skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We have actual experience of minimum wage increases, and considerable evidence that they do not, in fact, keep the ratio the same. Yes, they do drive some inflation, so the benefit isn't as great as one would expect considering price levels before the policy, but inflation due to the change in minimum wage does not eat up the benefit at the level of the minimum wage.

Why this should be the case is fairly easy to understand; Minimum wage increases neither create new money nor increase the cost of all inputs (or even all labor) by the ratio between the new minimum wage and the old one, so what they do effectively is compress the gap between the incomes of those making the minimum wage and people higher on the income distribution. As such, the amount of money chasing consumer goods increases (because, while the money supply doesn't increase, more money goes to those with a higher propensity to consume) by less, in total, than the ratio of the new to old wage. But those making minimum wage both before and after have their personal income increase by the full ratio.
I've never understood the fascination with Swift. What's wrong with Objective C?
That's covered in the next 2 paragraphs...

There are lots of bloated and slow ad networks. It's not that they couldnt make faster tech but that it's not a priority. Same with publishers who don't have enough skills/resources to get it done and would rather focus what little they have on making sure the site and ads work in the first place.
Also, not sure about that "partially right" thing. The situation was complex, indeed, but complex in general against christianity, not in favor of it.

Wikipedia's 10-mile high summary is pretty accurate:

There was some diversity of personal views among the Nazi leadership as to the future of religion in Germany. Anti-Church radicals included Hitler's Personal Secretary Martin Bormann, Minister for Propaganda Joseph Goebbels, Neo-Pagan Nazi Philosopher Alfred Rosenberg, and Neo-Pagan Occultist Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler. Some Nazis, such as Hans Kerrl, who served as Hitler's Minister for Church Affairs, believed Christianity could be Nazified into "Positive Christianity", by renouncing its Jewish origins, the Old Testament and Apostle's Creed, and holding Hitler as a new "Messiah".

Nazism wanted to transform the subjective consciousness of the German people—their attitudes, values and mentalities—into a single-minded, obedient "national community". The Nazis believed they would therefore have to replace class, religious and regional allegiances.[4] Under the Gleichschaltung process, Hitler attempted to create a unified Protestant Reich Church from Germany's 28 existing Protestant churches. The plan failed, and was resisted by the Confessing Church. Persecution of the Catholic Church in Germany followed the Nazi takeover. Hitler moved quickly to eliminate Political Catholicism. Amid harassment of the Church, the Reich concordat treaty with the Vatican was signed in 1933, and promised to respect Church autonomy. Hitler routinely disregarded the Concordat, closing all Catholic institutions whose functions were not strictly religious. Clergy, nuns, and lay leaders were targeted, with thousands of arrests over the ensuing years. The Church accused the regime of "fundamental hostility to Christ and his Church". Smaller religious minorities such as the Jehovah's Witnesses and Bahá'í Faith were banned in Germany, while the eradication of Judaism by the genocide of its adherents was attempted. The Salvation Army, Christian Saints and Seventh Day Adventist Church all disappeared from Germany, while astrologers, healers and fortune tellers were banned. The small pagan "German Faith Movement", which worshipped the sun and seasons, supported the Nazis.[5] Many historians believed that Hitler and the Nazis intended to eradicate Christianity in Germany after winning victory in the war.
One of our Business Partners suggested a pop up box with Yes No Cancel, and then went on to describe the behaviors of each button. Absolutely no imagination. It's like people have been broken by years of limited choices.
In fairness, I haven't seen this objection when people complain about USA health care.
Where is the research linking T2DM to sugar consumption in active, normal-weight people?
"The NSA just built a 1,000,000 square foot data center in Utah" is not, in fact, a rebuttal to the parent comment.
> And if instead you're in favor of abolishing all income redistribution, then in essence that is also an implicit argument for abolishing government

No. That is just an argument against that type of society and government.
All sources are politically biased. Some are just more honest about it.
Yes, because this phrase comes up a lot in conversation and the foreigners are always buffaloed by it.
> Notably, patents of life-sustaining medicines utterly destroy that cornerstone of capitalism. People can and will pay almost anything to get that drug, so the seller can charge what it wants - that's not capitalism as it's supposed to work, that's a hostage scenario.

