skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hmmm. I am beginning to believe any author who writes essays with the word "capitalism" in it neither understands capitalism or is able to work with the concept in the abstract. Usually it's just regurgitated Marxist leftovers.

And let's see what we have: "A BI breaks with a fundamental principle of the welfare state. This, wrote Beveridge in 1942, is "to make and keep men fit for service.*" One function of the welfare state is to ensure that capital gets a big supply of labour, by making eligibity for unemployment benefit conditional upon seeking work. BI, however, breaks this principle.In its pure form, it allows folk to laze on the beach all day."

Okey dokey now. The welfare state is a product of the voters, not the result of one particular report in the 1940s in the United Kingdom. I can quite assure you that the voters were not interested in "providing labour to capital". They were interested in being compassionate to their fellow man, just as they were in the States. The welfare state is a lot bigger than wartime England. If anything, the modern welfare nation has its roots in the late Victorian period, as large groups of people realized that they were being significantly mistreated by the system.

This is an important point, because if you miss it you miss the rest of it. The social safety net, as most voters understand it, is to provide a lift up to those in need, and some sort of permanent assistance to those who are incapable of leaving their present circumstances. This means that any welfare state has as its primary mission the determination of the difference between those who are temporarily downtrodden and those who will not work, either because of physical or attitudinal reasons. Voters feel differently about these different groups of people. Therefore the policies towards them are different.

"capitalists, who want a large labour supply" -- no, capitalists want to trade stuff. Sometimes, like in the 1800s, this required a large labour supply busy as beavers in the sweat shop making widgets. Sometimes nowadays it might involve really expensive robots and 5 laborers. Or 3 web programmers and some space on AWS. These old ideas of capital and labor are dead. Please let them rest in peace without digging them up so often.

Minimum wages and basic income policies all do the same thing -- raise the floor at which most folks can enter into productive trade with others. This raises prices and increases unemployment. These kinds of ideas sound great. Who wouldn't want $25 per hour wages and guaranteed income for all? But all you'd end up with is $15 hamburgers and $34 gasoline. You don't do anything but raise the table stakes for people, like certain homeless, just don't want to participate in society. It increases poverty and suffering. Counter-intuitively, it does not make things better.

People need to pay special attention to those ideas which produce an emotional gut-feeling of "hell yeah! Why haven't we done that?" There's usually a really good reason that does not involve economic theories from the 1890s.
Lebanon is not a Muslim country. There is a difference between a discussion on women's rights in Muslim countries and an "Ex-Muslim's" rant on a certain religion.
So in an actual dangerous situation the cop would have the choice to either run or to fire his gun and lose his job.

Would you really want someone to protect you at the risk of losing their job?
Supporting that, big established companies have gigantic legal, financial, and regulatory staffs already in place to deal with new regulations like Sarbox.

New companies do not.
For what it's worth; this comment should be at the top of this story.
Kapi: Silex-based PHP micro-framework
I self host (work: Kerio (ironically, hosted on a Mac, although if I set it up again, probably on a VM on ubuntu or bsd); personal, homebrew postfix, procmail, z-push, ...) on ubuntu. mutt is my preferred MUA, although I've tried Mail.app and use the iOS mail client too.

mbsync to sync maildirs over imap for laptop/desktop machines; exchange activesync for mobile where I want push.

I set up DKIM and SPF and enforce TLS internally (and have real certs and TLS = "may" on the edge).

Over the next year, I'd like to figure out a way to require TLS on certain domains, and maybe set up some kind of WoT and maybe even a standard for how to do that.

I'd probably set up/run mail for people if they paid reasonable amounts. $50/yr/mailbox isn't really a reasonable amount. $500/yr/mailbox isn't, either (from the other direction). So maybe about $120-240/yr/mailbox + $100-250/domain.
Magic at home: a book of amusing science (1891)
Why must the basic income payout be held constant?

I would advocate adjusting the payout on a regular basis. Ensure that the program neither massively hoards assets or runs more than minor deficits.
Agree with you for sure. But while it's certainly not a likely thing for any one individual to do, the number of people on the planet working in tech makes it something that happens quite often really. That's my experience, at least.
Competition is much higher in urban areas. There are more black families in urban areas and thus there are more black dropouts while simultaneously urban areas have become hip destinations for college graduates. I know 20-somethings in NYC with liberal arts and art degrees that still work in retail or food services. And even many of my friends who no longer perform jobs like that did for several months to over a year while they sought out other work. I don't think this is as much of a phenomenon in Montana, the Dakotas and Iowa because they don't have a high rate of 20-somethings entering the workforce from other parts of the country.
Yet George Bush's presidency is widely acknowledge to be, well, a fail parade. Or perhaps we should go with by their works ye shall judge them. An (extremely brief) overview of Bush's presidency:

