skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are lots of countries where public schools are basically the only way, and don't imply a second rate education. And if the company that made you rich employs a high rate of white collar workers, you benefit from their high level of training. (Depending on your country, this also applies to highly trained blue color workers)

But yes, with all these benefits, I'm really amazed when I hear people talk as if the whole tax system is basically fraud (as opposed to taxes just being too high). Unless they're very idealistic libertarians, of course. Or live in New Jersey.
What you say is hard to measure.

I think the benefit of "fairness" that results from having everyone go though the same schools and hospitals is far greater then any of the benefits you mention.
Though the Geneva Conventions do not state whether chaplains may bear arms, they specify (Protocol I, 8 June 1977, Art 43.2) that chaplains are noncombatants. In recent years both the UK and US have required chaplains, but not medical personnel, to be unarmed. Other nations, notably Norway, Denmark and Sweden, make it an issue of individual conscience. Captured chaplains are not considered Prisoners of War (Third Convention, 12 August 1949, Chapter IV Art 33) and must be returned to their home nation unless retained to minister to prisoners of war.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaplain#Military
I shouldn't feed the troll, but:

1) Scoble hasn't started a company. As far as I can tell he jumps from one major corporate sponsor to another. Based on his background I don't think he's qualified to talk about this. Correct me if I'm mistaken. I know he reports on startups a lot, but well, I like going to the zoo but I have no idea how to change an elephant's diaper.

2) PCH (cited in this article) raised VC:

http://techcrunch.com/2008/09/29/21-million-for-mr-china/

My opinion, I think you can get away with saying "you don't need VC to do great things", but certain types of business are going to need VC. Plain and simple.

If you're making software where your marginal costs per user are low, but ARPU is high, then if you have the talent and determination you can probably bootstrap until you're in the black. For some reason people get it into their heads that this is the archetypal web startup. It's not. Some need tons of initial capital outlay, some don't get profitable until there is massive scale.

And lets not forget that VC isn't just about money.
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I am sorry for uprating this post by just 1 point.
> There are lots of countries where public schools are basically the only way, and don't imply a second rate education.

Yups, the Netherlands is luckily still one of those. :)
God forbid the police have to do real police work instead of just using their security letters and patriot act powers to coerce people into cooperation.
"Clueless consumers favor 15-inch notebooks, ruining market"
MTP (RFC 772) was published in 1980. SMTP (RFC 788) is from late 81. UUCP was widely used to route e-mail between computers before that. The article dates from 1985 and there is no technical excuse not to integrate the different networks with the technology that has been, by then, available for years. When I got my first e-mail account, the form they mailed me showed both a modern "@" address (with a less than modern host.subdomain.domain.tld.country combo) and my bangpath from the backbone provider.

It's a fact all larger e-mail providers (like the ones mentioned in the article) either took very long to embrace open standards or failed completely to do so and vanished from the market. While I don't worry too much about karma, downmodding for no good reason is, well... Let's just say this is not Digg.
Funny, I have a software development with AI degree, and I can't get anything - not even tech support. Why do they come out with these stupid stories?
While I'm not here to defend the article there are plenty of low taxation countries with a very high standard of living. There's a reason why a lot of sports stars move to places like Monaco. And that's not the only example - there are plenty of places accommodating to rich individuals.
Sorry, for some reason I just assumed you were using RoR.

Liquid was created by Tobi (CEO) for Shopify, and then extracted as an open source project. It was inspired by Django's template language. Since you're on Python, perhaps you could use the original?
Good point! I can purchase an SD card from Garmin with additional mapping features such as North America's paddling waterways. Garmin sells data like that (resells is probably the actual mechanism) and develops additional revenue from their customers.

So... Perhaps there's a market for selling GPS data. Some of it is safety-oriented, some of it concerns rideable trails, and so forth???

The Segway's "drive by wire" nature does lend itself to making it a platform of sorts.
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Well, I'd like some examples :-)
>I did not argue that

Hey, that's MY point :) Still, in the end of your FIRST line you stated: the ultimate cause for the enjoyment is increase in genetic fitness.

>my understanding, that your argument is: 1) ... 2) ... 3) ...

