skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The better question is if your clients care so much about privacy, is the risk that you shorten 3 sentences in such a way that

"My client, Mr. Smith would only kill in self-defense. On the other hand Mr. Jones is a cold blooded killer. He has killed dozens of people"

Becomes "My client, Mr. Jones is a cold blooded Killer" Because of sentence parsing.

Or

"Smith would only kill in self-defense. He has killed dozens of people." Because you used keyword density.
Social capital is important in societies. Trust between people, people's trust of authorities, trust between corporations.

When people migrate from regions where there is no trust in the government, it's natural that some of these bring problems with them. You could say it's no fault of their own -- they are used to the authorities being the bad guys and don't care to follow their rules or tax law.
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I own <first initial><last name>@gmail and I routinely get email intended for other people, including flight itineraries, new account info at various sites, personal emails, and once I even received legal correspondence.

Not only has this taught me how incredibly oblivious some people are to how their email works, but it also showed me just how many companies out there are willing to sign up a random email for an account without verifying the email's ownership, including some big companies like PayPal.
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Umm...how do you know it's a hash and not a unique id?

By your rationale, UNIX is broken because my uid is a small integer.
I think there's a conflict of interest. If you're telling the truth, and they lock you out of your account, then they lose a customer. If an attacker is trying to steal your identity, you suffer much more than Skype.

Thanks for bringing this to my attention.
Moreso, most movies offer a much higher video quality on my laptop screen than on any theatre screen I've ever seen. The availability of a comfy bed to watch from is also a big plus.
Nope. All iPads support iOS 5 or higher.

http://www.macworld.com/article/1162925/how_to_upgrade_your_...
Works for me. Same browser.
Absolutely.

I've always thought of this in relation to the outcry against "the 1%" in the US from people outside the country (like Scandinavia, etc). We might be unequal in the US but the One-percenters don't have the right to use deadly force and do not have standing armies. But these so-called egalitarian northern European states have both. (Although I do in fact love Northern European countries and their people, I'm just pointing out the strangeness of the position.)

In many ways we'd see a massive US if borders in all countries were opened. The author of the piece hints at this as well. Many groups will still lose out, but the laws will be uniform and will add to efficiency. I feel like the British Colonies were a good example of this.
Are there Skype alternatives which aren't so thoroughly dependent on a third party?
So, if I were to believe your quote, a brother or sister who attacks me is more psychology damaging then a random stranger, so they should get a higher penalty. A spouse or parent should really get the extra time. Why aren't those listed?

Nope, actions are what we can measure and put on the wall. Everything else is opinion.
I like serifs so I use Luxi Mono. It used to be the RedHat console font and it was inspired by the Sun console font. On Debian it's in the ttf-xfree86-nonfree package.
When it comes to map styling I think cloudmade did a much better job than google http://maps.cloudmade.com/editor . I use them along with leaflet.
"... where diplomacy would be more suitable."

What do you mean by that?
We already sort of had that in Massachusetts. For hospitals that treated large numbers of free care patients were given flat grants to cover operating costs. ("Free care" covers people too poor for health insurance or to pay for treatment and too young, childless, employed, healthy, etc. for Medicaid.)

However, it is politically unfeasible, because people can't see what the money is being spent on and it was eventually eliminated to "save money". Even though local hospitals had created programs that helped lower costs and provided better care to populations normally ignored.

People care more about punishing poor people than they do about saving taxpayer's money. Otherwise drug testing for medicare recipients wouldn't be a thing.
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The 1/l distinction isn't that bad, but the curved quotation marks and apostrophe were enough to warrant a variant, Inconsolata-dz[1]. Looks like Inconsolata-g is actually built upon the -dz variant because it includes the straight quotation marks and apostrophe.

[1]: http://nodnod.net/2009/feb/12/adding-straight-single-and-dou...
There's no hardening bifurcation in Iceland around this issue. No one is speaking the pro-copyright voice since it is hard for local politicians geting worked up about teenagers downloading American tv shows. We have a local pro-copyright lobby group (industry association) that has had some success; mostly getting CD's and DVD's taxed, pressuring police authorities doing some token raids every three years and having local torrent sites closed down.
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This is debatable of course. Even though the 3GS can technically run iOS 6 even, whether it runs it well enough to be usable is sadly another question entirely. I do know I struggle to use my 3GS these days, though I wonder if that's in part due to App developers assuming people are running newer hardware as much as the OS itself...

Either way, many people with older devices choose to keep them on older OS versions for precisely this reason, so it will be an issue for some.
Or perhaps less absurd than your examples, simply speaking one's opinion on "off-limits" topic:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Steyn#Canadian_Islamic_Co...
Don't confuse computer science and its application in writing software. We have made great progress in algorithms and generally understanding the applied math aspects of expressing computational processes. The software we write is still untrustworthy garbage.

“Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it.” — Donald Knuth
Why? His data set is larger than ram, and couchdb is a really great disk based key/value store.
Please correct me if I am wrong but I understand that, since Quebec is the only province that doesn't endorse the Charter of Rights, it is probably a moot point if Bill 78 holds up such challenge.

Not that I support the Bill, far from it. What I support is Quebec signing the Charter.
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It's worrying to see that Caplan thinks his "keyhole" solutions are politically feasible.

Let's say you let the genie out of the bottle and allow open immigration with several restrictions (higher taxes, no right to vote) for this new group of immigrants. First you have a problem with deciding when to lift these restrictions (10 years, a test, only the next generation?).

Even if you find a solution, you will be breeding resentment due to imposed inequality. Now you are facing a protest and political movement composed of immigrants and their citizen sympathizers who are demanding the ever-popular "justice, equality, etc". For a recent example see the illegal immigrant Debate in the US. Southern illegals are already entering the US (illegally) as if the borders are open, already face discrimination and restricted rights and already have a political movement to fight for things that matter to them.
A great example of this is bit-squatting, where you register a domain name that matches a popular one except for one flipped bit:

http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2011/08/10/bh-2011-bit-squat...

It's enough to get quite a few visitors who were aiming for the popular site.
The bottom right quadrant doesn't need to be flipped.
Why do none of them have slashed zeros and german style 7's and Z with a slash which are 3 things I want in a font designed for programming.
> you will be breeding resentment due to imposed inequality.

Telling those people to stay the hell out isn't exactly winning you any points either.

In any event, political article, consider flagging.
I think he means that this development would encourage the use of diplomacy over explosives. I initially read it the other way (diplomacy being more useful than this development).
You have absolutely zero evidence that what ecigs put out is harmful to people nearby. If I am in the same room as someone with a severe nut allergy and I am sitting there cracking open peanuts like mad, I could hurt someone else. Should we ban peanuts?

Ecigs aren't even as bad as peanuts because what is in them will never cause some sort of severe, instant reaction like to a person with nut allergies.

We know what is in this stuff. We can go far on the side of erring on caution and extrapolate from how much nicotine is in the liquid and how much people run through in a day, how much nicotine is being put into the air. I have studied this subject extensively. I know the research on how much nicotine gets absorbed into the lungs versus now much escapes. I know how much air a person cycles through breathing in an hour. I know that others are not "being drugged" by nicotine.

You are just a dishonest fearmonger. The few dangerous things that have been found in ecigs (stuff like acetaldehyde and formaldehyde) can be compared to the cancer risks from the other components of tobacco smoke as well as other carcinogens and chemicals which pose a cardiovascular risk.

See J Fowles and E Dybing. Application of toxicological risk assessment principles to the chemical constituents of cigarette smoke. Tob. Control, Dec 2003; 12: 424 - 430.

By far the worst cancer causer in tobacco smoke is 1,3-butadiene. This will be exhaled in smoke and also given off in "sidestream smoke" (the cigarette sits there burning). There is no smoke at all with ecigs and no sidestream vapor, because the vapor is triggered by the user and goes only into their lungs first.

1,3-butadiene is given off from things like having a campfire or BBQ-ing. Should we ban campfires and BBQs? What people are being exposed to is worse than ecigs.
Right, and in the meantime he is "selling off" a large part of the risk, while keeping a large part of the reward.

Now, on one hand, people investing in Kickstarter should be or need to learn to be aware that they are "investing", and with that, comes risk.

But on the other, here is someone who could make this happen, arrange financing, etc, but sees this as a way to be more "independent" (which, coincidentally, also means, "doesn't have most of the royalties and profits sent to the studio but instead to him"), who is asking us to put up the bulk of the risk (shared amongst many), and see very little seeds of the project (and certainly none of the reward).
rayiner, aren't you from an immigrant family yourself? It would be really helpful to have your perspective on this issue, so either by an edit of the parent comment here, or by a new reply below, why not follow the model of Paul Graham's essay "How to Disagree"

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

and tell us point-by-point what you think is incorrect about Caplan's policy proposals?
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Top-100 based on what metric? Fund size, total amount of funding, twittercount?
People don't like to hear it, but this is true. Part of what makes America successful is Americans. Community and culture, not just capital. When my dad left Bangladesh, he did so partly to get away from Bengalis.
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Aaaaw :)
So I suppose you believe that a somone who killed another person unintentionally and by accident should be punished just the same as someone who killed another person deliberately and with a lot of premeditation.