* he waved off warnings of Bin Laden ("All right. You’ve covered your ass, now")

* he turned a highly effective -- under clinton -- national disaster agency into a joke, at least in part by putting a failed horse judge in charge of it, then oversaw an ineffective response to one of the largest national disasters to ever strike the US (katrina)

* he lost Bin Laden at Tora Bora

* he and his chosen vp and sec state back channeled incredibly wrong information into the public, in part via the nyt, in order to sell a war with, well, people who had no weapons of mass destruction and who were uninvolved in 9/11;

* by the by on the above, he fired the general (shinseki) who gave an accurate prediction of iraq war costs

* Bush hired wolfowitz, who predicted the iraq war would cost between $10 and $100B (what's $700B and counting between friends)

* Bush ignored, well, basically everyone who understood much of anything about the middle east in favor of a war which wildly destabilized a highly geopolitically important (oil) zone, while empowering iran

So your link, in which the author writes,

[...] President Bush's thinking has several problematic aspects: lack of
intellectual engagement, cognitive inflexibility, need for closure, belief
perseverance, confirmation bias, overconfidence, and insensitivity to
consistency. These are all cognitive characteristics that have been studied
by psychiatrists and that can be measured with at least some precision.
However, they are all examples of thinking styles that are not tapped by IQ
tests. Thus, it is not surprising that someone could suffer from many of
these cognitive deficiencies and still have a moderatively high IQ.

Bush's cognitive deficiencies do not impair performance on intelligence tests,
but they do impair rational decision making. [1]

is, in retrospect, incisive.

[1] http://yalepress.yale.edu/yupbooks/excerpts/stanovich_what.p...
Having discussion about the topic which I chose to participate in is clearly good for me, otherwise I would not participate in it.

Is it good for HN in general to see such in-depth discussions? That's less obvious, but I actually prefer to have such option myself (meaning that I'd like to be able to see longer discussions between other HN users).
Again, I don't have to read these discussions.

What am I missing here?
Life is a bit easier if you aren't as.. Tedious.
It'd be pretty great if it was sailing.
Is it surveillance if only computers are watching?
Sure, that's the "other monetization model" I mentioned. In general, though, if money is the only thing you went to get from something, open sourcing it isn't the best way to do it.
I like to riff on the old Bella Abzug quote and say I prefer the word homemaker because househusband implies that there may be a husband someplace else.

I usually go with "primary parent." Speaking of which, it has been surprisingly hard to get the school to list me as the first person to contact instead of my wife since I became the primary.
I think that if this were the rule, this would be understood going in, and it would be fair. The nature of police service would change. Why should being an officer be a lifetime career?

We ask people in the military to protect us at the risk of losing their lives, why is it so much to ask for a cop to risk his job?

Edit: I'm coming from a military background and the lack of accountability there is disturbing too. I think people with responsibility to protect and/or kill other people should be risking their jobs regularly. Otherwise, there is no real accountability. See here:

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2012/11/general-...
Margaret Mead provided the foundation for feminism to advance by "proving" that culture drove society, not genetics.

Unfortunately that isn't true. Genetics shapes culture. One of the interesting things from Mead's "research" was that Samoan women were having a lot of premarital sex in the 1920's. Yet somehow none got pregnant but that was overlooked.

When you force people too far out of their natural roles, bad things happen. There's a whole lot more to this and its fascinating to see how people don't realise it.

I respect that feminism is the moral case. Genetics is the scientific one, which currently is not respected. There's a balance between the two
Exactly. Shouldn't this be used as incentive for parents and families within those communities to promote school attendance and encourage academic performance?
It's not the America I grew up in, nor the one I want to live in. So I left and have no plans to go back anytime soon. The land of the free isn't so free anymore, which makes me incredibly sad. And my parents live in VA!
Honest question: Have we, as a society, looked into possibly supplying people with short-term loans, with a guaranteed open position for someone at a place in more rural parts of America?

Originally, I was born in Fresno, CA. We didn't have the most healthy job rate when times were good, let alone once the recession hit. I spent five years looking for a job- and didn't find one until I got the help of a friend online in Claremore, Oklahoma, who let me move in. In a month I was working at an auto parts store, even though I knew jack shit about cars. I was making enough that I could've survived with that job. I'd be poor, I couldn't go to college, but I could survive.

I was lucky enough that I had a nice computer I'd gotten from when there was a windfall in the family, and I'd taught myself to program enough Python and Django to get a webdev job remotely. But even if I hadn't, I could've survived on this. Getting me out there cost a grand total of perhaps ~$1500, at most, and that'd get me my first month's rent. Tack on another $1000 and I'd have 3 months rent total and enough leftover to get a cheap bed.

