skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Have you ever intentionally dressed like a slob? "

Or as I call it "dressing like a Physics professor". You'll notice that people who need to work with their minds very rarely dress well, and people who use other attributes dress very well...often inversely correlated with how well they can use their minds as a tool.
This is precisely the policy that we have here in the UK.
https://www.gov.uk/national-minimum-wage-rates
I wrote about why we shouldn't stereotype young designers
3D printer can print a house in 20 hours
Will there be a book, and if so, will the book be as interesting as "Danziger's Travels?"
I can measure how rational you really are.

The result is around zero.

Seriously, come on, people are not rationally thinking creatures at all, nobody is. There is nothing to even measure.

If everybody became rational, the world would collapse instantly. Do you realize how many people would cease their socially indispensable work if they acted perfectly rational from an individual (meaning egotistical) perspective?

I clearly see that I am irrational, but I cannot stop being so.

I estimate that in order to become rationally thinking, I would have to undergo an unbearably painful transformation of my entire mental entity. My mind just works that way, it is hardwired irrationally, as any other human's mind.

The article and the attempt itself are great though.
If this had been a dissertation I would completely agree with your point of view. However, serious scholarship has little to do with writing a popular book. If anything Malcolm Gladwell is the gold standard for popular, interesting, and bulllshit books that sell like hot cakes.

Consider his religious affiliation suggests a level of irrational thinking, but you can't say such things if you want a best seller. Yet, there are plenty scholarly works focused on the connection between religion an irrationality because scholars especially those with tenure can get away with such things.
Ah, so anyone say 14 or older gets X/year? Any thoughts on what X would be. I assume this would supplant welfare to some degree?
> Marx then goes on to argue, that the capitalist class can more easily leverage its interests, and therefore the workers need class conscious to counter this leverage.

And anyone who disagrees with Marx on hearing his ideas is suffering from False Consciousness and needs to be Re-Educated, perhaps in a Camp somewhere.
USA you are a police state, and as long as this state of affairs continues I will never come near your country.
There will be a book, yes... Possibly a couple. And of course it will be interesting. :)
Unlike the other link I saw about this, this one links directly to the article containing the list, rather than the reblog.

Really internet - are we re-blogging lists at this point? WTF - some people just aren't trying anymore.
US attempts to block Edward Snowden are 'bolstering' case for asylum
>Why is it that we as a society are so fucking fearful? We have an irrational fear of communists, socialists, terrorists, serial killers, sex offenders, and of course, child molesters and abductors.

1) Because due to egotism, greed and lack of communal values, we have fucked up normal operation of society, and they are indeed are more prevalent than they were.

2) Because of watching them all the time in "entertainment", thus creating the impression that they are even more than the already too many that they are.

3) Because it's a good racket in order to sell "protection", a trillion dollar business, from politicians passing all the more extreme laws, to surveillance, to arms business, etc.

4) Because people themselves have stiffened up and treat other people like enemies even in casual urban situations, and treat their kids like they're prisoners for their own "safety".
Wow. "what the world needs now is lo...I mean more speculative investment..."

Give me a fucking break...
What are you looking for in a status line plugin then? You can customize it a lot in your vimrc without a plugin.
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If I had had a long public life filled with actions whose only explanation are malice or irrationality, I don't think it would be slander, no, even if the argument wasn't very well constructed. That doesn't make it a good argument, I just don't think it qualifies as slander. (Or libel.) For one thing, slander or libel in the US has to be actually false.
> Modern capitalism has failed to keep everyone employed.

Im not sure how you would know that. Depends on your defintion of "modern capitalism". If it is how current western states work then sure not everybody is employed. I would however argue that in a system without minimum wage, wellfair, unemployment insurance, retraining programmes ... unvoluntary unemployment would be very, very low.

Now note, Im not making a value jugment here.

> Most subsidies to the poor end up directly in the pockets of the rich. i.e. rent accounts for 50% of the income of people on welfare.

Well, of course it does. Do you imagen a underground economy of poor people or something. Most money is spend on things owned by large cooperations, walmarkt, mcdonalds and simular.

> The poor are statistically less happy i.e. Frank Gallagher maybe pissed up all the time and maybe happy, but most people are not.

It depends on who you ask. There is quite a bit of research but it all has the fundmental problem of measuring happyness. Asking people if they are happy does not really make sence when you think about culture or signaling. So yes there is research that suggests there is a general positive corrulation with wealth and happyness but there is also research that suggest that after some level of wealth you stop getting happier. Some research suggest its only importend how rich people you interactive with are.

> The stability of corporate entities is overestimated. Most companies have the life expectation of a forty year old man.

Yes.

> Managerialism is a failure, and an unhealthy obsession of the modern left.

