skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd argue that flat wages are not (entirely) a failure of the labor market and are partly a consequence of modern life requiring less resources.

Think about it: When was the last time you spent 15 minutes on the phone getting directions to someplace, got lost, had to find a payphone or stop places asking for directions, and then had to ask around to find somebody once you got there? Or paid a travel agent to plan your next vacation? Bought an expensive widget because at the only store you could find it at and were willing to drive to not knowing you could get it for half as much in the next state over? Used up a few hours looking for a specialty contractor in the newspaper classifieds or yellow pages and then had a bad experience because you had no way to know what their previous customers thought of them? These used to be very common experiences.

For many people in America, modern life requires far less time and money to be comfortable than it did just a few decades ago and as a result workers are seeing less and less incentive to push for higher wages.
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That's without setting the connection as a metered connection, right?

Once i saw that option, I immediately set it because I also use my mobile data connection for access.
Except... have you seen the changes between 1.8 and 1.13? It might as well be a new framework. So far moving from 1.8 to 1.8 on CLI has taken my team 3 months, and we still need to migrate to 1.13 if we are to remain supported. Ember provides an upgrade path, but it is a long, miserable slog.
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Hi, you mentioned Lua in the first paragraph but didn't go into any detail about how you are using it. Can you expound on that?
I have not checked which syscall or libc function could return that, but it's quite possible that some applicable standard like C or POSIX or SUS mandates such a return value.

It is better to follow the standard in such cases, so that portable code written against the standard runs nicely.

However (claims the OP) in the case of printf, the %s null pointer case is explicitly defined to be undefined behavior and hence the implementation should handle this either implicitly (by crashing with null pointer dereference) or explicitly by calling abort(), as that will teach programmers not to rely on superficially benign implementations of undefined behavior.
There are unethical business practices too. Sure, maybe every decision Larry/Oracle every did was legal, they are still in the business of vendor lock-in based extortion aided by their reputation as the transaction processing vendor. Because early on they teamed up. A great salesman with a brilliant software engineer guy.
Ecuador isn't exactly known as a bastion of freedom.
Or just about any free operating system, barring ones that voluntarily ship adware or similar.
And then Microsoft will fix that, ...
I was waiting for this. Thanks alot keep up the good work. Can't wait to start using it in this new app that i am trying to build for a while.
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Another possibility: If the ability to learn new skills and trades has never been easier, and there is a surplus of labor that can absorb these skills, this will help keep wages low for an extended period of time. Global and national population growth numbers can support this view.

People point to regional variation, like wage growth in SV, as evidence of real wage growth. But even that isn't so simple when you have high living expenses and the expectation that they will keep going up. Firms need to offer wages that allow a lifestyle competitive with one provided in Anywhere, America.

But it's likely a combination of multiple causes than one factor or another.
It's not a marketing release, Ember is simply following semantic versioning. Many of the new features that might've slipped into a 2.0 have made it into the last few 1.x releases, since they could be made backwards-compatible; e.g. Glimmer could've been held back for marketing reasons, but they pushed hard to get it out ASAP in 1.13 in June.
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Counterpoint: while the means of production are more accessible, the demand for unfinished products is greatly outstripped by the polish of, say, an iPhone.
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Robert Solow, the author of this article, is one of the most well-respected economists of his generation. He derived the "Solow Growth Model" which underpins a good deal of modern macroeconomics. [1]

Here, he states that it is customary to think of the value of a firm in terms of (1) returns to labor and (2) returns to capital. He argues that there is a third factor, (3) position in the market, that provides a rent to the owners and shareholders of the company. Just as a title/deed provides the owner with a geographical rent opportunity, regulation creates an opportunity for a company to extract an abstract sort of monopolistic rent within a market. Estimates of this component of rent lie between 10-30% of GDP, and it changes as a function of regulation.

He argues that the division of this rent "has been shifting against the labor side for several decades" starting under the Reagan administration, due to (1) the decline of unions and collective bargaining (right to work laws, "hardening of business attitudes") and (2) the "casualization" of labor, i.e. the increase in part-time/contract-based labor that many companies are able to force onto a workforce that would, in many instances, favor full time employment. These casual workers "have little or no effective claim to the rent component of any firm's added value."

In summary, the aggregate workforce is losing bargaining power whereas the aggregate business owners (investors) are gaining bargaining power within the economy, allowing the investors and owners to carve out a larger share of rent profits.

While Solow does point out that international competition and "the biased nature of new technology" both play a role in this phenomenon, he strives to emphasize the importance of internal social change in the division of economic rent.

