jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Please re-read what you just wrote about race and consider whether it might have interpretations other than the one you intended. To me you seem to be asserting that race is a priori indicative of socioeconomic status, rather than the (likely intended, but more nuanced) assertion that a larger portion of minority children will come from lower-earning households.

Second, I don't necessarily accept the argument that "people who go to college make more money" proves that "college is a good investment". For example, this study found that direct transfer of assets and emulation of behaviors exhibited by wealthy parents had a much stronger contribution to the lifetime earnings of children than education level: http://www.nber.org/papers/w9314

Lastly, the article you posted makes it very clear that the earnings gap for Latinos and African Americans is significant (20% or more) and pervasive no matter what level of education they attain.
I would like to see a game on a Penrose tiling. Obviously you couldn't make it wrap though.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penrose_tiling
Rabbit holes are good for most kinds content. I do want to go down a rabbit hole of restoration gardening videos. Its only politics and news which become a problem
Dang, I wish I could say I'm surprised, but I guess it was to be expected.
I agree with this. The best engineers choose the best targets
This situation exists today. Let's say I'm a physician, with experience from a foreign country and a years-long unimpeachable track record. What I don't have is a US degree or residency. I'm 100% going to prison if I perform a surgery in my van. Licensing and various other requirements are imposed on physicians in order to practice lawfully. One of those requirements would be not to accept direct payment for services outside the public system. If you do, then you are practicing without a license, and whatever comes of that comes of it. Likely a fine, or license suspension or if you continue to defy the law, prison.

Your argument that "you consider it unethical to withhold medical care from someone who requests it" is not a defense today for practicing medicine without a license, and in my scenario, that would not change.
The solution to that is different though. You need to make sure that swing states matter less
Could this be the reason that registration would be a better idea, and thus explain the success of all the chess servers that require it? I'd much prefer to play against an evenly matched opponent, or with a stronger player who I can learn from by analysing the game with afterwards - and definitely against someone who will finish the game. Both of these things requires reputation, and reputation requires registration. I found fics to be great for this.

I apologise to whoever I annoyed by not even playing the first move. I wanted to see if there were _any_ options to discriminate my opponent (for example by supplying my own rating on an honour system); there were none.
I think I'm having a difficult time understanding your logic. An S-Corporation is a passthrough tax entity that doesn't pay tax on a corporate level. The income is paid on the 1040 tax return with a K1. Thus, I don't see how the S-Corp would lead to a tax that is any different than a LLC. Its effectively the same tax treatment in this case except that there is the ability to lower SE Tax.

By paying a reasonable wage to the owner, the net income would be distributed as a dividend which is not self-employment income and thus would be exempt from SE Tax.

Also, wages paid to an owner/employee of an S-Corporation is not required to pay FUTA (unemployment) and etc, thus the only tax that you'd be required to pay is FICA and Medicare just like everyone else.

Clearly, the S Corp has a number of restrictions which ties in well with the fact that an S Corp is a "small corporation" But, for small or new companies that aren't getting major funding, this is a great option.
The ad network business is very crowded, the margins are getting lower and Google is crushing it in display ads of late.

There is very little room for new player in this space, and the players who have reached scale are very well funded.

Ad Networks will be a 'winner take most' market, and I do not suggest trying to play in it unless you have:

a) deep pockets
b) some amazing technology that is really innovative and groundbreaking
c) a disruptive business model
d) massive domain knowledge (which you just said you don't have).

This is not the best beach to surf IMO. Any niche you've found that reaches any kind of scale will be taken by the bigger players who have hundreds of sales executives each.

The opportunity for bootstrapped ad networks is long over.
try googling for:

cache:url

:)
Really, if there were a point to the essay, she might have included "I'm not prejudiced, but..." after which some feel free to let go with remarks to give Ben Tillman pause.
I'm all for going just what needs to be done, but I think you are not giving good advice about "hiring scrubs". I worked for a successful company that had a younger less experienced developer write the original code. But he was not a "scrub". His code could have easily have been written by another developer with a few more years experience. Yes, he made some rookie mistakes in the code, but it worked and was close enough to keep the company going.