All wrong. At no point was a talking about the set "people". I was disagreeing with the traits specific to the "top of the pyramid" proposed by the article within the domain of intellectual debate. Which is a small subset of the set "people" in a very small subset of the domain of possible actions people can perform. I'll have to make sure to rigorously pair any hypothesis with its counter-hypothesis when I risk posting on HN in the future.
I'm wondering if security was ignored, when introducing HTML5, simply because it isn't as sexy as adding new features? Removing XSS seems like a win to me, especially -- as Crockford points out -- with new technologies like web storage being introduced.
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:jerome-etienne/neoip && sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install nodejs

will install it too. i maintain a ppa for current ubuntu of nodejs to ease installation. http://blog.jetienne.com/2010/08/how-to-install-nodejs-on-ub...
I think not when software is used to kill people.

This is not new. Software is also in most components of military weapons and vehicles: in missiles, tanks, submarines, torpedoes, artillery, helicopters and fighter jets, etc. What's different about UAVs?
This didn't deserve a downvote, because it's obviously exemplary of the very sentiment that's driving the thing.

However, that sentiment is assinine. The business of this nation isn't to make the interception of communications easier, it's to facilitate our affairs. The article says

But law enforcement officials contend that imposing such a mandate is reasonable and necessary to prevent the erosion of their investigative powers.

As if the powers of law enforcement are the overriding concern, rather than the freedom of the people.
Retaining walls 
What are the types of retaining walls?
It might. Rogue SUVs kill people all the time (cf. "SUV hits, kills Md. Green Party Senate candidate," http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5h8FiQb29HT...)
Yes, the "10-20% of the equity" is generally provisioned for the company's stock option pool.

This is definitely biased towards technology startups.
These work, thanks a lot!
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Apparently everyone is happy with Javascript, or there would be different scripting languages on the client-side. Apparently it wasn't an issue whether Javascript should be used in HTML5.

Technically a <script type="text/python"> shouldn't be impossible either.
Millionaire owner of Segway firm dies in freak accident
Digitial photography is not rocket science. It just seems that way.
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You seem to believe that this article means LessWrong officially advocates considering all arguments only in terms of whether their proponents are holding them ingenuously. If you could be convinced that this were not the case, any lingering disagreement would be due to consistency effects.
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Funny, I've always thought that his definition of "hacking" that you've quoted was the same definition the HN community accepted.
yup crockford is my hero :)
his book showed me how to love javascript.
There were car accidents where people trusted their GPS/navigation systems too much, so I don't see how trusting your GPS even more would help.
To fit the pattern, it would have to swing back the other direction, not go further in the same direction.

For example: gender-biased / spivak / conspicuously using traditional pronouns in a context where they're assumed to be gender neutral.
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I'll agree my "I'm not welcome here" statement was a bit too strongly worded. None the less, you're "let me try at home tonight," statement is actually quite important. --What if the person and their friends were already out on the town looking for a(nother) place to go?

"Let me check what's going on at Slide... hmmm... it doesn't work. I'll check $OTHERCLUB."

Expecting a potential customer to go find another device to access your content/promotion defeats the purpose of building said promotion. Similar is true for making the content/promotion difficult to find via a search engine.

The costs involved in the production of more accessible content are negligible. In fact, it's faster and easier than creating flash content, and you could automate most of it into a form based UI (image of flyer, title, date, time, descriptive text).

I do see your point how club promotional sites might not get a lot a traffic but keeping a promotional site accessible to mobile devices and easily found through search really does makes sense. Advertisements that cannot be seen are far less effective than advertisements that can be seen.
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I couple of years ago I actually gave up on spam and decided to rely on the Thunderbird spam filter.

That implies that email is no longer a reliable way to contact me, because of possible false positives :-( I suspect I am not alone with that problem. GMail seems to have false positives, too.

So email was fine for a while, but it is not anymore. Unfortunately I don't know what to replace it with.
Terse and direct aren't Anglo-Saxon. Terse is from Latin, via French (16th century). Direct is from Latin (14th century).
He forgot the part where he claims the paper demonstrates a causal link from A and B, when in fact the paper merely demonstrates a correlation, and the scientists explicitly warned that A may not cause B.
Perhaps, but it's impossible to measure. The loss of the top man will have a direct impact on the whole company, including Segway.
not really a new concept; one of the defining features of roguelike games has always been permadeath. I do agree with the article in that the risks of bad decisions makes games way more engrossing; if you can't make a bad decision it'll feel boring and railroad-y.
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A) Have they really tried Drexler style nanotech? I don't know, but I've simply not heard of any place else trying it (although there's some interesting stuff being done in Switzerland). Certainly the detractors would triumph any such failures.

