skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In all your examples, the person receiving the cash either earned it (bonds, government employees) or will pay for it (student loans). A voucher is a gift from the government (taxpayers) to an individual. That's the key difference.

Usually, people earn their cash. When they earn it, we don't get to control what they do with it. In fact, we don't even get to know what they spend it on. That is the beautiful thing about cash. To restrict people from spending their money on their religion illegally restricts their expression of their religion.

When feasible, the government shouldn't be giving cash to people who didn't earn it. That is a core principle of welfare and that is why we have WIC, food stamps, government-subsidized housing, and school vouchers. It isn't feasible to have coupons for everything so we have to give people cash for some things.
Grammar is about sentence structure; your point is about word choice, otherwise known as "diction."

And "flush" is perfectly correct. Used transitively, it means "to expose or chase from a place of concealment." Example: "the hunters used dogs to flush their game from the bushes."

In figurative language, "flush" is a good choice when you're talking about stripping away extraneous information. "Flesh" is used when you're proposing to add more information, as in putting flesh onto bones.

I should add that I'm only addressing your claim that "flush" is inherently scatalogical, not whether the original use was valid.
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Remember that a similar program for auto workers, the UAW's "jobs bank", was held out as an examplar of union featherbedding.
Heck, I know quite a few US ISPs that do that - as well as some WiFi hotspots. Usually it's just a block on outbound connections on port 25, and you can get around it by using a different port (587 typically works, and is semi-standard).
She is making 240k/year as an Associate and get's to keep 1/3 of it on her vacation. I don't think most first-year prospects are going to be making that much.

PS: If anything this could help you make partner by having something which differentiates you from the pack. Assuming they do something interesting an don't just sit at home for a year.
I hear they laid a lot of people, is SAP in trouble?
There's no limit to wealth that can be created, the ability of consumers to consume does have limits. But consumables are far from the only way to create value in an economy.
But how many Gizmodos and Buzzmachine's are there, sites that can send 1000's of early-adopter readers to your site, readers who blog, tweet and tell their friends about it? These sites are the distribution system for the internet. Google won't even send people to your site until others link to it. I'm not suggesting this item link to Gizmodo, just that it's a complicated matter.
In fact I do have data to back that up but I cannot share.
Speaking of, is there a way to import the navigation menu into an xhtml page without php or somesuch? Both "link" and @import are only valid within the header, so they are no good for importing data into the body of the page.
This is a private company for starters. The UAW jobs bank idea was forced by a union not management and was simply a move to make sure no one was fired even when it was cost effective to do so. They were paid between 85-100% salary too, not 33%.

In this case they want to trim costs a bit but also want to retain the employees. This will save money, not tank the company and require billions in Federal emergency loans.
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Stephen sort of hints at the one thing about Boxee that nobody else does, which is that it sucks. Sure it's an alpha and might get better, but for now it's unresponsive and unstable. Using it reminded me of the early Joost days, or the current state of watching MSNBC streamed through your PC to your Xbox in Media Center mode. The experience is just atrocious.

At this point, I'll take PlayOn any day. But Boxee is getting way more PR from their struggles with Hulu, and in the shuffle the fact that their product is currently borderline awful is going unnoticed.
Duh. Stress makes everyone dumber.
Thank you. I was going to say the same thing.
Why is it always that people who overuse sneaky tactics are the first to complain about others using same techniques?

Copied from the article: "Tags: blogger, Bloggers, browser, digg, diggbar, engadget, entrepreneur, follow me, frame spam, frame spammers, frame spamming, framebars, frames, framing.... " (this is only 2 of 7 lines of "tags")
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It's interesting I was thinking about the same thing a few days ago. Once you release an app, there won't be a lot of motivation to keep releasing updates to it ( no incentive for doing that ). Why not go and build another app ?
This is starting to border on irritating now. This must be the 57th article on why the diggbar is bad, with 55 of them from this tomuse.com jackoff.

Everyone on HN and their mom knows they should take precautions against the diggbar. We all got the message from the myriad posts about it. Seriously, we get it!!

If it's to get people from HN to visit your site and subscribe to your feed, like you invite them to do with your very own banner on top of the article, well - mission failed. I went out of my way to not subscribe because of how annoying this has become.

There's about a billion other things happening. Try reporting on them for a change.

