skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But that's just talking about labor restrictions, and it's standard political bickering, nothing revolutionary will come out of that, Europe is too populist for any real change to happen. What I'm talking about is restructuring the tax/welfare system with something like this : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative_income_tax

Eliminate paper currency and only have digital transactions, force the banks to disclose accounts and transaction information to remove gray economy and use NIT scheme instead of all the special programs. That way everyone get's the same safety net when they are unemployed or poorly paid and you can have unregulated at-will employment because employees aren't forced to negotiate for bare minimum.
Yeap, small company from Timisoara (http://www.josekibold.ro/ ).
Of course people have responsibility for their own country.

But "pick their own lifestyle" argument can be used with slaves, which have been kept ignorant by their owners.

I don't know where you come from and might be putting opinions into your fingers, but modern (mostly left extremist) cultural relativistic acceptance of tyrants is truly abhorrent.

(Sorry for coming in late.)
sounds very lofty and academic. let's focus on simple tools that help relief workers do their jobs better. my little plug: http://www.frontlinesms.com/.
I use Emacs' org-mode to keep myself organized, and have generally disliked all other task list applications — they usually lack flexibility or require unhelpful and distracting self-adjustments to fit their worldview.

Trello feels like web-based org-mode. For simple use, it is almost as flexible, and it has groups and sharing built in. Nicely done.
if you came out and said you would never hire a woman or an old person, you would be fired immediately and blackballed from managerial positions for life

I took it as an example of why he won't hire anyone and why he won't even sell his apartment and start a venture. As such he would have no company to represent in saying those things. Further if you never hired anyone, I am pretty sure you could state your reasons in America and not run afoul of legislation. Now if you openly stated such and then hired only 25-50 yr old males, sure you are asking for it and are going to get it.
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I run a business and could relate so strongly, I registered for HN just to comment: this is why I find it so difficult to hire locally in the U.S. - the incentives make it so much easier to offshore work.
Bipasha Basu didn't invited Rana Daggubati in her Birthday.
Makes sense. I can relate. Maybe even give it a try. Good ideas, especially the observations on US politics and the two party system.
You're right, the money is not stolen and the comparisons to other countries/systems are sometimes very odd. But if you take away 50% from everybody, the assumption has to be that everybody wants to buy all the same things in the exact same amount and quality.

The government takes away your "right" to find your own balance between opportunity and security. The government takes away your choice and your power as a consumer to discriminate between different suppliers, which causes those suppliers to be worse than they might otherwise be. For some things, like health care, the assumption is broadly correct, if the quality controls work (that's a big if). For most other things it is not correct at all.

Not everybody wants to retire at the same age or at all. Not everybody wants to secure the same pension or start saving for it at the exact same time of their life. Not everybody wants to go to university. Not everybody wants to have children or send them to the exact same (mostly broken) type of school.

Not everybody wants to buy expensive protection against being fired or getting sick for a week. Not everybody wants to support the local opera house, museums, the government's very own TV network or that network's very own classical orchestra. Not everybody wants to subsidise railway lines to remote parts of the country or the post office there.

And then there's the problem that some groups of people that are close to the government or belong to well unionised traditional industries are getting a lot more out of it than everybody else. The system isn't driven by need, it's driven by affiliation. Affiliations are a complex web and hence entitlements are organised in an extremely complex and ineffecient way that makes people want to stay put once they have a achieved a certain entitlement status.

At the end of the day, we're paying 50% into government coffers and yet we have widespread poverty in many European countries because the poor are a minority without much of a say in anything.

I'm not arguing for letting people go hungry, untreated and homeless when they cannot help themselves. I'm arguing for redistributing money instead of forcing canned buying decisions on everybody. I'm convinced that catching those who fall does not take 50% of all monies earned.
Please explain which Asia? The Asia which has generations of poverty and casting and wants to do nothing about it? The asia that is largely influenced by super radical islamic clerics? The Asia that will die off soon because its birth rate is so low that it won't replace its aging population? Or the Asia that is so reliant on American and other Western consumers that they have to continuously deflate their currency in order to keep their citizens from revolting against what is one of the largest plutocracies of all time?
Sure the west has problems but nowhere near Asia's.
The irony of this is that if I'm busy enough to write todos I never ever see my desktop anyway. I switch around between open windows, why would I take the time to check the desktop?

A big yellow old-fashioned post-it will work better. Not everything is better in digital form.
> millions of Iranian/whatever people that WANT to live like they do

It is really not an unreasonable assumption that the population living under a totalitarian regime, does, in fact, not want to.

> What exactly is specifically bad about the Iranian government that other countries have not already did, including the US?

