skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It makes sense in other ways too. Specifically because it hurts potential new entrants to the marketplace.

You've got to keep in mind that for every business or franchise that starts, it first is a small business that has to open it's doors with little cash and no advertise, build up a customer base and hopefully be able to hire people while it's owners have zero income for what's usually 3-4 years if they survive.

Add higher minimum wage to that formula and the whole thing gets even harder. People take for granted that the reason we have a 1% problem is that as a society we continually make it harder and harder to start a business without lots of capital.

When you do that it means that you've got to have somebody very wealthy invest in your business meaning they're going to own a piece of it too. That's how "the rich get richer" as the saying goes.

If you aren't starting a service business where you're selling your own skillset or a business where employees are paid contract / commission it's incredibly expensive and risky. The first time you hire somebody and realize the responsibility and financial pressure that comes with it...along with no guarantees on whether or not that person will actually do their job...your entire point of view on minimum wage will change.

That's the ENTIRE reason that I support a basic income of about $700 / month. It would have the effect of doubling the minimum wage WITHOUT passing the cost on to businesses.
Great point. It's facile to dismiss regulation as a whole when in fact well-crafted regulations can be quite beneficial.
Kind of sounds like the OP comes into a job and is really over-eager, trying to be helpful touching other people's servers, emailing 50 new coworkers about an ipad, arguing with a manager in front of everyone, talking in a meeting about a feature he doesn't fully understand. This kind of behavior can piss people off. It's good to be enthusiastic but focus on your own shit first. Answer questions/give help when it's solicited.
Also, this month I forgot: we've just opened an office in Atlanta and are hiring.
> Google has had security vulns too. Do you find it "ironic"[^1] that Tavis would disclose vulns in other companies software?

No, the thing in this instance is that a) Trend Micro is a dedicated "security" company and b) the vulnerabilities in its software were especially negligent.

> You really should look up the definition of this word.

One definition I found was "happening in the opposite way to what is expected, and typically causing wry amusement because of this". Considering that, I'm quite happy with my usage of the word.
That said, English is not my first language and I often see people nitpicking about this particular word. My feeling is that people understood me just fine despite of it.
HTTP compression continues to put encrypted communications at risk
This is so cool... they have blinking LED debugging of genetic circuits:

"Debugging genetic circuits

We developed a strategy for “debugging” a malfunctioning circuit to determine which gate is causing the failure. This was done by creating a series of plasmids that transcriptionally fuse the output promoter of each gate to yfp."

Basically if the liquid fluoresces the gate you're debugging is outputting a 1.
My First Gulp Adventure
Killer of Kitty Genovese Dies in Prison (Origin of “Bystander Effect”)
Update: We just started hiring an iOS developer to join our mobile apps team.
He did have some live demos at the bottom of the page. He probably should've put them near the top, but that's being nitpicky:
http://htmlpreview.github.io/?https://github.com/dannyko/viz...

Also the repo has other examples to play with.
On the illegal end of things, typically the benefit is three fold, one is that the company obscures the identity of the beneficial owners (simply by not reporting the shareholders), tax evasion - often this being the entity holding the money in a tax free offshore jurisdiction (I.e. It's may be easier and you less likely to get caught evading taxes if a Panamanian trust opens a brokerage account in Hong Kong), and lastly as conduits of illegal gains - money laundering - company a takes illegal money in Mexico, makes a loan to company b in Panama which pays a dividend to company c in the United States (and paying tax on that dividend and deposing the rest in a u.s account to spend freely).

On the legal side there are actually probably more reasons, anonymity being one (I.e. Hiding from your neighbors who just bought the house next door), numerous legal tax avoidance reasons (two common ones would be: 1. Because of the u.s. Tax code (unlike most other places) the u.s. Charges corporate tax on foreign income but only when it is repatriated - so many companies will avoid tax by having offshore subsidiaries that hold IP to keep profits from coming back to the u.s. and being subject to tax (see every big software company with irish subsidiaries or swiss corporate inversions) 2. Hedge fund/private equity business makes extensive use of offshore companies so that non-u.s investors do not become subject to US tax and also so that US non-taxable investors (pensions and universities) do not create inadvetant tax liability for themselves (UBTI in particular)), also simple local compliance i.e. if you are a u.s. citizens and want to buy land in mexico i believe there are certain areas (typically near the coast) where the only way you can do this is to form a mexican entity)
Dunedin in Florida filters 13,250,000 litres per day using reverse osmosis and claims 100% of water is recycled for drinking.

http://www.switchurbanwater.eu/outputs/pdfs/W1-1_1-2_GEN_PAP...
I think scheme provides enough of a shift that many of those mental models they had will break down. Look at how much effort and how many attempts it takes people to learn pure functional languages for the first time and it really shows.

