skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
" People vote Republican because Republicans offer "moral clarity"—a simple vision of good and evil that activates deep seated fears in much of the electorate. Democrats, in contrast, appeal to reason with their long-winded explorations of policy options for a complex world."

Wow. No bias there. What a schmuck.
I'm being down modded for this? It's an honest question.

edit: :( what did i do?!
You can build your own packages, with whatever tweaks you want built in. The thing is once you get past a certain size, you've got too many servers to be treating them as individuals.

And if you're past 4 machines you really want to start looking at cfengine.
> "The only issue I have with the whole thing is I wish he would do it, not ask others to solve his problems for him"

Why do you have an issue with this? Isn't the whole point of a company to solve its customers' problems for them??
true. Through printing press though. This is additional 85bln usd in circulation. We will all pay at the gas pump and groceries. Socialism for the rich. Communistic China would not do that. It is sad to see the USA becoming parody of this what it used to represent.
Risks are borne by owners, not employees.

AIG shares are in the crapper and now the government is taking 80%. The owners are being punished.
Nice job man :)
I'm working on the same project too. But my focus has been on Recognition more. Detection is a good approach to finding faces in photos (and hence faster queries), but you will understand that if you want to be successful in real world, you HAVE to extend your software to do more amazing thing :)
So:
1- Extend your system for Linux and Windows platforms as soon as possible.
2- Start to stretch its capabilities to recognize faces too.

Don't worry. You can get it done.

All The Best , Zentux (http://zentux.blogspot.com)
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Im petty sure House MD was a show about a cocky programmer, but nobody could get the jokes, so they changed it to a medical drama.
I am always thinking about the idea that one can upload a face image, then you present all the images on the web that have the face on them. Wow, that's a face search engine. Can your technology do this?
The goal of the bailouts is to minimize the effects of bank failures on the economy, not to make sure the banking system is sound in the future. The counterexample isn't valid. A valid counterexample would involve a country avoiding a recession while not bailing out failing banks, but even then, I don't think this particular situation has a historical precedent similar enough to be pertinent.

Also, after actually looking into the example, it looks like Sweden did bail out the banks to end the crisis: "The government rescued the banking system by issuing a general guarantee of bank obligations. The total direct cost to the taxpayer of the salvage has been estimated at around 2 per cent of GDP." (http://ideas.repec.org/a/oup/oxford/v15y1999i3p80-97.html)

Even with a valid counterexample, I think you should still have to explain why the current course of action is wrong, not just why another would be right, which is why I didn't address it in the first place.
Yeah, it's not the greatest technology but we're working real hard to improve it and have made great strides already.

One of our biggest interface components is our tagger where you can get through your photos pretty quick adding and manipulating boxes on faces.
Fascinating. It's how to hack politics. Anyone calling this OT didn't read past the first paragraph.
If only subsidizing nothing was sufficient to prevent stupid decisions from being made!
I though that it had to provide it to "all third parties"

GPL2 "2 b) You must cause any work that you distribute or publish, that in whole or in part contains or is derived from the Program or any part thereof, to be licensed as a whole at no charge to all third parties under the terms of this License."
First, let me just say that I do think this is inappropriate for Hacker News. That said, the article is ridiculous. Here, in a nutshell, is why...

The author in his very first sentence disproves his own theory by saying...

What makes people vote Republican? Why in particular do working class and rural Americans usually vote for pro-business Republicans when their economic interests would seem better served by Democratic policies?

The problem is, he bases his entire thesis on this misconception that any working class person who votes for a Republican is somehow voting "against their self interest" (which by the way shows how someone's own self interest can pervert a study if they let it)

The truth is, since the advent of modern economic theory there have been two differing perspectives on how to create wealth. One side believes that it's best to give money to corporations who will then hire people which in turn creates more jobs and more wealth. The other is to give money to individuals who will buy more stuff forcing corporations to hire more people and hence create jobs and more wealth.

These are both logical perspectives and the reason they persist is because neither can be conclusively disproven.

With that fairly simple logical explanation Mr. Haidt's thesis goes down the tubes in it's entirety. Both of the above stated theories produce wealth for the working class if the theory is correct and hence neither is necessarily "against the best interest" of any class of people.
Jesus, did you read it fully?
Sounds a bit like the army without taking crap and doing idiot chores all day long.

On a more serious note I genuinly believe that if not made obligatory, everyone should be strongly encouraged to spend an extended time in the outdoors. It's a great way to get to know other people on a profound level, while also getting to know yourself.

