skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hold the phone. Who is engaged in magical thinking here? Everyone in this conversation appears to be presenting rational arguments. There's some disagreement over whether networks have a larger attack surface than physical media, but neither side has engaged in any magical thinking.
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Actually, this system would pay you the money unconditionally, and any money you make goes on top of that. It's a system that encourages work. However, it's going to encourage people to do work that makes them happy, because it's no longer necessary to work just to survive.

I think this could pose a problem for truly awful jobs like at slaughterhouses, because nobody would be desperate.
Just opted out and got this confirmation message:

"Are you sure?
When you disable this setting, your friends will be less likely to benefit from your recommendations."

Seriously?
I don't have a Google Plus profile for my Google account so I can't get to the checkbox to opt out without first creating a creating a Google Plus profile. Talk about a catch 22. Though maybe they're only planning to use Google+ content for ads?
Hopefully they won't put "opt-in" button in gmail in exact same position where log-out used to be (as they did with G+ recently)
It takes a minute to add anything to a spec. It increases the cost of implementing the spec a lot more than a minute though.
Sorry, I didn't look at the url and thought this was the README.md :-(

I have given you an upvote
I don't think anything you've mentioned is relevant at all. Google isn't going to show your negative review beside a paid ad because it'd help you build rapport with friends...

Keep in mind these are paid ads, Google is trying to further promote/endorse the advertiser.
The biggest impact that many people see is that over time, a minimum income gives people a disincentive to work. So if Switzerland starts giving every citizen $2800 a month, will tons of people stop working because they realize they can live off of 33k/year? In Alaska, it is probably rather difficult to live off of $1400/year but some people do it by living off the land and hard work at home. If the Alaska fund did not exist, would some of those people go back to work? That is the question economists would look for.
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I think the idea of states as labs is generally a good thing, but people often misunderstand it. States as labs shouldn't be seen as pilot programs for the whole country, they should be seen as pilots for other states. The US is huge, and a state like Alaska has a very different economy than Rhode Island. However, somewhere like Montana may be able to use some of what worked in Alaska. The advantage of state power is that allows things that are unique to the state to have more influence on policy.
I don't understand this page.

Under the heading "Setting: Shared Endorsements in Ads" the copy reads as if this setting was an opt-out type of thing.

The actually text next to the checkbox reads as if this setting was an opt-in type of thing.
I think it's important to separate our consideration of people from how we feel about some of the things they work on.

It's possible to support the work of Wikileaks while still acknowledging:

- The work and results of Wikileaks is not solely the result of Julian Assange.

- Julian Assange might be an egotistical narcissist.

- The work and results of Wikileaks may have contributed to harm as well as good.
The concern, at least for me, is not that a "public" review being used in a "public" way, it's that these businesses are now paying Google for my review and I get no cut. When I wrote this review I didn't write it to help this business out, per se, I wrote it because I wanted to help potential consumers decide where to do business based on my experiences.
Yes you can. The product most people get these days is the 30-year fixed rate. 15- and 10- year are also available; as you shorten the term, the APR decreases. They typically don't have any pre-payment penalty.
That's not how this works.

GMI means you get $2800 unconditionally. If you do a job that pays $1200 a month you get paid $4000 a month.
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True story. Google mail went into my camera folder on my
Ipad and put up a picture of me. I know it sounds impossible, or I made a mistake. I honestly didn't.
Am I the only one?
Nice; a classic "if you've got nothing to hide" with a bonus gender role shaming.

> You can't find one because hating on such poor basis is irrational and foolish.

+1'd a gay rights group, have fundamentalist parents.
It may also be a matter of more fully utilizing multiple integer/floating-point units. Say, if the CPU has two integer units but the current code is only using up one of them, then it could run the second hyperthread on the other. I really don't know the details though.
>It that your obligation, failing which all of your customers must suffer?

> It's one thing to have a law that states the government can ask for things. But I haven't heard anybody argue that the law requires you to organize your affairs in such a way that you can comply with requests like this "cleanly."

Generally you don't have to set up your business in such a way as to comply with requests cleanly, though there are exceptions for certain telecom providers (not applicable here). But by the same token your inability to comply cleanly doesn't absolve you of the responsibility to comply.

So our landlord hypothetical the landlord certainly is allowed to use the same lock on every door, but he still has to turn over the key when it is demanded.