Personally, I think that he is dancing around a much more controversial thesis: inequality is a direct result of poor government regulation and oversight (starting with Reagan) which is due to a deterioration of the separation of powers between the public and the private sectors as corporate owners and investors have been able to buy influence in Congress and further support/entrench regulation that favors their own interests. Unions/collections of workers no longer have the power to combat corporate interests at the political/legal level and are being dismantled/shafted which leads to many individual laborers being shafted as well, which is the cause of the nonexistent wage growth.

[1] http://www.unc.edu/~jbhill/Solow-Growth-Model.pdf
Thanks. That article was pretty short. I can't imagine how short the blog was.

Interesting that the author spends most his words explaining the rent concept, then abruptly ends with speculation that the rise of temp workers, agency workers, part-time workers, basically everyone who is not an FTE, it to blame for labor not capturing the financial benefit of increased productivity.

The only solution to this problem is going to be through the tax system. If you hire me to shovel dirt all day long, and one day an inventor sells you a more productive shovel which you give to me, I don't really deserve more pay because I'm shoveling dirt better.

But commerce and tax laws are the purview of the democracy, how much money the business owners need to pay back to society for the benefits they receive, and also so society doesn't burn their homes and factories down and kill them, is a matter public policy.
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> That does not make much sense, if any.

All I can say is they hadn't been installed. When I went to WU, 'Windows 10 Pro' was ticked under optional updates and all the critical updates for W7 were unticked. The machine has always updated automatically just fine in previous months.

> And you aren't cringing at Google Now/Google Drive/Chrome? Why?

Well, it's just what I see, but I think Googles strongholds are still search, Gmail and Maps. If all the Google apps (Play Services etc) disappeared on Android overnight I honestly think most people I know would only miss Maps. I've never seen a friend use Drive, occasionally Docs (but never for serious work) and certainly not Now.

Also, I'd say it's 50/50 between my friends whether they use FF or Chrome... but everyone I know uses Windows. Windows 10 of course resets your default browser.

Plus the fact, Google are terrible at pushing and supporting consumer facing products. Imho they haven't really had Joe Public feverishly interested in anything since their Chrome launch campaign in 2008 and, before that, Gmail in 2004. They're not a software or hardware company and, save for flirting with Motorola, have never made any persistent indications that they intend to be.
Yes, that's what modern cameras with the built in feature do. (although I'm not sure about 8 times) The article talks about this feature.
When we're sleeping and want to change the dream subject matter, we twitch our eyes. It's like pressing the lever on a View-Master[1], or clicking the mouse to view the next slide.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/View-Master
> In any event, during the installation process, you do see a screen where you can turn all this off. It's not off by default, but viewing these settings was part of my Windows 10 installation experience.

The problem is that Windows 10 does not respect you having this turned off. It will send away your data, even if you turned off all the switches.

Don't you see this as a huge problem?
Is it really more difficult to compile to Go source code than to Dalvik/ART byte code? Using Go as a compilation target would allow other languages to benefit from structured value types and goroutines.
Anybody have an opinion on tesla stock? Are they overvalued or undervalued? How are there fundamentals?
While it's convenient to reduce inflation to a single number so that you can summarise an economy with MV=PQ, it's not the full picture. Over the medium to long term, price levels between different sorts of goods drift widely, as do the relative returns of capital and labour.

For example, monetary injection via QE has little effect on retail prices, oil prices (which have been falling), or wages, but tends to inflate financial and real estate asset prices.
Of course - that's the current standard way to produce HDR photos. The advantage here is being able to do it all in a single image, which prevents mismatches between images due to subject or photographer movement.
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We updated the link from http://economistsview.typepad.com/economistsview/2015/08/the..., which points to this.
That is one way to do it, but i don't think they can trade the shares similarly at least not this way.
Neither is the US.
The major difference is if I'm looking up drug Apraximine to give to fixermark for his PTSD resulting from embarrassing secret, I would just google (or whatever professional service they use) Apraximine. Google only sees that and know knows I have some interest in this drug. It can't even attach your name to it. But if I write in an electronic file that fixermark is being given Apraximine for PTSD resulting from embarrassing secret, Microsoft know has all that information. More so, hackers have a much easier time getting such information.
Well, I don't know.

VJ++ had a completely different target market from modern Java / C#: it was the Age of the Desktop, Java was supposed to be the client-side Nirvana of write-once-run-everywhere, and VJ++ was a blatant embrace-and-extinguish play in that sense ("write once, run on Windows only" basically), based on platform-specific UI libs.