P.S. you're the first person to make me wish for a downvote option on HN. Good job.
One problem with biometric identification is that the device reading data (fingerprints, eye "prints", etc.) from the person has to be trusted by the entity deciding the legitimacy of the user. If I have a digital copy of your fingerprints and I "own" the fingerprint reader trusted by your bank/whatever, I can pretend to be you. Given that people generally own the phones they use, I wonder if this barrier to fraud is any less expensive or more effective than existing security schemes. For example, have something/know something methods (RSA random number generator keychain dongles coupled with a known passcode) that are much easier to implement and don't rely on network effects -- For people to buy earprint phones, they have to be commonly used as a form of auth, but enough people must own them for banks, etc. to consider such a scheme.

Business idea: A problem with the RSA dongle thingy is that a person would have to carry one for EVERY entity with which he authenticates himself. I'm sure some sysadmins already have a pocket full of this things. What if there was a 3rd party that would offer have something/known something authen services? Or, more generally, authen services with a variety of security levels? Then, a person would just carry around his "Windows Live" dongle and could authenticate with all his banks, etc. Not a good startup idea as it takes a powerful entity to surmount network effects, but it would solve a real problem for real people.
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They're upset they didn't think of it first.
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You could do it via JavaScript or iframes, but it's generally a bad idea. Server-side scripting languages like PHP or even server-side includes exist for a reason and fulfil this exact need transparently from the user and there's no good reason to shy away from it.
Humorously tomuse.com uses the "Link Cloaking Plugin for WordPress" so you can't tell where anything is going (though it does use proper 301 redirects). These things are normally used by scuzzy people trying to hide affiliate stuff. It looks free, but a competitor even has one of those really long marketing pages that are usually used for real estate and eBooks:

http://www.wordpresslinkcloak.com/

It one ups the freebie and uses 302 Moved Temporarily.
Actually, if you had bothered to read the article, you'd have seen that the person featured was totally legal in the United States. He wasn't "sent back."

He chose to move to Canada because his WIFE was not legal in the U.S. and she didn't have any skills to import.
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Another workaround is to forward your mail to Gmail, so you can have the choice of using your mail client or Gmail. At our company some people did this and ended up dropping their native client completely.
The UAW jobs bank idea was forced by a union not management

You misspelled "agreed to". Nobody pointed a gun at a CEO and made him sign the contract.
It is extremely difficult to get funding for a product in India. VC's there seem to prefer verticals, if you are working on a vertical product you have a better chance. If all the YC funded were to try and get funding from Indian VC's I am pretty certain not many would have gotten it. This especially true after 2000. It is also got to do with past history, most of the successful companies in India have so far been in those who have developed products in a certain niche. All this might change once we see few successful products that more generic.
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Any chance you worked on an MD-82 for Alitalia a long time ago? I think they have two over there, and I worked on relocating one of them to CAE Madrid. My first taste of a Rediffusion machine - similar architecture, nicer code.
This site just got a little more hypocritical
Because it allows you to do a lot while moving very little.
Google needed foreign techies to figure out that less colors = smaller file
the company’s map-making team faced a problem that even the best and brightest could not solve.
Maps produced by the service were taking too long to download and appear on phones. Enter Mr. Mavinkurve, who floated an
alternative: cut the number of colors in each map section to 20 or 40 from around 256. Mr. Mavinkurve used a rare combination of creativity,
analysis, engineering and an understanding of graphics to find a solution that had eluded the rest of the team."

Are you kidding me?
Agreed. It's a great example of the saying:

"It takes one to know one."
Fair enough. I was having trouble getting PHP working the other day on my web server, so I guess I need to call my hosting company and ask what's up.
I think the reason there are lesser product companies compared to services companies in India is two-fold, culture and lack of easy access to capital.

To start a product company, you have to forego cash up front for a bigger payout (either acquisition or organic growth in a lifestyle biz) later in the game. I think most Indian kids coming out of college don't lack ambition or entreprenurial spirit but it is hard to justify (especially to your parents!) giving up a steady paycheck for the risk of a startup, and that's where not having easy access to VC or angel capital becomes a problem. And then there's the issue of competing with the large software sweatshops on salaries...

This:
http://munjal.typepad.com/recognizing_deven/2007/04/episode_...

and, this:
http://twitter.com/amitranjan/status/742763842

make for interesting food for thought.
I remember hearing about Skadden during the Clinton imbroglio. To get into Skadden is probably like getting into D.E. Shaw

"The salary for a first-year associate (i.e., fresh out of law school) is reported to be $160,000, not including the annual discretionary bonus.[25]"

"Arguably the most recognizable law firm outside the legal industry, the firm is considered one of the most prestigious in the world, consistently ranking in the top five of Vault's annual list of the top law firms in the U.S. and boasting highly competitive foreign practices. The Skadden Fellowship, funded by the firm, is considered the most prestigious public-interest grant in the U.S. and is greatly sought-after by graduates of top law schools."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skadden,_Arps,_Slate,_Meagher_&...
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> Science says nothing about consciousness.