Agree. There are much more fundamental problems in the economy then wages of managers for example.
If I can expand on my own comment briefly, the thing I'd want to point out about that bulleted list is that they aren't new things you can apply interesting crypto things to, but modern constructions that address universal problems.

XEX and XTS, for instance, are used for disk encryption; disk encryption isn't a new problem, but it was poorly addressed by 1995 constructions, in ways that could create security-crippling tradeoffs.
http://www.johnstonsarchive.net/terrorism/terrisraelsum.html

In 2002, 451 people were killed and ~2,300 injured in 134 separate terrorist attacks in Israel. From a population of about 7.7 million people.

If that were the U.S., that would be 18,300 deaths annually and close to 95,000 people injured.

Point is, whilst terrorism is designed to affect people psychologically more than the physical effects, you can't simply ignore it. A balanced response is needed and surely that includes some element of intelligence gathering on who is causing these attacks. Where to draw the line is a valid question, but to reject terrorism completely as irrelevant is stupid. People who discuss these issues in terms of absolutes ("we should never give up any freedom") are rarely considering the reality of the situation.

The reason I find this so disturbing is it is exactly the wrong way of approaching the situation. If we say terroism only killed X people so it isn't worth sacrificing these rights, we are saying there is some level of deaths that these rights are worth scarificing for. Personally I feel the balance between privacy and security is one that should be figured out beforehand and not changed in response to events, otherwise people who want to abuse such power will always have an incentive to play up and exagerate how much danger we are in. The rights we have when 1 person dies from terrorism should be the same as when 20,000 people die. But I don't believe that should be the right for every person to keep everything they do private. That just isn't living in reality.
In rural Tennessee, a new way to help hungry children: A bus turned bread truck
Whether northern Europe has a minimum wage or not is a bit complex. Neither Germany nor the Nordic countries have statutory minimum wages, but they have very corporatist labor sectors, with strong labor-union participation organized along the lines of broad confederations (giant labor confederations negotiate ground agreements with giant employer confederations). Some of that is entrenched in law, e.g. in most of Scandinavia the workers are guaranteed representatives on certain bodies that can veto things like changes to employment contracts.

So a negotiated minimum wage still covers a large proportion of jobs. In Denmark somewhere around 80% of jobs are covered by the negotiated minimum wage agreements, which are typically set at $20/hr. The main exceptions making up the 20% are small mom-and-pop stores (kebab shops and such) who don't join the employer confederation and therefore aren't subject to the agreements. But all jobs at large companies, like supermarket clerks and janitors, are covered by the minimum wage.

In Denmark this was basically the social-democratic outcome of the late-19th-century labor strife: the moderate wing of the labor movement reached an agreement in September 1899 with moderates within the business community to adopt a consensus-based approach to workplace conditions and pay. That held, so both the laissez-faire capitalist advocates and the militantly socialist portion of the labor movement were sidelined for a century or so.
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Has simply ignoring the trolls stopped working? ;)
Documents: Sweden wiretapping Russia for the NSA
Here it is, from a month ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5808979
There are plenty of comfortable options for professional footwear.

Please let me know. I've tried for almost 20 years to find a pair of decent work shoes half as comfortable as a pair of knock off $10 sneakers. I try to get by with choosing decent looking sneakers, but it's a lost battle. Mens dress shoes are made for a foot shape that mine obviously isn't.

The most comfortable shoes I've ever worn are Keens, followed closely by Vans, then Merrels.

My local shoe guy has tried in vain for years to find me a pair of nice work shoes. His last best effort was Mephisto, which are awesome shoes and an awesome company, and completely unwearable for me after a few minutes.
To folks downvoting, stop. This is an interesting, on-topic, technical question. There's a reason we're given the ability to downvote only after reaching a karma threshold, because we're to do so judiciously.
Average aircraft approach is a 3º glide slope. And usually all of them look exactly like that (only minor deviations due to the wind). If that chart is true is easy to see that they where high on the (non working) glidslope.
NIT and BI are to diffrent things but with simular spirit. Make it rule based, simple to administer and most importently keep to the principle, if you work you get more money.
Ambient Backscatter: Wireless Communication Out of Thin Air [pdf]
You got an accurate headline: approval was not obtained. You cannot call drugged up statements approval. You're trying to split a hair that isn't there, about what kinds of coerced approval can be counted as approval and what kinds can't. By doing so, you're ignoring that the prison medical staff abused positions of authority and abused drugs even to obtain consent for permanent medical procedures.

