skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This has nothing to do with the fixed-pie fallacy. Of course both worker's incomes and shareholder gains can both increase by growing the pie. But at any given point in time there absolutely is a "piece" that goes to one and a piece that goes to the other. And it's interesting to look at how the relative sizes of those pieces change over time and what forces can drive those changes.
What crime am I committing? Citing Canadian law...
Meh.

Its really not. Uber isn't actually a new idea in london, we've had app bookable minicabs for a long time, through addison lee(and others).

Now, Addison Lee are almost as odious to their staff as Uber are. However the genius of AL is the finance agreement between the drivers and the company. The company lease you a car, and you have the option to work when ever you want. But you have to get booking through their master system. and it only costs you 25% of each fair. Plus the £300 a week rental of the branded vehicle.

This means that the have 100% control of their employees, and if a driver under performs, they are still liable for rental of the Addison Lee branded car.

As a business model its awesome. As a moral proposition its pretty shitty. Drivers are contractors, liable for inflated costs and because they have no employment rights are forced to work round the clock to break even.

Uber just goes one step further cutting overheads and offloading risk onto the user instead. Car not road worthy? just 1-star it! got raped by the driver? just 1-star it! got kicked off because your disabled? just 1-star it (but don't do it too often, remember in uber's Randian vision, its your fault for being weak and holding back the strong.)

Fortunately the minicab rules are quite comprehensive in london: you need to have a clean record, ID, and a road worthy car. Anything less and its finesville and jail for you.
Yaaaaay!

I've been in despair over this whole process as I've read the dirt on HN. Those special courts for rights holders to sue sovereigns, such egregiousness. Maybe the French will save the day?
There's a great paper modeling risk of invasion by sudden oak death into California. Computing for science, done right: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1890/ES10-00192.1/full
Correct link: https://github.com/thomas4019/mongo-query-to-postgres-jsonb
SS provides a minimum guaranted pension, in large part as a safeguard against the failure of private pensions and retirement investments (adopted after a major financial collapse took out a lot of people's retirement investments); redirecting it into risk-exposed private retirement investments would rather miss the point.
The comprehensive test stack are mostly the users on meta, which gets the deployed code before the other sites.

From what I heard so far, Stack Overflow and the Stack Exchange sites don't have a significant amount of automated tests.
I'm a "moar pixels!" kind of guy. I'm very happy with the latest generation of the Dell XPS 13, which has... lots of pixels and works great with Ubuntu and xfce. I was worried that there might be some issues, but I'm very happy with it.

I'm glad to see we finally broke through that wall of no resolution improvements that lasted several years.
What do your elf eyes see?
Genetic Superheroes?
Which is exactly why Tesla and other companies are investing in residential power banks. They have the potential for huge efficiency gains across the grid.
Burning man is dead. Long live burning man.
I think a lot of engineers would consider it a selling point if the company gave them an opportunity to explore new technologies, so long as they are working on business goals in parallel.
Well, it is not an enterprice applucation. It is free web site. Yeah, not a very good practice but not very critical too.
I don't think it's awful. While the strategy may not suit everyone it's still a strategy. My business would have been dead long time ago if I didn't sign all these insane contracts. It landed me some big customers (top tier SV) which would never have happened otherwise.

Sure, I'm taking extreme risks but that's part of the strategy. Bet big, win big.
Dear industry: I want a 7" tablet that has 2GB to 4GB of RAM, and costs $99. I do not care about battery life (will always be tethered to charger), storage (so 16GB for Android or 32GB for Windows is fine; the absolute minimum either can realistically not choke the tablet to death with), and CPU/GPU is I only partly care about (Cherry Trail era x86 SoCs used in some Windows 7" tablets are fine, and they go for $99 to $199).

The reason why I ask for that? $99 gets me 1GB + 16GB usually, I have to go the whole way up to $199 or more to get 2GB. Modern OSes just are not really suitable for 1GB, I don't know why these devices even exist, they can't actually be used.
However, those subsidies are not paid in the same geographical and political regions at all.

Sun and wind subsidies are paid out in places like EU countries, especially Germany, where they distort the market. Gasoline on the other hand is taxed highly.

Oil, coal and gas get subsidies in places like Venezuela, Saudi Arabia, Iran or Malaysia, where they distort the market.

That Venezuela distorts its markets in some way does not really make it a good idea to distort the market in Germany (or USA) in another way.
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Being a manager at a large power company for 30 years is both an advantage and a disadvantage. For the past 30 years, the energy industry has changed incredibly slowly, so ones expectations of what is possible in the way of innovation is far far lower than it should be.

