skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Where are you? The new construction I see in the Washington DC area has none of these things, whether it's a new apartment in the city or a new house in the suburbs. The ceilings are quite high--typically ten feet. Even basement ceilings are quite high, in contrast to old homes where one often must bend over a bit while in the basement. Door frames are high.

Windows if anything are too big, not too small! My city apartment has floor to ceiling windows which are difficult for window treatments. Suburban homes can have huge two-story family rooms.

Noise is more a problem from adjoining units. Outside noise is sealed out quite well thanks to double-pane windows.

Overall new construction is of quite high quality when it comes to what's important. New homes have smoke detectors, fire sprinklers, better electrical systems, more durable cladding on the outside, better insulation, more bathrooms, and air conditioning. As someone who has seen both old and new homes and has considered living in both, I do not get the nostalgia for old homes. Most home buyers around here agree as they are gutting old homes and renovating them, not living in them as is. I considered living in old homes, but only because they are in good locations. Their oldness in and of itself offered no benefits.
imo Square should have stuck to POS only and dominated that field completely. They should worked that field till saturation. Once they were near to complete, use the line item records from individual customers at POS and convert to rewards. Once that is saturated, then move to e-commerce for P2P.
Verbling • San Francisco • Full Time • ONSITE • VISA

Verbling is a San Francisco startup helping the world learn foreign languages.
https://www.verbling.com/jobs

• Full-Stack Javascript Generalist

Javascript is crucial to Verbling. We use Node.js on the backend and a Backbone/React-based framework on the front-end. We are looking for someone who's excited about getting their hands dirty in all part of the stack.

You are a experienced Javascript developer who wants to get in on building the future of ed-tech from the bottom up. You want to be an integral part in inventing new ways for students to learn foreign languages.

You love to learn, and equally love to share your knowledge with others. You’re both a listener and contributor. You are a great communicator and you take care to understand before making yourself understood.

Your code is architected for scalability, re-use, and testability. Your operators are always === and you are a master of closures. You have strong opinions on code structure and modularization. You're pretty darn excited about react, isomorphic flux, generators, and FRP.

• Responsibilities

Own and drive projects from idea spec to production.
Work closely with product and design teams.
Continually iterate on product features using analytics and user feedback.

• Requirements

Experience with Node.js.
Experience in front-end JS development, and preferably in a framework like Backbone, Angular, etc.
Always thinking about scalability and performance bottlenecks.
A test-driven mindset.
I'm from the Jenkins project.

I wish the authors of this post gave us a heads up beforehand. It put our users at unnecessary risk.

At Jenkins project, We've published a mitigation script (https://jenkins-ci.org/content/mitigating-unauthenticated-re...) while we work out a better fix for users.
> But it's not ever used for audio applications due to the additional complexity of managing the synchronized noise on each side.

Mersenne twister with a shared seed in metadata?
Let me tell you about Wireshark 2.0
You need proof that a child growing up with quality care and a quality social/cultural environment is more likely to be able to function and "succeed" in life as an adult?
More like "the case against state-guaranteed survival by someone who never experienced poverty". UBI is not about leisure, ideology and long disproved communist utopias. UBI is about asking from the state - that forcefully extracts work from us in the form of taxes - the guarantee of our survival.

Our welfare systems will never solve the kind of poverty that pushes people to sleep under bridges. Our unions will never give the work force 100% occupation. It's easy to dream about revolutions and class warfare when you don't have to worry about next month's rent, but we're not talking about left vs. right here. We're talking about a paradigm shift in the human society: no longer having to worry about food and shelter on the sole basis of being human. That's the kind of society I want to experience in my life time and I don't care who wins ideological points over it.
Still relevant for that developer? Yes, very much so.

