skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's not the point we were discussing, you were saying that just allowing anyone ("any Russian" for our example) to come will be a negative thing because it will bring a lot of people who would just leech off of the social welfare system.

My rebuttal is that this is very similar to what happened in Israel, a large and fairly random ("have some degree of Jewish decent") group of people were allowed to immigrate with very little hassle & it ended up being positive for all involved (except maybe the country they left).

The population of a country already much more densely populated than the US grew by 65% in 20 years[1], so this is not a case of it only working because not many people wanted to immigrate.

To summarize: my opinion is not that there should be 0 filtering, but that there should be less filtering than there is today, and that increasing the amount people coming over would benefit countries like the US and Canada.

[1] http://www.google.com/publicdata/explore?ds=d5bncppjof8f9_&#...
I so agree with this. If there was such a ting as "100% scrum compliant" it would be a bad goal to strive for. Not because it is bad in itself, but because the process should be adjusted to the situation.
Property, in the legal sense of the word, refers not to a particular scarce resource, but rather to a state-acknowledged bundle of exclusive rights that an individual may be recognized to hold over said resource. State acknowledgement of real and personal property, <b>combined with the rule of law</b>, are the basis of the stability of, and therefore prosperity of, the so-called 'first world'. Trying to extend these metaphors to intellectual property, to build fences around knowledge, without seriously rethinking the fundamental differences between ideas and manifest things, quickly generates absurdity. Should every teacher that I've ever had be entitled to some portion of the value that I am able to create applying the ideas that they have imparted to me? Did they create those ideas in the first place?

I believe people should be able to make a living from their work. That said, copyright is not an incorruptible shield-maiden descended from the heavens to defend creators. Copyright, among other things, makes legal interest portable. This has many upsides for the clever and the brave, but it also allows the naive and unwary to be fleeced, as the depressing nursing homes full of dirt-poor hit song writers could attest.
There should be a site: foxconnsponsors.com - something akin to sponsoring a child (World Vision). Maybe Apple can setup the site - iWorkers.com and you get to see pictures through your iPhone of how these iWorkers' lives have been transformed through iWorkers.com. Heck, make it accept bitcoins.
Those aren't peasants, they're laborers. "Peasant" means subsistence farmer.
Unfortunately it's a bit tough for Facebook to do that, given that Zynga make up something like 15-20% of their total revenue.

They probably should do; but it's a tough decision to make now that they are answerable to shareholders.
I feel like this is the kind of thing that will someday be explicitly illegal.
> There’s also details given of 70 ways you can incur a penalty, but only 13 ways to earn a reward.

To be fair, at my job it's more like 100 and 1.
There are enough flaws here that I feel most people are going to focus in on one or two they found particularly egregious so I will do the same: The pitching of class as upper vs. middle while entirely ignoring lower is horrifically offensive in addition to being a major flaw in the argument. First because we would need to address the poor and how the massive wealth gap is harmful to all of society before we could even begin to act on any of the suggestions within. Second because the poor are, in many ways, the peasants described within or even worse off than the peasants were. Additionally, the piece portrays anyone who is not in the "upper class" as being so by their own fault, a viewpoint I got tired enough of in college after a few too many run-ins with people who could not even imagine what it would be like to be less than upper-middle class (by current socioeconomic definitions).
The story of the web up until now:
It sucks because browser X doesn't support technology Y correctly.
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> I can't believe that Facebook has become another MySpace.

I can. I know many social app development groups (outsourced in India) who worked on MySpace and are now working on Facebook - though they say the real money is moving to iOS, Android and Windows8 app dev.
I'm appalled by the comments here. The consensus seems to be that the terrible working condition of the people making our favorite gadgets doesn't matter and shouldn't get coverage because you can find even poorer conditions in the same country.

Fucking hippies lamenting over the lot of a few Chinese working 10 h/day in a toxic prison factory while they are not even totally enslaved.
What kind of question is that?
The submission's points are awarded by the users who find the content interesting.
but more unique ids from multiple sites with different (national) laws, privacy policies and management is even more scary.
Exactly. And then it turns out you excel in playing squash.
Perhaps it is the environment or Product Owners that are causing this slow down? Product Owners (PMs, etc.) should stack rank items in their backlog before a sprint planning meeting. This should make it fairly easy to allocate items for a sprint and identify features which either need to be 1. clarified, 2. split/scoped down. My sprint planning sessions have typically always gone smoothly as long as everyone came prepared and ready to contribute.
Colour me stupid, but is there something to prevent inserting indeterminate padding while sending headers? e.g. imagine a request like

GET / HTTP/1.0
X-Pad: GET / HTTP/aaaaaaa

Where X-Pad randomly repeats previous bytes, and perhaps 0..8 bytes of random/repeating variable-length data. By randomizing the effectiveness of the compression, surely this attack can be generally prevented by the browser?

