skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wait, what? You mean service from my car mechanic, gardener, pool guy, garbage collector, repairman, contractor, hairdresser, sports trainer, etc. - all "unauthentic" because I pay money for it? Or it is only when serving food that paying for it somehow becomes "unauthentic"? It is extremely weird notion that paying for service is somehow not expected. Why do you think all these people do it - out of deep and passionate love for you?
Basic income is a nice idea, but as long as we cannot automate everything, I do feel that it misses the point somewhat because it doesn't address unemployment.

As long as somebody has to work, unemployment is very divisive for society. Those who are employed tend to be valued over those who do not work, even when the unemployment is involuntary (actually, unemployment is usually defined to be involuntary).

This can have jarring psychological consequences. It also reduces the overall size of the economy. If somebody wants to work, shouldn't we make it possible for them? Finally, it means that a basic income is always going to be a politically unstable proposition. It will always be easy for those who hate basic income to attack it with "welfare queen" type smears. This attack will likely be even more effective than it is with current welfare programs.

This is why I believe a Job Guarantee to be a better policy. Basically, have a program that ensures infinite demand for labor at a fixed wage.

One can still have Basic Income on top of a Job Guarantee, of course. The two proposals aren't mutually exclusive. But I think the Job Guarantee is better at addressing the real issues, at least as long as we cannot automate everything.
>doctors need to correctly understand evolution to correctly carry out their duties.

Be concrete. In what way would not knowing anything about evolution affect the duties of a doctor?

> Also, I fail to see how someone that understands their job could be considered more dangerous in doing that job than someone that is cluelessly copying something they've been told.

Well, you were making a comparison to a developer who understands what they work with vs. one who doesn't. For this comparison to work, the one with understanding would have to be evil or dangerous. In that case, I would pick the one with lack of understanding provided they at least can get the work done that I need.

>I can imagine a competent psychopath being more dangerous than an incompetent normal person, but psycopathy is orthogonal to the discussion here, I hope you agree.

That I agree with a competent psychopath is more dangerous than an incompetent person? I would agree with that. I don't necessarily agree that psychopathy is orthogonal to the discussion tough, it's a key part of the reason why I'd vote for someone like Paul. :)
> Perhaps it's because of the relative newness of most US housing stock.

No, brand new houses and apartment buildings in at least the Bay Area are of shoddy quality compared to brand new houses built to Northern European standards. Same goes for older houses. Doesn't matter if it's brick or wood or concrete, there's just a huge quality gap.

Some of it is explained by the climate, it always amuses me to see housing ads proudly proclaiming "double glazing!". Meanwhile, over here, triple glazing has been the legal minimum for decades, and older houses were required to retrofit it.

Some of it is explained by the british heritage, they can't build houses on the british isles either.

The rest, I don't know how to explain. I guess people simply don't know how good houses they could be having, and therefore don't crave it?
What are "the RRD tools"? What does RRD stand for?

Also, if you're worried about an application which does a lot of SD writes, you could:

(1) Try it, see if the SD card holds up. If it does, great. If it doesn't, well, SD cards are cheap, and you did make a backup, right?

(2) Write to a RAM disk

(3) Write to a network drive
I'm a dog and cat person, though mostly I've only been what my roommates have been. My current roommate has a dog. My last few roommates have had cats...Living in New York now, what I wouldn't give for a mouse-killing cat...

It's hard to say which animal is better, overall. I will say though that a cat whose devotion you've earned, to the point that it's as loyal as a dog (yet knows how to use the litter box)...is my favorite hybrid pet of all.
"At the time, if anyone had asked me "what are you going to 'do' with that? what about the economics?" (and I know this, because they did), I would have said that economics aren't everything. Are they?"

While I was in art school, I can't count the number of times I heard the phrase: "Would you like fries with that?"

#2 was always something about underwater basketweaving.

