skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think that is a difficult concept to understand, but the implication of it is that you don't actually have a right to own property. If you own a home, you are merely using your country's land temporarily. If you perform a job and receive wages, those wages are not yours - but instead they belong to the country.

What I believe is that people innately have rights, regardless of what government regime happens to preside over them. The best governments are ones that are set up to protect those innate rights. To protect rights by taking rights away is a concept that doesn't make sense to me.
A tale of two photos
I agree with you that it's poorly worded, however keep in mind that they're giving red flags. The way I understand it they mean "clues that the speaker might be engaging in pseudo-science" and not a definitive arbitrary rejection.

Experience can teach you certain things, even if not 100% politically correct. What they're doing is simply passing on their experience to other TEDx organizers.
"Where the money is"
Codes of Conduct are always good, zero-tolerance polices on the other hand are usually a bit extreme.

What starts out as well intentioned zero-tolerance policy usually ends up in absurdity. Like zero-tolerance policies in schools that started as banning weapons and now prevent students from bringing meals that need to be eaten with knife and fork. Hopefully they are able to keep the zero-tolerance policy to mean what everyone thinks it means now.
Yes, collaboration is necessary, and yes, my company is doing it wrong. My preference would be to hash out a design earlier, before there is any code, rather than after the fact. Once you have code, you have wasted time, and it is often difficult to separate out ideas from implementation.

And yes, for me personally, pair programming is a horrible idea no matter what. Pair programming vs. code reviews is a false choice. Ideal for me is design up front, away from the keyboard, and then everyone goes off, by themselves, and does their thing. Or in pairs, if that works for both of them.
It depends entirely on the structure of the welfare program. For example, the veterans affairs administration provides services, mostly health services, directly to veterans. In that case, you'd expect 100% to be overhead, because VA doctors and hospitals are paid out of overhead.

Most federal welfare programs, however, involve cutting a check. Look at the Social Security Administration. It has a budget of about $12.7 billion, and administers $700-800 billion in benefits to 50-60 million people: http://www.ssa.gov/pressoffice/basicfact.htm

That amounts to an overhead of 1.6%, or ~$250 per person served.

Or, look at it another way. Total federal payroll is about $180 billion, for 2.15 million federal employees (a number that has fluctuated between 1.8 and 2.2 million for the last half century despite nearly a doubling of the population). That's about 4.7% of the budget, or 1.2% of GDP.

Most of the federal government is not overhead. 95% of it is just taking in tax revenue from certain people and cutting checks to other people.
This hits on a latent suspicion of mine, which is that at its core pair programming is really just a way to make tedious programming jobs less tedious. Granted, I say that as someone who also spends most his time working on complex multithreaded performance-critical code and development of new algorithms, and I'm partial enough to that kind of work to have some uncharitable bias.

I tend to think that design by committee, even with a committee of two, reliably produces inferior results. So when really novel work is necessary a much better way to put two people on the same task is to have them both take a crack at it independently and then come back together to see what works best. Sometimes competition is the best form of collaboration.
"They've been pitching a fit about"

The difference is that America answers to no one.
It's idiotic because it is idiocy.

A vaccine is a vaccine; arbitrary judgments about it's general efficacy over some hand-wavey timespan doesn't change that. And no, it's not justified to redefine it.
Free $9 lattes to everyone with a Macbook Pro and in the $250,000 or more tax bracket!

No, just kidding, they'll horde it for lawsuits.
Renders fine for me on both my Mac (in Safari) and on my iPhone 5.

I have auto-hyphenation, but the hyphenation should render properly and not break-up sentences badly. What browser are you using?
If I recall correctly this has already been covered in an episode of The Simpsons. Free vacines are just a means for the government (now Google) to control our minds, Ned Flanders had it all figured out!
Thanks for that! It sounds more plausible than a regular house of cards. I never even think of sales tax. It makes things a lot more complicated than just having income tax.