That said - they'll leave that course with vastly improved mental models while the other students will still only have a basic understanding.
Automate everything... you should never need to SSH into a server.
New Smart Sleeve Captures Heart Rate, ECG, Activity Tracking
Pithy version: one is interesting to the public, the other is in the public interest.
> anonymous authors

There's only one author and his name is Fred Wu. Agreed that there's not enough context.
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Good bye “open source”, hello “free software”
This event generated immense interest in social psychology concerning why bystanders and witnesses did not intervene.

From the article:

'Psychologists and criminologists called the reluctance of witnesses to involve themselves the “bystander effect,” or the “Kitty Genovese syndrome.” Studies discerned a “diffusion of responsibility,” finding that people in a crowd were less likely to step forward and help a victim. Some communities organized neighborhood-watch patrols. In New York, an emergency call to the police was simplified later in 1964 — from dialing “O” for operator or a precinct or a borough headquarters, to a central police number. The unified 911 system was not established until 1968.'

- Bystander Effect: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bystander_effect
the title is totally useless and misleading. the article is about Nest/Google/Alphabet shutting down some service (Revolv).

nothing interesting. everyone buying a device depending on external service should expect this soon or later.
The end of he article details how the motel was sold in the 90s and subsequently completely razed.
that's what I think as well!!!!
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It's a link to The New Yorker, not penthouse. And Gay Talese is the article's author: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gay_Talese
I think that as well!!!
People keep saying "every grunt package makes its own way of doing things." I have not found that to be the case at all. Grunt has a lot of ways to specify groups of files, and many packages only show example usage for one of them, but they are actually largely interchangeable.

I'm a little incensed at the speed of it. It is very slow, for no apparent reason. But now I'm also wondering if it's not grunt's fault and actually the NPM ecosystem's fault for being way too dependency happy. I got a complaint from Windows about file name lengths being too long. Not in 20 years of using Windows have I seen this error but on corporate copy-folder-as-version-control network drives and NPM packages. So I'm concerned it might be spending most of its time just crawling my node_modules folder, because I only just now thought of this wrinkle and haven't stopped posting long enough to go do anything about it.
or not just fast food, could be casual food. "Hey google, where can i eat a bowl of hot soup". Doesn't have to be $60 and you could end up talking about life with a grandma
Revolv devices bricked as Google's Nest shuts down smart home company
This looks like a Europe vs US comparison problem?

In Europe you're unlikely to be travelling vast distances on a regular basis, whereas it's much more common in the US, so the range problems become much more important in the US than they are in Europe.
The number one benefit: Privacy. Until, of course, someone steals your private information from your lawyer.

I'm characterizing this "event" as closer to a theft of credit card information than a Snowdon-esque expose of governments.
This is a private company who's data was ransacked. Hope the lawyers at that firm are getting ready to be sued by all their private clients.
I've heard Berlin has a reasonable cost of living and a vibrant startup scene, also you would be close to Eastern European developers, should you need more programming muscle

May I ask, how did you get that EU funding? I have a couple projects in mind, a bit of money won't hurt
yeah i'm no product designer and there must be safeguards but there's also something something rape and murder with uber
statistically, resisting a criminal assault results in much better outcomes

I'd be willing to wager that simply passively handing over your wallet and phone, by a wide margin, results in better outcomes than trying to draw a weapon on a guy jacked up on adrenalin with his finger on the trigger pointed at you.

Anybody so stupid to risk a felony conviction on something so low-value as mugging someone, is probably stupid enough to pull the trigger if startled.
They can, yes. But the instability of wages is a bigger issue. You can do amazing one day, and horrible the next. Combined with the fact that we teach next to nothing about financial planning in the US, and the extreme reliance on consumer debt by our economy, tipped workers are more like gamblers.
tl;dr: it's an article about a couple who bought a motel to spy on their guests, and did pseudo-documentation about their guests habits. There are no photos or anything inappropriate. Says a lot about sexual taboos in the US.
No, it's not NSFW. It's long, though, so probably not a great use of work time.
What's your point? that post basically just says yes, it's a pre-mined shitcoin but slightly disguised by being distributed over time using an algorithm.
The way I understand it, the offshore companies exist for the purpose of funneling money out of "onshore" companies and out of the country.

Extraction of dirty money (from bribery) is also very easy to do with offshore companies.