I guess the humor/affirmation didn't translate. Maybe I hit "reply" too far down, took a while for the fries thing to bubble up from 19 years ago. Maybe not such a common phrase in this context as it was back then.
A dog is a living creature, just like a child is. Sounds good enough to attempt to make it happy. I wouldn't worry about what others think. ;-)

(note: I don't have a dog.)
I'm Chinese American. My parents are from Taiwan. I was born in Phoenix. Among all the places I've traveled, I've found California and New York's racial diversity unmatched by any other part of the world. There is no other part in the world where you'll find Greek, Chinese, Japanese, Persians, Israelis, French, Mexican, Irish and so forth on the same road. I haven't seen it on the scale as it happens in Cal or NYC.
Well, that too. While UV is nearly absent in sunlight at the sea level, there still is a lot of energy in infrared that is not visible to the human eyes. See here for examples: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infrared_photography
How do cloud price drops affect the bottom line? TripAdvisor and Pinterest
F--k your startup
Best ending ever.
So the summary is "I don't like doing it the traditional way, other people do like it and keep doing it, so I must force them to behave as I want by applying the force of government coercion". But of course.

Oh, and of course no case for government coercion can be complete without throwing racism and sexism into it. It's not enough to call police on people that behave not to your liking, you have also to call them racists.
It's probably just a matter of trade-offs. The visible range does cover the peak energy of the spectrum of sunlight, and covering more of the infrared may just not be worth the cost of a more complicated eye.

It would be interesting to see some type of measure of the information content of adding more infrared in typical nature scenes.
Awesome demo...looks like a promising leap forward for 2FA in the cloud. Is this a managed service type thing?
I'm in the same situation, getting sick of spending too much time away from home, but I am already a programmer who's made to commute 2.5hrs a day for a job I can do from home :(
Great another news aggregator and recommendation service(!).

To be fair their interest lists are really cool
https://www.facebook.com/lists/10150896044944655

Sadly all the ad's make it a painful experience. I'm sure they are just going to clean things like that up and make it more usable.
>Sorry, but it sounds like you're poorly-informed on the subject, or otherwise biased.

I'm still waiting for you to give a concrete example where not knowing or believing evolution will cause a doctor to make a wrong choice. At is typical, people like yourself rely on hand wavy "you just don't understand" nonsense.

>And good luck with those Turing-denying programmers you hired. Let us know how they work out in the long run.

What I'm telling you is that most of the PHP sites on the web are made by people with little or no understanding of the fundamentals of the technology they use. And they make a living just fine. Honestly, I suspect Zuckerberg would be in this group as well. Fundamental understanding is never required to get results, no matter how much we may wish it so.
India is ranked 140th/179 in the Press Freedom Index, there are cases of academics being arrested due to sociological theories that offend people, there are consistently cases in which people are arrested for social media statuses that are benign but that are minorly negative towards someone in power (and even arrests for 'liking' statuses!).

Pretty much every one of those cases is far less defensible than an indictment of Snowden would be (i.e. there is literally no ethical ground to stand on in any democratic society in these cases, whereas one can conceive of a reasonable devil's advocate argument for Snowden's case). India's recent record on free speech is pretty abysmal, unfortunately. It's a nice thought, but I don't see why they would go out of their way and stick their neck out diplomatically to protect it in Snowden's case.

Immediate edit of a typo: "less defensible" --> "more defensible"
Scottish house construction is definitely quite a bit flimsier now than it was 150-200 years ago though...

I lived in Edinburgh for a few years, and most of the apartments I lived in were built in the 19th century (maybe the 18th; I forget the details, but there were several major housing booms in Edinburgh back then). They all had walls made of stone blocks like half a meter thick, and that was typical for buildings from that era, which account for a huge proportion of the city-center housing stock. New suburban houses I saw, on the other hand, seemed liked they'd blow over in a stiff wind (something there was a plentiful supply of), and of course were ugly to boot...