For others?
High quality child care is very expensive. The average daycare feeds your kids cheese puffs and processed foods and takes no special interest in customizing a child's experience. It is expensive to use child care that forgoes the state matching food grants (which encourage the cheese puffs), and focus on specialized care for your child.
The consequences of Griggs v. Duke more complicated than that: the problem with IQ tests is that they are slippery. An employer can say "we want the best and brightest." And they can decide that a degree from Stanford meets that criteria, even if the impact is disparate.

But if they use an IQ test, suddenly there's a slippery slope: Why is the cutoff 130? The error range on IQ tests is non-zero, so what if a black candidate with 129 comes in? How do you defend that disparate impact in court? You can't.
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anyone ?
I used to work in child-care. We charged $14/day for after-school care (4-5 hours), and the staff-to-child ratio was about 20:1. Counselors made < $10 hour. This was 2001-2007 or so.

Child care was the biggest money maker at my organization, which was a fully-featured ymca with seasonal sports, fitness, olympic pool, gymnastics, rock wall, skate park, and 10 million in the bank. We had a pre-school, after-school, and summer camps. I can't speak to the % of net income that came from child care, but I think it was very large.

I think given multiple children, it becomes very likely that it's better for one parent to stay home. They get to spend a lot more time with the kids at a very small financial difference.
> Get five neighbours to pay you twenty bucks a day to look after their kid, and everybody is coming out ahead.

Well, except the kids.
I need proof when someone says "growing body of research".
This sort of "commodification", for lack of a better word, is visible in many areas, I think. I was thinking about this lately in relation to tools. It's great that you can now get tools for unbelievably low prices compared to, say, 50 years ago. This is a big win in many instances, because a shitty tool is often better than no tool at all, and it opens up access for many who would never be able to afford the old tools.

The flip side, however, is that it's devalued quality. It's remarkably difficult to actually find high-quality stuff these days. Even what used to be high-end brands have been bought up by some conglomerate that is now selling cheap Chinese versions under the old names.

There's still a market for quality, of course. You don't use tools from Harbor Freight when building rockets, but you'll never see those in any store you visit and they're likely to be priced far outside the reach of a normal person. It's like the middle ground has been lost, most stuff is cheap and low quality and then there is this small high end of really expensive stuff.
Please don't let the lack of a degree in anything stop you from achieving your dreams. If I can help let me know.
The article cover only superficially covered this, but the biggest expense is definitely labor (my great aunt ran a daycare for around 20-25 years). At least in my area, there is a maximum limit of children per adult at a childcare facility. This alone places a limit on the maximum revenue per employee before considering other expenses.
even if ubi is the same nominal amount as welfare, it is a huge improvement because (i) it is unconditional. there are a lot of tedious and humiliating hoops poor people have to jump through today to get welfare, and prove that they need and are eligible for it. and they have to keep on doing it, even though in relative terms a poor person's time is worth a lot more than a rich one's and they have less of it to spend on bullshit. (ii) in lots of places, welfare is means-based and scaled back if you find other sources of income. this effectively means that that income bears a huge tax. under ubi, any extra money you earn does not affect your basic income.
> the emphasis 100 years ago was on quality

I would argue that the emphasis was on "repairability".
Scale a global marketplace. Verbling is hiring engineers (React/Relay)
You can only have a 20:1 with older kids. Infants and toddlers need more staff. The age mix is an important cost component.

[edit http://eclkc.ohs.acf.hhs.gov/hslc/tta-system/teaching/eecd/L... has space and staffing rules for EHS and HS which states tend to copy]
> bands and styles with wide dynamic range like the Pixies, Nirvana and dubstep

One of these things is not like the others.

I can't tell if you're trolling here, or if you legitimately don't know much about audio engineering, because Dubstep (and electronic music in general) is probably the most aggressively compressed and limited genre of music out there.

If you actually do feel that Dubstep has a lot of dynamics, then you're misattributing the lack of dynamic range in a lot of modern music to audio engineering. What you're really bothered by is the songwriting and musicianship, not the engineering or compression.
You might want to look at the Harvard study on Head Start before you render that judgement.
Are you an expert?