However, you often get what you pay for, and that goes for both hiring inexperienced developers and offshore/contracted development.

If you do hire young/inexperienced, make sure they have a mentor that enforces good practices or have code review/are pairing and that these developers seem to be learning good practices.

There is a difference between bad and "good enough".
Only countably many points "arrive" at their destination in a finite number of steps. There are uncountably many points that never "arrive," but whose limit is on the circle.

The usual picture given to non-mathematicians about sequences and limits can end up being strongly misleading in cases like this. Just because a sequence never "gets there," the limit is still the limit. This is the same kind of murky area that talks about 0.999... recurring never "getting to" 1. It doesn't have to "get to" 1 because it's never travelling.

It's also the kind of problems that arise when talking about proof by induction. Talking about dominoes falling down is, in the longer term, very misleading. We prove P(1), and we prove that P(n) => P(n+1), then they are all true. They don't become true one by one, they are simply all true - it is what it is.

I hope that helps.

I'm thinking of starting a blog to talk about things like this - it falls between the levels of the non-mathematician and true researcher.
Nice. I like not having to register. Thanks!!
Most native widows desktop applications are old, as in pre-2k, when C++ was really the only way to get a high performing desktop program other than C, and really it was argued (now proven false, according to Code Complete 2 as well as lectures I've seen at Georgia Tech) that large C++ programs were more maintainable than large C programs.

For mac, they're usually Objective C, especially if they're from the post NEXT era.

Mozilla is from 1994, MSWord is from the 80's, etc.

Objective C is vastly different from C++, as is straight C. The people who confused C and C++ are really missing a boat to understandingville. You write real C applications completely differently than you write C++ applications, a fact few C++ advocates admit or understand. The added complexity and workplace changes (about 1.5x more expensive engineers and a culture of "easy to fire") required to use C++ (correctly) is huge.

Games/Applications Written in python:
Eve Online (a sure counterpoint to his World of Warcraft example), CIV IV, Miro, Blender, MacTelnet, Bazaar, Mercurial,

Applications written in java:
Limewire, Maple (the mathematics software), FreeMind, Azureus, jEdit, Eclipse, Spark IM, matlab(along with a pile of other languages),
https://www.useapassphrase.com/
You are right. I meant "reasonable suspicion & probable cause". My bad. Got confused between the 2.
Is Off Pocket any different to putting your phone in airplane mode every time you put it in your pocket?

It's certainly more convenient, but also harder on the battery life as the phone continues to search for a signal.
According to your graph, GINI went up (from 34 to 38%) after taxes and transfers as well.

I didn't say that it didn't change; I said it didn't change much.

So how do you falsify it?

As with any other such case, by controlling for those variables you want to eliminate.

Is it your assertion that a higher GINI somehow makes the poor (specifically poor women, if we go by that paper) less willing to study than their richer counterparts?

Looking at educational attainment as opposed to enrollment is a bit, um, confusing.

It was you who brought up enrollment, not I. I was speaking in general terms about tuition as a barrier to access to postsecondary education. Enrollment is a very poor proximate variable for success at college due to increasingly high dropout rates.

Not that it matters, since the paper doesn't look at inequality at all.

From the paper: "In this paper we document changes over time in inequality in educational attainment by family income [...]". Differences in family income, of course, mean income inequality.

So unless your claim is that higher GINI makes poor kids stupid

As it so happens, precisely that may be the case (we'd need further corroboration to be fully certain, but it'd hardly be surprising - stress of all kinds is known to have a deleterious effect on IQ, so stress from poverty shouldn't be any different): http://www.businessinsider.com/poverty-effect-on-intelligenc...