The third reason is to add confusion about ownership of companies and real estate.

More simply, offshore companies help rich people pay less taxes.

Why do countries permit offshore companies to dominate and rob their economies ?
Could anyone explain it to me ?

Wouldn't banning trade with offshore companies have the effect of drastically reduced corruption and illegal "schemes" ?

Edit: By "offshore" I mean companies registered in small island nations or "tax havens".
The link referred to a bill that does not include the right to repair.
Absolutely they'll have to adjust their mental models. Learning a functional language is definitely different than learning yet another imperative language.

But it's still a far cry from knowing nothing about programming in the first place. It definitely took my less time to learn and understand my first functional language than it took for me to learn my first language.
The all too common, end of week, end of Friday I need x y and z done immediately, and have a great weekend.

So infuriating.
I like my old 12 valve Cummins because it has power, and gets 24 MPG on the highway.
> Depends for who. When I'm a user of a project, I don't care at all about anything other than the repository. The source code is the only thing that matters.

The repository doesn't have any more value for that use case, tarballs would be just as good if not better.
About time, nothing to see here?
I understand that you're simplifying, but I don't think social ill is the right word. It's more like a social good which is ill for the copyright holder. The question in that case is balancing the benefit to society against the benefits to the company which claims copyright or intellectual property. It's a social good in the sense that public domain is a social good when society can benefit, but also a deeper social good for the society which inspired and produced the copyrighted work because it allows it to be distributed to people in countries that would otherwise not have access to it. For example, perhaps the greatest weapon against anti-Americanism is American culture spread through Hollywood and other media. This would normally not be sold in areas that are hostile to American values, but leaked material penetrates the culture and reverses hostility.

This really comes down to the classic question of whether it's more important to benefit society in general or the rights of property holders. There are people who strongly believe in both extremes and lots of people in the middle. Some say that property is the foundation of freedom and we should sacrifice social good for the promotion of property and others say that the needs of the many outsweigh the needs of the few, even that property is theft of social value. Where any person might stand on these issues is complicated, to say the least.
You don't need to know everything that the task entails to begin.

Surely you can do a first level breakdown of what needs to happen.

"First I receive data, then I process the data, then I send the data over there.

Ok, to receive the data, I'll be getting an HTTPS post, so I'll need to have an endpoint set up.

I don't know how endpoints are set up here, I'll need to ask, but I do know that it will be a POST, and the data will need to look like this...

After I get the data, I'll need to process it. It starts out looking like this, and I want it to end up looking like that. I do know that I will need to save the data in the database. I don't know what libraries/ORMs, whatever, I'll need to ask."

and so on.

I think you're still thinking from the bottom up - what are the all the details, from the beginning. But, think from the top down, making the task into smaller and smaller bits until you have reached an understanding of each bit.
It is still relevant though; because for things like soft drinks that have an extremely low price-to-weight ratio, the only production model that makes sense is a local one. Coca-Cola doesn't just have 3 or 4 factories in the US that make soda; they have one (if not more) in every major city. Some of those cities make use of vulnerable water supplies, and some don't.

But ultimately it's the same conversation - any manufacturing of perishable / low-cost-to-weight ratio (e.g. cement is almost always produced at a factory within 50 miles of where it is used) at industrial scale is being done in a consistent, distributed way at many different locations around the country/world. If those processes damage vulnerable environments, they need to be looked at and modified.
>340 to 620 litres

I amused myself trying to find the source. The article is based from a quote from the book which is based on a study:

The green, blue and grey water footprint of crops and derived crop products, Twente Water Centre

http://waterfootprint.org/media/downloads/Mekonnen-Hoekstra-...

I think he is for example counting the rain and irrigation water that falls on the sugar cane that it used to make the Coke.

Quote from the book:

In 2011, in- vestigators from the University of Twente Water Centre in the Netherlands conducted a careful assessment of the total direct and indirect water footprint of a specific soda: a half-liter bottle of a hypothetical carbonated beverage sweetened with beet sugar. They based their assessment on a systematic method developed specifically for this purpose.

