skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Vietnam is a communist tyranny that simply applying existing laws and policies to a new medium, so this isn't really a change.

Economists prefer percentages to absolutes, and trends to isolated incidents. 9/11 has not only halted the long trend towards increasing freedom, but began a new and troubling trend of growing tyranny.

Perhaps the U.S. isn't overtly attacking press freedom, but the U.K. is, informs the U.S. before every incident, and the U.S. couldn't be happier.
It's not the question of how things are in Russia vs how they are in the US. It's a matter of principle. If you happen to not convince your neighbor and your candidate wins, then your neighbor is paying for what you believe is right. Is it fair? Yes if you all agreed on that in advance and are doing it voluntarily. The problem with this argument is that it falls apart if you remove penalties for those who don't pay. If tomorrow people learned the IRS is no more, it's pretty obvious that 90%, if not more, would stop paying. So it becomes pretty obvious, that taxes are extracted by the threat force.
>it's their fault!
Females can be their own worst enemies. My wife was recently asked at a job interview when she planned on having children. This is against the law here in New Zealand. The person who asked was female and the males in the room visibly squirmed as it was asked.
Agreed. The internet community has dubbed these the "Faux Action Girls": http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FauxActionGirl

"Faux Action Girls" generally stop fighting when their wrists are grabbed, or when they get into the famous "Long-Hair Choke Hold" (erm... since when is hair a weak-point of the human body??).

I can come up with tons and tons of examples of "Faux action girls", but there are indeed plenty of genuine heroines.

Samus Aran (before the crappy game Metroid: Other M) was a true female Action heroine. She was rarely sexualized and got shit done. Its only in the modern era (ironically, after year 2000 or so) when she began to be sexualized with her Zero-suit and crappy love stories --- Uggghhh... Metroid Other M :-(
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Are there RV parks in SF that are on within a reasonable walk/bike of a main public transportation line?

I may have the option of moving to SF for work in the next 6 months and am trying to get a feel for what options are available.

Since the general consensus is that housing is ludicrously expensive I was tentatively thinking about RV or boat as a more frugal option.
> Now this has not been confirmed yed (the referendum is to be held in 2015). The goal is to put an end to the degrading controls forced upon people depending on welfare, and to balance the relationship between employers and employees - if you don't HAVE to work, you don't have to put up with abusive employers, low-paying slavery and the like

That's quite radical, but smart at the same time. It has the potential to weed out bad companies from the economy, which in the long run is beneficial. It shifts a lot of power to the employee though, so there's a risk in the long run it can create a bad workforce instead.
The writers at Wired are probably too young to remember that Sears catalogs were the equivalent of Wired magazine back in the day.

True. I dropped Wired when the ratio of ads to content (not including content that was essentially ads) became ridiculous. They're a catalog.

At least Sears never refereed to their publication as a "magazine". Maybe if they included some advertorials they would have done better.
I don't understand what you mean by Storm being strong or not strong. She's a claustrophobic mutant with massive self-esteem issues that have to be overcome in order to provide effective team leadership.

The thing about Storm's story is that it's unexceptional amongst the X-Men. The essential narrative of X-Men is "teenagers have growing pains", so self-esteem issues are the stories' bread and butter.

The other essential narrative, that of fearing and Othering a group for ambiguously poor reasons, is one which Storm could provide an interesting voice for if any of her writers weren't busy making her the token black girl. The dialogue between Xavier and Magneto is reminiscent MLK Jr. versus Malcolm X (not exactly, of course, but I'd be unsurprised if this was a direct inspiration).
Another perspective on BI: "For us, the living." Written by Robert Heinlein in the 1930s IIRC.
oh man this is great, i remember all of this
If you believe that airplane mode does what it says, which customers of this product do not.
Store and forward what? The only thing I'd want to prevent my phone from beaming to the mothership is my location. If your phone is inside this Faraday shield then it can't get a GPS location to store.

Edit: microphone will still work inside pouch
Apart from the issues brought up by others: did you read the license? http://www.menuetos.net/m64l.txt states:

"Redistribution, reverse engineering, disassembly or decompilation prohibited without permission from the copyright holders."
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The article mentions that it's illegal. Is that enforced? How would they know you're living in the RV? Do you have to move the RV every day because of parking rules?