Science has plenty to say about consciousness, it sounds like you've been reading too much philosophy and religion and believed what they say abut science. As I said before, read some Pinker. To say science says nothing about consciousness is just foolish.
"Progressivism" means lots of regulation.

Canada is considered progressive, and has censorship. Feminists pushed for it, so that women wouldn't be degraded.

Of course, feminists ended up as the first victims of the censorship when feminist / lesbian book stores started having their shipments seized and confiscated.

If you're following JWZ's saga, you'll learn that one of the reasons the government is trying to shut down his nightclub is that at a gay dance night one non-staff member spanked another non-staff member in what some government employee considered a sexual manner.

Call me crazy, but I've always thought that there's more freedom when we don't have a suffocating nanny state trying to arrive at the One Correct Decision for everybody else.
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Both sides made bad decisions, but when forced with the possibility of a strike dumb ideas like the jobs bank get approved. Even without a gun.
Is this really Hacker News? Flagged.
I'll probably get round to opening up the code so people can run their own versions soonish. I want to test out a few things first and clean up the code. If anyone is particularly interested drop me an email at gareth@morethanseven.net
Interesting...this is the first I'm hearing of a Bay Area network outage. Then again, I think that's kind of the point! I was always taught that packet switching was designed such that, if Chicago got nuked, network traffic could still get from New York to L.A.

I don't recall anything about the packet switched network preventing Chicago from being wiped off the map. In other words, electrical grid: vulnerable! A branch drops on a power line in Ohio and the entire East Coast goes black...not good. The internet: not so vulnerable! Fiber optic cable gets cut in Silicon Valley and the CEO of a tech reporting site complains but I don't even notice from my apartment in NYC.
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This makes me feel better (or not): I wrote a prototype of a similar system for social media sites. The idea was to collect a database of content submitted to different sites and use Pearson's correlation coefficient to compare a submitted press release to content on these sites. My goal, help people find the right place to submit to. The technology worked but I didn't pique any interest so I let it go.
I think the reason is simple and goes beyond this. By and large, when developing a brand new product, it's best to have a domain expert in that specific field or have personal, tangible experience with that product.

American, European, and Japanese developers have an advantage because as consumers as well as producers in the world's biggest marketplaces, they'll always have a more fundamental sense of where money is to be made, what software is missing in what niche, and more contacts, which means more dollars to chase when it comes to potential users of a product.

Could someone from India have developed something like Basecamp? From a technical perspective, no doubt. But from a "wow, there are a lot of small companies in the US that don't need these industrial sized solutions, maybe we can exploit that niche" - I think this gap is a lot harder to cross.

I think this asymmetry will go away, as India continues to modernize. I bet there are tons of unexploited business opportunities that could only happen in India, and no where else in the world. American developers would be totally clueless on this, and if the roles were flip-flopped, and the dollars were in India, we'd see the same article about American developers.
What does tagging have anything to do with this article? It's HIS site, HIS tags, he can come up with whatever tags he wants, which contribute to his own custom tag cloud.

Not seeing the connection here sorry.
Our society as a whole benefits from diversity, in the same way that humanity benefits from a wide gene pool. If you bias heavily towards similarity, you end up with a highly specialised but weak society.

Like etal, I won't speculate on what alternatives might be, but not having them is our collective loss.
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"Do they really enjoy the act of dragging a brush over a surface, of cleaning brushes, mixing colours?"

They very well might. I imagine there are painters who would be bored to tears with a computer program that allowed them to think out their painting and execute it without ever getting a brush dirty. The tactile and sensory experience of painting with physical brushes and paints might be a large part of why they enjoy it.
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I tell the computer to do things because I want them done, not because I find it fascinating to talk to the computer.

I was going to agree with this but then I remembered how awesome it is when you tell the computer to do things, and they get done, and it all works out like magic. That click! moment when the cogs all start turning together... in a way it's a means to an end for me, but the end is so beautiful sometimes.
Yes, if you're serving from Apache:

* http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/howto/ssi.html

* http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/mod_include.html

I'm sure other servers have similar options.
That's funny, I'm already "using" FriendFeed inside of Facebook. It posts to my profile.

The concept of where the conversations around topics live is interesting. These tools are creating semi-private group ("friend") conversation spaces around information. How those blend into the public conversation around items in blog comments, on digg, on hacker news, etc. is interesting. I use BackType, which aggregates my public comments into the friend conversation space.