For instance, should you collect sales tax when selling bitcoins? If you are in a jurisdiction that collects sales tax, then I don't see why not. Also pay income tax on your mining rewards. Now, good luck making a profit! *(without adding a secondary business, unrelated to mining. hey, at least you can be paid in bitcoins!)
Yes, exactly. Unfortunately, every so often you get these companies that take on a process as "part of their core culture", when culture should be about principle, not process.

By taking a practice as a core value, they are implicitly stating that it is the One True Way to do things, which means that anyone NOT doing it the One True Way is doing it wrong (to the point that they refuse to hire anyone unwilling to toe the line). I wonder how these people would feel entering a company whose One True Way is waterfall development? Because up until a decade and a half ago, that WAS the One True Way.
I know what the standard conspiracy theory is, but I asked for this specific commenter to elaborate.
I wonder how much of that is the stupid, stupid name. Or the DRM. Probably not much I guess, but there is a good chance this is the first Nintendo console I'll sit out since ever, and those are the sole reasons in roughly equal measure.
The quality of the socialization has a lot to do with the rules, so my comments are mostly about those.

I can participate anonymously save for my IP address without using any special software.

I'm lonely, sad, lost, burnt-out, angry, and confused. Every time someone upvotes one of my posts I feel a bit better. I want to get up to 500 karma so I can downvote people too. Then again, the existence of internet karma and the karma leaderboard makes me want to throw a bucket of water in the world's face.

It's nice that insightful and polite comments are rewarded. I think I still like Slashdot's tag-based moderation system better, I'd like more details than up/down.

There isn't much of a coherent community here compared to most forums (eww, fora?) I've used in the past. Once in a while I recognize a name or two. Then again, the lack of community probably eliminates most of the drama that gets so tedious on internet forums. It feels more like strangers responding to strangers, so in that sense is pretty democratic.

I wish stories could be tagged by topic and then filtered.

I would like to see the total number of upvotes and downvotes on comments and stories, because +50 -51 is a very different story from -1. I would like some mechanism to downvote stories that isn't too punishing.

I feel like I'm sinking into a pit of nothingness every time I see a hellbanned user post a perfectly valid comment, and then I check their comment history and see that they have been doing this for a very long time without any awareness. Maybe users can earn the right to become unhellbanned via upvotes. I would like to be able to not have user's posts greyed out - the greying out just feels mean to me.

I wish there was more interesting technical stuff posted. I wish people would share their startup ideas. I wish it was a bit more fun.

I think computers undermine the quality of local relationships. My girlfriend hates all of you equally.

At the end of the day, I wish I felt like doing something more than reading Hacker News and I loathe myself for even posting here. On the other hand, it's nice to have something to read besides Boing Boing and to practice writing and to get thoughtful responses sometimes. The comments read like they're generally written by young men trying to impress other young men, but maybe that's just how I use them personally. This time I'm just seeking validation I guess.
I agree, that's another level for me, the "ok now to starting typing.... AH THERE'S SO MUCH TO WRITE! How does writing this first line even get me remotely closer?" syndrome.
I deleted my previous comment as perhaps I am taking your comment too personally.

I agree with you that it is nice to be surprised. I am just pointing out that there are legitimate uses for the "clinical" approach to gift giving: wedding and baby registries are quite common. If you don't know the newlyweds/parents nor the contents of their house very well, the registry can go a long way to giving them a gift that they actually need and will use.

Cheers
Free healthcare, long lines? Say it ain't so.
If they are having a problem with perpetual-motion trolls and people speaking well outside their field of expertise then it is a valid reaction. If you are speaking on an academic subject then the default should be that there be some reason to believe you are credible on that subject.
This should help de-Amazon your Ubuntu.