In a 16-bit master, a noise shaping function is applied during down-conversion, by which quantization noise will be re-distributed so that most of the noise energy goes to the high frequencies (>15k) where it is completely inaudible.

For a good example of such a recording, see Ahn-Plugged (Ahn Trio, 2000, Sony BMG Masterworks). Fire up a good spectrum analyzer. You'll find the noise floor is well below <110 dB throughout most of the spectrum, even though it's 'just' a 16 bit CD.
IT doesn't change your point, but it would cost $319 billion, not $385. There are 319 million people in the US.
Okay, but I seem to recall being told that entire cities were going to be designed around the Segway too.
Seems like a good product, but my confidence is not inspired by your introductory video having a synthesized voice over. Seems like a dumb thing to potentially lose customers over.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devil_facial_tumour_disease
Yeah it didn't seem like they were really big and would have lasted, but it was kind of a contrast with today where a young person on the street would probably have not idea what IBM does.
Yes - I've seen studies that show things like "quality education" don't really hold up under close inspection (for eg. when you control for student performance before college difference between elite colleges and standard ones disappears).

I would be interested how research defines this "high quality social/cultural environments" and how it controls for factors such as genetics, family cultural and financial background, etc. Separated twin studies would probably be ideal (but I'm not an expert in the field).
Agreed. I was a victim of this in my former home in Adelaide.

It was a newly built townhouse complex so we were a body corporate. Within 4 years of building completion, we were suffering from rising damp and completely loose paving in the shared driveways. The paving was too high relative to the damp proof course and the base wasn't prepared properly.

It took a couple of years of legal stuff to claim on the building warranty.

Having been through this, I now are more acutely aware of how dodgy new building are around Australia. New apartments especially.
While I found many of the author's assertions to be ideological predictions, this sentence made me happy: "So much depends on the balance of forces between capital and labour at the moment of its implementation." Historically speaking, economic change in favor of the massive people is only successful (even if fleeting) if it is demanded by millions of working people.

UBI only plays with the ratios of capitalism; a UBI implementation would result in a different distribution of equality, so surely there would be historic social consequences. Those consequences are clearly up for endless debate by concerned reformists (a.k.a. fortune tellers; see the article's citations).

So, the details are all up in the air.

What a brief Marxian analysis would tell you regarding UBI and any other reform programs: since the control of the means of production and the subsequent control of the surplus labor remains in the hands of the capitalists, the capitalists will maintain their power and quickly destroy any of the proletarian benefits that the program seemed to promise.

The best example in recent US history of this happening: the New Deal.
At this point I'd settle for a flying horse even.
I’m not surprised. It's based on stereotypes that an actual German would not be as likely to share. (You may also be less likely to have heard the joke this plays off.)
It's not readily apparent that increasing the amount of children per staff member will significantly impact a child's ability to "succeed" in life as an adult.

I'm not sure how we expect a 1:6 ratio to be "cheap", even before factoring in costs like real estate.
My best friend is a public school teacher, and his circle of friends includes many more.

I can wholeheartedly assure you they are not as deserving as doctors, in large part because their training is much less rigorous, the job is much less demanding, requires less skill/ability, and a whole lot of teachers aren't "good" teachers. Just like any other profession, you have good, bad, and mostly average. The average teacher does not deserve nearly the same salary as the average doctor.
The first time somebody demands I pay extra to fix a bug is the last time I use that project.
Thanks for tipping me off about PulleyApp ~! Didn't know that they were that bad at support :(

I did checkout SendOwl after reading posts on this thread. They look like the best alternative if switching was required. Their video show a very slick & kickass experience for buyers (I tried the demo too).

