skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The price is not only determined by value but also by scarcity. If there is a lot of demand for unskilled work, then wages will go down and the business owner can capture the difference between the value produced and the wages paid.

It is of course more or less by design that several factors go into the price so that different feedback loops can affect different factors in an intertwined way. For example high demand for specific skills is supposed to lead to higher wages which in turn is supposed to encourage more people to acquire those skills which then finally satisfies the demand.

And in theory this is all fine but in reality it is not as easy as in the economics text book. Some of those feedback loops are slow and take years to react, some of the factors are constraint in one way or another and just can no go where one would like them to be.

And the article is not talking about smacking rocks, it is talking about building houses and producing food, things fundamentally more valuable than building websites. And if you are doing work that is valuable and physically demanding, then you should be able to demand compensation for your hard work and not have to accept whatever you are offered but that of course fails if people undercut each in order to get the job.

I am not sure that it is even possible to [easily] decouple price factors like value and scarcity without ruining the entire system, but one has to admit that at least in practice and at least in some situations mixing value and scarcity leads to undesirable results.
I work in a major metropolitan area (one of the 4 largest in the US). There is a large educated sector of the population and a huge number of software and technology companies here. Still, despite this, technology jobs cannot be filled. Half my coworkers have always been immigrants. Even when pay is high local people are not stepping up to fill the positions.

If you are in technology you can only continue to ignore that you work with a large number of immigrants and offshore teams for so long. Eventually, you will have to keep up with current skills, move to a low income market, or be content with being replaced by an immigrant who has more initiative.

> If you want skilled developers with modern skills be prepared to pay for it.

There is no evidence that increased rates have solved this problem as demand continues to outpace availability.
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The most chilling testament to this dictators intolerable cruelty is all of the various hand crafted boats that Cubans used over the years to flee his control.

The first time I saw one on the beach in the Florida Keys, I was astonished at the ingenuity of the craft and marveled that someone had so longed for freedom that they had spend years building it in secret.

Then, I was chilled.

http://www.floatingcubans.com/

https://www.google.com/search?site=&tbm=isch&source=hp&biw=1...
Web development is huge. What should you learn next?
It's great to read some informed comments about this wonderful new laptop by someone who has actually used it. I disagree with his opinion about the size of the touchpad, but that's a matter of personal preference.
This utter failure of foreign policy is such an embarrassment for the US. Even against a small island country that they partially occupy, the US couldn't cause a regime change. Everyone can spend all day debating if Fidel's army is better than Capone's gangsters, or living off state payments in squalor is better than being a peasant harvesting fruit for the wealthy Dole family with no healthcare, but the fact is that Fidel was only their #2 enemy, after America. I have no idea how the wounds between the people will ever heal, but the only way forward is if America's leaders choose to learn from their past mistakes and take a new, probably completely different approach. Obama started down a path, but the next 4-8 years are a complete mystery for now.
This is a study with a lot of weaknesses. So many I'd go ahead and add a big old " - maybe" on the end of your headline. Otherwise, this is just the same type of sensationalist headline the tabloids love regurgitating. A better title is "Another study shows possible correlation between saturated fats and heart disease"
I find it interesting that he slags The E-Myth, which is one of my highest recommended books, especially since he says "It’s about small business" which by definition pretty much all startups start as. I.e. the single most important takeaway I got from it was "make sure every essential hat is worn by someone". Which echos the advice in one of the items in DEC's official history book of sorts on the minicomputer era, that companies that succeeded did an adequate job of everything that was essential. I.e. you pretty much never bought DEC because of their mass storage offerings (and some of them were really bad after they got huge), but they didn't drop the ball on any of the essential things like documentation.

Which then allowed them to compete on things like CPU design (pity they screwed up being able to make the VAX fast), whereas many companies that failed simply didn't produce machines their customers could use.

Hmmm, this is both a disruptive technology, and one where product-market fit was relatively easy.

But other advice might be "sketchy", a lot of companies, especially of the HN variety, won't necessarily benefit from documenting them as if you were going to franchise them. But maybe some? Ride sharing and Airbnb's business models?
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If we take as true that our legal system doesn't work and is host to numerous "frivolous lawsuits that can cost companies literally hundreds of thousands or millions of legal fees" then I can understand favoring arbitration as a way to protect companies.

However, I don't think that premise is true. I trust the open, standardized, and (mostly) consistent courts to fairly apply the law. While some lawsuits seem frivolous on the surface, I've consistently found that when I learn the details there is a good reason they proceeded.
> University is not for everybody (as the massive debt crisis shows)

University is for everybody. Massive debt is for nobody.

Notice how I can separate those two.
What do you think, why is that so?