Is this economically feasible? Would it even provide good economic value? People are needed in these rural areas, but I just don't know if it'd provide enough economic reward to actually be worth it to the country.
Sarcasm that is made unambiguous is not sarcasm.
Prairie dogs' language decoded by scientists
When the word "leeches" is directed toward people at the "bottom", it makes me wonder what people think of when money is created out of thin air, lended to banks at ZIRP and who then lend to people at anything but, who then use such money (or credit) to buy goods (created by their peers) that people at the helm of such institutions like banks can also buy…
It turned at least >270. It may have reversed its direction. I'm not sure what the final "heading" of the hull ended up being.
Chomsky said this:

"The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum - even encourage the more critical and dissident views. That gives people the sense that there's free thinking going on, while all the time the presuppositions of the system are being reinforced by the limits put on the range of the debate."
In other words, men are not shamed in those countries for being men.
Also, don't look at a prospective flat in the dark, when the landlord claims the electricity is off because the prior renters didn't pay their bills.
Wow!

Is there a way to export this as a JPEG|PNG?
And if you add the year 2003 to those two cherry-picked years, do you still see a correlation between total stock-market returns and number of public companies?
to run toward me screaming with excitement after I'd been away for awhile

Hint: That's not a 0-4 month-old child... and that's because dad took his four months off after mom had returned to work.
Also, if there were even a chance of fair punishment, police would change their tactics to favor low-risk encounters rather than the Wild West raids they favor now.
I don't disagree, but here's why I posted this. First, the author has credibility: ex-counterintelligence officer (including NSA) whose blog posts are consistently interesting and who doesn't seem to be a propagandist. Second, "the enemy of my enemy is my friend" is a pretty common principle in the political realm. It's poisonous, because human affairs ought not to be treated at the crude level of a Boolean formula. But it's also dismayingly normal. And Assange seems to be this kind of binary operator (sorry). So it wouldn't be surprising if they had thrown in with Belarus in some strange way. (The Shamir thing is bizarre, though.)
The issue with security is that you're not competing with other secure solutions, but with the convenience of unsecured. I've read that even journalists that face real risk communicating without pgp don't bother because it's difficult to participate in something that requires others to also participate. There's also the issue that email is only one (slow) form of digital communication.

Cryptocat (ignoring security for a moment) is an attempt to solve the accessibility problem in a way that actually works. Widespread adoption works well with some central aspects - and if we're talking about dragnet avoidance for most people then this is probably a reasonable compromise.

If Google generated public/private key pairs for each gmail user tied the keys to each account and then used the public keys to encrypt all email (taking a similar approach to using real OTR for google hangout) then all google->google communication would have a layer of protection from unwanted ISP monitoring. Granted you're still trusting google with the private key and warrants or some request could still reveal it, but you'd actually have wide scale use of the thing. Facebook could do something similar for their chat and then you'd have most of how people actually communicate covered across multiple devices in a way that protects against sweeping surveillance.

I'm pretty ignorant about most of this - am I missing something obvious that would prevent this from working? Obviously you're stil trusting the companies, but we were doing that anyway.
The 5% who actually have jobs are probably programmers.
>Any other person in a special position of trust and responsibility that contravenes their duty gets _extra_punishment.

I completely agree, whenever politicians, CEOs of megacorporations, field-grade military officers and senior noncommissioned officers, local government officials, district attorneys, and intelligence agents break the law, the punishment is ALWAYS extremely severe isn't it? I mean, it must really suck to have to retire and collect a gigantic paycheck every month or a multimillion dollar severance package. And then have everyone forget about it a few weeks later so you can make a comeback in the political arena.
I don't understand why webmail seems to be such a conundrum for everyone. Can't we just write plugins that looks for encrypted messages, and signatures in a page or ajax request and if you have the key in your keychain you get promoted for it. It seems like this would be an even easier plugin then the Mail.app one.

That being said I think the real solution is OS level integration. Perhaps a facebook app to help grandma with web of trust.
I thought about it, but for the most part I used `~` as a way of referring to something in an unstrict way, e.g. `~+` doesn't typecheck, it just adds and auto-coerces both operands to a number.

I didn't want to have `~` mean string concat because it overloads the semantic meaning of what `~` would represent.

I actually stole `&` from VB, as well as `\` as floor division.
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When are police accounts ever questioned "on the news"? If anything, comparing the different media treatments of the two groups emphasizes the lack of accountability for police.
The whole point of terrorism is the chilling effects that result. They create a multiplier effect that increases the impact of a relatively few number of deaths.

It's ironic to talk about chilling effects in the context of NSA surveillance while in the same breath espousing a theory of terrorism that ignores the chilling effects of terrorist acts.
How do you figure 0%? S&P 500 has increased 124% since 1997, not adjusted for inflation.

Google finance graph: http://bit.ly/1d7JXnm
Or shouldn't it be used to promote alternative methods of education that are accepted by many employers?