After all, the only thing that differentiates the two cases is the intent of the perpetrator. And we can't measure intent, can we? Or can we?
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+1 For Luxi Mono; technically it is terrible for programming (0&O and 1&l pairs look almost the same), but I'm somehow addicted to it. So I really hope one day someone will make open source "Luxi Mono-g" clone...
My favourite is Linux Libertine Monospaced, available since v5.3.0:
http://www.linuxlibertine.org/index.php?id=2&L=1

You can try it out if you select Monospaced from the dropdown here:
http://www.linuxlibertine.org/index.php?id=86&L=1

Other than that from that list of fonts, Source Code Pro looks quite good too.
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the overwhelming majority of cases...

So you recognize there are cases? Why isn't it "In all cases..."?

Answer that and you'll have your answer.
While my iPhone 3 could run 4.3, it runs like a dog, so I downgraded it to 3.1.3, jailbroken with Whited00r. It means I get some of the extras (root, folders, fast app switching, sharing menu, and video recorder), without the clunky bullshit that the iPhone 3 just isn't powerful enough to handle of the real iOS6. I can't download anything from the AppStore anymore though. It is all 4.3+. Apple are essentially trying to turn my perfectly reasonable device into a brick.
What he seems to want is the magnet URI scheme...
The challenge with health care in the US is that nobody has incentives for reducing health care expenditures. Hospitals get paid when you get sick. Insurance companies see higher margin from reducing administrative costs. Patients are largely uninformed and there are few services out there to help them make lifestyle changes... not to mention that they expect somebody else to pay for it. Employers actually bear most of the non-medicare/medicaid financial risk, but they aren't health experts and have been burned in the past by tele-medicine programs that don't work.

Preventive care programs like the one at HQP are proving that preventive care is effective, but sending a nurse to your home regularly is expensive and I'd question the ROI from doing so, absent some focus on a particular disease. With a solid ROI and some good hard evidence, HQP shouldn't have to rely on CMS to keep them afloat... with some work they would be able to sell their program to payers.

HQP also isn't addressing the systemic issues I mentioned above, so what's especially frustrating about the article is that they bash on ACOs, which is one of the first attempts by CMS to actually align incentives and mend those issues. And frankly, those changes aren't going to be good for hospitals... I'm sure a lot will go out of business as people get healthier and don't need them. This piece of the article in particular makes me question HQP's motives.
Yeah. He, however, also was developing, himself, the storage backend, so that's already one major source of complexity you don't have if you use an off-the-shelf embedded key-value library. He also is simply working with a wide set of use cases, both at the time and on his roadmap, where VM causes things to "kind of suck". I certainly did not have the goal of making everything "work well", I just wanted things to "not break horribly" (I added a sentence to my previous post making this more clear). If I had actually built something that would be epic for some wide range of use cases, I'd have done something more with it than just leaving it in a public git repository for months ;P. In the end this didn't even satisfy my use case...
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A special case of this question is that the destination of the immigration is the US. Let's assume this, and let's also assume that an immigrant is magically and automatically converted into a proper US citizen (believing in women's rights, having gay buddies, etc.). Now imagine that EVERYONE outside of the US immigrates to the US. Because nobody would be left outside of the US, the US could expand to cover the entire planet. The real question now is: Is the US self-sustainable, i.e. can it function totally on its own?
"If the U.S. or another wealthy nation were to see a sudden large increase in immigrants from these countries, it's possible that the new populace will vote for bad policies in their new home."

Then perhaps the solution is to not give them the vote, at least at first. Here's an example: Australia decides to set up a new city on an isolated part of its coastline. It accepts very poor immigrants from anywhere and pays them very low wages to work in factories. They cannot vote for 20 years and cannot move to any other part of Australia, but they can choose to return to their country of origin at any time. The city is administered and policed by Australians.

The idea is to repeat the experience of Hong Kong where British rule mixed with cheap immigrant labour produced very rapid rises in standard of living. It's basically the same as the Charter Cities [1] proposed by Paul Romer, except that the city is located in the rich country rather than the poor one.

[1] http://chartercities.org/concept
Sounds lovely in theory...

I have to say, a service I would love would be a website that mirrors content but only if the original source went down, and otherwise redirects to the original site. Imagine something like a URL shortener, but the URL it gives you will redirect to a cached copy of the original page in the event that the original page disappears. That way, you can link and give credit to the people who made the content, but if something happens it isn't lost from the internet for good. It would, in a sense, be a "permanent URL" service. It'd be great for citations too, e.g. wikipedia, academia, etc. I'm not sure if that's what the OP is getting at here, or if he's suggesting something else?