1. Ubuntu Settings --> Privacy -->Include online results [OFF]

2. sudo apt-get remove unity-lens-shopping unity-scope-video-remote unity-scope-musicstores unity-webapps-service

3. Launch dconf-editor, navigate to: com -> canonical -> unity -> webapps, and then remove everything under allowed-domains, dontask-domains and preauthorized-domains

References:

http://askubuntu.com/questions/192269/how-can-i-remove-amazo...

http://askubuntu.com/questions/214755/how-to-remove-unity-we...

http://xchamitha.blogspot.com/2012/11/de-amazonising-ubuntu-...
wow, didn't know Scientific American still existed
I didn't pair program with those specific people again, instead we just split up chunks of work and I learnt more faster. Upon reflection, I still believe the failure is specific to how those people think and work through solutions.
"Wait, in public where if they were drinking alcohol it would be illegal?"

In Seattle, public use of marijuana is less likely to get you punished than alcohol usage.
Couldn't agree more. I usually try to take existing code that I know works, modify it with one of the more complicated functions I'm going to have to do, then when I get that working start writing out the structure for the new code.

That way, I've got a reward already set up: a function I know is going to work well!
I have domains on both, namecheap doesn't cover everything, and do find namecheap a lot cleaner and easier to use and more trouble free. Although honestly, last domain I registered, I just did through my hosting company, DreamHost, for minimal fuss. I trust them to have a clean panel just the same as namecheap, but am logged into them all the time anyway for other things.
Ahhhhhhhh. That would make a lot more sense.
Nokia phone forcing traffic through proxy
"any" short circuits - you probably are not throwing away the boolean result.

I do agree with the author that using a comprehension for the side-effect is smelly.
Mozilla to developers: Come build apps for Firefox OS
I think separating the documentation step (machine-readable or not) from the actual development process is what makes the entire process painful. It means you have to have parallel development or things get out of sync pretty easily.

I've sketched out some work on using OPTIONS and having the code introspect itself to describe how to interact with the API. Basically with good validation, error messages, and solid/consistent naming conventions, you can take it a long way before you have to step out of the development that you're already doing.
Twitter links will take up more characters of a tweet on Feb 6
I genuinely want to know how a conspiracy theorist thinks. I can understand the though process behind believing a vaccine having side effects like autism, or adverse effect on the immune system. But the line of thought that leads one to believe that a flu vaccine can allow the government to read you thoughts is beyond my comprehension.
I'm all for vaccinations, but not if they have to be done on an annual basis and are best-case-scenario 50% effective.

Have you heard of evolution?
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The TED community is full of snobbery.

HOWEVER: I'm glad they are blowing the whistle on pseudo science related to GMO food.
he's doing it personally. out of his own money. out of a desire to do his bit not to have flu spread around. why would you even be speculating on whether this makes "business sense"?
"Legislative cowardice to actually make the law reflect reality"

You make this all sound like a terrible thing. Not punishing consensual "crime" is excellent, and refusing to enforce unjust laws is the opposite of cowardice.
The only problem I see it that MS win either way.
Not that I like MS, I don't, but all these companies [http://www.fool.com/investing/value/2011/10/24/does-microsof...] produce androids and have to give MS money. So MS doesn't really care who wins in the Android vs WP game, just that it is one of them.
New rule: don't hire anyone who's posted abject idiocy in a comment thread on HN :/
Bullshit Business Plan Generator
and in Chrome you can switch the search engine to DuckDuckGo which does not track your search
A luddite talking:

Just today I looked for a new phone to replace my 11 year old Samsung C35. I'm only replacing it because I swapped the battery 4 times already and unfortunately the battery doesn't last more 3 days anymore.

My requirements were: No touchscreen, classic phone keyboard, no camera and no 3G/4G/Wifi.

Samsung E1200 for 20$, here I come. The reviews are great, it runs nearly 3 weeks without recharging and weighs 65g. It can do exactly the three things I need: Call, SMS, Alarm.

Now to get rid of the iPad.
I've only had my Android phone for about a month, but I love it. I do NOT check it often during the day, but it is a great combination of phone, portable entertainment center, quick-check (and delete) of email, nano-utility-computer, good-enough camera (finally, in a phone), and hot spot.