[OTOH, it turned out that in one of the places I lived, the drinking-water tank was made of lead...! >< So if my comments seem kinda dumb... TT ]
Installing a OS free of patent-lawsuits and bad digital karma on your otherwise good hardware:

http://blog.kylebarlow.com/2013/05/installing-ubuntu-1304-ra...
Flex [1], too, uses regular expressions. However, the generated source that performs the actual tokenizing/lexing, does not need any library support for them as it is all implemented in the code. So even there lack of regex support in standard library would not be an issue.

[1] http://flex.sourceforge.net/
I like the story, but I feel it's important to mention that the authors stated opinion on Karma is terrifying.

Karma is essentially the worst sort of belief, in that superficially it seems to reward good behavior and punish bad behavior. This appeals to a lot of people because of its clear "carrot/stick" mentality and overall simplicity. This is the "Just-World" hypothesis.

In reality, this kind of thinking means that if you believe in Karma, you can ignore less-fortunates because clearly they screwed up their lives on their own. Conversely, you can get away with being a jerk to people, because they probably deserved it anyway. It is a self-reinforcing bias of the worst sort.
Searching on any word makes it virtually useless as it returns so many false positives, averages items with the price of accessories for those items resulting in artifically low prices etc.. I buy and sell a lot of synthesizers and searching for market leading brands, the results were useless. Also, you blank the search box after every search so if I want to refine my search I have to retype everything. This is not MVP yet, you need to do some sort of SKU lookup.
the 5-paragraph structure is wonderful. I used (a 4-paragraph version of) it for my MCATs in one essay and used the french equivalent (these - antithese - synthese) in another - mind you you have 30 minutes to organize and write each essay. It forces you to do exactly that, think about what your point is and put in a place where your reader will actually see it, and not drown it in a sea of words.

A scientific paper is basically that, except expanded into bigger sections. When authors take liberties with the structure it really results in incomprehensible gibberish. Even for general expository writing - I found that reading through internship essays, for example, when the essay was a ramble, I would chuck the whole application, but when the essay had clear topics and supporting information structure, I kept it.
I sometimes use online communication like a letter. I pause to collect my thoughts. I proof-read. I revise.

Two points: (1). I only do this when I have something to say (or, rather, when thoughts call me to say them). However, pretty much whenever I look into something, I find I have something to say.
(2). They are typically only a paragraph or two long, even though the argument might have several parts and be carefully nuanced. That's partly because I'm striving for simplicity and clarity but it might be simply the natural length of those thoughts. However, again, the more I look into something, the more I find I have to say.

So (having written this) I think my writing quantity and length is less a measure of my ability than of how often and how deeply I "look into things".
good story bro... hope the dog's getting a cut of the profits.
kidding aside, well done!
Those are the next two tasks:)

Thanks for the kind feedback!
Fix the blink problem of the anchor icon
The quoted Josh Elman does not work for Facebook.
Pre-WWI, Russia was a feudal system. After the revolution, pretty much everything was done via some kind of parliamentary procedures. Granted, Lenin was a bully and hammered through the things he wanted but he largely did it via parliamentary consensus. At least at first.
Have you been to Toronto or London?
don't know about hidden, but really useful is a three finger tap on a word to open a small dictionary popup.
The best part of your reply is in showing how he failed his own interview, figuratively speaking of course. In real life, the candidate doesn't get to explain things the day after they were turned down because of bad answers.

I truly believe he knows his stuff, but even he made a mistake. He, however, didn't have to come up with his answer while people are staring at him.
Time

Make sure you set your hours (preferable a week in advance) and follow them. For example, if you work 9am-5pm Mon-Fri, set 6pm-9pm (an example) Mon-Fri and 11am-4pm on weekends for freelancing projects. In addition, realize that a freelancer is always thinking about his/her business, so you will 'always' be working. You will be emailing clients, marketing yourself, and building your brand at all times.