I haven't seen widgets that pull all of the comments from other public sites (digg, reddit, hacker news) into the page of the original content item. It would be nice to have a widget that can collect these other comments into the conversation space of the original item.
I hear you can program with Legos now.
burden, if you are an employee.
blessing, if you are an entrepreneur.
The connection is this - tomuse has been blogging for a while. Had a few hits here and there, but nothing major. He wrote an article about how bad the diggbar is, and we all agreed with it. Suddenly he has a hit on his hands, and decided to milk it for all it's worth.

Take a look at his homepage - it's all about diggbar/frame spamming etc. He throws a 'Hey HNer, if you agree with me, then subscribe to me' banner up top and adds a thousand tags to his post, hoping people will link to his posts. He then figures if people hate the diggbar on HN, then other people must be feeling the same way and goes to town with pushing the links to his posts all over the web - from techcrunch to mashable to readwriteweb.........take a look at the comments section on those respective blog posts dealing with diggbar. You'll see this guy all over them.

Basically, he's pushing his own agenda/site/blog under the guise of fighting a revolution for the masses. And this is not the first time -
http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=VizionQuest

He hasn't submitted a single link from another site. It wouldn't matter if it's elsewhere, but that's not cool on HN. HN is about sharing information, mostly foreign. Do you see anyone else submitting links to their own site repeatedly?
One major factor I think is what we study. We do not have SICP course in comp sci, instead we study C, C++, java. I had not even heard of lisp, till I came across SICP course from Berkeley web casts. Of course I do not think even in US, they teach ROR, but as PG says, startups and latest and greatest of technology comes around places where there are good universities. I am in no way suggesting that places like IITs are not good, but most of Indian IT industry is not from IITs, that reflects in percentage
One "kind of dumb" that worries me is based on http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=tough-choices-how-making
"Tough Choices: How Making Decisions Tires Your Brain".

If I spend all day programming, making micro-decisions like if i should refactor some code, if i should put the extra effort into some code or if i am not going to need it, pondering what to benchmark, deciding on how to unit test something... how good of a decision maker am i when i leave work?
"The end result is when we receive our deferred payment for our labours, be it being able to play any song we can imagine, run a triathlon, or admire our sparkling new web app."

There is a phenomenon I've read about where Olympic athletes often suffer from depression after winning a gold medal. The reason seems to be that they suddenly have no idea what to do, after putting themselves fully into achieving a goal for years, now that they've attained it.

I think another way to attain maturity is to understand that the process, the work, is the whole point. Yes, the work has to be in service of some worthwhile goal in order to be worthwhile. But I think it is healthy to find satisfaction in the carrying out of worthwhile duties, not only in end results.
I heard from friends that the Big 5 Accounting firms are making similar offers to their employees. 1\3 of your salary for 3 months and you can take it off.
California is progressive because they have banned non-hands-free cellular phones while driving, banned text messaging while driving, banned the sale of alcohol after 2am, banned gay marriage explicitly through a constitutional amendment.

When did the words "liberal" and "progressive" become synonymous with "government regulated?"
"Debugging sucks the life out of you."

This made me think of a contrary point of view.

"I like debugging: it's the one time that hacking is as straightforward as people think it is. You have a totally constrained problem, and all you have to do is solve it."

http://www.paulgraham.com/hp.html

I try to foster this attitude, now, when fixing bugs.
Another article on the same subject: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/21/business/economy/21harvard...

I found the one from the NYT the better read.
You probably don't want to work at a company where they think failure is an automatic disqualification. In order to succeed you must take chances, and sometimes you miss the mark but not from a lack of not trying hard enough.

Perhaps they just fire you when you commit your first broken build. Then you could have an entire team of programmers that have never submitted buggy code.
The connection is that both try to leverage technologies that are frowned upon by community, but THIS site complains about it ad nauseum (visit main page).

(Also, as pointed in other comments - it uses "link cloaking", affiliate links, sneaky referrer banner, etc, yet he still complains about others using sneaky tactics. It's just a full of hipocrisy trick to get readers and maybe some green)
http://github.com/moriyoshi/quercus-gae/tree/master Seems to be the patched code. There is also a HOWTO document.
I live in Lower Haight right next to a night club. 2am is late enough, thank you. I have also lived in Ft Lauderdale and Miami and enjoyed the nightlife. 4am was fun at times but as I remember the late hours increased traffic deaths due to drunk drivers, not decreased. Also, these guys need to proof their document. Several spelling errors.
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Every company I've worked for has lied either outright or by stretching the truth further than I'm comfortable with. It isn't right but that is the real ethics he will be dealing with in the US/Canadian/Anglo arena.