skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"getting a job is made harder" isn't a problem, when the the people are getting better at getting a job.

"increase in productivity will be insufficient to cover the increase of wages" is only true if the company isn't turning a profit or paying high salary to managers. This is relevant for some small businesses and bankruptcy-threatened large business, but not for the largest players in the economy, like Walmart.
Ask HN: How hard would it be to clone Stripe?
I live in a country where online payment is strictly regulated by the government.
International payment is not even available, only from local clients to local merchants and the process is very painful for both client and store.

I saw Stripe the other day, and I thought I can make something like this for local merchants to:

1- Provide better payment

2- Make online payment available to new people that weren't able to afford it.

---

So, Tl;dr : How much work do think it would be to clone Stripe for a local market?
A single bit (TCP URG bit) triggered a BSOD on Windows 95 (WinNuke)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinNuke
>You can survive on 40h a week, but that's about it.

We could thrive on 20h a week.

We just don't have a rational allotment of resources, but rely on busy-work, antiquated (pre software and pre-automation) work ethics and timelines, and squeeze them extra too so that enterprises and employers can get that extra profit margin out of employees.
https://twitter.com/NBCNews/status/785299709342654465

Mirror: http://archive.is/JBUzM
The person said they have no liability, how is saying that many banks don't refuting what they said?
I'd[0] be fascinated to know people's reactions to this. Material explaining this sort of thing has been around for what seems forever - do people find articles at this level useful?

I know it won't be for everyone - some already know it, some don't care and don't want to bother - but some will find it useful, I'm sure, and I'd be interested to see some feedback.

[0] I'm neither the author nor the submitter, but I'm interested nonetheless.
> In short, Fiske doesn’t like when people use social media to publish negative comments on published research.

This doesn't at all match Fiske's article. As people on HN know very well, there's a difference between, on one hand, serious, constructive criticism; and on the other, the trolling, abuse, and just endless barrage of nonsense that buries any signal in noise, all of which is common online. It's clear Fiske is talking about the latter; the following is very recognizable:

... uncurated, unfiltered trash-talk, In the most extreme examples, online vigilantes are attacking individuals. Self-appointed data police are volunteering critiques of such personal ferocity and relentless frequency that they resemble a denial-of-service attack ...

It's not discussion, it's abuse, and we know well that the latter have tried to hide behind the former as a justification. And we also are very familiar now with the consequences:

Only what's crashing are people. The unmoderated attacks create collateral damage to targets' careers and well-being, with no accountability for the bullies. Our colleagues at all career stages are leaving the field because of sheer adversarial viciousness.

----

Then our author fabricates and attributes ideas to Fiske that she never mentions or even alludes to:

> She’s implicitly following what I’ve sometimes called the research incumbency rule: that, once an article is published in some approved venue, it should be taken as truth.

The word 'implicitly' is not a license to fabricate the rest of the sentence. And he goes on to criticize the whole field, despite saying at the beginning,

> it’s pretty much all about internal goings-on within the field of psychology (careers, tenure, smear tactics, people trying to protect their labs, public-speaking sponsors, career-stage vulnerability), and I don’t know anything about this, as I’m an outsider to psychology and I’ve seen very little of this sort of thing ...

I don't know anything about this; enough said. Also, his characterization of her article makes me wonder if he read it; her article is about trolling and abuse, and the things he mentions are only second-order effects.

The above behaviors are all familiar, and also telling is another habit we'll recognize:

> I was inclined to just keep my response short and sweet, but then it seemed worth the trouble to give some context.

Maybe we found one of the trolls.
Are you holding them blameless? If so, why? This is the largest employer in the US and to not hold them responsible would imply they don't have the leverage to change the playing field. Of course they do.
> once an article is published in some approved venue, it should be taken as truth

And I agree with the author that it shouldn't.

A good point is made about the arguments for releasing study findings in blogs, where discussions can be had in comments and perhaps the content of the blog amended as needed.

I definitely think that the old way of publishing studies needs to change. They need to allow discussion. Those that publish the studies and those that read them need to critique and possibly conclusions be amended. And to get this to happen at an intellectual level, students and others in academia and research should be funded more by taxes and possibly be required to do critiques and duplicate other studies to some extent.

For too long we've assumed the bodies of accumulated knowledge in the sciences to be fact without dispute; that's not science. Science is all about finding models that work and gathering data and trying to draw conclusions from it. Science was never meant to be about facts; it is all about understanding. Though some understanding may be innate, much of human understanding comes from experience. While we can build upon previous "knowledge", time over time we've seen what we held to be science fact proven false, e.g. earth is flat -> it's round but the sun goes around it -> it goes around the sun, and flies spontaneous generate from feces -> flies lay eggs in feces. If we'd never allow criticism, we'd never have progressed.