I'm wondering why nobody does this in NYC (at least, that I know of.)
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A conductive cloth will give the Faraday cage effect.
Quoting myself from a comment below:

>> Can someone please explain to me why a BI wouldn't simply result in higher prices, resulting in the need for a higher BI, resulting in higher prices, resulting in the need for a higher BI, etc?

> A basic income guarantee is the same as having a basic (food/healthcare/public services/whatever) guarantee (basically, state welfare already implemented in many countries) - the difference is the government is paying in money instead of trying to provide the services themselves.
Funny thing is: the non-profit that created this map is De Waag Society, located in De Waag in Amsterdam - a building dating from the 1400s.
To me the issue here isn't the safety issue, which I think is legit. It's the way the government seems to be behaving. The product is dead, company out of business. Let it go.
As if companies never released beta products back then. The difference between now and then is that now we might actually get a patch.
I personally run into a host of issues, mostly relating to browser behavior that no longer works.

For example, 'text areas' that no longer trigger the browser's built-in spell checking. Or scrolling that works differently. Or keyboard shortcuts that are overridden. Or, a simple 'submit' button that no longer works because of a browser JS bug, whereas if it were just HTML it'd work.

I do like a lot of browser based apps too, but many of them have tons of annoying issues.

(Note: I mean JS SPAs in general, not Ember ones. Most Ember apps I know are pretty well behaved.)
This is a flawed comparison.
I love Node.js but it is not suitable for every type of site and is not an ideal replacement to PHP yet. For ex, CPU heavy apps with minimal use of IO are immensely bad use cases for node.js
A wonderful essay that dissects money + talks about bitcoin
Alternatively, we could find such a system by:

1. Using public pensions. While unlikely to be supported by the people making the laws (it is their pension), if they have basic income, they don't need a pension.

2. Move all funds currently in other welfare programs into the basic income program. This both moves existing funding m and gets rid of those departments, removing people working for those departments from the payroll. While my statement may be crass, it's a valid solution.

3. Take some of our military funding. Also give some of it to NASA.

None of those solutions decrease net income, except for people losing their jobs (they can find another one?) or their public pension (they're getting the basic income, and the original idea was that once someone served their term, they'd return to their previous profession, and become contributing members of society).
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It was a vision of a movie scene where the posturing and ambient styling made it clear that the movie-makers were emphasizing the "strength" of this female character, because "a strong woman is always cool." Something along those lines.
"How many terrorist attacks have you heard after 9/11 in USA." Hundreds. Every idiot child who talks about taking a gun to school is labelled a terrorist.

Conversely, how many terrorist attacks have you heard before 9/11 in USA? I can't think of any. Wikipedia shows some - total deaths for decade or so I flicked back through: about 5.
I'm intrigued by the costing of this proposal.

2500CHF per adult is an enormous proportion of national income to redistribute: even taking into account Switzerland's unusual prosperity we're talking about an income subsidy that's nearly 40% of per capita GDP. That's a huge sum of money that's going to have to be found via the tax system, and it's far too big to find from merely taxing the top end (especially when you're as full of millionaires and as prosperous from foreign capital flows attracted in part by your low tax regime).

It sounds likely to be a huge boon to certain categories of "idle rich" dabbling in low end residential property speculation (CHF 2500 per month average Zurich apartments aren't going to stay that way when even unemployed couples earn double that) and ironically probably penalise precisely those employees most readily exploited by employers: those without the raw ability to earn above the median wage but with the work ethic and drive to get close.
Why wouldn't the microphone pick anything up? Sound waves are unaffected by a Faraday cage.
I personally focus on the server side of all this, so I cannot tell you anything about ember-data from personal experience.

What's EPF?
Store and forward any audio it picks up. Why stick to GPS when your location can be triangulated by cross referencing the sounds around you? E.G. A fire engine/ambulance, school bus with loud children or garbage truck passing by at a particular time or the voice of someone else who's cell isn't protected and is being monitored.