B/w it looks like Gumroad is sticking around. Going by Sahil's tweets. They do understand very well that a lot of people love Gumroad a LOT and depend on it.
Didi Kuaidi: Uber's enemy in China
'Good' is an important point here, and those 'good' work in private schools or as tutors. Generally public school teachers in Montreal are bad and education quality is low, obviously IMHO. Still even public school teachers are paid OK. Salaries for Quebec / Ontario are publicly available - it is almost on pair with civil engines. Yep education is notoriously bad, high school drop out rate about ~20% for Montreal. So in case of education I wouldn't correlate salary / quality that easy.
Huh, I grew up in a house with ceilings no higher than maybe 7'2" (though that was not usual for buildings) and am 5'11" and wouldn't dream of calling it "claustrophobic". My father is even a couple inches taller. I guess it depends a lot on what you're used to.

Meanwhile my current residence has ceilings so high that I haven't bothered to install some LED bulbs that I have lying around since I don't have an easy safe way to reach the light fixtures.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10521457
Yes, they should be. We would become a space faring civilization fairly quickly if that were the case.
In practice yes, but not in moral terms.
Why do we need an "office" for UBI? It should just be deposited in people's bank accounts (we already collect bank account data with taxes) without the need to go to the welfare office.
The tax does have to come from somewhere, preferably something we actually want to discourage like a carbon tax. (Since we're dreaming anyway.)

On the other hand, the average person breaks even by design.
Just tell them to fuck off. Same glee, less overhead.
I have a proposition. How about anyone who wants to live in a society with a UBI can organise one privately between themselves, and the rest of us can avoid it?

Start an organisation which takes from each member according to his means and shares it out equally, and see who wants to join. I wish you well.
100 x 12 = 1200

319m x 1200 = 382b

So it was still wrong, but ~380b is still roughly the right number.
It's pretty expensive, my own informal surveying of people with kids suggests the 'good' childcare places are basically equivalent of an extra one-bedroom apartment per month per kid. Relative to historical standards, you had not only the housewife, but grandparents, other relatives, and even your neighbors in the immediate community to help share the burden.
For Head Start the staffing has a safety component. Think how many staff needed to get various ages out of a burning building.
Kids don't care, as long as they have a yard to play in and some other kids to play with.
The same argument can be made against windows.

High ceilings not only avoid the need for air conditioning (my home has 11' ceilings and no air conditioning), they make you feel better in the space. When I am in a building with low ceilings I feel totally claustrophobic and tense - this is not something I want to feel in my own home.
and 12 months in a year.
NY to Oslo is like 7 hours. At night.
No. Per year not per month. 319x10^6 x $100 x 12 months = $382x10^9.
Hell no. I was a dead man walking in that interview. When I was trying to transition from test to dev, half the people I interviewed with didn't even ask me technical questions. I had one interviewer show up half an hour late, spend the next 25 minutes trying to convince me to stay in test, then (literally) give me five minutes to whiteboard a linked-list problem in C++, and his feedback to the hiring manager was that I was lacking coding skills. I eventually got into a dev position, but it was it was an utterly medieval process. I wish I was kidding, but my take on the whole get-a-dev-job scene right now is that you have to be (a) young, (b) skinny, and (c) the same race as the hiring manager and interviewers (I shit you not). After that comes coding.
Yeah, that's one thing that seem strange to me. In the US you have all these highly profitable tech companies that stash their profits overseas, but at the same time complain how they can't find enough talent. While the middle class are now supposed to get UBI because they don't have enough education to stay in the workforce. How about instead you close the loopholes, reform taxes and direct the money towards education.

On the other hand maybe Google could buy their own school in the Cayman Islands...
> Rounded corners

They moved into the browser instead.
That basically is what the article says. I don't find it surprising at all.

Do the math: if parents want one carer for every N kids, they have to pay 1/N-th of the costs of a carer.

I guess that 10 is a conservative estimate for the value of N, taking into account holidays, sick days, and the fact that kids will be at the center for over 8 hours because parents have to do their own workday between dropping off and picking up their child.

Also, parents do not want to make daycare look industrial, daycare needs a kitchen, beds so that kids can rest in the afternoon, etc. That means parents effectively have to pay for about half a second house for their kids, an extra set of toys, etc. and they want it all from 8AM-6PM, so daycare providers cannot run shifts to more efficiently use their facility.