C# was developed when the market had changed and Java had become the language of choice for web apps. MS needed a competitor there, and it didn't make sense for their platform lock-in strategies to build anything but MS-specific tech. They couldn't have adopted Java at that point, regardless of lawsuits.
Side point, but usually 5 classes (@ 3 credit hrs each / 15 hr total) is a standard college work load, even if 12 is the legal minimum. Most degrees are impossible to complete in even 12 hours x 5 years (assuming 128 credit hour program).
Why did this horrible language become so popular?

I wouldn't call m4 "popular" in the slightest, it's generally used by only a few well-known programs like autoconf, sendmail and SELinux.

It's used because it's a standardized way to bolt on substitution macros to a system without having it be intrinsically aware of them.
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In theory, they always do. But in reality...
Nicely summed up as "ORACLE: One Rich Asshole Called Larry Ellison."
Read the longer linked article. It's called the Detroit Treaty. Wages kept up with productivity, because labor and business agreed that they would.
> to the actually interesting parts (WPF, WinForms)

I always had an impression that all this GUI stuff is only interesting to a relatively small minority of the .NET users. Am I wrong?
Admittedly, my understanding of traditional optics is very limited. I happened upon it in a dream whilst trying to figure out how to handle dynamic scenes while using SLAM.

I was thinking of a prism (new word: pellicle mirror) like this one :

http://static1.squarespace.com/static/54ca877ce4b014ea90e14b...

Except I don't need the deconvolutional prism. I can handle that in software easily with a X or Y matrix flip. And I assume we are using the same CCD module for both areas; given that, I can sum the contrast between the pixels and calculate the min and max, as well as can calculate the HDR image from both sources.

Calibration would be easy to handle, using a checkerboard to link the CCDs to each other (assume aligning errors will happen).

I also see no reason why the pellicles wouldn't be kept clean. The same goes for the CCDs as well. I'd embed them in a dark acrylic box and try to seal them as best as can be.
You know, some of us observed the same behavior on our own machines. I love apologists who have no idea what they fight for.
Here's the full protocol in english:

http://www.nnn.se/nordic/assange/docs/protocol.pdf
They just mass emailed Model S customers to reduce Super Charging.

https://i.imgur.com/ruKYVHF.png

http://www.teslamotorsclub.com/showthread.php/51482-Supercha...
Couldn't agree more. Sun, for all their faults, knew what Java was about. For me Java died the day Oracle bought Sun. I am glad I have nothing to do with Oracle anymore.

With Microsoft making more and more of .NET open source I hope to see C# replace Java in the enterprise.
I didn't think of that! I'm definitely going to try pinning this down by recording values in a spreadsheet. Thanks!
Except the cost of necessities (energy, housing, etc) is still rising: http://www.mybudget360.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/colleg...

Computers and TVs are cheap but everything else is expensive.
less and less incentive to push for higher wages

What's most people's biggest expenditure out of wages? Housing. Which has been increasing in price, both rental and purchase.

Besides, higher wages are their own incentive. Nobody says "As a footballer/company director/etc I feel that a million pounds a week is enough, I'm not interested in a pay rise."
This is all about finding a convenient law to exert political power, not legal comparability.

From The Guardian: "The US government is conducting an active, long-term criminal investigation into WikiLeaks, a federal judge has confirmed in court documents"

Feinstein (and other Congressmen/Senators) wanted Assange – who isn’t even a U.S. citizen and never served in the U.S. Government – prosecuted for espionage for exposing war crimes.

More here: http://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/mar/05/us-government-s...

https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/01/12/dianne-feinste...
The BBC [1][2] and Guardian [3] are describing the remaining charge as rape. [1] quotes the Swedish prosecutor (in 2010):

"There is reason to believe that a crime has been committed," she says in a statement. "Considering information available at present, my judgement is that the classification of the crime is rape."

Wikipedia [4] gives the Swedish term as "våldtäkt", which Google translates as "Rape":

"On 18 November 2010, the Stockholm District Court ordered Assange detained in absentia, on request by prosecutor Marianne Ny. As basis for the ruling, the court stated Julian Assange to be suspected on reasonable grounds to have committed rape (våldtäkt), unlawful coercion (olaga tvång), and three cases of sexuellt ofredande — which has been variously translated as "sexual molestation", "sexual assault", "sexual misconduct", "sexual annoyance", "sexual unfreedom", "sexual misdemeanour", and "sexual harassment" [3]

(The above, to be clear, are allegations).

[1] http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-11949341

[2] http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-33907874

[3] http://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/aug/13/julian-assange-...