As for the collateral consequences to third parties the court will not assume that the government is going to abuse their access to search more than they are authorized to. That seems to be the biggest disconnect. The judge didn't think that the ability to decrpyt all the traffic was a pertinent harm because his order didn't allow the agents to look at it. Whether or not that's a reasonable assumption as a matter of fact is an empirical question, but it is certainly a reasonable, perhaps even compelled, one from a legal standpoint.
Now all I need is an automated way to download them all
thanks. was wondering the same...
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Not a full page, but above the search results there is a block of 2-3 ads just as in the http://i.imgur.com/eBtzYic.png example.
Good question +1
We use Flask + MongoDB + Heroku at Spreadgit (http://www.spreadgit.com). Was meant to serve as an MVP initially but so far it's been awesome. as your project grows you can replace your module with packages etc. if you're going with PostgreSQL maybe it's worthwhile looking at Flask-SQLAlchemy?
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I am generally pretty opposed to things like this, but in this case, I'm fascinated by this. If this actually happens, we'll actually get to see what happens when you guarantee people enough money to not need to work. How many people will just take the money? We'll actually have a data point on whether the incentive to survive is more important to a productive labor force than the incentive to get more.
But then what amount is the lump sum grant based on? Is it based on the rush hour price with congestion pricing included? Then you've made the transit at rush hour look cheaper than it actually is, so you'll still have crowding even when the effect you describe is factored in.

Or is the lump sum grant based on something like the average price per ticket over both rush and non-rush hours? Then you can solve the crowding problem (by averaging appropriately to adjust the apparent cost of rush-hour transit), but you haven't solved the equality problem, because poor people won't be subsidized enough to take the transit during rush hour.
Which one is better hourly or a normal salary?
> When setting up a business, are you required to organize it in such a way that in the future, the government can come along and perform a certain kind of search/and/or seizure?

No you aren't required to, however, you are required to cooperate with legitimate searches/seizures even if the you have structured your business so that doing so inconveniences other customers unrelated to the target of the search/seizure.

You can't structure your business in such a way as to make narrow searches/seizures impossible without inconveniencing unrelated customers and then use that as an excuse not to cooperate with otherwise-legitimate searches and seizures.
> This data is already shown.

The fact that you, nominatively, +1'd something is shown?

> If you didn't want people to see your +1, why would you +1 it?

Let's not collapse +1 and reviews, reviews are expected to be nominative and public unless otherwise specified. A +1 is (was) an anonymous message to the content creator/owner, and an aggregated message to other viewers (through the +1 count). Just because you enjoy Tenga's Iroha Midori and want to tell Tenga they made a customer happy does not mean you want all your acquaintances to know.
sys.argv is part of the interpreter. The other three are abstractions over it.

optparse is deprecated (kept around for obvious backward-compat reasons)

getopt is just a different API for people who feel more comfortable with C's getopt API and don't want to learn something else

argparse is the CLI option parser for the future.

tl;dr: There is one way to parse command line arguments: sys.argv. But there are a few abstractions of doing that available in the stdlib.
>I think this could pose a problem for truly awful jobs like at slaughterhouses, because nobody would be desperate.

I think this would pose a great solution for awful jobs: in order to attract workers you'd have to dramatically improve your working conditions.

Take Amazon's practice of hiring temps to work in their warehouses - Amazon might have to pay to introduce air conditioning and heating to their stockrooms, give their employees actual breaks, raise wages, etc.

Alternatively they'd invest more heavily in automation to replace employees, driving technological innovation while not displacing human labor.

Bit of a win/win.
Curious to know if your Asterisk system is susceptible to red boxing.
Why has no1 mentioned how the ads will now take up EVEN MORE space? Another fail for publishers, a win for Google.
Why did you put public in quotes?
There was a (Swiss) commenter on a previous HN article (last week, I believe) about the basic income idea and he/she said that $6000 is a median income there.

Link https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6499954
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I am not really a fan of this (though it seems like not that different than what the review was meant for in the first place (unlike, say, construing a like on facebook as an endorsement of that thing), but complete lack of interest in associating myself with reviews of a company or product is why I don't write reviews with my G+ account in the first place), but I am a fan of publishing a diff of Terms of Service changes, especially with a nice plain-English summary at the top.

Of course, without this coverage, I don't know how the vast majority of people would have come across this page[1]. I don't appear to have been notified in my gmail account. To be fair, though, I've grown to hate the near constant ToS change emails I get from paypal, so there's some balance to be struck there too).

edit: actually, I take back my last point. I get a big blue bar on top of google.com notifying me of the change, and it's not even a "click here to see a ToS change" that I would never be interested in enough to click on, it's "Our new Terms of Service update how we display your information in content & ads." with a "Learn more" link. Still wouldn't want to be involved with the feature, but good for them for handling it like that.

[1] http://www.google.com/policies/terms/changes/
A fine point, but not really relevant as the discussion was about the cost of acquisition.
There are certainly differences between the sexes beyond genitals.