The "duck curve" that your friend is referring to will be solved in a variety of ways, from wind to storage to HVDC interconnects to the rest of the nation, to peaker plants.

In the future, coal is dead. No need to build any more of it. Nuclear is too expensive to build anymore. (Unless somebody actually does thorium innovation, but I'm not holding my breath...)

When storing a kWh costs $0.10, and there's also adaptive pricing to match supply and demand better, these problems will melt away.

It does require a huge mental shift, but the cost savings will make that happen
Capital One 360 is decent, and it looks like they offer business accounts.
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Depends on where you buy. A 200K home in the midwest, 30K is a big percentage. The assumption being made here is that investing in solar automatically raises the value of the home. I am saying not necessarily. The example above was an appraisal in Madison WI, which, though in the midwest, definitely has plenty of solar installs.
Quite normal eyes. And they observed said hacker doing that.

I can't very well cite sources as I'd normally be the one being cited.
> Peak residential power usage is in the evening when solar isn't available.

Assuming it's not a battery backed system, prices on those are dropping (or more correctly remaining stable while capacity slowly climbs).
The black cabs are under more stringent regulation than minicabs or uber - they are the safer ride. Not sure what's too hard to understand about that.

As they say: once you've been surge priced (by uber), you never go back (to uber)

None of this is intended as an anti-uber rant, I simply think they're failing to deal with the primary issue: regulations and real service are not just for breakfast.
Well one issue with grid-tied systems is that when the grid is offline they provide no power (they explicitly don't want to back feed into the power lines and kill some lineman who things power is off). So one of the certification issues is to make sure that your inverters recognize that state and shut down.

But a side benefit of putting in the system was we did a lot of electrical panel work, and as as result put 8 circuits on to a transfer switch (the incremental cost was the transfer switch and the electrictian's time wasn't materially affected.) So when the power does go out we can fire up a generator and switch over to gen power easily.
> I remember several instances when it took a few deep breaths to keep me from kicking him out. But today he leads a team and triages the troublemakers he once was. Sometimes when you save a troublemaker, you’re saving a team they’re not yet on.

What a saint. Seriously, it always felt funny to me when a team member was let go at the behest of one or a few individuals.

Anyway, the way she says this leads me to believe she thinks she is more important than other people.
There is a presumption of loss in your statement. Here's my proof by contradiction that it's not black and white: If stealing from me was the only offense (not scaring my family, or taking some security from us), I couldn't care less. There is no pain, there is no loss, it's material. I'm totally sincere in this, too.
What work has actually been automated away? There is lots of talk about it but I don't see any real evidence of it.

As a developer, I can use a decent framework and modern tooling, and I can do what a team of 5 was capable of 10 -15 years ago. My work isn't vanishing. There is more of it if anything.
9 hours for the coding test should have already shown you something about the company
I'm really starting to think I chose the right path by just installing Flashblock and ignoring the remaining ads.

The Ad blocking business is beginning to look awfully shady.
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Sure, but sometimes it's worth the risk to sign these contracts to land a big customer, even if they are unfavorable and may ruin your business. Especially if the alternative is no viable business at all (which would be the case for me).
Can validate. The problem with electricity is that there is no large scale storage like there is for other forms of energy like NG and Crude. Until someone comes along and figures out how to store electricity, this will continue to cause grief to power companies. Power plants are really just options, if the price per kWh is at a certain point then it makes sense to spin up or take down a plant and generate power. Adding a bunch of highly variant generation to the grid can make the market more volatile since there could be a lot of up and down with generation facilities.[0]

That said, there will be teething pains but this is a net positive thing that is happening. Growing up I lumped solar into the perpetual 10 years away category. It looks like I am going to see solar be competitive after all.

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The new ThinkPad 13 might be worth a consideration if you're not set on a top screen or aluminum case.
> But a "no-strings-attached" basic income would force politicians to give up the one thing they desire more than anything: power.

I tend to think the exact opposite is true: a universal basic income is conceivably one of the most massive power grabs imaginable.

If this comes to pass in America, you're going to have a large chunk of the population COMPLETELY dependent on the government's teat. And ultimately, a population that's dependent on the government for their means of survival (even if its spun as "no strings attached") is indirectly under total political control.
I'm not an expert here, but doesn't it make sense for stocks to return higher than growth because of earnings?