STEM fields by and large are the most friendly towards alternative (or complete lack of) education. A well-manicured GitHub, a decent resume, and not looking like an idiot in an interview trumps most college degrees for mid-level developer jobs that aren't Facebook/Google/etc.
54% Lebanese are muslims. Do word count on "muslim", only a few times. Most of her "rant" is about not being able to walk on streets and abuse from her family. I really do not get how this is religion related.

I sugest we should not write about rape cases in India either, it would be just a rant.
I just realized something: I want a platform for gauging interest in a project. I don't really want money, I want people to commit to paying $10 for a year's subscription to my idea X (normally costing $200 a year), so I can say "if 100 people find this interesting enough to enter their credit card details, I'm going to go ahead and build it".

Is there currently something like that? A crowdfunding platform will work, I guess, but I want something with more visibility, because I'm bad at discovering and communicating with my target market.

I guess this is a rather hard problem, I might try one of Kickstarter, Indiegogo or a similar platform and see if I'm successful.
Total returns would actually be almost double that, since that graph doesn't include dividends, which historically account for just under half of total returns.
Every photo that I have seems shows the open roof. I can't tell if the fire burned it through or if the roof was ripped open by the fire fighters and the rescue teams.

If the former, I wonder if the plane's vertical profile was designed in such a way as to keep the fire above the passengers (if such a thing is even possible).
>If one were to attempt to "walk across the world", this would be about as close as they could get. :)

I know this sounds ridiculous, but I've sometimes fantasized about walking around the world and the best you could do in theory is about 10x the distance from New York to California: South America to West Africa (assuming you can cross a frozen Bering Strait). That's 20,000 miles. In reality, you'd probably face insurmountable political and legal difficulties with crossing borders.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circumnavigation#Human-powered

The 9,000 miles Michael Lee Johnson is attempting is pretty impressive. I've got a lot of respect for this guy for trying.

>I'm too tired to check, but Internet, is there any continuos stretch of land that connects one point on earth to it's polar opposite on the sphere?

Yes! I believe so, based on what I said previously. Here are some tools to get you started:

http://www.findlatitudeandlongitude.com/antipode-map/

http://www.daftlogic.com/projects-google-maps-distance-calcu...
Sounds almost like a modern homesteading act. Interesting idea.
Thanks for the heads up! I totally see what you mean
Don't confuse capitalists (those who control the capital) with supporters of capitalism like Friedman.

Capitalists do lots of things that go against what Friedman et all defended. Lobbying for governmental privileges and self-serving regulation is a common example.
Oh, I'm sure there'd be plenty of crap investment opportunities available to ordinary investors. There's an interesting idea called rational ignorance - basically, investigating an investment opportunity costs time and money, and it's irrational to spend more on investigating it than you'd lose if it failed outright.

So being able to offer poorly-regulated "high-risk investments" to normal people who can only invest a small amount would be a scammer's dream; they can't put nearly as much resources into investigating the investment, or into recovering funds if it turns out to be a scam.

Nearly all the good opportunties will continue to go to a handful of well-connected wealthy people because it's far less work to raise money that way.
> What are effective ways we can improve the situation, globally?

In many ways, we've already done it, and are doing it, and it just takes a long time to take effect. It takes generations, and, as you said, trying to do it more quickly (that is, the imperial solution) is likely to not only fail, but backfire and result in a real solution taking longer and being uglier in the end.
ohh, nice.

I wonder how well silverstripe runs on it....
Shared host still plays an important role in the market. It isn't dead.

Personal portfolios and small businesses can get a lot of use out of it
pretty much looks the same to me - the guy stalled and when he finally, at the last second (actually - well past the last second), decided to go around, he did jerk up the nose and that increased the stall, so they fell. Reminds me about the AirFrance fall in the Atlantic some years ago - that guy was trying to gain altitude by jerking the nose up (i.e. increasing the "angle of attack") instead of "pressing the accelerator pedal".
The final closeup of the person in the video reacting is former Boeing exec and now Ford CEO Alan Mulally.
>we're talking about an industry that still uses token-ring networks

Wait, seriously? I'm interested...
Fellow readers, what's the best book you've read for improving your critical thinking/rationality?
If minimum wage law was such a determining factor why is it countries with a higher minimum wages than the USA have lower (including youth) unemployment rates.

I'll give you my take on this.

What creates employment is consumption and people earning next to nothing don’t consume.

So if you cut the minimum wage all you'll end up doing is reduce the overall consumption, which in turn will drive up unemployment.

The truth might in fact be the reason the USA economy is so stuffed is because the minimum wage has not gone up in decades leading to greatly reduced levels of consumption.
I get you now. That's a fairly subtle point!

I don't know if "chilling effects" is the right phrase to use either about terrorism or surveillance, or means the same thing in the two cases. The former is about fear. The latter is about encroachment on liberty, or something like that.