Legal

Consult a few lawyers for about 30-60mins each (they usually offer this for free) about your situation. You are essentially interviewing them at this point, and finding the right one. If you don't feel quite right, move on. They should be able to accurately explain the answers to your questions thoroughly. Taxes, incorporation, setting up contracts, etc. should all be covered.

Also, they should be able to tell you what their fees are!

Money

Watch this: http://vimeo.com/22053820

"F*ck You. Pay Me." is a talk about how to make sure you're getting payed what you are owed as a freelancer. The speaker's lawyer comes up and also gives fantastic advice.
The total cost of big data performance – video
>> A URL cannot be analysed after decoding

Sadly true. Drovr me nuts trying to analyze a URL on Apache/PHP.
But what protection of stored data do you mean should Congress find, by introducing some Laws? Because, well, if the data are not encrypted on the server, then someone could still take them... that's how Internet works. For now, the only solution I can think of is that you encrypt the data locally, and upload only the encrypted data - but this way, the cloud provider will not able to provide any additional value. Or are there some other possibilities?
From that point of view, yes, the US is likely more of a 'melting pot' than most of Europe. London is probably close. There's a lot of nuance to it, though - big cities are different than small towns, immigration patterns change over time, and so on.

The melting pot, to some degree, eliminates that diversity, though. After a generation or two, lots of people are unable to speak their parents/grandparents native language. Perhaps that's less true today, with cheap travel, the internet, and people placing more value on diversity and knowing more than one language - it'd be interesting to see some research. Anecdotally, a ton of the older Italian-Americans I've met don't speak Italian much - they wanted to blend in and not be 'foreigners', and only later in life realized that not speaking the language was a loss.
A Guide to Safer (Encrypted) Online Communication
How is this relevant or connected to OS X hidden features?
You can use weapons to protect yourself, but it is very limited and will always trigger an investigation if the use of force was excessive. (I think some if this might also be the case in the US, though in many european countries you really are in trouble if you end up shooting someone that didn't have any weapons on them, or just a knife)

The other thing is that it is rare that a burglar brings along weapons, because he can safely assume that the victim wont have any weapons. (so they usually just run away if they are caught)

If everyone had weapons at home, you would have more life or death situations, where a burglar would have to shoot someone, just to get out alive.

In most cases not even the police would shoot a criminal who is running away (if the person isn't threatening anyone), because they are also bound to never use excessive force if there are other means. (like picking up the criminal on another day at his home)

So yes: In rare cases you wont be able to properly defend yourself, but it reduces the amount of escalating situations on a larger scale, so you are generally better off. (Just take a look at statistics on how many people are injured/killed by weapons in a country like Germany vs USA)
That was, of course, his point. But Snowden DID leave Hawaii...
I don't really understand the big deal here. It sounds like some artists collaborate or have some help writing parts of hit songs... what am I missing on why this is important?
Vancouver (and other areas in Canada, particularly Toronto) seems to be making a real go of it though....

[My impression was that in the days after the HK handover, it seemed like half of HK moved to Vancouver (I gather the Canadian government had unusually generous Visa policies), and that apparently really started a ball rolling; the last time I was there, it seemed amazingly diverse.]
Great.. time to create the next best thing.
Are you under-utilizing Google Docs?
Not to mention arguably the worst aspect of Karma belief: that the successful deserve it. This kind of belief is what causes so many people in America to vote squarely against their own interests for their entire lives.
I was a little suspicious of your initial reply but the "NYC in 1989 was all rainbows and smiles" was too much. 1989 was close to if not the peak of the crack epidemic in NYC. Its almost impossible to say crack epidemic and smile or think happy thoughts.

Have you ever experienced southern hospitality? Instead of rattling off a bunch of cities lets stick to the "Chars;" Charlotte, NC, Charlottesville, VA, Charleston, SC?
Even in Europe, not every beer is good. There is a term "Eurobeer", and it is an insult, usually targeted at Heineken or SABMiller products (or beers from other breweries with similar quality).