It's not something I had talked about in this thread, so this is not "my claim" in that sense, but it is another example of the pernicious effects of inequality.

I give up. You have unfalsifiable beliefs which are somehow supported by academic papers on completely unrelated topics.

I think you simply do not understand what "unfalsifiable" means. Practically any statement that relies on observations of natural phenomena is in principle falsifiable by making observations counter to that statement; it may just be difficult to do that. Statistical phenomena also slightly complicate the situation, though the principle remains the same.

That you have a different opinion or disagree is fine - the data is hardly conclusive either way, though your interpretation does make some very counterintuitive assumptions (in particular, that people are more likely to pay for a good or service - namely, college – the less they can afford it); that you try to give this disagreement a veneer of objectivity by misusing terminology isn't so cool. Especially when you handwave away anything that doesn't fit your preconceptions.
See here: http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/2746/would-life-ins...

Basically they don't for the first two years, then they do (for life insurance anyway).
Similar thing with C macros.

(Note that my point here is that for sane/good code, you normally can be sure that it does what it looks like -- for C++ just the same way as for C.)
In the South, the plural form of "you" is "y'all" and it actually does minimize communication errors. I've tried to bring "y'all" to Palo Alto but it hasn't worked.
Makes a ton on sense.

Announce the wage increase because you are forced to. Then realize that you are no longer competitive and are loosing business. Now your only choice is to lay people off.
Small issue: seems like the seasons are not hemisphere dependent. E.g., if you travel from Melbourne, Australia, then it shows Spring 2010 rather than Autumn 2010, etc.
Right. The other common case is just holding a socket open, for IM and SSH clients among others. That uses much less resources than streaming audio, but it's apparently not allowed either.
My thoughts exactly. Why not keep the benefits which are good but add a clause for suicides. Maybe that is what happened but it got mis-reported by the media.
>Exactly when is this ID used? Is it transmitted with every request chrome makes?

No, it's part of google play services, so any app installed on the phone can access it.

https://support.google.com/googleplay/android-developer/answ...
> For large dependencies that’s a large waste of time if more than 1 person is working on the software.

but all other hype languages do this and you don't hear people complaining
No, it’s not the same with stocks. With stocks, as a majority holder, you can make the minority an offer that everyone is forced to accept if a majority of the minority accepts it. This is why market cap is relevant to the stock market, but not e.g. the forex or commodity market.
It was never going to be the HQ, if it was they would have to start paying taxes to NYS on that alone.
No. The culture seemed great at the time, because all the skeletons were still in the closet.

Alcohol was rampant. There was all sorts of sexual harassment and execs having affairs with reports. There was politics and subterfuge and extremely non-blameless postmortems (i.e. you were fired). People were working 60 hour weeks.

Hiring was a total shit show. There was no standard practice -- managers were hiring their friends left and right. Nepotism, not meritocracy, ruled. Recruiters blatantly lied to candidates about offers. There were a few suicides.

People were spying on their ex's, celebrities, fighting and committing fraud, giving friends credits or discounts. Thousands upon thousands of borked fares where drivers or riders were respectively paid or charged incorrectly.

From a technical standpoint, it couldn't be worse. Sure it was fast and exciting, but some of the worst, biggest technical debt decisions ever were made in this time. Almost all of the engineers who made this decisions are no longer there. China, schemaless, M3, all the ops shenanigans. On call was a nightmare. Teams were competing internally by solving the same problem but not talking to each other.

You wanna know why the culture seemed great? Because they were burning money like there is tomorrow. There was no oversight. So the firehouse got turned off, the party was over.

Fowler was a symptom. Her memo didn't cause culture to implode, it was already a time bomb.
Nice, just sent this to my city, Hillsboro, Oregon. I think we would consider something like this as we have a large initiative around houselessness.
It is.

Multi-wan is easier with appliances. I used pfSense over the last 12 years or so with multi-wan on and off (currently off). I've run pfSense in a kvm VM, and you can do multi-wan with this. Though I generally recommend dedicated NICs for the WANs and LAN.