I don't think it is appropriate to compare a drug company that created a life-saving drug to a hostage taker. And in this scenario it is particularly inappropriate, because they are charging less for the drug than the previous best treatments cost!

Furthermore, there is an alternative here. The patent only covers this one cure. You are welcome to go out and spend $2-3 billion to try to create your own drug. (But that would be pretty risky, wouldn't it? And good luck raising the money if you plan on giving the drug away.)
I agree that it is imperative to understand the biases present in the media we encounter. It is not possible to have a neutral news outlet. The mere choice or what to cover or not to cover is a judgement call. Some people might consider PBS or NPR to be neutral, but in fact they have a strong point of view in their choice of coverage and tone. Same with the major print and broadcast outlets. As this election cycle has made clear, everyone has an agenda in their coverage.

Personally, I would rather read sources on the various extremes of the spectrum and make the choice of what to trust myself. The most neutral (in my mind) coverage of US Politics I can find is foreign media such as the BBC.
> it is possible that one or several intermediaries sign a key and this key can become trusted

Yes, but as far as I understand this only occurs if you give them a trust rating (e.g., I marginally trust). If a key K is signed by multiple other keys which you know are valid but where you have no reason to trust the holders (and don't claim to trust them), then (as far as I understand) GnuPG will never infer that K is valid (and rightfully so).
I am building machine learning algorithm for predicting right investor for a startup. I have lot of data collected for this project, to give a sense I have scrapped all the investor profiles ever existed and managed to get their email address. I've been developer since 15(ruby, rails, python, angularjs). If you have business experience or did your MBA hit me up; dkeixm@gmail.com
I think your point is accurate, but jaded. Much as the above posters point out, there was no sudden 'click' where an individual discovered something and made genomics possible. And to the extent that's what we mean by 'genome sequencing', then you are correct - the shotgun approach coupled with big-data hasn't been very useful yet. However, if the message is more one of genetics at large, and how the ability to read/write DNA has affected our research, our discoveries, our therapeutics, and will affect our lives in the near-future, then your tone seems entirely too myopic. Nearly every drug you see on TV commercials today is a monoclonal antibody - which cannot have been made but for the ability to read and write DNA. Sure, it doesn't require the ability to read an entire animals' DNA at once (do the full genome sequences yet actually read every base in your genome even?). But it is a very real and very finite milestone on that exact same path. You are correct, genomic ≠ genetic, but in so far as they are similar (mostly), our understanding of genetics really has been a powerful driver in the past two to three decades.
Interesting idea perhaps of capital that has an accelerating half-life - invest it or lose it. I can imagine technology and society would develop at a much faster pace.
Why pay back some of the money at all then? If you are knowingly scamming the system (and the lender) you don't take out a $2,000 loan, just to pay back $400 before declaring bankruptcy.
Certainly it should not come at the expense of the physical security of visitors and staff though, right?
Additionally, I don't think that LC or Prosper can afford to chase after fraudsters like the credit card companies can.
Because there is nothing for people to try out or play with, this isn't entirely consistent with the spirit of "Show HN."
sites will probably install ad blocker blocker blocker blocker blocker, i.e., prevent referrals from reddit.

it's an arms race!
The concern about patents was sort of fair, but was as much a FUD red herring as anything else. There was the debate whether Microsoft's .NET open patent promise at the time applied to Mono in general or just OpenSUSE's distribution of Mono. In the time that the Ubuntu community spent debating that they could have done the simple thing that Red Hat did back then which was ask Microsoft to generalize the promise a bit more...

The issues of control were definite FUD, as Mono at the time was always an open source project first and foremost and it shouldn't have mattered that most of its contributors were Novell employees at the time or Xamarin employees when Novell divested itself of much of its open source development staff.