In addition to the skills you learn there, the wild has a way of putting things in perspective and instill a sense of belonging. As counter intuitive as it may sound, you're never more in touch with mankind as when you leave it all behind for a moment.
On-Topic: [...] anything that gratifies one's intellectual
curiosity.

Off-Topic: *Most* stories about politics, or crime, or
sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new
phenomenon. [...] If they'd cover it on TV news, it's
probably off-topic.

As always it's very subjective. Also, after skimming through the article it's more about sociology/psychology than politics.
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Flag it, don't complain in the thread.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corprotism
"I thought we were better than this"

That's what the democrats keep thinking, Which is why they can't win an election. It might be fashionable to say that you are not "into" politics and go about putting green symbols on your website, but politics how ever slimy and unwholesome and unfashionable could have saved 100,000 + 4000 people from being dead without any reason.

That point aside, the article is about how to hack peoples minds. (short ans: by making a sincere effort to understand them)
That is the longest way I have ever seen anyone write "Windows 7 as an OS will fail completely because I might not be able to upgrade directly from XP".

And I'm pretty sure that was the only argument the writer had.
I would have voted you up if you had actually linked to the essay.
banking in his day was NOT a simple matter:
"Our public credit is good, but the abundance of paper has produced a spirit of gambling in the funds, which has laid up our ships at the wharves as too slow instruments of profit, and has even disarmed the hand of the tailor of his needle and thimble. They say the evil will cure itself. I wish it may; but I have rarely seen a gamester cured, even by the disasters of his vocation." --Thomas Jefferson to Gouverneur Morris, 1791. ME 8:241

"I own it to be my opinion, that good will arise from the destruction of our credit. I see nothing else which can restrain our disposition to luxury, and to the change of those manners which alone can preserve republican government. As it is impossible to prevent credit, the best way would be to cure its ill effects by giving an instantaneous recovery to the creditor. This would be reducing purchases on credit to purchases for ready money. A man would then see a prison painted on everything he wished, but had not ready money to pay for." --Thomas Jefferson to Archibald Stuart, 1786. ME 5:259
SocialBrowse Onsite looks a lot like FriendFeed .
in what way are socializt policies in the economic self interest of taxpayers?
40% of america doesn't pay taxes, entitlement programs take money from taxpayers and give it to non-taxpayers either directly or in the form of entitlement programs.
intraspecific competition ... I'm not sure if purchased items would count

You are not sure if it could be any more difficult to afford a more-expensive item than to afford a less-expensive one?

.

you'd be better off ... spending the money on other things.

How would making life easy for oneself advertise that one is so genetically-fit that one need not bother making life easy for oneself? Are you meaning to imply that fertile female humans are generally unaware that mined-diamonds, Mercedes, and Macbook Airs are more expensive than their functional-value equivalents (synthetic-diamonds, Lexuses, and Lenovo 300s, respectively)?

According to the theory, the point is to visibly make life hard for oneself. To wit:

http://images.google.com/images?q=ricer

http://www.pulldoggies.com

Perhaps you are familiar with the phrase, "Trashed for overtopping." It refers to the hanging of weights (trash) around the necks of the fastest dogs in a hunting pack. Buying a Macbook Air is a form of trashing oneself. Pulling it out in a cafe makes it visible. One could also walk around all day with a backpack full of bricks. There are myriad ways of visibly trashing oneself.

http://images.google.com/images?q=mohawk
matt, we agree! :)
"If you're buying a laptop to impress girls at Starbucks (in which case, you might want to do some serious self-evaluation) this ain't the one for you. If you want to get things done while traveling, you can't beat it."

Well, that's what you said.

I suppose comments on HN are taken seriously and considered well thought-out comprehensing your complete thought. Ok, that's naive.

But it sounds insulting to say they need self-evaluation (which is what I think sparked the post).
The "twice as fast" I agree you with. Xcode I've heard nothing about. MobileMe I agree with them: it's beautiful unlike any other web app I've used. The service rocks too.