The result: 170 to 310 liters per half-liter soft drink. But we don’t care about half liters. We care about full liters. For that, we need to double these figures, giving us astonishing water-use ratios of 340 to 620 liters per liter of soda. The range varied with the type of sweetener and the country growing the sugar. The 620 water-use ratio applied to a soda made with cane sugar grown in Cuba, whereas the 340 ratio applied to a soda sweetened with beet sugar produced in the water-efficient Netherlands. Sodas sweetened with high-fructose corn syrup grown in the United States required 360 liters per liter. These amounts, enormous as they seem in comparison to the prize- winning 1.4, are on the low side of water use for food production; figures for meat and dairy production, for example, are higher.
It's a scam in the sense that it's basically a pump and dump game for the founders. Sure, many people will know it, but those who do will probably avoid it, it's those who don't who will buy it on markets and lose out when the founders dump.
The guy I spoke with was unequivocal: they don't think they can sell enough to make it worth any shelf space at all. Their brand in my market gets allocated enough space for about five flavors. They know exactly what sells how much and where, and they know it to some extent for their competitors too (none of whom produce reduced-sugar, but most of whom do produce reduced-fat).

Now, if your argument is that these full time professional market researchers can't figure out what people would actually buy...well, I thought the guy sounded extremely intelligent and well trained, and he had no reason to deceive me.
I mean, that might be true, doesn't mean it's what's being sold, and doesn't mean you shouldn't demand what you paid for.
The mine that dug the iron that made your pipes contaminated a lot of water.

In the vegan world its standard to count every drop of rain that hit the livestock pasture as being used, therefore its fair to count the rain that ran off the factory roof where the pump was manufactured as used.

Wells don't dig themselves and although that doesn't happen often, it does take a lot of water to do it, and make the gear to do it, and get the diesel fuel out of the ground and onsite to run the drilling rig.

I drink every drop from a can/bottle, usually, but I am a bit wasteful in the kitchen sink and probably only half the tap water is swallowed. Not to mention my dishwasher uses 5 gallons or 10 gallons or whatever small number every time it cycles and washes my drinking cup (so my drinking cup's share is only maybe 1/2 cup of dishwasher cycle water, but, maybe I was only thirsty for 1/2 cup of water leading to 50% efficiency right there). And of course the dishwasher uses electricity (water) and detergent (water) and natgas to heat the water (contaminated fracking water).

I bet using the usual journalist sophistry techniques I could get your home sink up to 10:1 ratio pretty easy. Maybe not the hundreds to one ratio in the article, but close.
Paying taxes. In most countries company will pay taxes on income rather than revenue. They can use shell company to create an invoice that your real company will pay. This way you will channel all your profits out to the country with no taxes.

Hiding true ownership. You can give % of shares to a politician in exchange for a law that will directly benefit you. Politician will be able to monetize on this once he is out of office.

Anti-monopoly regulations. You can own two companies that on paper are competition but in reality are same entity blocking any other company from entering the market.
That wouldn't work, because jQuery would have multiple versions in the wild, custom builds, forks, etc.. Not only would almost no one have a cache hit because of that, but every time a CDN is down or overloaded, your website is now artificially slow... or broken, which happens far more often than a cache hit.
Hi,

Author here. Indeed I was the junior dev at the time.

I now regret not making a lot of the points clearer. In this case, I know I would definitely NOT treat my junior devs this way. In my view, using either aggressive tones, or public shaming, is not the right way to resolve things. I wish that senior dev at the time would've talked to me in a way that did not make me feel like I was worthless and intentionally fuck things up - at the end of day, most people try to do good things for their organisation, right? :)
Nice last line.

Also, I wonder if Foos' choice of name for his second notebook was a reference, at least in part, to the John Fowles novel? [1]

I think it quite likely he was aware of the novel, given that he was a reader and given John Fowles' high level of fame in that time period.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Collector
Google reaches into customers' homes and bricks their gadgets
A new approach to fitness apps, your thoughts
It should not be difficult to be a nice person all the time.

We are building software, and/or managing a product/team. It's a communal effort that requires empathy, kindness, and love. If you are one of the few who can't love your fellow coworker/subordinate/boss then you are toxic.

Unfortunately, bullies existed on the playground and they exist in the software industry too.
I would love your thoughts on this approach to getting more people fit. Turning fitness apps on its head, the long and short of it is that fitness experts should be who we trust when downloading an app for fitness, not download counts, and so I'm piloting a tool to let any fitness instructor build challenges or programs and allow anyone to request coaching from a phone.
What are some pitfalls you see with this approach that I don't see?
Breaking news: Woman realizes that she has to get over her own ego to admit difficulties and learn stuff, which is a good but obvious insight. However, she has not let go of her ego fully since she cannot prevent herself from letting her feminism flow into the blog post despite it being completely unrelated.
Beginner's Guide to Linkers
Keep doing what you're doing - competition is a good thing.
Robots against robots: how a machine learning IDS took down a botnet
Use the admin to manage drip campaign emails using querysets on Django