You could argue that given enough samples the noise could be filtered and the attack still remains, but the same could be said the same for many successful patches over the years (TCP sequence number randomization, Kaminsky's DNS issue, etc.), and the number of samples required would be pretty infeasible.
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>It requires the kind of buy in that, if you've got it, you probably don't need Scrum anyway.

I agreed up until this. I worked for a company that was doing waterfall and miserable. Things were getting done, but it was a sloppy mess. Clearly we didn't have our stuff together.

Our manager went and took scrum classes, and then we spent a few months trying it out. There was no day-one benefit, but over those months we managed to wrangle things around until everyone was on the same page. After that, things went a lot smoother. Management was actually planning things out (instead of just throwing projects around and hoping) and we had a clear view of what we would be working on at any given time. Shared resources, like the sysadmin and network admin and db admin, were able to be scheduled more effectively instead of project waiting on them, or them sitting around doing nothing.

So no, I don't think that Scrum requires the kind of buy-in that indicates you don't need Scrum in the first place.
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There are still many cases where there is too much data to digest. What Automated Insights does is take data and turn it into interesting and hopefully insightful bits of digestible content.
complimentary use of a Porsche Boxster when designated as "Employee of the Month"

Maybe it's just me, but that seems like a terrible idea. You get one person to feel good about being employee of the month and n-1 people feeling slighted for being passed over. again.
I don't understand is it some kind of link exchange that you have to add some html markup to your website? And also pay a monthly fee? I didn't understand that from the video.

Also, what are the estimates of traffic you're going to get? Is it connected how many times you show other people's ads on your site etc?

And what does the 17 year old Africans have to do with the link? It's not a news article about their success story but their product. (I assume)
Yes, psychoactive chemicals have a very real effect on neurotransmitters; this does not say the physical effect must bear out its stated psychiatric intent. Also while I have no real idea what was going on in the 60s, public mental hospitals in the USA are often terrible to the point of being inhumane. Alot of people I've talked to who've had long and or recurring stays in public institutions compare them, often negatively, to prisons. The private sector is infinitely better in that regard, though.

The real issue is just that psychology and psychiatry are both extremely frontier sciences. I agree that encouraging people to avoid them is harmful, but it's not apparent to me that most of what's happening in those fields isn't still largely guesswork.

Either way, I'd also like to see the studies Luriel's talking about regarding the efficacy of specific meds.
1) "Peasant" does not just mean "every lower class person", it means "subsistence farmer". We don't have subsistence farmers in the US anymore.

2) What's your evidence? Look at any photo of a city street from pre-1930 or so. Almost every business you see will be owned by some individual or family.

3) "Human and social capital" doesn't mean "rich", it means "human and social capital". I know several people with huge amounts of human and social capital who were homeless. Some of them then got rich, which they could do because they had human and social capital.

4) We know that most people saved during the 19th century, despite being far poorer than anyone today. It's a basic historical fact - farmers need to save at least some of income (whether in the form of money, food, or other goods). How do you make it through the winter otherwise? Harvests only come once or twice a year.

Wealth is not a zero-sum game, as anyone who knows basic economics can tell you. See http://paulgraham.com/wealth.html
This is hilarious, and has been lampooned authoritatively by Steinbeck: ""I guess the trouble was that we didn't have any self-admitted proletarians. Everyone was a temporarily embarrassed capitalist."
Instead of criticizing the OP, I am going to go out on a branch here and congratulate him for having the boldness and audacity to tackle a huge social issue: who gets to live the "sweet life," how come, and if we can change that.

Okay, okay... there are endless points on which to critique the OP and his article -- just read any of the other comments; most of them are valid. But that's missing the forrest for the trees.

Any true entrepreneur or hacker should appreciate the scale of the problem the OP is grappling with, and have respect for him. It's one thing to have an opinion on nodeJS or NOSQL -- and there's nothing wrong with that -- but here's someone who is tackling a truly meaningful and big life question. And for that, I respect him.

If you're with me, upvote this.
(Small typo in the last paragraph: "Go tot he source.")
> Never understood what is social about sharing a predefined message that you have harvested a crop.