What you're arguing is much like arguing that if a woman had sex while drunk (under the influence of a drug that impedes judgement), then no headline should call it rape. In that context, the error should, I hope, be quite clear.
I knew that, but I also know that it's not been officially acknowledged. My reaction was just based on his apparent confirmation that this was true, as it seemed to be from a perspective of first hand knowledge.
> Marx then goes on to argue, that the capitalist class can more easily leverage its interests, and therefore the workers need class conscious to counter this leverage.

Do you have any objective arguments against this statement?
I feel like we're talking past one another so I'll shut up after this reply. I think this disagreement comes down to a difference of values and not just how they are implemented.

Specifically, you seem to hold a notion of a social contract: a concept that I reject. Subverting a "contract" which has been forced upon me and to which I never agreed sounds like a noble endeavor to me, but I'm sure you'd be repulsed by the idea.

Given our starkly different motivations, I believe the best outcome either of us could hope for in a debate is that we both remain reasoned and civil, as there's probably little chance of winning the other to our side.
Why the strawman?

You do not need to be a marxist to agree one some of the basic principles put forward.

Marx was not 100% wrong, he was just wrong some very specific and important places.
I agree about our prospects. Have a good rest of your weekend.
Yes, though most proposals start at 18 I believe.

It has some advantages over more traditional welfare systems. For instance it could be implemented with far less bureaucracy and would help improve labor mobility in the middle class by decreasing the friction of changing jobs and moving to different areas with better jobs (improving labor mobility would benefit the economy at large).
Throughout this whole thing, that's struck me as odd as well. They seem so careful with everything (even going to the length of having separate computers for accessing the internet and accessing internal systems, at least at the CIA), so I don't understand why any one person would have the keys to the whole kingdom.
> 40 years ago we did this stuff on the freakin' Moon.

...

> In the "freakin' Moon" example, the human pilot still had to handle the tricky part.

Since you're apparently well aware that the Apollo missions were conducted with manual docking and landing, why bring it up?

Especially given the relative simplicity of "final approach" on the moon, given the lower gravity, zero wind speed, and slower pace, I don't understand what your point is.
"I have very little "work" experience, but from my limited experience I've noticed the opposite effect, the guy in a suit is way more likely to be a bully."

After about 20 years in professional work, I can confirm that the nicer the suit, the bigger the asshole. The hack is to dress in a nice suit as well and then don't back down when the bully bombasts all over you. You'll probably end up with a promotion. Not backing down form a T-shirt position will probably get you laid off.
>I condemn the parts of it that are transphobic, and I wonder why nobody mentions it

Because it's BS? I know people in politically correct societies wont even consider it (if anything, to avoid being labelled), but mutilating yourself is not exactly, well, alright.

A society has to draw a line at what it considers normal/desired behaviour and what not. Regardless if said behaviour is any harm to others or not.

For example, showing you genitals in a mall doesn't harm anyone, but we still don't consider it kosher. And we wouldn't think twice to say people should not use meth (despite them being able to afford it).

In this sense, this "transphobia" thing is a little too much to take. What's next? Respect for self-amputees-for-fashion?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/28/spain-lost-generati...

Reference
I know. I did scroll the page to see enough text to know it's a FOX news clip and that led me to this youtube link...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6cCFn7ePRs

Enjoy!
Sharks have been refining there same basic design / ecological nitch for around 420 million years and have come up with some awesome adaptations. Dolphins on the other hand are vary recent and while clearly compeditive still have plenty of minor 'issues' to work out.
Google+ is banned by the great firewall of China...
Any philosophy majors want to help me out here: is this what Sartre called "bad faith"?
Cryptocat is an attempt to solve the accessibility problem that essentially handwaves away many key problems in cryptographic security. It's a system that is simple for users to use because it's simplistic, and is thus less secure even than some other very-simple systems.

For instance, OTR (as implemented by IM clients) is an example of an extraordinarily simple cryptosystem (I'd argue too simple) that at least provides for a notion of persistent keys.
> The sad thing is that since the nation began to add jobs in 2009, we've created about 5.2 million additional jobs for America's workers. Teenagers in the aggregate received none of them. Not one.

This is the kind of Washington, DC b.s. that gets regurgitated in the news. If you look at the U6 unemployment rate, the net impact has been a huge upturn in total unemployment:

http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/U6RATE
This is straightforward, simple. The funds never cross borders. This is old, established popular exchange system. I expect there are more Hawaladars than there are brick and mortar banks. See Wikipedia.
Brewing a Bitcoin Wallet: A Bitcoin Wallet on your Mac with one command
If you're not too attached to Unity, try Lubuntu or Xubuntu. Both work rather well in a VirtualBox. The last Ubuntu that worked lightning fast in a VM was 11.04.