For example imagine I own stocks making up 1% of in a company w/ earnings of $X, and market cap of 10 * $X. If the companies growth over a year is 3%, at the beginning of the year my stocks should be worth 0.01 * $X and at the end of the year 1.03 * 0.01 * $X due to the growth, BUT shouldn't i also have received 0.01 * $X (my share of earnings) in dividends that I am free to reinvest, giving me a 4% return overall?
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Due to the anti-inflammatory effect of low temperature, cold showers soon after resistance exercise may be attenuating muscle hypertrophy response.

Of course, as with most factors other than sleep and nutrition, the magnitude of that effect will likely be unnoticeable to all but elite athletes striving for that 0.5% edge over the competition.
100% incorrect. Uber has definitely won over most Londoners it is a complete game changer for the following reasons irrespective of your minimal bad experiences.

I've spent several thousand pounds via work on Uber. This has resulted in 2-3 bad trips (which round out to 0.02%).

- Quick pick up times
- Usually responsive and helpful drivers (no complaining)
- Helpful carrying heavy items (almost 100% of the time)
- Cheap fees
- Bill splitting is easy no friction
- UberPool does make me slightly nervous

The service works and is default for myself and 100s of business users, personally it works well too esp for date night.

In comparison, London Black Cab drivers are rude, racist, crass, willing to rip you off and take advantage of you. They do not have their cars auditing a lot of the time, refusal to take cash is unacceptable in this day and age and should be in place in ALL taxis. There is no excuse for this.
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What about a rock? The same analogy holds true. Anything can be a weapon, its simply absurd to contend that intent matters.
As to the spread of the disease, in my country they are recommending bikers/hikers to disenfect their shoes if they have been in the woods.

PG@E hires tree companies to trim all branches around their power lines. When the tree company was trimming around my residential trees, I noticed a complete lack of any disinfection protocol.Didn't disenfect tools, boots, gloves, etc. These trucks, and employees looked like they were actively spreading disease. Think about those tree shredders. It seems like if a diseased black oak goes in, it might blow the pathogen everywhere? (I did ask an employee if he knew the difference between White, and Black Oak. Just looked at me puzzled. Went to another employee, and asked the same question--he spoke a little bit of English, and said no. It wasen't their fault. They just weren't trained.)

I complained. When they came back to my street, they acted like they were going into surgery. Spray for tools. Spray for boots. Spray everywhere. It was quite a show.

I belive it was just a show for my behalf? When they arrived a few months later--no disinfects. I know don't notice any safety precautions on their part. This was a few years ago. They came back this year to trim trees, and no disenfectant.

I fiqure we pay a lot for out electricity. PG&E should make sure they hire tree companies that are not spreading Suddden Oak Disease. Plus, it's costly to remove a diseased tree for property owners.
Yeah, this is a good summary. There should be room for experimentation in isolated, non-production environments if the engineer in question is trusted and can propose a hypothesis better than "I think this will make my resume better". That stuff shouldn't be rushed out to prod without thorough vetting both internally and externally, which, much to the dismay of junior engineers (and not-so-junior engineers with bad judgment), often means letting a tool age a little bit before you bet the company on its stability. Unless the tool truly revolutionizes your particular line of business, and let me pre-emptively state that there's a 99.99% chance that it doesn't even if you think it does, there is no harm in letting other people be the guinea pigs.
Most proposals I've seen include progressive tax, and usually an increase in progressivity. Also, some proposals are simply no change to funding, with the UBI directly using the funds of other benefit programs that it replaces.

A flat tax (or even just a decrease in progressivity) directly works against the purpose of adopting a UBI.

EDIT: Changed "all" to "most"; I've definitely seen right-wing proponents advocating varieties of UBI + Flat Tax schemes and UBI + National Sales Tax schemes, which are not funded by progressive taxes; also added the note about no-new-funding programs.
Anyone tried a demo of this one with (say) Audacity generated noise sample and a few words mixed well down then 'decoded'?

Would be fun to see how far you could degrade the encoded voice recording before decoding became problematic.
Does anyone know how much it costs to be a "paying customer" at the individual level? Im not OVH with a sea of rack mounts, I am just interested in covering a handful of machines.
I was poking around on your site, and I took a look at your publications list. I found this paper: http://futhark-lang.org/publications/icfp16.pdf

But it has no authors! I assume it was a double-blind submission to ICFP, which required removing the author names. When posting it publicly, though, I think you should put the author names back on. You don't want your work floating around the internet without your names attached.
You should know the routine by now. ;)
I personally find Google's natural language abilities impressive sometimes but often less useful than other features that Google removed from it's search (like the ability to do exact phrase search - if not removed, it's so disfunctional now it might as well be removed).
Maybe you're right :)

Anyway, my point is: theft is always theft. One may get lighter punishment because of the motives, but still should be punished. It's really hard to die of starvation in modern society.
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It is spread by spores that are very resistant. There is a possibility those spores could live in the soil for decades.
> Tl;dr; let's fire/automate half the workers. Pay the rest more. And worker Compensation will skyrocket!