The "decline in Mono" in Ubuntu had everything to do with FUD. Arguably Mono itself has never really seen a decline, it's always been out there for the installation and usage. Even when priorities were focused elsewhere (because mobile efforts first at Novell and then at Xamarin paid the bills), Mono has seen stable development.

(Now you could say that Mono is in "decline" in today's world, but only because first Roslyn and now .NET Core have been supplanting Mono as cross-platform open source efforts for C#/.NET.)

As for Vala, I still don't understand why as a developer I'd ever want to write Vala rather than C#. Vala still seems like a strange choice to me. Why build a "Gnome-specific language" that isn't really useful outside of the bubble of Gtk?
There's a fair use defense for interoperability.

Which hasn't been defined in this case.

So despite all the hype, this case is unlikely to have a huge effect on the software industry.

Oracle might try and paint that picture, but I'm afraid it will. There can be no software industry if APIs are subject to copy-write, and if they are, simply using them always comes under fair use. That's why....you use them.
Yeah, I did this

http://andreapaiola.name/magpie/
TL;DR 'Trending News' is actually 'Curated News'
I am an OpenBSD user, there is no OS I'd rather use currently (obviously) and I am sure there is no OS with a greater focus on security and clean code, the project as a whole deserves a great deal of respect and admiration for setting the bar when it comes to security, and for being the originator of great products that are used outside the boundaries of OpenBSD itself, however (with all due respect) what the author portrays here is paranoid philosophical mumbo-jumbo I'm normally used to from radical FSF-devotees.

Yes, there are NSA scandals, yes, the US government has repeatedly overstepped boundaries, yes, caution and scepticism is a very healthy and good thing, but on the other hand there are GNU/Linux distributions taking security somewhat seriously, they have to, they too work with open source code, have a lot of users, and review said code, I doubt someone is interested in your specific data, I doubt using a GNU/Linux distribution or some other BSD OS is some risk one shouldn't take, I doubt we should all have to automatically strive for an "ethical" all Free Software life or otherwise we are in risk of somehow being under totalitarian control, I doubt Apple and Microsoft are totally out to get you and by definition filled with evil backdoors the NSA uses to spy on _everyone_... I doubt they only do malicious things,... and talking about security, it's not all in the Software, a lot is in users' behaviour... not talking about him specifically, but "We are all spied on by the NSA, please like me on Instagram and follow me on Facebook for hourly updates on my life so we can join in the fight against totalitarian control"...

As you have guessed by now I am some kind of allergic to this... those idealistic over-simplifications... drawing everything in black and white...

Some of the OS X users I know are incredible technology-orientated and privacy concerned people, should I draw the conclusion they are being overly naive by not using OpenBSD for everything? I don't think so, they are just not suffering from paranoia, are pragmatic and living in the real world...
Genuinely curious:

As a libertarian, are you equally pissed off when a bunch of right-leaning folks start controlling what you consume from a political, and not just quality, angle—and then lie about it?
What happened to the other thread on this?
Storage Will Be Much Less Free Than It Used to Be
It's easier than someone might think. If you avoid food that contains ingredient list as a general rule scrutinizing the rest would be not such a hard work
Badoo’s chat framework for Android – now available on GitHub
> Conservativism is mainstream.

I never said that conservatism can't be mainstream. There are plenty of conservative outfits that are part of the mainstream (the WSJ, for example).

Brietbart, however, is not mainstream. Even many Republicans dislike it. Facebook also shouldn't include articles from dubious/questionable liberal equivalents like the Daily Kos.
"Useful" doesn't need to mean bloated. You seem to miss the point that many websites these days are bloated even basic articles. We don't need a V8 engine and oversize tyres to go buy milk and bread.

You're forgetting that mobile devices quickly run out of cache memory. This includes iPads. You might visit a news site once every few days, but quite often the same resources need downloading again and again because your iPad has not kept them in cache memory because it ran out already. Desktop browsers have a lot more capacity to keep web resources cached.

Not only that, but RAM memory is also limited on mobile devices. Forget about expecting multiple websites to remain in memory across numerous tabs. My iPad3 can pretty much handle only one tab open. If I switch tabs to another website, then switch back, the whole page loads again. A less bloated web would help this issue.

And then there's accessibility for low-speed areas. Did you even read the article?
> I think a lot of their volume is peer-to-peer, though, and there's nothing saying this $22m was from an institution and not a rich individual

From the original article:

"The investor that initially bought the LendingClub loans in question was Jefferies LLC, according to people familiar with the matter."
I love go but if one thing that it is not is - expressive, especially when compared to its dynamic cousins like Ruby/Python. That is a tradeoff I am willing to live with, but there is no need to get starry eyed over it.
I have excellent memories of playing this game at summer camp growing up. Glad to see it's made an appearance on HN.
Thanks to a tool that specifically allows modifying the news shown to users and the alleged biases of curator contractors who seem to have no accountability checks.
Not having a formal kernel module system does not actually mean the kernel is secure. Exploits to create module loading systems out of kernel vulnerabilities are approximately as old as stack overflow exploits.
Your pet is (probably) bored. Technology may help
My guess is to avoid the possibility of the creditor claiming that you took out the loan after already knowing that you were going to declare bankruptcy.

The 4 on-time payments make it look like you tried to pay the loan back but just couldn't afford it.

If no payments were made at all, it would be easier to prove that there was intentional fraud. If such is proven, it may be impossible to wipe the loan during bankruptcy.
Show HN: Warden – open source and cross-platform tool for simplified monitoring
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I also have a print subscription to Wired. I don't pay for it directly. I use the airline miles I occasionally get from any company that puts me on a plane at their expense, just to keep the remaining balances from expiring due to inactivity.

I usually don't even take it out of the plastic overwrap, because my eyes don't have ad-blockers installed.

I guess next time, I can spend some miles on a cheapo flashlight keyfob, or something. I guess I was just sort of throwing them a bone out of 90s nostalgia, anyway. If they don't want me looking at their website on my own terms, I won't do it. And if I stop looking at their website, I don't have much use for their inky paper, either.
Acting speaker of Brazil lower house annuls Rousseff impeachment
As far as I know, this is not true anywhere in the world. What drugs out there have had their development and trials fully (or majority) funded by governments, either in Europe or---apropos here---India?
Time consuming? I read the label of every product I buy when I go to the supermarket. If I do it often enough, I keep track of what's got added sugar and I just don't buy those anymore. It isn't that hard.
Whence do you suppose the nutrients in a placenta originate?

Actually everything in this thread is a just-so story. It's pretty silly to pick out one specific rare behavior as even relevant to evolutionary fitness. How would any of this be tested?
A problem without a suggested solution is a complaint. If your people only bring you complaints, it is a drain on everyone; it breeds discontent in the workforce and contempt in management.
Why majority of silicon valley founders are existentially depressed?
The issue is that FB advertises itself as "conduit" or "network connection". You log in, communicate with people and the site tools, FB runs ads on your eyeballs, etc.

Similar to how I give my electricity provider money, and they give me electricity.

Now FB clearly sees themselves as (let's be honest) a "power broker" or "rain maker". Not the same as "utility" or "network connection" or "conduit".
Try using SciHub.
> Dalgaard says. “I don’t think I’ve ever seen anyone—and I’ve seen a lot of people—think as comprehensively as [Conrad] did about the market he was going after and how to build his product.”

And this level of gullibility mixed with greed is why the world economy is so jacked up.

Did you stop to think its because you know nothing about insurance? Conrad went to Harvard? So that he was kicked out of his previous company didn't signal anything? All I see is investors acting like Hugh Hefner going for the startup equivalent of the blond-haired, big-boobed 22 year old. Hollywood/Playboy is actually a good analogy because in those cases nobody cares about the young hot thing's backstory either. Fake boobs/law flouting masks everything.
>Because available historical records are quite informative.