Nothing. This is a misunderstanding of the history of the term. A "social game" is a game built on top of a social network site (authoritatively defined here: http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol13/issue1/boyd.ellison.html ) that makes actual usage of the SNS mechanisms. Farmville was the genre-definer (social games fitting the definition pre-Zynga were not categorized as such), so it's not surprising that the term is basically bullshit.

Wikipedia has an article that differs a bit from my explanation here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_network_game
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Why Backup and disaster recovery is essential for every business
As businesses continues to grow and technology adds its touches to companies it is becoming more and more vital for those businesses to pay close attention to the data they collect. Data has become a commodity in the business world. The growing use of computers in business has made every bit of data valuable. This value has risen because data holds the key to the expansion to most business as well as the impending fall to those same companies. When data is lost a company can lose substantially in financial areas as well as a declension in the productivity of the company.
> . There's no reason to expect Foxconn to act any differently than any other Chinese company. The issue here is the Chinese government and their lack of concern for fair and equal treatment of workers.

I would say you are wrong partially wrong here, at least in the long term. We did not have good condition 50 or 100 years ago, the conditions in china are better then they where 30 years ago too.

The richers a society the better there places of work will become.
Motorcycle>bicycle>skateboard.

There is simply more inertial mass on a Moto, which allows you do use the front brake to its full potentail without pitching a faceplant. That and the suspension absorbs some energy. Also, the rider position is usually COG to the rear.

On a bike, your body position on drop bars puts you more COG forward, steeper head angle, more levered over the front friction patch (tire/road). The bike is light, suspension if any not as robust, its prette easy to stop a 20lb bike vs a 250-500lb moto, and for you to fly off. You are like a pole vaulter at 60 deg vs 45deg on the stick (not precise, just directional)

Normal skate is same thing, its light, close to ground, The board has a low COG. The rider a much higher one. The board has no suspension. So, it can stop on a dime if it meets and object that makes one wheel "not round". You are like a pole vaulter at 90 degrees.

It it possible to ride like a ninja, super low and crouched to the back and de-weight at precisely the right time to go over XYZ obstacle. Maybe. But the issue really is one of probabilities. At what stage do you not foresee the obstacle? And heaven forbid an hazard that is only slightly more complex, say, 10-20 meters of sand or grit on the tarmac, that you cant just skip over. That is a very normal type of defect to urban road surfaces. Ther is a reason they have "street sweepers" and alternate side parking and all of that.
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After ten minutes or so of displaying the same image (e.g. your browser UI), a faint (but very noticeable, even readable if you had displayed text) afterimage remains on the screen for a few minutes. It's visible on any dark gray background and even just dark backgrounds in general.

This problem frequently shows up with MBPr screens from LG (I'm not aware of any problems with Samsung screens, which is the other supplier). It may take a few days of use until the problems show up and it may also be heat related (so machines that have been running for some time are maybe more likely to exhibit the problem).

I'm at the moment letting Apple replace the second screen, if the problem remains I will withdraw from the contract of sale.
Google pulled off what Microsoft couldn't with Windows Mobile. They made it the "Windows" of smartphones.
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You're being obtuse just to be obtuse. This is exactly the type of nonconstructive feedback that does no one any good.

There is no difference in your python code than the Java code that someone would write:

if(comment.getText().toLowerCase().contains("first post!"))
{
comment.getUser().ban();
}

Java doesn't require a class, it doesn't require a method, it doesn't require a factory. There is literally zero difference between the python example and my Java example except the syntax between the languages.

You just felt the need to unnecessarily obfuscate the code to suit your argument.
The unfortunate truth is the world has been very much connected politically and economically ever since WWII, and more so every single day. What happens in those shitholes will eventually come back to U.S. in some way or another. So Obama's appeasement and apology approach really won't work very well, because sooner or later you have to deal with the shit that you were trying to avoid for so hard.
> You say HTML5 could deliver a unified UX. I disagree.

Me too, I never said that. I said that, using Yahoo Mail as an example, users are willing to sacrifice some integrational purity when ease-of-use and portability are so compelling. Today that balance hasn't been tipped on mobile. I'm willing to bet it will be, eventually.
I work at Webs and we also recently abandoned scrum for a more kanban approach. While all points in the article resonated with our company, the biggest problem we had was not delivering projects on time.

We focused too much on fitting as much work into a sprint as possible for maximized throughput. The problem with that, especially when you have alot of projects going on at the same time, is that alot of work was being burned across the board, but the needle for each individual projects didn't move forward fast enough and we ended up missing deadlines.

Another problem with scrum is that it turns creative developers into code monkeys, and this in turn lowers code quality. Developers are constantly worried about trying to meet deadlines for the next two weeks rather than taking the time to do things correctly. This ultimately creates technical debts and hurts the team in the end.