Yeah, for actual work I still use a full size computer, but the hot spot feature comes in handy when I'm out of the house or office.
Not very classy. I've usually come to expect better from Google, but it seems like they really want to shove Google+ down everyone's throats despite people being very clear about not wanting to take part of it.
His most honed skill is self-promotion, so that's a given.
Many times, a story is important not for the reasons that people perceive it to be important. Ironically, I view it as important for exactly the reason you view it as unimportant. Why on earth does Microsoft feel the need to resort to such a pathetic advertising campaign?
MOOC Google+ community
I don't think it's warranted to leap from 'this product does external searches' to 'this product is spying nefariously on you and is therefore analogous to poisoned food.'
Larry Page, major germaphobe, disinfects entire Bay Area.
This is fantastic - just wish I could also resize the image to a specific size. All the time I get images that need to be cropped to 32x32 or something similar. Build that in and I will be using it everyday :)
Make sure the HR/payroll people have your current contact information (and vice versa!) in case there are future questions about your taxes or medical insurance.
It's not "free because it's CVS." If I had no insurance, CVS would still charge me, because they have legitimate labor costs that need to be covered.

I was just making a personal statement. Because it is free for me, there's no financial reason for me to avoid it. But waiting in a line is a hassle, and I have no reason to believe that everyone in line is there for a flu shot.

Good on Page for offering it in multiple places like Target stores. I hope they stick around for a while so people can choose to go when the lines are short.
I feel like the Slashdot and /r/technology crowd have infected this place. So much negativity it's shocking.
Did you also remove the Unity - Amazon webapp integration?
This seems to me a totally natural progression. Governments have the resources to do New Untried Things, to fund Pure Research and Crazy National Pride Projects, and so they do them because no one else can at the time that they are done. But good governments are supposed to be inefficient. Much as we hate bureaucracy, an efficient government is a terrible, scary thing. Inefficiency keeps it in check. So it falls to private enterprise to pick up where governments leave off.
Oh, don't say that. Better for people to say stupid things and be debated over them and evolve their opinions than for people to politely say nothing at all and remain fools forever.

Hacker News was a wonderful place for college-age unalone to work out his thoughts and stances with people who like telling each other how wrong they are about everything. I've said some very dumb things under this account name, and I don't regret saying any of them.
Hiring Is a Dog from Hell
If the software industry is worth $225B, and patent troll companies had a revenue of ~$30B, does that mean that the patent troll industry is extracting 15%+ of the software industry?
"if we do a really great job on new vaccines... we could lower [world population] by 10 or 15 percent" - Bill Gates
Dotcom is trying to make a buck, not sincerely change the system.
This may be perilously close to (mis)using a public service for private gain. I kind of hope it ends up in court, so that we can find out.

Google should just stop it, and behavior like this. 1) The Google+ control-freak obsession mania; 2) Self-serving "public service" attempts.

Mind you, Google has done and does a lot of good and generous public service. (Even when and as it is good PR and perhaps also promotes their interests -- on an optional, "opt-in" basis.)

But tying a public service to a self-serving promotion? Doesn't pass the smell test.
Stock up on office supplies.
what to do? switch the flavor. Pack your stuff and switch to Debian for easy transition
> For instance, if the physics-related speaker has a degree in engineering, not physics;

Yeah, that set off my WTF alarm too. I don't think it's news to TED admins that the line between physics and engineering is messy (I worked on quantum devices but (surprise!) engineering degrees paid substantially more in the 80s so my PhD is engineering.)