Edit: and don't forget income tax. Parents have to pay a daycare worker's income before tax from from their income after taxes.

For me, that makes it clear that, at current price level, daycare workers cannot have a middle class income. Also, if they had, lots of people couldn't afford child care.

And historically, child care wasn't a full time job. Housewifes also prepared food, cleaned the house, washed clothes, found time to repair clothing, went shopping, etc. Even with modern appliances, that adds up.
Sure, and the first time someone insists that you triage a bugfix based on their priorities and not yours and they don't contribute to the project, you can let them leave as a user! Everybody is happy[1].

1) Nobody is actually happy.
There are a growing number of layoffs at post-seed stage startups (Gumroad[1], Zomato[2], Flipagram[3], Good Eggs[4], Famo.us[5], Quirky[6]), many of which have raised sizable rounds from prominent VCs.

It's hard to see a light at the end of the tunnel for many of these companies.

[1] http://techcrunch.com/2015/11/05/layoffs-hit-gumroad-as-the-...

[2] http://techcrunch.com/2015/10/16/restaurant-search-app-zomat...

[3] http://www.businessinsider.com/flipagram-cuts-20-percent-of-...

[4] http://techcrunch.com/2015/08/05/good-eggs-layoffs/

[5] http://techcrunch.com/2015/11/06/nopen-source/

[6] http://www.businessinsider.com/quirky-layoffs-2015-6
We were allowed to have 30:1, actually (with 4 and 5 year old kingergarteners, any school-age kids).

We typically kept about 20:1 until a time when we were trying to qualify for a higher standard, which required a 15:1 maximum.

And occasionally my co-counselor would be gone and I'd have 50+ kids for the day. It went okay for me, but many of the counselors could not have managed that whatsoever. In fact, many of my later co-counselors couldn't handle any amount of children by themselves.

Hard to work ability into a standard, of course.
One has to keep in mind that the average cost per employee to the employer is about +40% over the employee's base wage (taxes + benefits, per BLS data). $9/hour costs the employer about $12.60/hour.
That is definitely not true. Federal recognition brings a host of abilities for a people to organize including the ability to form a government and other institutions.
Seems like a pretty weak reason to keep permanent staff unless fires are common. It's as if there is absolutely no-one else around who could help in an emergency except people paid to be there full time.
How Bitcoin wallets can handle real transaction fees
You are damn lucky you didn't have a fire or other emergency. I also recommend checking the insurance and local laws to find your personal liability in those situations.
I agree that mastering for vinyl happens, but you're not right about the dynamic range. CDs were popular initially because they have a wider dynamic range, the overly compressed / "loudness wars" tracks are nowhere near the limits of the medium. It is true that vinyl these days often has wider dynamic range - because the market for how songs sound is different for people buying vinyl, so they're mastered with wider range.
Cancer is usually not contagious for the same reason grafts are rejected.

Homozygous twins could catch one another's cancer.

Tasmanian devils have such a reduced gene pool that they suffer from a contagious form of facial cancer.

In this case, I suppose the immunosuppressive abilities of the worm allowed its cancer to infect its host.
I'd love to see a citation on that last line.
Apple surprises ‘iPhone 6’ photographers with coffee table books
Why did you think it would be hilarious?
I am sure different people feel differently, but for me low ceilings are a non-option. In a climate like mine high ceilings avoid the need for air conditioning.

You can get special poles for changing high bulbs. I have seen them before, but I can't remember what they are called.
But those other bids dont matter. Only the winning one does
Couldn't you use the history function to restore them? https://www.dropbox.com/en/help/11
Telling a parent their kid burnt up because you didn't have the staff is not a weak reason. Safety is a component of staffing guidelines and not the only reason.
And the Calysto Jupyter kernel project is based on the fact that the Jupyter logo is missing one of the Galilean moons. Naming is fun.
Debt does literally create wealth.