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assange_v_Swedish_Prosecution_...
> The money has always been into technology being a big lever for
> profit, but it has never been accountable for the social cost

Totally. A good start might be large companies paying equitable taxes.
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Google and Apple are no saints, but there is a much larger history of bad behavior from MS. Given their attempts recently to about-face and be the good guys it shouldn't be surprising that many people are quick to point out actions that seem to indicate this behavior is not representative of their core agenda.

And besides, these things tend to come in waves. I've read basically the same comment about Google ad Apple here: "Why is everyone picking on Google and giving MS a free pass? They've done much worse!" "Why is everyone hating on Apple? Android has most of the same problems too!"
What about rules like the below on Android? (or Chromebooks where you cannot even install alternative native applications)

> Devices may only be distributed if all Google Applications [listed elsewhere in the agreement] ... are pre-installed on the Device."

>The phone manufacturer must "preload all Google Applications approved in the applicable Territory ... on each device."

>The phone manufacturer must place "Google's Search and the Android Market Client icon [Google Play] ... at least on the panel immediately adjacent to the Default Home Screen," with "all other Google Applications ... no more than one level below the Phone Top."

>The phone manufacturer must set "Google Search ... as the default search provider for all Web search access points."

>If device owners hold down the physical “Home” button or “swipe up” from a digital home button or navigation bar, such actions should trigger Google Search.

>must provide access to a “collection” of 13 Google apps (Google Chrome, Google Maps, Google Drive, YouTube, Gmail, Google+, Google Play Music, Google Play Movies, Google Play Books, Google Play Newsstand, Google Play Games, Google+ Photos and Google+ Hangouts).

How is that not "rammed down your throat" ?

Or do you really think Android users are "voluntarily installing" Google Play Newsstand?
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Yes, but as a developer, you're less likely to ship regressions in the first place if your deployment process involves more structure (beta testing, internal code freezes, release branches containing only bug fixes, etc) than 'git push'.

Of course, that runs counter to the "continual deployment" idea popular in web circles, but that's the entire point.
Ask HN: Is now a good time to work for Tesla? As a data engineer?
Applying to the following position:
Staff Data Engineer
Req. ID:	27369
Office Location:	NA-US-CA-Palo Alto-Deer Creek-Office
# of openings:	1
Job Shift:
Job Type:	Full time
URL: https://chc.tbe.taleo.net/chc01/ats/careers/requisition.jsp?org=TESLA&cws=1&rid=27369

Sounds like a neat position. I'm at the point where I only want to work in R&D positions where I'm actually building a product, as opposed to maintaining and supporting something used by end-users. I really want to change the world and work on something truly amazing. I think Tesla could be that kind of company.

I'm currently on the east coast working in a very cushy corporate job where I am making lots of money, just not super satisfied with the impact of my work. I'm fairly certain that I "belong" in Silicon Valley, but the idea of making the move is still frightening for me. I interviewed with Netflix for a similar position 2 months ago but sadly didn't get the position (oh well, still don't know why - there weren't any obvious reasons based on their feedback other than the fit wasn't right).

Do you think now is a good time to work for Tesla? Especially with the operating cost budget and their latest offering of common stock. What do you think? Anyone currently work in Tesla computer engineering?

http://ir.teslamotors.com/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=927533
I guess if my one critique is that I'd like to see more examples in the portfolio that's a good problem for you to have.

PS I like the fact that you're showing process in a very small space.
Amazing! Loved how I felt an instant emotional connection with the product! Great product, great video!
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Unlike other aspects of life where adults infantilize, or want to remain hip well after graduation from university, I see this as plainly one of a number of many modes of transportation.

I don't see it as a way of carrying over youth into maturity but rather continuing the convenience of this very portable form of transportation.

The only distress I feel is from gas powered ones which drive by late at night. Those people have no decency. Be quiet, don't upset the quiet night.
> mandates such a return value.

And ISO and IEEE standards can't be "misguided", just competing operating systems that are more successful.

> explicitly defined to be undefined behavior

Contradiction.

Undefined behavior is not defined, explicitly or otherwise. There can be explicit wording that some requirement is not being made.

When ISO C explicitly states that there is an absence of a requirement, that does not carry any more or less weight then when behavior is undefined by omission of any wording of a requirement. All UB is equal.

> not to rely on superficially benign implementations of undefined behavior.

An excellent example of beneficially fixing undefined behavior is to implement strict left to right ordering on all operations and their side effects.

A language or language dialect in which evaluation order is defined is safer and better for engineering.
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As long as your aren't the current group it is popular to pick on and you don't anger (or make fall in love) anyone with significant power, you'll probably be fine. I'm sure there were plenty who didn't care about slavery as long as they weren't the slaves.