Compensation per worker might skyrocket, but total compensation paid to workers would not. This story is about the latter.
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You seem to hate capitalism because your argument against ABP was basically "they get revenue."

This is a very disingenuous representation of the other comments in the thread. It's a low-brow dismissal by straw man and an appeal to the sacrosanct "capitalism". You seem to be trying to manipulate others into supporting your view by labeling the other view as anti-capitalism. This is the same as accusing anyone who opposes government surveillance of "hating freedom".

ABP is problematic because of how they generate revenue. From the advertisers' side, it looks like racketeering. From the consumer side, it looks like the tobacco industry paying your doctor to get you to smoke. Accepting money to whitelist ads is the very thing an ad blocker should never do.
All of this is basically moot, because while the average person's entitlements might stay the same or increase due to a basic income to cover the things entitlements currently cover (we won't need to hand out food stamps if we have a basic income, for example), every other person's entitlements they rely on will get cut as a result, and those people (and there are at least tens of millions of them) will raise unholy hell about it.

There's the 10% for each entitlement that need the full entitlement, and there are dozens of entitlements, hundreds, so 10% of hundreds of programs will just be too many people to allow a basic blanket income to cover their entitlements.

All that said, my favorite version of this is the "negative income tax". We have something kind of like it already, but the EITC would have to be expanded significantly before it was actually something like a negative income tax, and that means cuts to other programs.
Yes, that is the problem: the compiler is embedded in the GPU driver. We can't do better because we can't build our own compilers.
Your comments in this argument became increasingly uncivil. I know that's the nature of flamewars, but please don't let it happen here. HN is aiming for a civil, substantive discourse.

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https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/commit/e93e339c0a...
>The evidence available so far in 2016 — steady growth in wages and weak earnings for publicly traded companies — suggests that the reversal is continuing this year.

...uhh...the evidence of weak earnings while equities continue to go up, buoyed by systemic cash-infusions by several central banks (Fed, EU, BoJ), shows the entire system is broken. I wonder what the chart would look like between corporate expenditures on payroll vs. stock buybacks since 2008. Just a hunch, but I'd guess percentage wise the investor class is doing just effin' peachy in these conditions.

Okay, I found a few numbers to kick around.

Here's one little tidbit from the article:

>For example, average hourly earnings for nonmanagerial private sector workers rose 2.56 percent in 2015 in a year of very low inflation

...and for contrast, the amount of capital deployed in buyback programs recently:

>S&P showed more data signaling that S&P 500 index members increased their buyback totals by 16.3% to $553.3 billion in 2014, versus $475.6 billion in 2013.

Hm.
Wow, this is great information. Thanks.
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For Dolphin you really need something based on Core M or better to run smoothly (CPU intense). I have a Shield TV and never considered it for it; 8-bit/16-bit would run there smoothly I am sure though. If Pipo KB1/KB2 had Core M, they would have been ideal both performance and retro form factor-wise ;-)
Essentially, it avoids duplicating income-based computations across tax system and multiple benefit programs, and concentrates then in the tax system (once you have a mature UBI that has displaced other benefit programs.)

In this sense, it can be seen as an application of the DRY principle.
The (truly amazing) lcamtuf blog post you are referring to is this one:

http://lcamtuf.blogspot.fr/2014/11/pulling-jpegs-out-of-thin...
I'll confess, possibly showing ignorance, that I have no idea who you are and thus no idea how seriously to trust what you're saying.

I'm sceptical because somebody on Reddit claimed to have sent the Dorian message over Telnet.
I don't think doing code reviews implies a lack of trust. I trust everyone on my team but we code review everything. For that matter, the fact that we trust/have good relationships with everyone makes code reviews more effective because we can be more candid.

We often find issues in code reviews like edge cases that weren't thought of, code that could be refactored to use an existing utility or patter the author wasn't aware of, etc.
Sorry, I'm not sure I get your last point: are you saying the black cab drivers selectively take cash, or don't as a whole? I've never paid for an Uber with cash, so I'm struggling ti understand the argument you're making, because seemingly Uber wouldn't take cash either...
But what happens when you no longer get free power under net zero agreements (which is going to happen), and the cost of the system drops, reducing the value further of the already depreciating asset?