Science should be about keeping an open mind and accepting there is much we don't know, even if you believe and have faith in something. Einstein believed in God, and Hawking is an atheist. Both are scientists, and both have had theories proven and disproven. We are human, and we must continually strive for understanding knowing some ideas may be right, some may be wrong, and that ideas will change.
Cool. Interesting value-add inclusion.

I wrote a FileSpanStream class to implement BitTorrent file writes in BTSharp years ago.

While it's not targeted toward in-memory implementations, it is a similar type of wrapper abstraction and might be well understood by developers familiar with the "Span" abstraction (esp. after the Span<T> generic is in the BCL).

I can imagine scenarios where the FileSpanStream could be leveraged for non-BitTorrent use cases. (max-filesize constraints, load disribution, other, use your imagination).

I'm on mobile right now but I'll follow-up with a license-compatible contribution for consideration for inclusion.

P.S. Keep up the good work .NET Core Team. I've been keeping an eye on the project since you've been providing cross-platform distributions and it's extremely exciting. I loved working at Microsoft (especially when the .NET team with Brad Abrams was publishing things like .NET library design guidelines). I miss the .NET that I loved working with in 2004 and the .NET Core project is bringing me back one design at a time. Cheers.
So increase the tax on Walmart, Walmart's founders, and the rest of their shareholders, and rich people in general. Raising wages at Walmart (or the minimum wage across the board) is a terribly inefficient solution to wealth inequality.
Came here to say this, its sad really, quite convenient and I miss the noise of the electric milk float at 4am, always knew that meant it was time to stop coding and go to bed! Depends where you live though, still heard it in Dorset.
If what you want out of science is a narrative with no clear basis in reality, why bother with science?
That's a myth.

But that raising the work-time per worker reduces the number of jobs available is not a myth, it's mathematical inevitability (unless work-hours needed not only will grow to compensate, but also grow more than if the per worker work-time had remained fixed).
A lot of old professions are still reflected in surnames. A barrel-maker is a Cooper. Coachbuilder would have been Wainwright.
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Here are some more (in the US, at least)

Travel agent

Door to door salesman

Typist

Typesetter/Linotype operator

Telegraph operator

Ice and coal delivery

Appliance repairman

Then there are the jobs that just got consolidated out of widespread existence. They still exist but in very limited form. These are jobs that used to be regional until the market drifted toward economies of scale:

Radio host

Newspaper reporter/editor/cartoonist

Greengrocer

Bookseller
Something else they make you pay for: http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2016/08/how-walmart-makes-you...
Funny that google found it. I both manually scrolled through NBC's twitter feed (what a nightmare) and used twitter's advanced search looking for "FACT CHECK" and couldn't find it either way.
The difference between 1.1 and 1.2 is very, very superficial. I couldn't care
less if a project has some GitHub-specific marker or not, especially that I've
seen several code hosting places come and go already.

On a second thought, this GitHub-specific marker of being a fork is somewhat
important. I skip forks, going to their original. Fork on GitHub usually means
that somebody either bookmarked the project or wanted to make some small
changes and possibly send them back to the upstream -- at least that's how
I perceive fork markers on GitHub.
> Good scientists should welcome this challenge with open arms

They should welcome online trolling, abuse, and personal attacks? That is what Fiske criticizes in her article, not serious criticism and debate, which she explicitly welcomes and encourages.
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It's more a way to try to quell incipient union action. They've closed several stores in order to head off strike action already (which is expensive) and it failed.
There are definitely advantages for the employers but I wanted to bring attention to the fact it can also be a win-win situation for both parties involved.
Databases as a log
There were a couple of occasions quite some time back (circa 2010) when I reported issues to e-commerce sites:

- trivial enumeration attacks that could be used to retrieve customer information (name, address, order, payment details, ...)

- XSS issues that could be exploited by sending crafted URLs to customers

In all cases, I received rather lame responses as if the person in question was completely nonchalant about the issues.

All I could do was to avoid those stores myself.
Not directly relevant to the more widespread issue of how people should provide and react to criticism of scienctific work.
It looks like it might be: https://blog.aspyr.com/2016/10/04/sid-meiers-civilization-vi...
I know that service exists in some areas. In Utah, we used Winder Farms. They drop off an order once a week. Their apple juice and milk was good but their produce was always sub-par. The prices were crazy.
Nice, that is a great pointer.
Not sure what you mean. Which part of my message is not clear to you?
Change what playing field?