I've looked at the linux based appliances (as late as last week) and only clearos or openwrt supported multi-wan. I could be wrong (I'd like to be as pfSense/OPNsense are FreeBSD based, and that comes with, sadly, huge amounts of baggage, limited hardware support, etc.). I'll likely be looking at that package as a potential replacement for the pfSense system, though if clearos can't handle what I need, OPNsense is like pfSense, but with far less baggage.

If you don't mind tinkering, you might be able to use mwan3[1].

If you prefer OpenWRT, you can look at running it in a VM[2] along with mwan3.

[1] https://github.com/Adze1502/mwan

[2] https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/virtualization/qemu
1. Buy a joke, laugh
2. Put it in a drawer for 10 years
3. Throw it away, eventually into the ocean to add more microplastics as it breaks down.

Maybe just laugh of the idea but don't actually buy it.
And there is that recent one: Twitch banned the Revision demoparty mid-stream.

We suppose it is related to nudity (there was a few artistic nudes) but we are not even sure.

Thankfully, the orga team was awesome and the CCC came to the rescue. 30 minutes later the stream was back on on a new (and better!) server.

Announcement: https://twitter.com/revision_party/status/137842718551876403...

HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26684247
The author is using SVG to style actual HR elements.
The danger of police unions is that the things they negotiate are very often not money, but rather regulations and laws that makes it harder to punish police violence and misconduct.

Planet Money did a great podcast about this last year:
https://www.npr.org/2020/06/05/871298161/police-unions-and-p...
> benchmarks

Live by the SPEC, die by the SPEC
I think this is a good way to sow discontent about unions. Most people see themselves as above average, so stories like this will convince them that 50% of their coworkers are holding back their advancement opportunities. If there just wasn't all this dead weight around, they would be paying ME more! Now the employer doesn't have to fight the union -- the union fights itself! It's brilliant.

Unions are not designed to maximize the effectiveness of each shareholder dollar. They exist to give all employees a safe and fair work environment. That probably means that some 40th %ile performer gets paid the same as an 80th %ile performer. But they both get water bottles when working in a hot datacenter, and they both get their bonus that was promised to them in writing. I don't think that's a bad deal. Without a union, people would be fired for complaining about unsafe working conditions, bonuses that were promised would never come, and people would be working 8 hour shifts in 85 degree datacenters with no water. That doesn't sound that great to me.

If unions are so bad for workers, why do large corporations sink millions of dollars in anti-union ads in newspapers? Probably not because they really want to give their highest performers raises, but are hamstrung by regulation, and need the public to step in and protect them from the big bad union. They do it because they want to lower wages, make the job harder and more dangerous, and go back on promised bonuses when all the employees start asking where they were. The ads work, too. The seeds of doubt have been sown, and whenever Jeff Bezos reads a comment like yours, I'm sure he smiles a little.
What's a "quasi-quoter?"
Yeah you can get lost in the details for as much time as you want and you can also justify pretty much every kind of behavior imaginable by artificially constructing a scenario that favors whatever point of view you are trying to defend.

Everything is subjective, I agree, but I think everyone could be mature enough to discern the line between "I can't avoid doing this" and "I'm just being an ass". If most people were honest enough to just think "this is wrong, I'll refrain from doing it" we wouldn't even need laws in the first place.

