skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder whether that’s a sensible position or just paranoia. I have no reason to believe that someone who hands me over his card wants to infect my PC, that seems just absurd to me. Any such infection would have to be accidental and I don’t know how likely that is. Should I also reject USB drives my friends give me when they want to share something with me? It seems like I should if USB drives are really that dangerous.
Plenty of shoddily constructed buildings were also made without power tools.

There might be an element of truth to your argument, but I suspect the more important factor is the influence of the party motivating the construction.

A Roman businessman building a hi-rise tenement building would probably not bother enforcing the use of quality engineering and materials. They also didn't use power tools, but if I'm not mistaken, these hi-rise apartment blocks were known to collapse.

But if you're building something like the Pantheon, in Rome, for the emperor Hadrian, you're going to have access to the best materials, and are not going to want to risk your neck by slacking.
I can easily separate the OP's opinion and leaning from the background he adds to what I will see at the poll on Tuesday. The OP does shed light on what the vote is about, whereas what voters will see at the poll is, I believe, worded so that most voters will not understand what they are voting on. You may feel there is nothing scary about the proposal. What I find scary is the method and wording that is placed in front of the unsuspecting voter. This is sandbagging, plain and simple. You don't get to do a bit of googling once the curtain is pulled to find out what you're voting on. The OP says he has received robo-calls on the subject. I read the local news almost daily and have assisted in two Georgia campaigns this year and this is the first I've heard of this proposed amendment.
But would Apple allow such a utility on the Mac App Store?

It seems to me that silencing the startup sound is essentially tampering with the Apple-designed user experience, which may not be looked kindly upon. (Also, it seems like the kind of thing that may require private API access, which is explicitly forbidden on the Mac App Store.)
I skipped shampooing my hair for a few days on vacation this Summer and I was shocked at how much better it looked. Ever since, I shampoo about once a week.

I never found a hair style that worked for me until very recently. It turns out that if I just don't do a damned thing to it, it looks awesome.

If you have frizzy, dry hair, try letting it keep its natural oils for a day.
As a primarily younger person (18), it hasn't changed anything. It hasn't made me "hang out" with anyone I don't hang out with regularly ect.

I mean, I recently left my home town to go to a new school and when I wanted to say good bye to my friends who I don't normally talk to- I wrote on their walls, but I also called them-
I would like to ask you an honest question, and I would like you to be honest. I will trust your answer is true.

Are you posturing and drawing a line in the sand with no real intent of following through if they cross? Or would you really go through backscatters with no qualms if they did as you asked?
My company makes employees set goals like you are referring to yearly but they are pretty much BS and everyone knows it.

However, I do set personal goals for each year around Christmas time. These aren't necessarily around work but areas in life I want to improve on or make some sort of progress in. These aren't new years resolutions like everyone makes but then makes no effort to achieve.

I usually do 5 to 6 a year and my goals are written out and most importantly quantitatively measurable. At the same time, before the new year I sketch out a rough timeline (again in writing) of each portion of each goal, what I need to achieve it, step by step etc. This has proven amazingly effectively over the past 3 years, getting me off my ass and accomplishing things that most people put off continually.

For example, one of my goals this year was to start a side business in x field with at least y amount of revenue in 2010. I did this successfully and learned a ton of stuff about starting a business, dealing with accountants, lawyers, business law, etc. Even better its already profitable.

To take an example of most common New Year's goal, go to the gym more and lose weight. Yeh, that is ill defined and the person will give up after gym visit 3.

The way I would phrase this one is along the lines of the specific outcomes I want. I mean you go to the gym as a means to an end, not to an end in of itself. So I would say my goal in 2011 is to lose 20 pounds, up my bench press by 30 lbs, and be able to run a 10 min mile for example. Then I would timeline this out (leaving it open for adjustments since shit happens and you want to experiment) such as by June 1, 2011 have lost 10 lbs, be able to do a 13 min mile etc.

Basically these have really helped me out and I'm already planning my goals for next year.
What's the other hub of technical innovation in the US? That's right, Boston. What's the rule they have there? Blue pencil.
I find this part objectionable:

When the job is completed and tested it will be open sourced, GPLV2, copyright will be assigned to 'The Modular Company BV' in the Netherlands.

If this is GPLed, then it shouldn't matter much who holds the copyright. If you want the copyright, then it's not much of a sign of your belief in open source.

Ideally you'd accept MIT licensed code.
Some vim users also remap their caps lock to Esc (modify ~/.Xmodmap on linux, also doable on Windows and Mac), whereas Emacs users will probably remap their caps lock to Ctrl.
Right. If "flying" isn't a fundamental human right, then neither is "driving", or even "walking to the shops".
The incredible potential for growth in stock value can't hurt either . . .