Are you saying that in order to do business, a company must pay each employee enough to keep them off food stamps?
Where Does Religion Come From?
I'm surprised merchants don't care because they're ultimately responsible for chargebacks, right? Isn't that the way things still work?
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This is a great comment, thanks for the taking the time to write it up and source it. What does non-unitary mean in this context?
Because milkmen don't exists anymore - at least not in the U.S. or Canada. Houses were built with little doors from the outside into a chillbox for the milkman to directly place the milk inside.
Read the title: it's less of a threat to America.

But in general, yes, ISIS is obviously a much bigger threat to the world.

Regarding the terrorists arrested in Kansas, the people who would have been harmed were not Syrians but in fact Somali-Americans.
> I wonder which sources Google will bless with this new trust symbol? Just kidding! We all know.

Enough of this nonsense. Try reading the actual blog post:

> Publishers who create fact-checks and would like to see it appear with the “Fact check” tag should use that markup in fact-check articles.

Perhaps you should go and check your own "facts" first.
"but this occurrence is so rare, it's laughable"

Um, no, the whole point of the article you're replying to is that it's more common than Islamic extremism in the US
From the article:

"Higher wages were necessary, Ford realized, to retain workers who could handle the pressure and the monotony of his assembly line."

So in Ford's case, he was simply paying the going rate. Supply and demand. The lower wage wasn't enough to keep the workers he needed in his revolutionary assembly line. People spin this all the time to say things like: "He increased the wage so his workers could afford to buy his cars" But if it were as simple as that, he could have tripled or quadrupled their wages so they would buy even more or at a quicker rate.
You missed the sarcasm of the comment you are responding to. You two are in violent agreement.
> I don't understand why rapid feedback is bad

She doesn't say rapid feedback is bad. She says online personal attacks and abuse are bad.
Very impressive technology, but is there an open source version? Even a limited one? That one can try on something more modest than 100 grand's worth of pro GPUs?
What? No. Just because they were written in Php does not mean that they only exists because of Php. That is more than ridiculous...

Also, that was not the question, at all.
In the past 10 years or so academic historians have switched back to using 'Indian' again.[1] For the most part, I'm told, simply because it's useful (from the perspective of prose style) to have a shorter synonym for 'Native Americans' to pull out once in awhile. But also because some indigenous groups have argued for re-appropriating the term 'Indian.' I agree that it's confusing.

[1] One example from an academic whose background is Shoshone: Ned Blackhawk, Violence Over the Land: Indians and Empires in the Early American West (2006)
I am already in Russian kill list, since 2008, so I'm not naїve anymore.

IMHO, you are mismatching regular propaganda with Russian propaganda (AKA Informational War). Please, read linked book above, it contains in depth explanation of the topic by European Union.
The link to the demo is broken in the blog post. It's actually: https://www.mapd.com/demos/taxis/
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The entire medieval bookmaking process, from velum and inks to lettering to illumination (illustrations) was fascinating. And extraordinarily expensive.

http://history.stackexchange.com/questions/21161/how-long-di...

Figure that a single book was 1/2 to 1/3 a man-year's labour, of rare and skilled talent. They were more bespoke jewelry than media, and often treated as such.

If you think about the falling costs, and increased access, to information over the span of centuries, it's staggering.
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Interesting. This might in part explain why duckpin has been fading from mid-atlantic states where it use to be quite popular.
1) Given that there are fewer jobs available, and more people seeking those jobs, its simply absurd to think that people are just going to get better at getting those jobs to make up for it.

2) Whether the company is turning or a profit or paying a high salary is completely irreleavent. The question is whether or not you are productive enough that hiring you makes the company more money then they pay you.
It's a new account that offers no proof that they are legitimately speaking on behalf of Gitlab.
If you put additional taxes on hiring low-wage employees, you make it harder for them to get a job, and take away their one competitive advantage relative to higher skill workers.
"Introduction to probability" is amazing. It really set the bar for what an academic book could be https://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Probability-Chapman-Stat...
Presumably however other researchers could subscribe to the same source... third-party proprietary datasets, if non-partisan wrt research results, are still better than first-party proprietary datasets, right?
Isn't Black Lives Matter a violent left wing movement? Of course I'm not sure what position people in America take or specifically the Silicon Valley people who here are the majority.

Judging by the news, it sure is?
> You Americans are so brutal to each other.