The problem is not how subjective are the issues at hand, the problem is the attitude some people take when confronted with those issues. You can make extremely detailed laws that are designed to take into account every possible situation that may arise and still have someone study them well enough to discover a flaw and use that as a shield for, well, being an asshole. "Yeah the law says that I can't pee on toilets but I didn't pee on it, I just threw the pee there later from a bag. Gotcha!"
>You claim that I am in the minority when I use the word "misogyny" to mean not only "abject hatred" but also "contempt for, or ingrained prejudice against"

Fantastic, lets accept that definition for a second. Please explain how the following demonstrates "contempt for, or ingrained prejudice against" women:

>Nietzsche said, in his funny and somewhat misogynistic way: "Supposing truth is a woman, what then? Are there not grounds for the suspicion that all philosophers, insofar as they were dogmatists, have been very inexpert about women? That the gruesome seriousness, the clumsy obtrusiveness with which they have usually approached truth so far have been awkward and very improper methods for winning a woman's heart?"
Are you referring to service dogs that help the blind? Or those that offer emotional support? Clearly there is a difference in training.
> if you set things marginally high, it's a relatively easy point of not just login attack, but a DDOS attack surface as well

That's no excuse for using a worse hashing method. You need to rate-limit login attempts anyway to prevent (or at least make impractical) brute forcing / dictionary attack attempts. But it's a can of worms either way (next step is captchas because of tor / anonymizer proxies etc.).
Whats wrong with just using a round mold http://www.amazon.com/Ice-Ball-Maker-Premium-Silicone/dp/B00... ?
Been there, done that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_Reform_Act_of_1986

But that's ancient history even though it was less than 30 years ago. Politicians can't resist tinkering with the tax code. It's always for a good cause, e.g. "think of the children".
There isn't a physical waveguide. It's a Bessel beam.
I currently have two Macs. A late 2013 rMBP 13" which works flawlessly, and an iMac 27" with 680mx(later 2012?).

The iMac has felt wonky for lack of a better word. It doesn't hang or crash more than Mavericks did, but f.lux causes WindowServer to crash randomly which makes all users to be logged out in a microsecond. I've reported this of course.

Another thing that troubles me is the amount of rubbish logging done by the system. Have Console.app open for a while and see what nonsense it barfs out. How can it work at all with all those problems?
I think NTP usually synchronizes the system time, so programs don't have to use any NTP specific API to get NTP time. PTP won't help here: all it does is increase the accuracy from milliseconds to microseconds - not much use if the Linux scheduler tick is 1ms. PTP time is mainly useful together with hardware event timestamping, where stuff like interrupt latency can be excluded. If you want, for example, to send a frame every two seconds as soon as the device boots, you still should use CLOCK_MONOTONIC, otherwise you produce a glitch when PTP ramps up.
Just don't care. Next time someone asks for something that is a fire ask them to tell the next person in line they're not that important.
I think a lot of similar stuff to that video, box masking with depth, quick union/intersect etc. operations was added in 2.91:

https://wiki.blender.org/wiki/Reference/Release_Notes/2.91/S...
I've checked those posters before and I usually see a max rate of $1,200 or so for a $200 room.
London Town baby.

It was also weird and slightly dangerous growing up in North London and not being allowed to carry a knife. Less dangerous than prison though.

*should clarify the law states it's a certain length, so Stanley knifes are ok, pocket or flicks. Non.
Research shows that even using voice control of Apple carplay is way worse than driving at the legal blood alcohol level and also worse than cannabis. So while I agree that it is bad with the often slow CPUs and bad UI (like Tesla's) it isn't much help if the fix still include anything but old knobs and dials.

Edit:
Example of research..

https://www.iamroadsmart.com/campaign-pages/end-customer-cam...
Also no guile scripting.
You're conflating "advocates for Cuba" with those simply against the pointless embargo. There's a huge difference, but if the US wants to continue the embargo at least be consistent about it, hit China, Haiti, Yemen, India, and so on. Heck just hit all of the "Unfree" in the freedom index[0], that would at least be a little consistent.

Cuba definitely has a lot of problems. But so do many of the US's major trading partners, I mean want to talk about Saudi Arabia, Israel, and China..?

[0] http://www.heritage.org/index/ranking
I love flask, I built http://www.gauthify.com 's API and http://Uphound.com using it. I think its great for small and large apps. With that said, I do think that at this point you might consider using something like Django instead.