Having better beer than Eurobeers is no problem then. Good beers, on the other hand, are really good.
I'm a new developer and just had my first experience with this. Went back and looked at something I wrote three months ago and cringed a little. It's good to see how far we come. It's also nice to hopefully think I'll be that much better 3 months from now.
http://beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/144/96

Try stuff like that and tell me its hopped up to crazy levels. As with everything in the US, location matters. Where I'm at in Minnesota, and being by Wisconsin, there are a metric ton of local breweries that put out lots of beers that you cannot buy more than a few states away. These breweries also pump out some of the best beers you can have.

If you're going to compare like to like, stop using crap like Budweiser and the other commercial stuff.
http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/

It's literally the first hit in Google. He probably doesn't explain it because it's a fairly well-known tool.
This has always been confusing to me: "I have to drink my beer from a paper bag, so there is nothing to be seen. What do you think everybody drinks from their paper bags? Coca-cola?"
This was standard back when I was involved in the UK Hardcore scene. Novice producers would take a rough draft or an idea to a sound engineer and have it made into a song. The engineer was often a big name himself and sometimes the artists would use "engineered by X" when marketing their tracks.
For some value of "news"
That's not true. There are only around 20 default subreddits. r/all is everything.
I don't believe in karma and don't think Ubuntu can ignore the game of patents. They've been able to so far because they are irrelevant in the desktop space.

Personally, I'm not willing to hobble my computing experience due to some hopeless ideology.
Fair point. I considered only good European beers and good Mexican beers, not some products with high marketing and low quality. Unfortunately, when I was in US I didn't have a luck to try good US beer, and moved on to Mexican beers as soon as I discovered them.
Bitcoin is not something that's self-evidently harmless. The state has legitimate interests at stake. Some legal review is inevitable and will be a good thing.
I guess something like that will be inevitable. Unfortunately it will have to be combined with a control of population size or it will be unsustainable.
Leopard-style (spatial) Exposé in Snow Leopard (grid):

http://superuser.com/questions/118424/old-leopard-expose-on-...
More Thoughts About Moving Objects Safely
When my non-technical friends want to Skype with me I tell them to go with Jitsi. ZRTP all the way.

https://jitsi.org/

People with a clue should no longer be using Skype.
So the mission has gone from being a social network to being a newspaper? This shows that Facebook doesn't care about what users want from Facebook anymore, but about what's going to make Facebook the most money.

This is exactly what I expected to happen after the IPO because their revenue/profit still doesn't justify their valuation, which means they need to focus a lot more on monetization and do it soon, before most investors wake up to it. This hurry to monetize means they'll screw a lot of things up for the users, and possibly even ruin Facebook for them.
The thought goes something like this: "The burglar is a 'victim of society' and he needs treatment and education. We need to feel sorry for him. He needs our protection". Sickening. One guy used his kid's little bat to hit a junkie on his legs and was thrown in jail, fined for about $ 300 and got to visit courtrooms for 2 years because he couldn't work for the army with a 'record' and he needed this record to go away.
Police even tell you (off the record) to kick the burglars ass and later say he 'fell down the stairs'. Same thing when you're a witness. The defendant has the right to know who testifies against him. But you do not have the right to even know the defendant's last name...

See also: "Lawyer Job Knoester about beating a burglar" :
http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=nl&sl=nl&tl=en&u=ht...

Or: Roadmap, How to hit a burglar: "A baseball bat under your bed is wrong. By arming yourself you take the risk of escalation. The danger is that you use the weapon quickly.

http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=nl&sl=nl&tl=en&u=ht...
Then I don't understand what point you were trying to make.
Amazon changes Associates agreement, disallow toolbars
So just as a counterpoint as a native, also in an area with legalized carry, I've never had the feeling everyone was polite and respectful because you don't know if they have a gun. I think that is a bit of projection, never heard anyone say anything similar.