Software to accomplish these things already exist.
Factory workers were paid handsomely and competition for such jobs was fierce.
Yet again glad to be in Europe...
It sounds as if the UK equivalent would be the Land Registry http://www.landregistry.gov.uk/media/all-releases/press-rele...
Confirmed. I work next to a Faraday cage and I get almost no signal - none when I need it - and battery life sucks. At weekends I get plenty of life despite using the phone more.
You can't extract your existence from the country you made your money in. You used and benefited from the resources of the system, and those resources cost money in a primarily capitalist system. I would prefer a system where people (like you) can opt out and go somewhere else before they see any benefits (or repay the debt directly), but that's not yet possible.

We're left with this system that works well enough for most people until something better comes along. Until then, free riders are a drag on the system and need to be reminded that they don't exist in a vacuum. I don't support executing or imprisoning public service debtors. My representatives are generally anti-government, so I don't even need to tell them this.
I wonder what McDougall thinks of Elementary, the Sherlock Holmes show where Watson is played by Lucy Liu. The show still has some of the problems McDougall mentions, but it's the most interesting and complex version of Watson I've seen.

(SPOILERS: Anyone who watched the entire season knows that there's more to be said regarding female characters, but there's no way to discuss it without ruining a major plot point.)
Pretty much all my suburb of Groningen was built in the late 70s and early 80s. It is cool that many people live in cooler districts, but the Netherlands has a long history of <i>nieuwbouw</i>.
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There are no RV parks in SF. There are hardly any parking lots- most of those are quite small so a RV couldn't stay there. At best, you could find a parking space for a few hundred dollars a month.
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> but the most convincing evidence that it was very hard was that early mines and factories were easily able to recruit all the workers they needed,

They may have needed the money but they sure didn't like it, at least here in the US. There was a large change of working for a wage, on a clock, compared to working on a farm or for a wage, and was a sizable violation of the Jeffersonian ideals of freedom. As to why people left, i dunno. There's probably a history research effort in it.
Wow, Brielle is bananas.

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A similar analogy that occurs to me is the justice system. Yes, there will be guilty criminals who walk free of a innocent-until-proven-guilty, trial-by-jury-of-your-peers justice system. The alternative is convincingly worse enough that we accept the false negatives and outliers of the system that protects us.

In this case, letting millions suffer in poverty with real effects of poor healthcare (instead of investing in preventative care), restricted access to better opportunities for themselves and their children seems thoroughly worse than accepting the outlier "parasites."

I am of the belief that given the foundations of Maslow's hierarchy and a real education, many of those "parasites" with limited opportunities can be changed into people who feel they have a chance and pursue "self actualization." Poverty is a vicious cycle; it's hard to be ambitious in a "i want to change the world" way when you have no choice but to take whatever you can to support your family on minimum wage.

I agree completely that instead of throwing money at administrative peripheral problems like eliminating any parasitism, we should address the root problem.

Overall, people living in poverty do not have the same opportunities as the wealthy. Given the same opportunities there is no reason that they would not pursue the same "worthier" career aspirations. The assumption that poor people are parasites is the most colossal example of Fundamental Attribution Error[1] I can think of.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental_attribution_error
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As someone else pointed out, there's no reason it can't track and store things for later, when it does have a connection.
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I dunno. It might have to me not really liking the plot of Brave (wtf was going on with the Bears???). I guess the character was fine, but mostly forgettable IMO.

A better character would be Aisling from "Secret of Kells". She was proud and impulsive Fae, a being of nature. She has lost her family in a war against Crom, the pegan god of Ireland before Christianity arrived. She assists Brendan, a Catholic Scribe in training, in completing his task of writing the Book of Kells (One of the first written Illuminated Bibles of Ireland. An artifact enscribed during the Dark Ages and survives today in the a museum in Dublin).

She wasn't the main character, but she's the "White Wolf", a Fae of the Forest, a wise being who has seen many things from many ages... and is the narrator of the trailer. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMPhHTtKZ8Q

I believe she's the only character to fell a Viking (which makes sense. The rest of the cast are basically monks and scribes. Aside from the Vikings and Aisling, no one has combat abilities of any note).