paycheck, simply put.

Definitely agree with this -- the cost of living in NYC/SF is absurd, and there's not really much of a market elsewhere. A few choice cities (Austin, Chicago, maybe Atlanta?), but the entire market everywhere else is dead in the water by comparison. There are certainly jobs in those places, but it's going to be very scary if this bubble bursts again because a lot of people are going to be out of work, and I don't know if the smaller markets are going to grow enough to compensate for everyone going back home.

"28. Keep salaries low and equity high."

"Don't pay people a fair salary; instead, offer them bespoke lunches catered by the finest local delis, a bus pass, and the promise of an amount of equity ultimately so trivial that even if the company sells for a couple hundred million, they still won't be a millionaire after all the taxing is said and done."

"At least the traditional version of a job, in which you do something you sorta hate, from 9-5p, and are paid for your time to just grit your teeth and do it. Let’s call this the “sell your time” version of a personal business model: You sell your time to an employer, and they pay you for that time."

This is called being an adult and getting a job, much like the other 99% of the adult population. Some of us just end up being happier with what we do than others. Some people don't care about what they do at all as long as their non-work life makes them happy.

I dislike the lack of documentation for the Objc version.

Edit/addendum: The Ruby version is fine and I'm glad they've made it the official library.

The point was that JavaScript is king and this "Elm is the future" suggests that it'll be a major player. Right now it's a niche toy language. There's room for plenty of those, sure, but it takes years of work and development for a language to become worth its salt. Java had its fair share of issues for a while, and arguably still does.