B) China does a lot more cargo cult science than real science, due at least in part to the incentive structures (look at the many recent HN items on the subject; it's become a major issue for any practicing scientist). For that matter, true innovations coming out of Japan are pretty rare due to their seniority system; e.g. until very recently every native of Japan that won a Nobel had to leave the country to do his research (which is a form or permanent self-exile, setting the barrier pretty high...).

This is not to say that all furreniers are incapable of Real Science, just that it's a lot more rare than one might think. There are reasons US research universities are rated as the best in the world, with only a few Western ones (mostly in the U.K.?) giving them competition.
> 6. Install it: sudo make install

Guys, this is Ubuntu, not Slackware. Please, if you don't know about dh_make/debuild or too lazy to use them, at least use checkinstall.
The authors of this bill fundamentally misunderstand how the Internet works.

They believe that all useful Internet communication is centralized: for two parties to communicate, a third party (GMail, AIM, Facebook, HN, Twitter, etc) must relay the messages. But this isn't even true for email! Most companies run their own local servers. There is no central broker to tap - it's just P2P communications. Hell, if you and I open our college number theory books, implement RSA, and share port numbers and IP addresses, the law hasn't considered us. But we don't need to do that - there are plenty of expert-reviewed P2P technologies that allow for secure communication. It gets worse: I could use a VPN, and pipe my results through TOR, and use secure proxies. People just use centralized services because they're nice.

In this case, the government is asking citizens to sacrifice their liberty (and companies to sacrifice their valuable time) for something that can only be ensured by direct access to a suspect's computer, without providing any solid evidence that our safety has been threatened. FUD at its finest.
I'd like to know more about the downsides of RSUs.

I've been offered some recently, and I feel like it's just a way of saying "yes, you can have some equity...someday. Meanwhile, you're still in the dark on shareholder issues and you can't see the balance sheets. Keep up the good work".

Is that a wrong way to look at this?
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To the extent that "contrarian", "meta-contrarian", "meta-meta-contrarian", etc. people spread themselves over the ideological map, it becomes difficult to win favor by adopting a particular viewpoint (e.g. you'll get the contrarians and the meta-meta-meta-contrarians, but you'll piss off the meta-contrarians and slightly alienate the uneducated and the meta-meta-contrarians), and in the proximate future, people will adopt viewpoints more for other reasons--hopefully, because they care about the issue and have given it serious thought.

Once the zero-sum game of winning relative favor becomes saturated with fierce competition, new people will be discouraged from entering it, and will spend their effort on more productive things.

Also, once you notice a bunch of similar people (meta^n-contrarians) who argue several different sides of an issue, you stop thinking of each side as being, e.g., "traditional country folk vs. college students"; the ideas become dissociated from groups of people, and your opinion of an idea becomes dissociated from your opinion of a group. All you have to go on is the shape of the idea itself, which, I think, is the best way to approach ideas if you're searching for truth.

A while ago, someone posted the story "Rent a White Guy", which demonstrated how some clever Japanese companies took advantage of their potential clients' or investors' prejudice towards white CEOs by "renting" a white guy to act like a top executive for the duration of the company's presentation. I thought this was a good thing, because prejudiced investors who found out about tricks like this would have to stop bothering about the issue with future companies, unless they put a fair amount of effort into investigating whether the real CEO was in fact white. This would make things better for naive Japanese companies who didn't even consider the issue and just had their (Japanese) CEO do the presentation; and it would reduce the advantage of companies who did have white CEOs. I think this is all to the good.

For people who do real work and just can't be bothered to think about putting on peacock feathers, hardcore hipster fakers are friends and protectors. They make it harder for civilians to tell the difference between a "hip" guy who deliberately dresses unfashionably and a guy who dresses unfashionably because he doesn't think about how he dresses, he thinks about other things. This makes it easier to be a nerd (defined as someone who can't be bothered to do things because they are fashionable). I, for one, thoroughly approve of these people.
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BillGates's tweet in china
What is the irony? That he died while riding a Segway PT? Have no avid cyclists been killed on bikes? Have no automotive execs been killed in car crashes? Have no test pilots been killed in flight?

Face it, there are many hazards in life, and it stands to reason that owners and high-profile individuals in all kinds of positions stand to be killed or harmed by their technology.
They should just take all of this out and tout that they are DRM-free. If they trusted the user as they claim, they wouldn't feel like they needed to revert your refunded full game into a demo.

Lots of people would have no problem registering the game to "Sir Pantsy Higginbothom <pantsy@throwaway-email-provider.com>" and then what good does their little name screen do?

If they always reset your registration count no questions asked, there is no point in even having that there.