The operating system is absolutely the most advanced. The fact that it gives you so much power without any tinkering is stunning. Corner-window commands, the vast keyboard commands, and the incredible efficiency of Spotlight are my favorite quick things to point out.
Did you watch the Republican convention? It was basically three days of them calling Obama faggy for reading books and eating fancy lettuce.
Printing money is by definition inflation (so, yes).
I feel like I'm disagreeing with everything Matt says this week, but: look at a computer like the MacBook Pro, which is fairly thin. It doesn't look like something you could destroy easily. I'm sure you could make a mini computer that didn't look fragile but that DID have a better aesthetic design than the Lenovo. It's an unattractive computer for everybody out of the "ugly is good" mentality. The fact that most corporations still have that mentality goes along with the fact that a ton of companies don't "get" a lot of things and make inferior products. Pretty defensive post on your part.

And, not to say this for the third time or anything, but your web site is broken, links don't work, and the URL you yourself gave us up there is broken and redirects to the front page. You're using Wordpress, theming is not hard, please fix it so I can browse your archives.
For the record, I read it fully and he's completely right. The conclusion the author draws don't seem to in any way be supported by the data he collects.

In fact, in many places the evidence he collects could very well disprove his theory but he ignores those implications (such as when he finds Conservatives have an easier time seeing the view of those they disagree with but then goes on to essentially call them simple minded idealogues)
You should read the entire article. It appears you have stopped reading past the first sentence. The last piece by Roger Schank is BRILLIANT!!!
Couldn't have agreed more. It's one of the most refreshing articles I have read in a long time!
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I did read the whole article and I don't see anything that contradicts what I said. Do you have an actual concrete example of what it is you refer to?
True, I always had airfare in mind, but once you take that off and the hotel too, it is reasonable.
http://awurl.com/duhUew7J2

You can click "Jump to Highlights" at the top if you don't feel like scrolling down.
Far more people vote based on issues of morality and values than vote on the nuances of progressive taxation. The author doesn't address your issue because in the grand scheme of things, it doesn't matter.
Wow, I think we found the Steve Gillmor of politics.

Maybe people vote a certain way because they, like, believe in the same things. Why does it have to be more complicated than that?
OK, the points you highlighted don't really disprove what I said.

His thesis is built around the idea that there must be an irrational reason for certain people to vote Republican. He then goes out in search of that reason and the bulk of the article is him pursuing that reason which he eventually deems to be a focus on moral concerns that Democrats ignore.
But if his thesis was wrong from the outset (which is what I contend in my original comment) than the rest is just fruit of a poisonous tree. Because if “working class” people have a reason to rationally vote Republican than any argument he makes as to why they would irrationally vote Republican is, at best, incomplete and at worst completely wrong.
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I'm planning on setting it up eventually so that it'll automatically clone from the most recent backup of our databases.

I wish there existed, and looked for, tools to manage such a roll-out, but really, it was only a few hours of work to get everything set up. VMWare is your friend there for testing the script, fixing, rolling back to the fresh-installed point, wash, rinse, repeat.
You have to run with it, picasa 3 beta has face recognition backed into it along with googles money!
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This is something that has been building up for a while. You could see it best in the RUR to USD rate, which was at an all-time low this year at about 23, but has been crawling back up to 26 ever since the Russia-Georgia conflict.

Is it all connected to the war or not? Many of my friends in Russian finance say it's just a 'course correction', but you never know...
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Well, two things. First, that isn't what the author said (which is why I quoted him) and second, I don't know for a fact that more people vote on morality without some scientific evidence to prove it.

That is my point. The author went in with a pre-defined bias which it turn corrupts his conclusion.
It doesn't count because a MacBook isn't an evolutionary trait. The whole idea behind sexual selection is that some genes are more fit than others. Has nothing to do with possessions.

Also, the Air is slightly cheaper than a Lenovo X301, and Mercedes and Lexus seemed pretty comparable for the same class back when I was looking.
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I lold at this one.
Perhaps we interpreted his point differently. It sure seemed to me, as evidenced by those highlighted sections above, to be: "We as liberals don't understand why people vote republican. A lot of us believe that they are voting against their economic interests because they are being mislead. In fact, they have a very different system of values than we do and we should learn to understand and respect it"
How you control for values?

Here is the full-text (free of charge) PDF of the 2007 Lynn/Kanazawa paper:

http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/MES/pdf/PAID2008.pdf

The cultural values of the respondents are measured by their responses to a question on the values parents would most like in their children. The survey gives 13 values and asks respondents to identify the one that they would most like their children to have, and also the three they would most like their children to have.

These were the values surveyed:

Success
Studiousness
Amicability
Cleanliness
Considerateness
Control
Honesty
Interest
Judgment
Manners
Obedience
Responsibility
Sex role

Table 1 gives the percentages of the respondents endorsing each of the 13 values they would most like their children to have, for the ﬁve religious categories. ... There are only two values in which Jews are signiﬁcantly different from others. These are honesty, which Jews desire in their children less than others, and judgment, which Jews desire in their children more than others. ...