The rule of law. The rest amounts to rounding errors.
I used to use paper todo lists until I discovered Calcurse (http://www.calcurse.org). I use a detailed and feature-rich Conky rc on both my desktop and laptop and love it, but the appointment and calendar interface that Calcurse adds is indispensable compared to a simple list.
The service might be of use but my concern is the latency. If I need to use the location variables (in my headline etc), they must be available to me ideally before the body starts. If they are doing a MaxMind lookup or any lookup of IP from a database, they are not serving cached content from a CDN and hence bound to have more latency then I expect from a library.

If my site is big enough with world wide visibility that it needs custom locations, it bet to be fast also
This remembers me of the really cool spamd application from OpenBSD just the other way around:
"When a sending host talks to spamd, the reply will be stuttered. That is, the response will be sent back a character at a time, slowly."

http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=spamd&aprop...
Commodity News for the week ending January 6, 2012
Of course they do sue. There is the whole "Munkaügyi Bíróság" (Work Court or whatever) to deal with the zillion lawsuits against companies firing people. And I'm not saying it's wrong. I'm saying, more often than not, these regulations backfire, and harm those, whom they should protect. Goverments create an environment in which employer and employee see each others as enemies, literally. They promote this view. Here I experience public anger against companies, investors, banks, especially multinational companies, but even smaller companies, who look successful. "Workers" see companies as their enemies. This is plain wrong, and bad, and nobody benefits. Only the corrupt, inefficent, incompetent goverments.
Good question. If there isn't one, lets create one.
Go Daddy Moving Back into Private Auction Space
Color Thief, script for grabbing the color palette from an image
From the article, "By definition, plagiarism only happens when credit to sources is not given, which was never the case with Rybka."

I simply do not agree with this. I cannot copy slabs of open source code, incorporate them into my product and pass if off as my own just because I somewhere credited the great performance of my program to stuff I learned from reading open source software.

To me, plagiarism is copying some portion of someone else's work and including it in a work which I (explicitly or implicitly) claim to be my own.

For example, a student handing in a wikipedia article for a homework assignment still commits plagiarism even if they credit wikipedia as a source but don't explicitly say the thing is a wikipedia article. They hand it in as their work when they did not write it. So at this point I do not feel I agree with the article. It's as though the argument is, yes he copied, but it's ok because he gave "credit", there were plenty of new ideas and everyone else was doing it too. That's not the same thing as, "he didn't commit plagiarism". The latter means he did not copy the code.

Having said that, I am absolutely gobsmacked that the committee did not simply ask for the source code to both programs, check that it in fact compiles to the binaries in question, then do a comparison for legally significant quantities of identical code.

It's even more remarkable when you realise that the version of Fruit involved was open source, so they didn't even need to ask for the source code to that!

Note: I edited the above in response to the comments below.
If he's in Virginia (I was there 9 years), it takes a significant income to have a home. My old one bedroom condo at 835 sqft was 240k in 2005. A single family home in a reasonable neighborhood starts at $300k pretty easily which is easily 2-3x prices here in Austin.

The problem is that salaries in DC aren't double Austin.. they're more like 1.3-1.5x.

Also, once you're about the 50k threshold for income, some of those deductions - like for student loans - start decreasing and disappear.
It would be very easy to promote the employment of the elderly, the handicapped, whoever every normal person in the world wishes to help. The state should make it cheaper for me to employ them. It's that easy. Instead, they create regulations that harm those, who they aim to protect.
JQuery help? Please? :)
Hello guys, i'm making a html5 website the thing is that i have a <nav> menu and i want to fadein and switch the content of the respective <article> when clicked on the <nav> do you guys know a plugin or something? thank you :)
OCZ makes pci express ssd's which claim very high speeds. They seem to be similar in theory to what Woz is doing. Does anyone have any experience using them? Here is a link
http://www.ocztechnology.com/ocz-revodrive-3-x2-pci-express-...
I turn off the computer at night, so I see it at least twice a day.
If tech companies were college students...
Yes webkit has too http://www.webkit.org/blog/1273/the-html5-parsing-algorithm/
Oops. Typo! I mixed him up with the Think Python author. Thanks for catching that!
I disagree. I think if a student turns in an assignment that's clearly and admittedly just a WP article, the student should not get credit for doing the work, but he didn't commit plagiarism.
You're assuming that web sites consist of compliant html; which is never the case.
Very interesting. I'm so inured to consumer-unfriendly uses of verification codes and authenticity mechanisms -- it's nice to see one that is genuinely useful.
How much of this comes from just pure boredom and/or an addiction to social networking?

From boredom can come great ideas for a business or personal analysis. Two of the great tech titans in this industry in Gates and Jobs did not have this addiction and limited web access to their children. They did not grow up with the web. What is the effect of a lack of boredom? Does forward progress suffer as a result?