- Why have social-democrats dismantled the social state?

- Why have center-right let over 1.5 million refugees in?

- Why does the Green party go to war?

- Why does the German political establishment pretend to listen with AfD breathing down their necks?

- Why don't they care about the voice of the people even thou they talk about "the people being querulous of democracy" (Demokratieverdrossenheit) in numerous political talk shows for the last twenty years?

- What's next after limiting privacy rights?

- Does all this happen just by chance?
When I first started learning about communism (college really) I went in thinking this. But I recall eventually thinking that if the mantra of communist revolution was a forceful overthrow of existing government -- by definition not the will of the (majority) people - then a ban on the parties (public) existence was justified. Do you agree with the premise and if so does it affect the equality of your comparison at all (the free speech restrictions)?
I just had the same problem! I wanted to share it with the College group from where I graduated, but I could not do it.
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Weren't they actually too big to fail, though? I thought that multiple huge American banks failing would've made the recession a ton worse because banks would've failed and some large companies wouldn't have been able to make payroll and it all could've snowballed
Not sure your point. The claims here indicate that most plantations were american owned and that likely frustrated cubans to the point a revolution was intreresting. But immigration from cuba isnt just 1 time. There has been a consistant flood of migrants that risk their lives to escape. Back in the 90's there was the Emilio Gonzolez contreversey where the mom died to get her son to the US.
I'm not sure I agree with the whole chain of logic, but at this point is seems fair to point out that the Mexicans aren't enrolled at a university that requires them to turn up for classes.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/homeless-help...

> Up to a third of homeless young people turned away when they seek help from their local council, research reveals

Young people here means 16-24 year olds.
> Perhaps the scope of signing away your right to a class action will be better understood.

I don't think there is a lack of understanding, I think (although I have no evidence for this) that MOST consumers, if asked what that clause meant, would say something like "Oh, that's the weasel words that let the company get around legal rules." Which is essentially true.

The problem is lack of power, not lack of understanding. There is no way to avoid these arbitration clauses. The companys' interests are such that they will include them and make no exceptions; consumers cannot even refuse and find a competitor because ALL competitors in the market will insist on it. So long as we offer a "don't have to be subject to the law" clause, everyone will use it.
Duck typing for .NET
Excuse the intrusion, but there's no PM system on HN...

I've noticed your recent, prolific rise to prominence here on HN. You seem to have come out of nowhere and shot past most other users whose accounts are much older. I would be interested in reading an article from you on what you've learned and observed over the past year.

[Boy, harsh. It's not like there's an email address on the guy's profile. Guess I should have contacted him telepathically. Yet another reminder to keep showdead on.]
Why the down-votes?

Do you also believe a person that tells you homeopathy healed them?

Just because someone believes in something doesn't make it more real.
> This is obviously more memory-efficient than the autorelease pool, and that was probably a big factor in Apple's decision to go with ARC

Another big factor was the failure of implementing a tracing GC.

It had even more corner cases than ARC, it was quite easy to make it crash given the underlying C semantics and developers mixing frameworks, not all of them GC enabled.

The good idea behind ARC is that just automates what framework developers were already manually doing with Cocoa.
Scheme she's peddling doesn't seem to work all that well for herself. Very sad.
If a voter can validate their vote at any time, the system is susceptible to coercion and vote buying. From what I've read most experts seem to agree that paper voting is the safest.
That might work out well for you because it is creative. Working in a factory or in an office though... Not so much.
This is some ridiculous assumptions, spez was clearly distressed with being harassed by trumpets, he did an April fool style edit and smart trolling, he did not made subtle edit to change the hive mind.Reddit lives on drama, everybody should calm down.
My Father in Law had dinner with Fidel 10-15 years ago on a trade delegation. One of his colleagues had a little too much to drink and over cigars he turned to Castro and said 'I have to ask. A lot of people in my country think Cuba might have been involved in the assassination of JFK. What do you think about that?'

The room goes totally silent. All eyes on Castro and his bodyguards lining the walls. He says 'when the missiles were removed, the US vowed not to invade Cuba. I would've been a fool to do anything that would give the US the desire and moral high ground to break that promise. Nothing could come from killing Kennedy that would justify such a risk for Cuba'.

The remarkable part, I'm told, is that he laughed it off and the revelry continued.
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I'm an introvert. I have absolutely loved working from home on my own when I've done it in the past. But, when I was interacting with a manager or someone whom I had never worked in-person with and didn't interfact with much online, I always felt insecure and vulnerable. Then there are the awkward "everyone needs to fly to headquarters and meet everyone else for team-building" moments; the anticipation of those get-togethers always made me feel uncomfortable.
What's artificial about it? It's the law.
There are no clean hands on either side, I reject the notion that Apartheid South Africa were the good guys, after all it birthed its own own private military corporation (Executive Outcomes), supplied a lot of mercenaries throughout global hotspots and had a nuclear program they only dismantled after it became clear that black people would be allowed to vote.