Many folks inside and out think that FB still hasn't found its "adsense" - when and if they do even late comers to the party will live out their days like sultans.
I have read an analysis of the teaching profession where highly motivated people choose against become teachers not just because of a low salary, but because of low salary variability. Expected teacher salaries don't get much worse even if the teacher does not try, and is not good at teaching.

Most people will not choose an outcome distribution which is highly concentrated on one spot, even if that has the highest expected return. People who are highly motivated are even less likely to choose it.

Most people will choose less expected return (sacrifice gains), and more risk by buying a lottery ticket.

I think the notion of lower risk being good comes from the financial world where you can use leverage on a lower risk position to create a higher return one.

I think people choose outcome distributions that are quite different than a low risk one.
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Uh, I'm aware of other political views. But unfortunately the Supreme Court doesn't subscribe to them, and won't in the foreseeable future. We can argue all we want about what the Ninth Amendment means, but things like the FDA aren't going to be ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court anytime soon. They'd say it falls under the vague "interstate commerce" clause. And they'd say the same thing for the FAA.
Did this person actually see the film? I'm left wondering, because the film had almost nothing to do with Facebook the application, and everything to do with the process of starting Facebook the company. Sorkin had no time to express a disdain for Facebook's "superficial" relationships; he was too busy with the drama surrounding the company's inception. The application itself is practically a McGuffin.
It's the means, not the ends, that are being criticized here. Fear-mongering is poisonous whether or not you happen to like the end result.

Having a big healthy meal to encourage healthy eating in preference to gorging on junk food is fine; having a big healthy meal so that your kids won't touch candy before you can check it for DEADLY POISONS and RAZOR BLADES is ridiculous and promotes an irrational fear of the community in which you live.

Similarly, not wearing a mask because you don't like masks is fine; not wearing one because MASKS MIGHT KILL YOU is deeply silly and strengths the disconnect between perceived and actual likely risks.
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Ugh, I wish people would stop thinking it's clever to call Experts Exchange "ExpertSexChange". First, it's not clever, and second, it implies that there's something wrong with a sex change.
I bought the nolo book on it. Uh, if I had to do it again, I'd probably have done it as a sole proprietor. I mean, i don't have any assets outside of the company, so limiting liability is not important right now... becoming a sole proprietor is super easy. go down to your local city hall and give them twenty bucks for a business licence and a DBA... take those to the bank and they'll set you up.
It kind of depends on whether or not they were carrying firearms that a metal detector wouldn't pick up. I really don't know how likely that would be.
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I use emacs daily, but enjoy vi(m) on the side occasionally. Nice tips!
I think your motives are noble. But you should not underestimate the dark side. I doubt that you'll be able to really pin down the big shots. Maybe a few careless little helpers. But even that's worth the effort. Good luck, mate!
Exactly.

Why beat around the bush with all this "warm milk and cookies in bed" rhetoric?
Fortunately, the Constitution allows for subsidiary levels of government to make all the criminal and civil codes they need while restraining the federal government from arbitrary overreach.

But I am in a statistical minority that cares about laws being enforced as written. Most of the country is fine with the government having whatever powers it finds expedient at the moment.
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Dave Collins is one of my Internet buddies, and he is about as savvy at AdWords as I am with SEO. People have offered me substantial amounts of money to do AdWords for them. I always turn it down and recommend they use him instead, as it would almost certainly be a better use of their money.
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See above for an explanation of why the transfer of copyright was added, if you have an alternative to that that will pass with my bookkeeper I'm open to it.

As for MIT vs GPL, I chose the GPL because it is the license that I believe best represents the spirit of what I want to achieve. If you wish you can make a similar offer using the MIT license.
"And the health care bill is huge for potential entrepreneurs; one of the major disincentives to quitting your job is the lack of health insurance."

After all the debate last year, I still find claims like this so strange. As far as I have ever been able to tell, the Health Care reform merely assesses a tax on being uninsured. So, if you quit your job to start a company, you no longer have the option to forgo insurance without now paying a penalty on your taxes. How an additional penalty would either a) provide more/better health care or b) spur entrepreneurship I have never been able to understand.
Call me a cynic, but I think that Zynga has found Facebook's AdSense.
Color me illiterate, but I couldn't find where on Reddit they talk about the same stuff? The startup subreddit looks dead and the programming reddit is quite different. I'd love a link or name!
I think that plenty of people are going to 'drop' this in to their existing site as a nice to have module in the back-office or intranet. That means they'll have to do customization, any kind of dependency is going to make that much harder.