Table 2 gives similar results for values being one of the three most important that the respondents would most like their children to have. ... There are eight values in which Jews are signiﬁcantly different from others. Jews attach less importance to cleanliness, honesty, manners and obedience, but they attach more importance to considerateness, interest in how and why things happen, judgment and responsibility. ...

the results do not provide any evidence for the theory that Jews attach more importance to success or to studiousness than non-Jews. In fact Jews attach less importance to success and to studiousness than non-Jews in the results set out in both Tables 1 and 2, although the differences between Jews and non-Jewish are not statistically significant. ...

Jews do attach more importance to four values than non-Jews. These are considerateness, interest in how and why things happen, judgment, and responsibility, but it is not easy to see how these would contribute to the success of Jews in virtually all walks of life.
it's "fiat money" - more on this by Gary North - http://www.lewrockwell.com/north/north652.html
Maybe something like http://studio.suse.com/ would be useful?

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Even there I think bias leads you to an inaccurate conclusion.

I saw your original comment (don’t know why you changed it there didn’t seem to be anything wrong with it) and for the record I did click on the links and took some of the quizzes (there were a lot). But again I think his bias prevented him from formulating questions that delivered anything but what he wanted to see (which in turn leads to his focus on values in the first place)

The quizzes I took focused not on values but on the root of values which is largely irrelevant. So when he asked whether people “think God would approve” as a reason for holding a certain value he’s trying to target what he perceives to be irrational reasons for values rather than looking at the values themselves.

The truth is that most actual values are shared between both Republicans and Democrats. Take Gun Control. One side believes we shouldn’t put restrictions on guns because it gives honest people a way to defend themselves while the other believes we should limit gun ownership to keep those guns out of the hands of people who would abuse them. The value behind each position is “to have a society with less violence” the disagreement is just in how to achieve the value.

So the conclusion he comes up with (that conservatives have a different set of values) is an inaccurate one generated by biased process.
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You haven't read the article, have you? Because author goes on to agree with you and analyzie in detail what is that exactly that people find "right" and "noble" about republican values.
1) Computers can encrypt data. Good encryption is easy to use and prohibitively hard to break.

2) Voice is really just data.

These two concepts are still very vague in the minds of politicians and the like but they are coming closer to finally colliding. Dim little bulbs are soon going to come on over certain heads and we may have us a short trip to Vernor Vinge's SHE.

I wonder how the people who went so far in recent days to tap phones (both legally and otherwise) will react when they finally realize that the age of the "phone tap" is coming to an end,
Infant mortality in the US correlates highly [negatively] with income. In France it doesn't.
Ha, is that rare?
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Nintendo makes more profit per employee than Goldman (or Google)
Why? Still most of my 4 cores remain idle.
Precisely. Nobody should get bailed, the economy should collapse for a little while and eventually get itself sorted out. The moral should be, "an economy cannot run on practically free credit alone."
That is an _option_ you can take if you do not wish to distribute the source code directly with the binaries.

The GPL is actually pretty flexible on how you get code to people, and provides a number of routes. For many projects (especially public ones - but also for things like D-Link routers) just throwing up an open-access website with the code on it is easier than passing out code with software/firmware updates.

The minimum requirement is that the people you distribute the software to must get the source code of the binary version you give them.
This is exactly the kind of comment that I feared we would see when articles like this start gaining traction. It's a cheese puff comment: it's got some taste, but it's empty. It has nothing to back it up, no content, no reasoning, no well crafted argument. It's just an empty "rah rah" type of slogan of the type that politicians regularly regurgitate. There is nothing new or clever about the comment, it's the sort of thing that's made the rounds elsewhere 100's of times. Being such a cheap, throwaway comment, it mostly/usually doesn't lead to particularly interesting discussions, as we can see here, despite a few good comments, but more zingers, one liners and similar "go home team!" cheering for one political side.
A great thing about Hacker News (and Reddit) is that bad headlines are quickly corrected. Your head is great - far better than the fog-filled "Russia to take anti-crisis steps on markets in days" the Financial Times offered.
Let's see: the GI Bill, the Internet, Social Security, NASA's and DOD's funding of computer and semiconductor R&D all seem to have worked out fairly well. Not perfectly, but better than their non-existence would have.
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