But that's not the hypothesis that's being pushed. The hypothesis being pushed is

"the percentage of programmers is skewed because of genetic differences between men and women"

The trouble is no evidence, nor can I even imagine a study that could gather evidence, which could validate that hypothesis over this one:

"the percentage of programmers is skewed because of differences in how men and women are treated"

Maybe you don't care about having scientific evidence for your belief and it's coming from elsewhere. I respect that... I think there are lots of valid ways of knowing and I'd be excited to hear about yours.

But my strategy is to assume different "kinds" of people are equivalent unless there is some scientifically sound evidence to the contrary. And there is simply no solid evidence that genetic differences between men and women (or different races) are a factor in the kinds of distribution differences that we're talking about.

Some people like to chain together a set of very tenuous conclusions from very shaky studies to support that idea, but for me as a scholar it just doesn't hold water.
I heard that programming in ATS is as hard as hell and when Haskell is hard to learn but joy to use, ATS is just hard to use.

Can somebody who actually programs/programmed in ATS elaborate on this?
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Correction, meant $1K/month.
The linked article mentions cuts in other social welfare programs as one of the risks of a guaranteed basic income. Many who promote guaranteed basic income do not think it should replace our existing programs.
I don't care about Google telling friends that I +1d something. I care about Google telling the public. The things I like are my data and I want to choose what I publicly declare I like. That set may be different than what I tell my friends I like (or even certain friends may get different knowledge than others.) Apply how things work in the real world here.
I don't really understand why this is a Kickstarter?
If you're familiar with Windows MinGW development and would like to help this project, please write up detailed instructions which cover the installation of this project's Windows prerequisites as well as compiling the sparkle QML example and submit said instructions to the project's maintainer. Several people have spent hours trying to set up MinGW/Qt/Glib when using the existing Windows setup instructions as found on the project page. The issues with Windows installation have been recorded in the project's newsgroup:

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/go-qml/s3nPxytmXwk
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/go-qml/x6b6lvd83aU

Also, a tutorial which walks through QML's native controls would help speed adoption. Below is a great tutorial on Tk which could serve as a template for someone with the time and energy to evangelize go-qml:

http://www.tkdocs.com/tutorial/index.html
Great article. Shows that cfml devs are not blindly following coldfusion but are evaluating other technologies and choosing the ones that make sense. Thanks for sharing.
>But to hear people describe Assange, he is almost literally perfect

That's a shameful straw man. I don't know of many people who think Assange the man is any sort of saint, but there are many of us who think the character assassination against him is an obvious attempt to distract from the true story, just as the news stories about Manning's psychological and emotional health were an attempt to cast her decision to release those documents as anything other than a principled and moral one.

I think a world without Wikileaks would be a measurably worse place, and a world without Assange would be a world without Wikileaks. Believing that requires no acts of deification or hagiography on my part. He's a flawed man doing important work.
I thought this was an interesting insight in to that:
http://ootbcomp.com/docs/belt/index.html
I thought about that. The only reason I didn't do that was that I didn't want too many DNS paths in the way. I'm sure that can be worked around though and I will work on adding that.
> amazing how many dark clouds are gathering around Google

Not nearly as enough as they deserve. It should have started pouring years ago.
> I think this could pose a problem for truly awful jobs like at slaughterhouses, because nobody would be desperate.

It might drive up the price of meat until you could pay people enough to work in a slaughterhouse (or make it cost effective to automate them), but is that a bad thing?
I opted out by deleting my Google+ profile last night. I honestly never wanted a Google+ profile and me submitting a YouTube video for a private audience (demonstrating a new feature in a web site I developed for a side client) that got broadcast to all my friends on Google+ was the last straw.
That will be useful for the NSA and FBI.
I've been confused for years as to why that wasn't the proposed solution. We already have medicare and medicaid in place, and they are working (how well... up for debate).

"We have 17 million uninsured americans in this country!" (or whatever the number was. Well... just expand medicaid eligibility (or even allow people to pay for medicaid coverage on their own, regardless of pre-existing conditions). Problem solved (or solved a lot more broadly than this force-everyone-to-buy-private-insurance-and-make-the-insurance-companies-change-their-underwriting-practices).
What if you publish a negative review of a restaurant? Now it's super easy for them to find you and possibly harass you.

That actually happened to a friend of mine, and he enjoyed it. Made the restaurant look even worse when he posted their infantile response.
"extra 1%" on month > 12% APR.
Apple has Objective-C, Mozilla has Rust, Google has Go, Microsoft has C#. I wonder if Facebook was feeling a little left out of the post-C++ language party?
Taxing revenue instead of income would be an extreme incentive towards vertically integrated businesses, making all other choices uncompetitive.