So even a 'lightweight' framework will likely complicate things, for instance it is possible that another framework is already present.
I agree with all those arguments in general, but the article was targeting fear-mongering and an irrational approach to risk, not halloween etiquette and general rules reg. raising a child.
It's a good idea in theory, but in practice this will be just one more massive JavaScript disaster that's bogging down the connection on both ends for little actual security in return. See, it's the current short-time session that's most likely to be used against you, right there when you're sitting inside a Starbucks and enjoy that latte. Apart from this shortcoming, this scheme will also be difficult to maintain and will probably bring a lot of new exploits into the system that haven't been there before.

The solutions here are really simple. Instead of bolting dubious schemes onto HTTP to solve problems that should have been addressed in other layers, let's actually solve it in other layers! Switching to WPA2 is something pretty much any access point could do right away. In the long term, however, I believe we should break the stranglehold browser makers (with the oh-so-open Firefox among the worst) and cert authorities have over HTTPS.

(I'd also like to point out, again, how disgusting it is that people are claiming we just discovered this brand new vulnerability, when in fact it has been exploited by mediocre black hats since the dawn of time. Everybody's been knowing this for years, including every single web developer out there.)
I don't understand your argument here.

You won't find an economist (or any other person person) in the world that thinks GDP exhaustively covers every aspect of an economy and how it provides a standard of living.

What you will find is that they all agree GDP is the best available measure to determine a standard of living that is derived from some level of economic production.

If GDP is a terrible metric for determining standard of living, I'd like to know why it is still the most often used metric (by economists and non-economists alike) and a coherent argument for some alternative standard.

Any satisfaction based metric means that the majority of the developed world is doing something wrong -- numerous happiness studies show indigenous peoples often have a higher "happiness index" than people in the developed world.

Environmental based metrics have their own problems because environmental benefits and harms are not internalized by nations.

Income distribution based metrics aren't acceptable because the harms of great income distribution disparity are not easily mapped and are rarely agreed upon.

The only thing that might make sense is a metric based on life expectancy and education (Human development index from your Wikipedia link), but even that is problematic. Research created free-riding, regardless of patents.

The second a US company makes a drug that eliminates cancer, any lab that gets their hand on the drug can reverse engineer it with ease. The however many millions of dollars that went into building it (and become a function of its cost) are undercut by countries/people that do not respect the intellectual property rights of such a patent.

The outlay of spending becomes highly concentrated while the company doesn't see the returns that it expects. The drug copier gets the benefits of the hundreds of millions in R&D expenditure while only spending a few extra days of a scientists time.
There is at least one person on HN who credibly claims to have that, and I know of a few software entrepreneurs who work about that much when in parking mode.
I'm disappointed at Obama's inaction on net neutrality

"I'm disappointed at Obama's inaction on foo" is a constant refrain, but it's the natural result when someone is built up to be a savior.

And the health care bill is huge for potential entrepreneurs; one of the major disincentives to quitting your job is the lack of health insurance.

I don't see how the health care bill even fixes that.
Where in the US Constitution is the Federal government empowered to regulate the personal travel of Americans within the country?

Where in the US Constitution is the Federal government empowered to compel you to be subjected to dangerous radiation in order to board a common carrier?

And why is this outrage limited to aircraft? I can step in a boat and travel down the local river past all sorts of critical facilities without screening. Every drug dealer in my town gets product from a wholesaler in NYC whose couriers use inter-city busses. You can drive around with legal explosive materials with the exception of some tunnels and bridges.
Probably has more to do with the visceral pleasure of accelleration (cf. amusement parks) than the risk of death. Otherwise Russian Roulette would be a more popular extreme sport. It sure is more accesible.
I am probably cheating, but:

(I'm 18 now)
1. Finish Senior Year
2. (College) Dual Major in CompSi and EE
5/2. Grad school if I have patience
3. Experience working for companies like Google, Nvidia, Intel, ect.
4. Start a (successful) startup

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Annnnnd that's where I want to be in several years- well that's quite a bit more than five year, but it's where I want to be.

I know that some of those goals are clearly accomplish-able, and I'll be happy to answer any questions on if I think the others are likely. As for me- I've been programming for several years, and I've known what I want to do for quite a while.
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While these machines may stop terrorists from entering an airplane, it won't stop them from blowing up the crowded lines waiting to be scanned. Then install the machines at the entrance? The terrorists just have to move further outside. Any place with crowds of people is a threat. Nowhere is safe!

We should resurrect Ben Franklin's old adage: "They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."