Either way, too bad rights issues would probably stop something like that ever being made.
Cool, that sounds wonderful! Did you speak Arabic before you got there?
Airborne lead from exhaust? I take it you're not in North America, where the governments banned tetraethyllead in the 1970s through 1990s, or in the EU, where it was banned in 2000 (most individual countries banned it earlier), or ...? Even Serbia banned it a couple years ago. According to Wikipedia, only in Algeria is it still used in gasoline.
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The only colors I'd really recommend taking from this are Sunflower and the Midnight blues. The greens and blues and purples are all too safe. They look like defaults, like choosing "red" in CSS for one of your brand colors. Like someone else in the comments said, they are "not too saturated, not too dim, not too bright, not too loud". And although he used it as a compliment, it sounds like a failure to me. You don't want all of your colors to live in the same value and saturation spaces; that's boring.

Edit: The Pumpkin's interesting too.
However, I would guess that 10-20% of the US population lacks the basic literacy and logic skills to hold a manual job involving anything but repetitive tasks.

~13% when it comes to reading, ~20% when it comes to quantitative tasks.

http://nces.ed.gov/naal/pdf/2006470_1.pdf
As someone who has visited Haiti multiple times and has read the history, the above comment is way off base. Read "The Uses of Haiti" by Paul Farmer to get an in-depth understanding of how Haiti went from being the first Republic in the Western Hemisphere that was thriving to one of the poorest. Some find the facts difficult to accept, including exploitation and externally orchestrated political coups, even when the facts are agreed upon by historians the world over. Yet we have misinformation lines like the above "Haiti may be a dump but the Haitians made it that way" still going around. It's shameful, really.
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my name is Martin, I'm 21 years old and from Germany. I'm suffering from MS since 2009 and developed a fast and easy to use diary/journal for the iPhone to track the course of the disease.
Welfare states are quite fault tolerant, but could they handle unlimited immigration? It isn't just money. Societies with high level of trust would change psychologically if too many people from states in disrepair would arrive at once.

How much poverty would need to be eliminated that dismantling of welfare state becomes an acceptable trade-off?
You have some fantastic traction and revenues already, that's awesome.

My recommendation, which worked very well for us, was to focus less on articles about the startup, and more on articles about the Pinterest, about all the challenges people face using it and growing their following. What types of images should you pin? How frequently should you pin things? So many people have no idea about these things. Then, often your product will naturally fit into some of these articles. You can write these articles on your own blog, or offer them to other blogs.

We did a lot of guest posting to get the first 100,000 users for Buffer.
Here is a much better article on the application of probability to the Amanda Knox case: http://lesswrong.com/lw/1j7/the_amanda_knox_test_how_an_hour...
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Rightly or wrongly, those who employ capitalized phrases such as "Our Sort" and "Not Our Sort" often fancy themselves ironists.
Why do we care how much money other people make? It seems like an unhealthy fascination.
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Freenet's Content Hash Key URIs are one example of this idea in practice.

https://wiki.freenetproject.org/Content_Hash_Key

BitTorrent's "magnet" URIs could be seen as another. I always liked the idea of using torrents to host static web content. There are downsides, but they would be worth it in many cases.

If you used the torrent info hash as the primary identifier of the web content, but also embedded an HTTP URL that the data could be served directly from, you could have secure immutable content with the almost the same performance as a regular website. The torrent data could be used to verify the HTTP data, and the browser would fall back to download from the torrent network if the website was unavailable or served invalid content.

(This would probably require a bit of original design, since I don't think there's an existing convention for getting the actual torrent data over HTTP instead of from peers (DHT), but that's minor.)
Assuming the crappy regex on the form will accept it.. :( It's better now, but I still fail about 20% of the time.
I deleted my LinkedIn account and I still get emails from them. LinkedIn, I beg of you, please leave me alone.
Trust is earned and distrust is the norm. If you have a gun, I want a bigger one. No, I do not trust you, why should I?
I think somewhere around 6000. Is there a way to see this easily on Google Analytics?

Also you have to precise. I was removing a real visitor after 30 seconds. Some websites I know are doing it after 2 minutes... It changes your numbers a lot.
My favorite is Verdana.

Yes. A proportional font for programming. In the beginning I hated tabs and white space, until I just got used to it. Now it's much easier to read my own code. Words jump out of the text because spaces are spaces and "i" doesn't make me doubt for a split second where the word starts and ends.
It's a shame Lucida Console is at last position, I like it a lot.
It took me a while to understand, it only works in Chromium, Firefox shows a few images, maybe just a part of the animation at less than 1 fps.
Currently use Pragmata Pro ... It's different, and thats proberbly why I'm trying it out for a while.

I use it with Sublime Text 2 and the scheme called Big Duo

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I think you mean you have an iPhone 3G, the 2nd generation iPhone. The ‘iPhone 3’ is the iPhone 3GS, which was released a year later.

The iPhone 3G is a 5 year old model. You can continue to use all the apps you’ve ever bought for it, you just won’t receive updates for them, as you’ve chosen to run 3 year old system software.