(also, if you're a manager and you use the developer points burned in order to rate performance and distribute bonus, then fuck you)
Please explain your first statement. I have trouble understanding how simply electing Obama made things easier for us in regards to world politics - that is a very vague and subjective statement, and I haven't seen anything happen in the last four years that only happened because of improved world perception, other than maybe that laughable Nobel Peace Prize. Perhaps we experienced far less fallout over intervening in Libya than we would have under a Republican president.

In regards to your second statement, you are likely correct. In comparison to McCain/Palin, Obama definitely improved the perception, if not the reality. And I am cynical, because that is the only reasonable response to American politics at this point.

And in regards to the third, so be it. They shouldn't have to worry about how we perceive their leaders. If they do, it's only because we have the world's most powerful military and both Democrat and Republican alike have shown willingness to use it.
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A major healthcare breakthrough that improved the quality of life for a large number of people would qualify as a solid 3 -- a major political-level change. I'd save 6 for things like defeating the aging process -- something that, like raising the IQ of the population at large, would also fundamentally change the human condition. I'm not really sure how many medical breakthroughs of this magnitude there are.
"portrays anyone who is not in the "upper class" as being so by their own fault"

When did I say that, or even imply it? I made an analogy to medieval society, and no one thinks that it was the peasants' fault they were peasants.
In the spirit of the post, I'd rather compose it as: trolling == Dunning-Kruger.
By "current programs" did he mean existing entrepreneur program that was put on hold, or proposed entrepreneur program that is yet to be implemented?
Are you trying to say the overhead of SCRUM would increase the time to 3 months? SCRUM is a lightweight framework, so I am struggling to see how this could happen. Alternatively, do you think the estimation with points was the main problem and you couldn't get a correct feel for doing it without resulting in a conservative estimate?
They are prohibited by Apple to be even built with iOS SDK, if they interpret the code downloaded from the Web, which is naturally the case with browsers and JavaScript.
I think the levels of emotional intelligence matter. Some people have an imbalance of IQ to EQ and they don't want anything to do with anyone, just write good code. That's fair, but seeing others socialize and bond doesn't register much like a marketing guy looking at a map reduce function and not understanding.

Another thing that is difficult for lower EQ folks is the ability to see things from another point of view. So, instead of seeing the value and point of team building and interaction it's just a silly waste of time. It's a spectrum, and unfortunately there is no golden ratio to the perfect fit. In this bubble of ours Engineer vs. Sales or marketing is not a new story, but looking at it from an IQ vs EQ perspective at least you can see where each person is coming from.

The best thing for the lower EQ guys is let them be alone, stroke their ego and communicate via IM. Explain to them that just like recursive functions, things have a purpose and they aren't for everyone and people process the world in different ways.
Nice, but custom fonts look ugly on my Chrome, Windows 7 (64bit) for some reason... no antialias...
Everything looks perfect on Mac/Safari.
With regards to #2, doesn't Twitter auth include permissions so most non-spamming sites shouldn't even have permission to tweet nonsense on your behalf? Or am I misremembering? (As it turns out, the only time I ever used the Twitter auth was about a year and a half ago or so, I think.)

With regards to #1, hilariously that's one of the problems that this sort of single-sign-on is supposed to solve.
I have one idea I'm still incubating in the back of my head that's a 6. It's achievable technologically, but I'm not yet in the right place in my life to be the one to achieve it.

Edit: It's not a drug - but it will, imho, produce a change in the basic human condition, if/when implemented.
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Where would the World Wide Web be on this scale? It would look below 4, but one instance of it, Wikileaks, arguably sparked several revolutions and is a 3 by itself.
Read the section of text that I quoted. Someone who said something that's fundamentally correct is being criticized by a variety of other people who are too lazy to actually do the research themselves. That's the very premise of the movie Idiocracy.
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Some great comments here. I think the main frustration is that these "playful distractions" are being advertised too heavily to the outside through job listings or About Us pages. I'm not opposed to a fun work place if it develops naturally over time and doesn't reduce the quality of work.
A cynic would say that the main activity of SI's Research Fellows is to type up their Science Fiction and Philosophy musings and upload them as PDFs to their website. Someone less cynical would say that these musings are fundamental research in the area of self-replicating AIs that will enable other people to build said AIs in the future.

I tend to lean toward the cynical interpretation.
Not only is it juvenile and unprofessional, it's really... male. If you really want to recruit talented people, how about just not being repellent to female developers.