>Maybe we establish relationships that couldn't have been established otherwise, because of circumstances, distance, opportunity, whatever?

I wonder if that's true for most. I'd suspect that most of the youth that uses Facebook would not know where to start in finding interesting posts.

It may be what people want but it may not be what they need.
Anyone idiot or indeed a wise man can crank out an opinion or even cliched abuse but don't you find it more interesting when they bother to offer a counterpoint or an argument or pertinent further evidence regarding the issue?.
Eh. I use org-mode and all my TODOs are a Cmd+Tab away. So much software is instantly irrelevant with a persistant Emacs.
There's a rubygem called "j", that does something similar.
https://github.com/HashNuke/j

(shameless plug. I wrote it after being inspired by another command-line todo called "t-")
Very nice. I would expect a provision to upload (or add URL of) an image and test it on the demo page before downloading it and using it on my website.
This is basic jquery stuff, no plugins needed
http://api.jquery.com/category/events/
http://api.jquery.com/fadeToggle/
You will have much better luck getting an answer at Stack Overflow or just Googling your question.
>remove the social contributions for health (around 6-7 % for a beginner engineer with a good degree), and pension (around 10-12 % IIRC). When comparing e.g. the US vs European country, this has to be taken into account

Then you'd have to remove our 7.65% for Social Security and Medicare (employers pay another 7.65% on employees behalf).
If you have someone gone for a year in a small company, that's a huge problem. It's not that they're remote for the year, they're gone. They don't know the new staff, work, projects, etc.

One of the favorite words around here is "pivot" and ponder how a company can pivot successfully with some of these considerations. Sometimes a pivot will completely change a product, business model, industry, etc and the company has to hire or layoff people accordingly.

It sucks by all measures (I've been on the wrong end of that), but ponder how much more difficult that gets when some of your staff is untouchable.

Even if it's not a problem, it changes your mindset and gives you yet another thing to worry about.
The HTML5 parsing algorithm states how to parse invalid HTML.
And I - sincerely - wish you all the best, and I hope you will win. I'm not against decent, and fair laws that protect women's rights to pregnancy. But it's a national issues. The state must cover the bill. When they try to get the bill payed by the employers, it backfires, and at the end of the game, HARMS women, who can't get enough good jobs.
Will we only create and use dynamic languages in the future?
A quote from Rajlich:

> Yes, the publication of Fruit 2.1 was huge. Look at how many engines took a massive jump in its wake: Rybka, HIARCS, Fritz, Zappa, Spike, List, and so on. I went through the Fruit 2.1 source code forwards and backwards and took many things.

It's not as if he never admitted to studying Fruit.

Also, most of the confusion is there because Rajlich didn't have a repo until Rybka 4, so when the reverse engineered his code they formatted it the same way as Fruit, making it look very similar. If a judge missed the bit saying that the Rybka code is "functionally equivalent code", not the actual code, they might be fooled into thinking the orignal codebases looked very similar. The guy doing this wrote something like 30 posts a day on the discussion board about Rybka, and was clearly not a fan.

They should have made a 3-way comparison - Rybka's PST, Fruit's PST, and some independent program's PST (in the same format as the other two).
http://entropydigital.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/webgr...
Forget that you even read this article then. Subtract all the simplicity, multiply the hassles by 1000, and double it up, maybe once more. Allow the whole thing to stew on slow flame for months (not days) and probably now you are close to the ground reality of incorporating in India.

Practicalities: You have to contact a RoC agent (Registrar of Companies) who'll get this done for you. Depending on the type of your entity/incorporation (sole proprietorship, LLC, LLP, Company, One person company etc) the fees, time and documentation required will vary. For basic info check out http://www.mca.gov.in/ (Min of Corporate Affairs).

Beware though, really the incorporation process in India sucks donkeys balls and exhales horse farts even when going through agents.

If you want I can refer an RoC agent who presented at one of the weekend startup-meetings in Bombay. Sounded intelligent and well-versed with issues related to startup incorporating. My email is in my profile.
I would expect there to be very few engineers in Hungary that match that description

And you would be so incredibly wrong. Hungarians are smart. Smart like Americans used to be, back in the 19th century when an American who did his work out in the barn could revolutionize entire industries for breakfast.
WebKit has been using the new algorithm since mid 2010. And I'm pretty sure Chrome 7 (Octoboer 2010) was the first major browser to ship an HTML5 compliant parser.
Ask HN: Do startups hire 50+ year old programmers?(US)
I think a demand that businesses undertake some social responsibility is sensible, given the privileges corporations receive (like limited liability). I think many people overlook that corporations are granted real privileges beyond those granted to individual citizens.