Brutal is an exaggeration. Americans don't come close to leading in the 50+ hour work week category. The US now ranks below: Iceland, UK, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, South Korea on that metric and has been falling down those rankings for decades.

https://utopiayouarestandinginit.com/2016/08/15/employees-wo...
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Part of the problem is that employers like Walmart aren't hiring people full-time at 40 hours a week because that requires the worker get benefits. So they hire mostly part-time work at 30-hours a week or less, which isn't enough for people to live, so the workers have to try and get a second job.
>substantial (2-digit) percentage

A substantial (2-digit) number of percentages are substantial (2-digit) percentages.
We'll have to see what happens. I would guess if there are opportunities for companies to make money than more and more will enter the market increasing competition over workers which may keep wages up or even increase them.

There are definitely some downsides to the gig economy but the purpose of the article was to shine some light on the existing opportunities for workers to help leverage themselves if they are in it.
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The importance of upvoting
Fiske is pulling a classic Motte and Bailey strategy.

http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/07/social-justice-and-word...

The Motte is that we should condemn personal attacks, trolling, and abuse. This is completely uncontroversial and nobody sane would disagree.

The Bailey is that criticism made outside of the peer review process is somehow terrorism, which is so ludicrous that ones reaction should involve spirited laughter.
>> PHP is like a 15+ yo car imported from neighbour country

What about Python ?
Good point, I glossed over that. I'm not sure I understand your interpretation properly, though. My interpretation was they took all of the transaction times, divided them by the total number of transactions, and then divided that number by their total expenditure in cashier personnel costs. I wouldn't go so far as to characterize this as "meaningless," but I will admit it's a little weird to measure your personnel costs in terms of dollars per second of the average time a given transaction takes. I think the idea is to shock people with a big number -- 12MM per second is shocking. However, the article doesn't explain that Walmart employs more people than any other company, world-wide[1] -- that's also a big number, and so when you divide the two, a much smaller number appears. The more interesting number, I think, is the total personnel costs versus the number of personnel -- some average or quantile that demonstrates, on a smaller scale, the ratio of personnel cost. Now, multiply that number to scale back up to number of transactions and you'll get a better representation of the personnel cost per transaction, without the oddball time axis.

In fact, as I'm thinking about this, perhaps you're saying it's a meaningless metric because it makes no sense to compare dollars per average transaction-second to dollars for all cashiers, as the units aren't correlated and just give random values.

[1] http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2014/08/24/24-7...
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> For too long we've assumed the bodies of accumulated knowledge in the sciences to be fact without dispute

Who is this "we" who has assumed such a thing? Certainly no working scientist I know would agree that a result being published means it is necessarily correct. Nevertheless, some knowledge of the world scientists have accumulated has very strong support, and those who challenge it have invariably turned out to be in the wrong.
The idea maze of personal logging
You are taking your personal experience; that apparently you do not read reference books cover to cover and then applying it to others.

Personally I DO read reference books cover to cover on a regular basis. I understand not everyone does this, but I don't make judgements or assumptions of others based on this.

I'm have almost an obsessive need to read these things cover to cover. When I hit something I don't understand I reread it until I do or I go look up related materials until I understand it.
Yep, that's all true -- this type of attack can be mitigated in various easy ways. But there are lots of other examples where writing one byte can break a system. I was just trying to prove the point by showing a particularly simple one.
That's all well and good if this case ever goes to court, which it almost certainly won't. Most service providers will pull down any content that's included in a takedown notice. The alternative is for each service provider to make a legal decision about each takedown notice. That won't happen. If they don't respond in good time, they risk their safe harbor status.

It's smarter (under the seriously f'ed up DCMA system) to pull it down and wait for a counter notice, at which point they put it back up, and they aren't responsible any more — the person filing the counter notice is responsible because a false counter claim counts as perjury.

At that point, the original issuer of the takedown notice can sue.

Of course, it almost never gets that far when the takedown notices are spurious, as in this case. That's what makes the DMCA such a bad idea — it's a perfect tool for censorship.
Any similar events planned at CERN? :)
I've actually written a highly optimized asyncio-based Python web server in the past. I meticulously optimized every component, using all the standard CPython optimization techniques (heavy use of stdlib, minimizing method lookups).

In the end, my implementation was nowhere near nginx. I even ran it under PyPy and it fared no better. Then I realized the oxymoronic nature of writing an optimized web server in Python.
The only way this will get fixed is if a script is written to take advantage of the vulnerabilities and clean the sites affected.