I moved on to Crunchbang. It's noticeably faster than even Lubuntu in a VM. I don't think even the older Ubuntu's were this fast. I dedicate 32M of video to Crunchbang and have had no problems.
>You're a white guy with a little girl in the country which is supposedly a destination for pedophiles.

Well, not exactly "supposedly". Sick bastards from Europe and other western places come to such countries in droves.

At least those Philippines are suspicious based on actual experience.
Note this was signed in 2012, July 6th.

Not much coverage before: http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2012/07/06/execut...
It still requires users to understand that they have a public and a private key, and just one of them, and a "key ring" to which they add their counterparties public keys, and that those keys themselves have to be authenticated and "signed" if the system is to be secure.
People would still do those dirty jobs, those jobs would just have to over a higher overall payout then just BI. Services that are largly based on low skilled laber would probebly be more expensive.

> But aside from that issue, I think a basic income is the only truly fair way to operate a fiat currency. We know a few things for sure, and one of them seems to be that a small amount of inflation is good for an economy.

It is not clear that a small amount of inflation is good for the economy. Also alternative montary transiation mechanism are not really unfair in any meaningful way. Also inflation is driven by expected montary growth, if the central bank has a credible target the would have to do very little or nothing to reach that goal.

You can not fiance any goverment programm by montary expention. Exept when you increase the speed of expantion but thats a bad idea.

Also giving money directly to people as a montary mechanism has a huge flaw, if you overshoot your targed you can not go back easly. The Central Bank buys and sells bonds/stocks instead of dropping money from airplanes because the must have a way to get money out of the system again. You could of course do that by equally taking from everybody bank account but that is not something goverment should have the power to do.

Also having 2/3% inflation does absolutly not mean that everybodys wealth is now 2/3% less.

I would really, really suggest to to first understand some montary theory befor you come up with your own montary system, its harder then you might think.
That's what VPN's are for. - At least in this case anyway.
You only have to look to Denmark to see this in action. And mind you we don't actually have a national minimum wage. Instead it is negotiated between employer and the unions. The unions have historically been strong.

Basically you end up with a lot of people unemployable because they don't have the necessary skills needed and thus are not worth the salary for even entry level jobs.

As society requires more and more skilled people the bar is raised and the number of people who are unable to land a job because of inadequate skills are rising.

Add to that that automation is an even bigger competitor than China and you have all the ingredients for an explosive cocktail of demise.
"High school students working today work at less than a 50 percent rate to what they did back in 2000. Like in our state here in Massachusetts, 45 percent of our high school students worked in 2000. Last year it was 15 percent: 45 to 15 percent."

I had a couple jobs - as a high schooler in Massachusetts in 2000. I learned a lot of job/life skills from those jobs...
If the controversy here is limited to the times that doctors pressured sedated patients, then the article does not make that clear. It sounds like they are talking about doctors doing this in the more general case.

"What you're arguing is much like arguing that if a woman had sex while drunk (under the influence of a drug that impedes judgement), then no headline should call it rape."

HELL NO what I am arguing is not like that. I am not okay with doctors pressuring drugged up patients. As I said: "If they were getting approval after drugging up their patients or while their patients were in labor then that is clearly an issue"

Holy hell... Do try to be more careful when you accuse somebody of being like a rape apologist...

The headline matches only a subset of the articles content. A subset that it mentions only very briefly, almost as an aside. That particular incident was clear coercion, but if the other incidents involved similar coercion then the article fails to say so.

Instead the article focuses on the failure of the doctors to seek state approval. It is a poor headline.
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This may be overwhelming but can help:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases

While I am not there yet myself with most of the biases, it seems that memorizing the name of a bias once you understand it helps you spot it more often in the daily life. [Sorry I do not know which cognitive bias would that be! :-)]
I'm in favor of blanket video at airports but the cameras are probably the cheapest part of the setup. You'll need to wire the cameras with electricity and data connections to a system. You'll also need to make sure that they are secure enough not to blow over and litter the runway or far enough away not to be a danger. That takes testing and planning for every airport.

Lots of money to do this. Still worth it but its much more expensive than a few go pros and tripods.
> Those leeches are the least of our worries.

How about long turn demographics? There are racial and religious minorities, that have 12+ children in an average family. A basic income may help them grow even faster, leading to inevitable huge changes in the society.
>The media doesn't care about controlling us. It cares about it's viewership.

Not really. The Media are tied knee-deep with other interests -- from the political interests (of most op-eds) to the financial interest of huge media conglomerates and empires.

Of course they are interest to control you.

In the very least they want to control: your viewing habits (duh!), your purchasing habits (ads), your voting habits (op-eds, news), etc etc.
I don't understand the question. How is using ajax any different than a non-ajax architecture? Doesn't this all boil down to "use optimistic locking" ?