For example, if a chocolate bar is sold by overseas manufacturer A to an importer B then to a wholesaler distributor C then to a small retail shop D then to you - then if taxes were paid on revenue, then that chocolate bar would be taxed 4 times, and each step would bump the price up by the tax rate in addition to the current markup; However, if a manufacturer A would buy all the elements in the chain and sell it directly to you, then it would pay 4 times less taxes, and it would be impossible for others to compete with that pricing difference.
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> Microsoft did pay a $100k bounty to a hacker.

No, they paid US$100k to a white-hat, someone who struggles against black-hat hackers. If a headline can't distinguish between white hats and black hats, educated writers normally add some words to clarify their meaning -- and they did. But the submitter omitted those words. Hence, lying.
Asks me to make a google+ account. Does that mean I'm already immune?
As the other comments have pointed out, that's not really how bitcoin works.

> Since BTC is a consensus algorithm

BTC is not a consensus algorithm where everybody votes on which reality to accept and majority rules. BTC is a consensus algorithm where everybody proves which reality is most suitable by providing valid blocks that include proofs-of-work. If you'll allow me to gloss over a ton of details: In order for a block to be considered valid the transactions in it must include signatures from the owners of the funds they spend.

So, to take bitcoins away from the FBI you would need to compile a new version of the bitcoin client that specifically blacklisted the transactions which gave the FBI money and caused them to become unspendable, you would then need most of the network to switch to that new version.

> 51% of BTC users

Minor nitpick: BTC users have no power. Miners are the ones who create the blockchain and verify its integrity, they're the ones you would have to get onboard.

However, miners tend to be rational and have a vested interest in bitcoin. They understand that currency is above all based on trust. If you cannot trust a currency to be accepted, then it doesn't matter what fancy gold or mathematics underlies that currency, it is worthless to you.

Taking bitcoin away from anybody on the basis of some political squabble would be one of the worst things miners could do to undermine the trust users place in bitcoin.

>how feasible would that be?

In short, it is hardly imaginable. It is vastly more likely that a vulnerability is found in bitcoin and they become worthless overnight.
.onion crawling was a 20% time project in 2009/2010 (IIRC). I'm sure you could find the announcement if you searched for it. Google does crawl and index.
If you had /* @annotations */ and JSON allowed comments, it would still be valid JSON to do so. Using "special" keys is identical then - both require special parsers / post-processors to properly reconstruct the data.
Then you have the issue of paying for it! What would you have to pay in order to give someone a basic standard of living in SF? $24K might fly for a young single person, but what about the single mom with four kids? That would be more like $50K.

So you just pay every person in the US more than the average income?
If they just pick up the .onion domain, they will try to crawl it and determine that the URL is incorrect, as .onion domains do not exist in the standard DNS stack. The only we for them to crawl Tor is if they went out of their way to crawl it (in which case they may or may use domains found on the standard web), or if they crawl domains like .onion.to, which behave like normal sites.
If the Congress doesn't like the practice, then it shouldn't grill Tim Cook but instead, say, pass laws so that this practice would be forbidden. Isn't that their job?
They are reporting the fact that his lawyer made this claim, it's expected that people have basic reading comprehension.

Discerning the difference in meaning between "Demands on Lavabit violated Fourth Amendment, lawyers say" and "Demands on Lavabit violated Fourth Amendment" is not an onerous task.

Even the headline makes it clear.
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One of the organizers here.

We needed funding to pay for the substantial costs of the event, and we needed a mechanism to sell tickets.

The Kickstarter model gave us both.
Well, I'm sure that Sanskrit and its descendants are awesome languages, but your claim that "sanskrit alphabets encompasses almost every possible consonant and vowel sounds that a human can generate" is just bollocks. (Many Koreans make the same claim about Hangul, which is equally stupid.)

In fact, if any writing system could write every possible sounds that appear in a human language, it won't be a great system. It will be a terrible system for any single language. Why would an English speaker want to learn symbols for nasals, clicks, ejectives, implosives, laryngeals and tones?

It's even worse. For example, English alphabet doesn't distinguish aspiration, which is actually very convenient because the "p" in "pin" or "spin" are perceived as the same sound (even though only "pin" has aspiration). To English speakers, a writing system that distinguishes aspiration is actually worse, not better.
Am I the only one that sees the comedic potential in this?

Rate something 5/5. For example for a review of a restauraunt say "5/5. Sure beats eating rats infected with syphilis." or "4/5. Tastes like leprosy! Smells like porn locker!"

And I'm just being very bad here: http://www.amazon.com/Avoid-Huge-Ships-John-Trimmer/dp/08703...
http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/eintr.html

This is where the resources has moved to.
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