But I'd point out that, if one makes social responsibility particularly onerous on individual businesses, "You want a workforce? ... pay up" may reach equilibrium not by people paying up but by fewer and fewer wanting a workforce. Then everyone is poorer.

At the end of the day, businesses are started and run by people. Pro-little-guy positions like "tough shit, pay up" are aggressive stances not just against abstract legal entities but also against often-well-meaning individuals who aspire to offer products and services. Even people strongly aligned with European social democratic values agree that the government can't do everything, so if you want locally produced products and services you have to ensure that the conditions are suitable for people to do that.

Yet, somehow I don't think we'd feel the same sort of emotional satisfaction from "You want jobs? Tough shit, stop voting for policies that make it hard to offer them."
It sounds like it is trying to make laws fuzzy, because you can't make it outright unbalanced to the copyright owners, but the same owners are lobbying for more law in their favour. Laws have been declined or overturned for being fuzzy, I hope this is the true legal kind of fuzzy.
How much certainty is there that the Iranians actually spoofed the GPS signal?
How much evidence is there to overturn the null hypothesis (being that the GPS signal was either jammed, or the plane simply crash-landed inside Iran)
This isn't true, whilst the terminal can't display web content, it will far outstrip it in functionality and resource management.

Having said this, I think browser's will catch up and so...
I don't really understand why maternity leave is a problem. The employer can hire someone for a specified time, say three years, then take back the young mom. In Hungary a lot of companies do this, and the new hires themselves are usually young women, who'd like to take the maternity in a few years, anyway.
Instead this cost is spread out among all the companies in the form of employment laws.

No, it's spread out among all the companies that are willing to hire women. The companies that discriminate against women have a competitive advantage over those that don't.

(Note that under normal circumstances, discrimination is a competitive disadvantage. If I hated Indians, for example, I'd never have found my current team.)
Since websites need a privacy policy if they have users in California anyway, you might as well put your use of the data into it.

You should always tell your users what data you gather and how you use it. If you only let the data stay in the browser and never send it to the server then tell them.
Fire Everything - Social Media Rules of Engagement
False whitness is a commandment.

I'm not sure plagarism is mentioned.

Charity is not mentioned.

Thou shall not covet is mentioned.

These things mean more when God exists.

God says...
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nts referring to this famous knight;
and this being his persuasion, he did not despair of finding the
conclusion of this pleasant history, which, heaven favouring him, he did
find in a way that shall be related in the Second Part.

CHAPTER IX.

IN WHICH IS CONCLUDED AND FINISHED THE TERRIFIC BATTLE BETWEEN THE
GALLANT BISCAYAN AND THE VALIANT MANCHEGAN

In the First Part of this history we left the valiant Biscayan and the
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You have no idea how bassackward your inquisition is. Now, you shall be judged by God.

Judge not lest you be judged.

By the standard you judge, you shall be judged.

Jesus commanded charity, but it didn't make the ten.

God says...
C:\LoseThos\www.losethos.com\text\BIBLE.TXT

D thy God hath heard:
wherefore lift up thy prayer for the remnant that is left.

37:5 So the servants of king Hezekiah came to Isaiah.

37:6 And Isaiah said unto them, Thus shall ye say unto your master,
Thus saith the LORD, Be not afraid of the words that thou hast heard,
wherewith the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed me.

37:7 Behold, I will send a blast upon him, and he shall hear a rumour,
and return to his own land; and I will cause him to fall by the sword
in his own land.
I don't have an opinion on what this guy did and whether he should have been stripped, but you're redefining plagiarism pure and simple.

Plagiarism is passing off someone else's ideas or expression of those ideas as if they were your own. And that's it. Plagiarism has nothing to do with whether you benefit from someone else's ideas illegally or unethically.

Let's say that there's a competition to write an original novel. I take Moby Dick and change one sentence. Then I submit it with a big warning on the front cover that says: "This novel is Moby Dick with one sentence changed by me." I have violated the rules of the contest perhaps. If I win I maybe benefitted from it. But I have not committed plagiarism -- I did not pass off these ideas as if they were my own. It was made clear whose ideas they were.
As an individual you can't get a UK bank account unless you can prove you have a UK physical address. Maybe there is a way round but I doubt the restrictions are any less rigorous for businesses.
Exploring the V8 JS engine (Part 1 of 2)
I'm very new on jQuery so i'll try to make it by myself, thank you :)
Sounds great. You have passion about startups. But please think twice about your idea of social networking. After color.com failure VC don't accept startups about social networks so much. I recommend you to read this article. http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/160/bill-nguyen-startups
going to do that right now, thank you c: