skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The people behind this attribution work aren't political appointees. People forget that the overwhelming majority of the public workforce consists of career public servants. If those public servants happen to work in law enforcement, the military, or intelligence, they're much more likely to be Republicans than Democrats.

So with that having been said, and with I promise more respect than this question will make it sound like I have for your viewpoint: what is it, exactly, that makes your doubts about this attribution being politically motivated more credible than the (extremely common) doubts Trump supporters have that Hurricane Matthew wasn't generated by Obama's wind farms to suppress voter registration?
> Paying more results in a better class of applicant

In higher populated areas, yes.

In lower populated rural/areas, not necessarily. In fact, by raising wages in rural areas, additional money coming in from income taxes could be funneled into infrastructure, poorly-funded schools, and law enforcement. This would in theory help produce new areas of innovation and growth which in turn help provide more tax revenue for the state and country. It could also bring more people out of poverty, reduce crime and violence, and help to shutdown meth labs which are more common in rural areas.

I think there are some good arguments against raising wages of workers, like much higher wage workers already making enough to be so comfortable as to not require more (depending on how they pay their employees if they are a small business), or to things such as some cases showing that raising minimum wage causes inflation which causes the quality of life of everyone over the minimum wage to go down, such as: http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-0419-goldberg-min...

However, for most of those reading HN, salary raises have more to do with being competitive, in which case paying more for a better applicant is a good thing.
You need to read the article again. They are allowing anyone to label their site as a "Fact checking site".

Just use ClaimReview and my-agenda-is-the-truth.com can be put in front of the eyes of millions of people who only read the title.
The Iris data set [1] is very famous and a popular way to test out classification techniques. It's not "big data", but can be used to familiarize yourself with some basic data mining techniques.

[1] – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iris_flower_data_set
> To me the funny thing is the small companies with 2-3 developers hiring like they are google with interviews over the course of weeks, with google/amazon-like gauntlets.

Hmm.
Arguably small operations need to be more stringent if they are deciding who will make up the next 25%-33% of their engineering workforce.
At small companies one bad hire can really poison the well.
How is 50-60 relevant? Shift employees at many companies beg for ~40 hours but can't get them.
Walmart gives employees ~30hr weeks, to avoid providing health insurance.
It's not about the overhead of juggling extra shifts, it's about circumventing labor laws to pay lowest possible hourly wages.
Oh it's real.
A meta book about the process "Thoughtful interaction design" Löwgren, Stolterman
The Growing Charm of Dada
Planck is describing how it is, not how it should be.
I think it really depends on what you want to do.

1) Want to make user interfaces that are actually useful to people? Read up on product management, UX and interaction design. Important skills: articulating the problem you are solving and for what kind of user, and being able to validate whether your hypothesis is on point. Iterating before committing further resources to building a prototype. Conducting user testing sessions (rocket surgery made easy is a good resource for this).

2) Want to make a specific view / flow of a product inviting and visually appealing? Study visual design and typography.

3) Want to be able to build a functional prototype that looks reasonably good? Study frontend design / development. There are a lot of frameworks that could get you up and running.

IMHO going for (1) and (3) first is smart; if you can't prototype and evaluate a user experience that has a shot in hell of being useful to an actual user, being able to make stuff look pretty is kind of irrelevant (unless you are specializing and collaborating with engineers and UX people). In any of the above cases, at least knowing more precisely what you want to learn will help you do better googling, e.g "best books on visual design" or "best books on interaction design".
Politifact is owned by Tampa Bay Times who endorsed Hillary Clinton. They also endorsed Obama in 2008 and 2012, Kerry in 2004 and Gore in 2000.

http://web.tampabay.com/opinion/editorials/editorial-hillary...
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I wish that were true... But there are actually no judges involved in this process, and trying to get them involved may end up with you on the wrong side of the court room.
As far as Palantir discriminating against Asian Americans goes, my understanding is that most of their "engineering" positions aren't really that technical--they tend to be customer facing. Old timers in government don't really like Asians, and so it "makes sense" to not have them represent the company. (Descriptive of what's happening here, not prescriptive--even if that hypothesis is true, I'm the type to say screw it, hire on capabilities and work ethic.)

There's also the tendency for Asians to be conveniently bucketed into the "white" bucket, which makes them easier targets and also is a reason this lawsuit won't go viral on social media.
It's absolutely clear. Their workers are retail employees who provide near substitutive type of labor as wal-mart employees.

They consciously raise wages to retain employees.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2013-06-06/costco-ceo...
I enrolled on the Interaction Design specialisation in November 2015 and worked through the modules until July 2016. On the whole I found the course interesting and often fun, and I feel that I learned quite a lot. Until, that is, the 7th course: Designing, Running, and Analyzing Experiments. This was nine weeks of statistical analysis using steadily more elaborate analytical models. I ground through it and finished with a decent grade (>90% iirc) but it ruined the whole experience, and I had no interest or motivation left to even start the capstone project. Grounding UX in an analytical framework is important, and statistics are necessary for this, but that module was just overkill.

So tldr: the specialisation is a good experience, but make sure you know what you're committing to.
Certainly, people will work harder if you pay them more, you won't just get better people.

However:

Employers will have to hire fewer workers because their workers are more productive

More people will be interested in the jobs, increasing employee competition

Since people vary, some people's increase in productivity will be insufficient to cover the increase of wages

The end result it seems is that getting a job is made harder. This is not to say that increased wages are bad, they are great.
Update: I just upgraded my main workstation, which is heavily customized and has a lot of random stuff installed. Took 26 minutes and 40 seconds from the time I started until I was back in Firefox and able to tweet about it. About 5 minutes of that was downloading and I could keep working, so there was really only about 20 minutes of downtime.
> At some point, people are going to have to stop judging a company that breaks even or has stable profits as a failure.

These are called utility companies or dividend companies and no one judges them a failure, outside of the SV bubble.
How Windows shutdown became so complicated
A few countries have such laws. Wikipedia has a (seemingly complete) list:

Austria, Brazil,the Czech Republic,France, Germany, Japan, the People's Republic of China, the Republic of China (Taiwan), Russia and Switzerland [1]

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extradition#Bars_to_extraditio...
> I'm still looking for a Linux equivalent

You mean `locate`? Package name in Debian is mlocate.

I don't know ag and it's not a package in Debian.

That said, I agree that Everything is a must-have on Windows. I don't understand how Microsoft's own search engine is so incredibly crappy (and has been since, what, Windows 95?) while Everything is a 200KB binary that does it perfectly.
Anyone that’s inventing the kinds of products that we typically do should be able to articulate a relatively robust theory around “What is human nature? What is humanity like now? Where is it going? And how does your product or service fit into that?”

I have talked with basically every Venture Fund in the valley (Including Greylock by the way) and a Partner has never asked me anything remotely close to this kind of a question. When in the hour intro pitch, or the two hour partner pitch would my personal philosophy come up? Well, the answer in my experience is: it won't come up.

This further reinforces that the people funding at the idea or early deployment stage of their companies are getting it through relationships built over long periods of time with these people. This isn't new to anyone who has been there before, but if it's not clear to you that fundraising is 99% network then you should realize that this is the case.
I've also been working on a search engine website, and personally my approach for the search/directory UI has been to keep it as minimal as possible, like early Google.

Not sure how inspiring it is, but here you go: https://changelogs.md/

The goal of this UI is to have the bare minimum of useful info easily accessible.
link post or it didn't happen.
Nice article, although brief and short on some details. More something to get you started than to actually explain anything in real detail.

It always annoys me, though, when articles like this say:

> This code has great performances
> and can factorize prime numbers
> in a very short amount of time.

Sloppy. Unnecessarily sloppy. One is not factoring primes. Yes, I know what is meant, but in subjects like programming, maths, and cryptography, surely one should be more precise.

Oh, and I'm sure every reader knows that in real life you'd never use this method to factor. Way too slow, and there are many ways to speed it up. Nice naive introduction, though.
It it will break BC, then don't use it? You guys are using every dirty trick invented for internet discussions in the last 30 years. You said it dosen't exist. When I showed the way to get it, the agrument should stop this very instant.

Instead you started nitpicking on the solution. That's dishonest. And it makes the discussion endless.

> Third, nobody does it.

This statement of yours clearly states that you have no idea of the actual PHP ecosystem. Every single major PHP framework is routinely doing it.
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I started meditating daily.

I do it for twenty minutes every morning. It seems small because it is, but the impact has been huge.

I genuinely feel that it's recalibrated my mind, which has resulted in me becoming more and more focused on my health overall. I've started intermittent fasting, keto, and I'm about to start lifting. I was never a "gym-type" so this is quite a transition for me, but I literally imagine my body as a temple now and I can't bear the thought of polluting it.

I attribute it all to meditation as being the catalyst. Something just clicked and everything fell in to place. I'm more aware of my communication with others, which has already proven very helpful at work, and I find that I can now look at emotions as something that are just passing through me at any given time - financially, this is helpful because I can be a bit of an impulse spender, particularly when bored/sad/whatever.
Congrats, and the game looks really cool!

I'm curious: how did you market your game? What made you go in the top charts?
Cool, reminds me of the Cycle.js dev-tool [0]. It lets you see a value pouring through your streams/observables and shows how it's mopified in each of them.

[0] https://github.com/cyclejs/cyclejs/tree/master/devtool
Wanted to second the ambivalence around the CLRS Intro to Algorithms book - having learned a few algorithms by poring through its chapters, I can definitely say it's a long, out-of-the-way route to take for a practicing programmer. I may not have enough hindsight (bought it a year ago) to truly say whether the dense mathematical approach was valuable to me long-term, but for now I'd say a wikipedia article or a less formal, more to-the-point book like Jon Bentley's Programming Pearls is time much more well spent, unless you are actually aiming to work in academia for a computer science department.
It can help to fight Russian lies (called «propaganda» or «informational war»[1] in Russia), but, IMHO, they will just create their own «true fact checking network» instead, with their own facts about «double standards of Western governments».

I was puzzled by their tactic for long time until I found answer in Russian book for FSB newcomers: they use massive campaigns of FUD to break trust in victim country (their troll tasks are labeled like «inspire more suspects about government [in target country]», etc.) and to quickly hire agents in enemy organizations. Even USA cannot protect their own citizens from Russian «propaganda» (see case of John Demianuk[2]).

[1]: http://cepa.org/reports/winning-the-Information-War
[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Demjanjuk
Woman engineer may be first in nation to build skyscraper
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=nbc+news+fact+check+trump+acid+wash+twi...
> You should NEVER have the user enter credit card information on your site

My app client sends the card info to Stripe, then forwards the Stripe token to my server to charge the card each month. So far this is a standard security model.

The problem is that if PayPal come along to offer me a cheaper commission on processing subscription payments, I cannot simply switch my sever to use PayPal for all my existing customers. So I'm tempted to encrypt the credit card info and store it in my database in case I want to switch in future.
Just to say the previous title was more informative: "Better time travelling in Redux Devtools", or something like this. I didn't know about "time-travelling" debugging and I was curious to learn about it, that's why I clicked. "changes in the Graph Monitor" doesn't talk to me at all.
Running asyncio-based servers on uwsgi is very stable though, but may not achieve 100 % of the performance native asyncio in uWSGI may have. Even then, Tornado is "fast enough" for us (ie. we run out of network bandwidth before we run out of CPU).

But the main advantage - that you're still using uwsgi as a "unified application server" of sorts - persists, which was the main point for us (Django, Flask, Tornado on uWSGI). This simplified deployment and administration quite a bit.

Re. topic: It would be really interesting to see it compared to Tornado.
How about IPFS?
> Why should the American people subsidize the profits of a corporation for years?

Walmart already has extremely low profit margins, any increase in wages would be passed directly to their poor customers.

In fact, the status quo is the best way of solving the wealth inequality problem. That is, let Walmart make as much profit as they can and then tax the hell out of them, their well-paid executives, and their shareholders and redistribute that tax money to the poor.
The racism is ugly and fitting for its time, but this is actually a case where it comes from a legitimate concern, not just competitive hatred -- If immigrants work for lower wages, society overall suffers. Someone else being willing to work for less than is a legitimate concern.

When white natives decided to work for less, they got hateful slurs too. They were called "scabs", and their was no racial motivation to it.

Gompers took us halfway -- to wage floors, and the Equal Rights / Anti-Discrimination laws took us the other half, to a comprehensive platform of support for the entire working class. (Of course, that platform still has holes and erosions and needs repairs)
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The post didn't argue that raising wages of workers was bad, it argued that raising the wages of workers produces unemployment which you didn't address at all.
Cherry-picking is the constant reference to the higher wages, without mentioning the heavy strings that came attached. That it also had some positive effects doesn't diminish my point. Also, from what I can tell, when the department was winded down the salaries weren't higher than the market average.

There's also the lovely Ford Hunger March: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Hunger_March
> There is no reason or law that prevents us from acknowledging our failures

I'd argue that there is. That law is Goodhart's law. [0]

As long as there's a benefit to having people think you're right—in terms of credit, money, power, fame, or even just the satisfaction of believing that you've solved a problem—actually being right will tend to take a backseat to appearing right.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law
Sales and operating income are two different metrics. The headline is not false, it just doesn't say what you want it to say.

Paragraph 10:

"The results are promising. By early 2016, the proportion of stores hitting their targeted customer-service ratings had rebounded to 75 percent. Sales are rising again."
Raising minimum wage also reduces the number of jobs available fir the most needy.
https://www.yelp.com/biz/mels-shoe-shine-new-york
Sam Harris – How the gains we make in AI could ultimately destroy us
Kaggle has a number of starter challenges. See https://www.kaggle.com/c/titanic for one related to predicting the survival of passengers on the Titanic.
And what does it mean, these "better ads"? What would I get from them?

The way I see it is that I would pay with information I would not like to
disclose for something I would not like to see. Does it sound as a good deal?
It's really saddening that thinking beyond first order direct effects of something is considered rare or revolutionary.
Some things come to my mind:

- wooden barrels / casks for wine beer

- coppersmith (not sure about the exact term. i mean people who create pans and pots by hand)

- basketmaker

- coachbuilder
>Also all the large tech players have done this to a large degree

Not through choice. They are trying their hardest to bring down tech wages by:

* lobbying for more immigrants

* funding programs to bring more girls into computer science

* lobbying to put computer science on school curriculums.

* engaging in illegal no-poach agreements.

They are pretty damned determined.
I hope Civilization 7 or Civilization 8 use neural networks for AI. In development, get a ton of dedicated Civilization players ranging in skill, and train the networks on these players. The best of the players will be for the toughest NPCs. Then, when the game goes live, every player in the world will contribute to the strategies of the NPCs. Beginning players contribute to the training of easier NPCs, and the best players contribute to the strategies of the hardest NPCs.
Doctors Without Borders Refuses Vaccines from Pfizer
The missing step here is that the EITC should be funded by tax on companies that have low wage employees alongside extremely highly-paid employees/managers, and profit-taking owners
I've been collecting examples of search interfaces, maybe it can help you: https://sortandfilter.tumblr.com/
Social class is very hard to qualify—its by-definition "collectively subjective". The best I can imagine census doin is asking one to self report and report on neighbors. I imagine this would also cause an uproar.
Did it turn out that research in the book is flawed or not reproducible?
>In my experience this problem could be alleviated if it were possible for a worker to work a 50-60 hour week at a single job without incurring additional expenses for their employe

Yeah. Also slavery might work.
The idea of Swarm is the cluster works like one single virtual host. In that case, checkout hyper.sh. You don't care about the cluster thing at all in it, because their entire cloud works like one host.
Right. But the part you are leaving out is that the children of Walmart's founder are among the richest people in the history of the world. We are subsidizing their wealth.
There are a number of assumptions, key among them are the fox is definite extent and if it is, we are near it's nose already.
Are you seriously this naive, or are you astroturfing?

The corporate media in the west is a lustily willing tool of neocon and neoliberal propaganda itself, no Russians needed. If you have ignored that fact for the last four decades, I wonder how you continue to ignore it in the face of the contents of the daily WikiLeaks dumps?
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Doesn't HN have a policy on linking to articles behind a pay wall?
Excerpt from post on Robin Hanson's blog covers this well[0]:

"In the rest of society, however, we often both try to hire people who seem to show off the highest related abilities, and we let those most prestigious people have a lot of discretion in how the job is structured. For example, we let the most prestigious doctors tell us how medicine should be run, the most prestigious lawyers tells us how law should be run, the most prestigious finance professionals tell us how the financial system should work, and the most prestigious academics tell us how to run schools and research.

This can go very wrong! Imagine that we wanted research progress, and that we let the most prestigious researchers pick research topics and methods. To show off their abilities, they may pick topics and methods that most reduce the noise in estimating abilities. For example, they may pick mathematical methods, and topics that are well suited to such methods. And many of them may crowd around the same few topics, like runners at a race. These choices would succeed in helping the most able researchers to show that they are in fact the most able. But the actual research that results might not be very useful at producing research progress.

Of course if we don’t really care about research progress, or students learning, or medical effectiveness, etc., if what we mainly care about is just affiliating with the most impressive folks, well then all this isn’t much of a problem. But if we do care about these things, then unthinkingly presuming that the most prestigious people are the best to tell us how to do things, that can go very very wrong."

The winds may have changed, but landscape erodes very slowly…

[0] http://www.overcomingbias.com/2016/06/beware-prestige-based-...
World is actually becoming a better place
MagicStack has already taken the initiative.
https://github.com/MagicStack/asyncpg
> I still think the exfiltration threat is the worst. Any secret injected into the environment of any tested codebase is vulnerable -- especially if your logs are public.

Fair point, though instead of worrying about that, I think the real solution is to have test-only keys and also make sure logs can be shared without fear of leaking data.
I think the policy is to hit the "web" link next to the article.
https://www.dol.gov/featured/minimum-wage/mythbuster
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You Americans are so brutal to each other. Instead of trying to address the problem of why someone can't live on a 40-hour week, you just want to remove one of the staple worker-protection laws.

60-hour weeks basically means you live to work. Have you considered that perhaps someone's economic usefulness shouldn't be the only determinate of whether they have to spend essentially their entire lives on Earth just trying to survive?
the solution is a push model for digital money ie. bitcoin

with credit cards it's like there is only a pubkey and no private key needed to steal!
Tools for Reproducible Research
google ... before it became frustrating to be under total surveillance.