Remember that the machines don't see inside body cavities. So if you, dear backscatter supporter, want to feel better (but not actually be safer), you should be arguing for complete cavity searches everywhere.
Also, :x is the short version of :wq(also available in vi). And some people put their rc files up on github, here is my vimrc file: http://github.com/wei23/dotfiles/blob/master/.vimrc I cherry-picked a lot of useful features from different vimrc files on github and dotfiles.org
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Except in this case the "business card" emulates a USB HID keyboard. No autorun, no file storage.
Although the HID device could send some malicious keystrokes I suppose.
"When Galileo suggested the world was round.."

Eh? Magellan's circumnavigation of the globe was complete nearly 50 years before Galileo was born.

Ctrl-w.
I expect you'd get worse treatment doing this than you would going through normal pat down. After all, only terrorists use scanner-proof clothing.
the big advantage the cloud brings is speed of spinning up new servers, for which it's nearly unbeatable. If you need 1000 servers tomorrow and want to get rid of them on Friday, there really is no other option. However, if you can forgo that speed, if it's okay to take some time to get the servers up and if you plan on keeping them online for a few months, owning starts to make sense around the time you need 16-32GiB ram, which really isn't very much.
I don't think so, I'm 20, and I remember when I was 12 or so I had friends that spent hours talking with each other on the phone at night, now I'm pretty sure they spend it on Facebook chatting. I'm not convinced there's been any fundamental change, just shifting some deck chairs.
> Then you cropped out everything but the eyes and showed the films to a group of volunteer subjects. Could the volunteers distinguish the skeptics from the believers just by their eyes?

Tangentially related -

There was a study done some time ago when they took a black and white photograph of an old man, sort of looking off camera and smoking a cigarette. Then, they told to different study groups that the person was (1) a mass murderer (2) a scientist (3) a farmer (4) a blind person and many things else, and asked what gave him away. The answer - invariably - was "his eyes".

So while I see what Scott Adams is saying and it makes sense, I still doubt it'd be possible to tell the skeptics from the believers the way he suggests.
I think tzs was talking about small programs worth between one dollar and five. Not that specific utility.
Are these new systems faster (in real world usage) than the traditional scan, and do they let you keep small items in your pocket?

I'll let security see me naked if it means I can walk through without a long line and without leaving my wallet and phone out of my sight.
It's difficult to answer the question "What would you do if this probability effectively-0 event came to pass?" So many things about that world would have to be different that I don't think that question is easy to answer. But all else being equal, yes I would actually feel better about it (despite not being the original poster you are questioning), and this is why: It would show our leadership has a proper understanding about the nature of the situation, that once information is taken it might as well be posted on the internet. Just like I'd feel better if Social Security numbers were simply declared to be public information so that we could all stop pretending that they are a useful identification technique.

I still wouldn't like it.

But it's a good question to ask, I think.
About a third of IT staff at my employer are female. That seems reasonable to me.
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Wealth is an abundance of freedoms.
I don't think the average intelligence at Google has declined very much. The people I work with are still all very, very smart - Lars said much the same thing in his article. There've been quite a few very intelligent latecomers recently - Alex Russell and Joshua Schacter both joined in 2009, even if Schacter did leave eventually. And I've heard a bunch of old-timer friends - people hired in 2005, or even in 2002 - say that there are recent, fairly inexperienced hires doing amazing things.

I think the problem is that the intelligence of a group is defined by the minimal intelligence of its members, not by the average. If you have even one member who just doesn't get it, then everyone else needs to dumb down their ambitions so that he doesn't get left behind. That's why the "no false positives" rule is so important in startup hiring, and why the public school system sucks so much. I think it's a fairly good bet that with 25k employees, the dumbest person at Google is dumber than the dumbest person in FaceBook. And with Google's shared infrastructure, it's fairly likely that you'll run across some design decision made by him.
What's hindering adoption of my product? Customers!
Let me get this straight...

- You want indefinite time to test a product which is loosely specified, effectively leaving developers of good solutions screwed if someone posts a better solution in the meanwhile
- Yet you want everyone to rush on it because only the first accepted solution gets paid for, and
- You actually you want them to invent wheels, hot water and sliced bread (no frameworks)

To add insult to injury, you want to protect yourself from people who want to earn quick money, while treating developers as a potential source of double licensing and nasty gotchas.

Or did I misunderstand you?
My immediate reaction to "slashtag" was: "oh does this somehow tie into searching the slashdot archives?"
I bought my last car by calling the various dealerships and asking to speak to the fleet manager. I had the exact model, options and color all decided beforehand. Then you just take the cheapest deal.

If you go in and talk to a salesman, there's another mouth you have to feed. Don't talk to them when you go to sign the deal with the fleet manager either.

And if you need to take a test drive after you've narrowed your choices down, don't go to the dealer for a test drive. Just rent the car and take your time. Just google "rent a toyota" or "rent a tesla" to find out how.
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