I'm gonna guess there's a backstory and they got burned hard.
yes, but bill gates and warren buffet have good, sound reasons that might go against their selfish interests, but leave society as a whole better off. the anti-health-care people have no such reasons, and if they think they do they're badly misinformed, stupid, spiteful (because free healthcare would mean "undeserving" people get a "free ride"), or some mixture of the above.
Google Chrome has always had this feature, yet it didn't stop it from gaining 20% market share. Neither does it stop the "why don't Firefox merge the search and location bar?" comment seen in almost every comment thread whenever Firefox's UI is discussed. I don't think that anyone is under the illusion that the average user care about this behavior in any way.
Does Tech Create Jobs Around U.S.? Maps & Graphs & Charts, Oh My
Contact a local restaurant supply company, they'll sell the bags to you.
Did you release any iOS or Mac app?
I think Thiel misses a key point: getting the right answer isn't necessarily as important as the appearance of justice. Human beings are fundamentally emotional creatures, especially in situations when they feel they have been wronged or are accused of wronging someone else. The whole process of a trial with a human judge and a human jury doesn't just resolve a dispute, but it serves as an emotional palliative allowing people to get beyond the dispute.

And that is, of course, one of the key functions of the legal system as a system of dispute resolution: allowing society to continue to function by helping people get over disputes.
GMail on Chrome had/s this feature!
Thanks for your thoughts. The post is about what we use and believe are valuable tools in marketing and customer success. And of course we listed our startup! We'd have no credibility if we didn't believe in our own product.

What tools do you use?
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Well the reality is pretty much that anyway. It's not like NASA actually owns the rocket factories. NASA provides the direction, man power during the missions and cuts the checks but it's private* industry that does most of the R&D and construction.

*well technically private but it varies from companies that exist purely on government contracts to companies like TI and boeing.
Haha. Well I'm glad someone got something out of it!
Imgur also can upload from clipboard and/or drag/drop.
Are you universally dualist, or only when it comes to governance? It seems as if we only know these "innate" rights through the protection of government.
Will do! I used to be pretty active in the sound scene (mostly live/acoustic recording) in the Bay but have been away for a couple years. I'm looking forward to returning and getting back into it. :)
Netflix in trouble over Facebook post: Feds’ poor grasp of social media
How do you figure the people are voting against themselves? Do you know what their preferences are or what they value?
I buy all my domains on there. Good service, but it's not the cheapest.
> The flu "vaccine" however, is at best 50% effective and is frequently 0% effective.

This earned you a downvote. I don't know that you're wrong, but you can't make a claim like this without some link to back you up.
Apple v. Samsung Back in Court
OK, very fair point. Thank you.
What kind of bank make a test on an FAQ page ?!
https://bitcoin-central.net/s/faq
This removes any talks related to evolution unless it is "micro evolution": "Is not based on experiments that can be reproduced by others"
Wow, nice set of tools! How all that fits together to write a simulator? I mean how (or when) does Haskell interacts with C++ code?
Connect to your co-workers on Linked In while you still have their current email addresses.
Cloud 66 - Deploy RoR to the Cloud in 5 minutes
Was that systemic of high prices in traveling / hotel fees, or because of other causes? I can imagine a lot of things - a fledgling tourism industry, the Cold War stifling international travel, not enough information / knowledge about foreign nations, no advertising campaigns attempting to attract people to visit. That could be due to a lot more than just "travel / hotel costs have dropped a lot" (only because I don't know if they have).
Negativity's to be expected when any controversial issue's brought up, and this is certainly a controversial issue on a number of fronts. The people-spending-lots-of-money front, the how-should-we-make-people-less-sick front, the are-corporations-taking-over-our-lives front... all sorts of things that're bound to raise hackles.

The nature of all three sites you brought up, this one and Reddit and Slashdot, make the problem a bit worse by throwing voting and ranking into the mix. When people feel their opinion is being publicly valued, they become more defensive about their opinions and thoughts. The tyranny of the majority means that any thread will display the most popular opinion first, and therefore there's a valuation occurring in every conversation here that can be bothersome when you're in the minority.

That's not entirely the cause – sites with threaded discussions also have frequent arguments over controversy. But there are methods of encouraging positivity in online discussions, they're just not ones built into HN, and the system that is built-in favors more contentious back-and-forths.