It seems like they're trying to strike a balance but I just don't see the point. There's still extra hassle involved here, interestingly much of it is on the publisher himself, and there's no particular benefit for anyone. The publisher gains nothing from these measures because they are so easy to circumvent and they'll just creep out / bother users that registered the copy in their real name. Users gain nothing from these measures because they are almost not there and there's some slight intrusion made after buying 10 games. They don't add anything to the experience, unless you like your name flashing up as one of the intro credits.

So there's really no point to any of this. They should just rip it out and then they could put shiny "DRM-free" buttons all over.
Links + descriptions + tags = http://del.icio.us/ no?
It's not technically impossible but it would be challenging to get all the browsers to support embedded Python, not to mention versioning issues (does IE10 target Python 2.5, 2.6 or 3.1?).
Monaco is a nice place to spend your wealth, but it's a poor place to produce wealth. No real estate (not at a realistic price anyway), no skilled workforce except in fiscal optimization (although they might call themselves bankers), no natural resources.

Wealth-producing countries tolerate Monaco because it's too tiny for its parasitism to produce big effects. De Gaulle threatened to close Monaco off with a blocus, unless it stopped welcoming French taxpayers. Needless to say, the prince complied immediately.
Again, our goal is not to track anything that takes less than an hour to do.

This point is not clear in your anecdote which has "I have some emails to do and a form to send to the accountant" turning into line items on a board.

Also to be clear - I'm not anti-planning. I also would never tell you to change a process that is working for you. But these are some reasons why I wouldn't implement this planning technique for a team that I run. I'd prefer to keep my planning product focused and I'm okay with resetting on tasks with my team on a bi-weekly basis and a quick standup daily.

This is a GTD style technique that I think works great for certain individuals and not so great for others (I've always sucked at handling to-do lists), which is why I'm not sold on it as a team technique. I think you respond well to it, but I would not. So if it works for you by all means - keep it going.
Well, I have ridden various Segway models, and it works nothing like that at all. You can easily come to a complete stop on any incline (provided the tires can maintain traction eg: an 89 degree hill might pose some challenges to the general physics of the situation).
Mobile sites which force horizontal scrolling annoy me. Perhaps I'll read this later.
U.S. Wants Broader Internet Wiretap Authority
Fun place, thanks for putting it together.
First of all, we're not trying to break a proof of anything. There's a demonstrated attack on comparator-based sorts. Whether you want to allow the scenario doesn't much change the fact that that scenario is vulnerable.

Second, this method does not require prior knowledge of the elements. In fact, it disallows a large amount of information (the ordering). What prior knowledge are you claiming the adversary doesn't have but requires? He provides the set, so he has full knowledge of the members of the set (though the sorter doesn't, so this is useless knowledge). It's an unordered set with a full ordering relation, so a random permutation on initial indices will have no effect. He is the comparator, and thus has full knowledge of that as well. There is nothing else to know.

Now, you might object to the fact that the comparator is not a deterministic automaton, which is the assumption exploited, and I wish you good luck in enforcing that in your sorting routines.
Hmm. There's a lot of hyperbole, and very little description of how it actually works. And no, I'm not about to give a random website my ssh password :P

Anyone care to enlighten me further as to how it works?
At first I thought the author had inadvertently let some typos slip through, and that slightly annoyed me. Then I realized on further reading that the author was deliberately using third-person pronoun neologisms, and that seriously annoyed me.
Well ... one problem we have here is that Drexler style nanotech is something that attracts a lot of cranks or just people who don't get it (Drexler related sometime in the '80s or so the need to convince an acquaintance that it is incapable of transmuting the contents of an ICBM warhead in flight...).

However, you mischaracterize the author: his only use of idiot as a root word is "It is idiotic to blame Drexler, Merkle, Freitas when they did not get the money" (plus a repeat of this thesis statement at the end). He's saying Locklin and company's behavior is idiotic, not that they are idiots, which is at least to me a very different thing.

He then goes on to state why his thesis is self-evidently true (they've never got the funding to try out their ideas). I have no trouble with this style of argument.
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"DRM done right" is an oxymoron.
imply that the poor are all lazy

Speaking of straw men...

The words I'd use for what you call lazy include "rational" and "goal-oriented".

Of course, human nature seems to be such that people eventually stop being satisfied with what they have, so I don't think DanielBMarkham's argument is a great one: if the poor feel getting ahead is hopeless, they'll be unhappy, but if they don't feel it's hopeless, they'll (eventually) be dissatisfied with what they have.
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