Pointers to said records? I wasn't aware there was a historical play-by-play regarding how the dogma of today's dominant religions came to be.
China's Baidu must cut paid-for adverts after death, regulators say
Man, two Freudian slips before coffeetime... I need to better proof my posts. I even went to the wikipedia page to make sure I remember the name of 'The Machine' correctly.
> Edit: Ha, caught out by my own dev setup, ie: disable cache when dev tools is open. My bad, feel free to ignore everything I said :)

I wouldn't feel too bad. Our homepage at Immuta originally had a background video near the top and when I was debugging something I looked at it and noticed it had downloaded 200MB from the server because it just kept looping over and over and re-downloading over and over while I had the web page open for a really long time. I practically freaked out, thought we were killing our bandwidth, etc. It took me probably at least an hour to realize that I had disable cache ticked =/
U.S. oil industry bankruptcy wave nears size of telecom bust
Too bad the capital stock isn't determined by individuals but rather the Fed; who knows what the interest rate would be in real life if there wasn't massive money printing. Sorry, "quantitative easing"
Objective-C likely suffers from similar problems of C and C++. It's just too easy to shoot yourself in the foot with these languages.

Rust, D, golang, swift all appear to share a common goal of having a mid-to-low-level imperative/OO language that has learned from C/C++/ObjC's mistakes.
I suggest adding your email or other identifying information to your HN profile :-)

My email is in my HN profile, feel free to contact me with more detail.
> OpenBSD invests a great deal here. They have their own fork of Xorg (or was that XFree86?) that runs not as root. As far as I know that's unique amongst libre *nixen.

It's a standard feature of Xorg nowadays, but it's only a feature of vanilla Xorg for a few years.
I let Prosper and LC automatically invest for me. All I am providing is capital. The platforms provide borrower vetting and rating.
The more mundane case of reliance on GPSes is to not know the route you're taking and blindly following the GPS. Then if (for example) there's two exits close together it leads to distracted drivers, focused mostly on reading the GPS device trying to figure out which exit the GPS is telling them to exit to -- which can lead to rapid, panicked lane changes.

Source: was hit a few weeks ago by a car that did a sudden lane change with no signal right before an exit by a guy who was trying to follow his GPS...
... while being funded under the threat of force (taxation).
This is not surprising in the least. Corporations control the news, and corporations have an agenda unto themselves. It matters not what the news is, it matters what the corporations allow you to know.
Well, yeah. Things tend to have origins. And if those things are good they tend to expand from those origins...
Westboro are not taken seriously in DC policy circles. Heritage are taken very seriously.
What if it were liberal news? This is basically the filter bubble problem. All filters have biases whether they are human or algorithmic.
Also this: http://networkfilter.blogspot.com/2014/12/security-openbsd-v...
So, something like inflation along with centrally directed GDP growth targeting?
Of course, there's no solution here for human survival after the red giant stage of the Sun's evolution, when the Sun cools to become a white dwarf.
As a C++14 programmer, I disagree. for..in syntax is so much clearer and being able to simply specify the range without having to manually increment makes more sense to me. I would love to see something like Swift's stride in C++.
3 should be:

In response to add blocker blockers, ad blockers install ad blocker blocker blockers.

then onto your number 3

:)
The Power of Invariants
Thanks for linking a more complete video. However, I don't understand how the extra context absolves him. In fact, it shows more clearly that he is of the "put a price on everything" (implicit: and then we can sell it at that price) worldview.

Notice that he clearly calls water a "foodstuff" before talking about giving it a price. He then follows it up by saying "The biggest social responsibility of any CEO is to maintain and ensure the successful and profitable future of his enterprise".

Somehow I don't think water waste and access for needy people is particularly important to him. At minimum, I would at least say that he is mildly in opposition to access to clean drinking water being declared a fundamental right instead of a product to be sold. This makes perfect sense, because it would eliminate or heavily impact Nestlé's water business if every country in the world had clean drinking water.