The intersection of African Liberation politics and Cold war politics was very complex, but generally the west found itself on the side of the colonial authorities. In the end, colonialism and communism lost.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought that under Repeatable Reads you also could get rollbacks and had to make sure that the transaction would be retried?

Also, I would like to point out that at least MySQL sand Postgres also support explicit named locks. This can often be a better choice than trying to rely on the implicit locks associated with the isolation levels when dealing with large "objects" - that is things like an order on a shopping site that spans many tables and rows. Unless you are very careful, concurrent transactions against things like this would access them in different order, causing deadlocks. Creating an explicit named lock for the whole object is often a very good way to fix this.
Victims of Libyan conflicts are still counted in thousands (which is huge still when viewed alone), and there is no refugee crisis thus far.

Any of the US involvement to Syria beyond verbal support occurred only years into the conflict, and even then it was minimal compared to meddling of Turkey, Arab states or Russia.
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Not quite. There's a new regulation which does much of what the old directive did, but there's also a new accompanying directive for some parts.
Fortunately meta-comments that comment on the suitability of a thread rather than contribute to it are completely novel. I believe yours may be the first.
> US was Good, while the USSR was Evil

Objectively? They were both Evil. If you compare them, the USSR is hands down the evil one. I really hate this whitewashing of USSR's history just to put down the US. I'm pretty sure nobody here defending Castro or Cuba ever had to live under a communist dictatorship.

It's as simple as:

Ask anyone from Eastern Europe or even Cuba on whose sphere of influence would they had rather been. I'm willing to bet everything that 90% of the answers will be NATO.
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No it's not?
I was in a similar team and really enjoyed it for a number of years. Left when I realized I would "top out"--there is only so much room for advancement at such a company. I also couldn't justify learning and deploying all kinds of new tech for the company (because it would be a bad decision for the company to have a number of heterogeneous systems), and that was decaying my skillset.
You can use https://documentcyborg.com/ does a good job at it.
Pretty surprised to not see Hackers and Painters: https://www.amazon.com/Hackers-Painters-Big-Ideas-Computer/d...
What the hell is going on around the world? I can't believe this sh*t. Why are we putting up with this?!

The state of surveillance we are headed towards is getting more and more ridiculous each day.
Again. No one need to prove that economics isn't the same kind of science as physics. so that guy made a bad analogy. don't care.
Sounds like Trump.
You don't rent energy, you buy it. You go to the pump and buy a gallon of fuel. When you buy electricity you pay for a kWh, you don't rent the kWh and give it back when you're done.

I don't see the problem with a person buying a house to live in or a car to drive.

I don't see a problem with a programmer buying a computer to start a software business instead of renting it.

So why should plumbers be employed by others who own the tools and the brand? Why should farmers not attempt to own their land and tools?

Why are people here so down on "normal" people owning small businesses but startups are totally great?
https://www.amazon.com/Better-Angels-Our-Nature-Violence/dp/...

And yes, really.
You've hit the nail on the head. Some jobs come from unnecessary complexity in the system (civil servants, accounting people); some jobs exist because they're too complicated for machines (for now); some are just plainly unneeded (stock brokers, hedge fund managers and the like). As AI and robotics advance, progressively more classes of workers will suddenly find themselves superfluous.

What will they do then? My biggest fear is that most will simply fall into consumerist lullaby mode. I have no doubt big corporations will find a way to make non-labour-bound income work to their advantage.

Rendering healthcare possible for everybody and -thing, up to planet scale, is certainly an enticing aspect of this labour revolution (these activities need humans and human intelligence, which are currently all locked up and undervalued in traditional jobs).

It gives us time to think. For the first time in history, an entire civilization gets the opportunity to work on its intellect. See my other comment (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13042772) in this thread.

That all these jobs don't pay just shows how ill-equipped our current system is to handle free-thinking people, and freedom as a concept.
RSI books ranking top 10, lol
> You seem to have no idea of what you are talking about.

Quite possible. So are you going to tell me what country you're talking about, or are you going to continue to be cagey about it?
Hey I just fixed it, yesterday Redis.io was switched to a new VM thanks to Damain Djanowski that setup all the stuff. The site now finally has SSL and is faster (it was already fast but now even better). Previously it was hosted in my small VM that contained tens of virtual hosts with very old version of Ubuntu, practically impossible to upgrade.

Damain implemented an auto-upgrade hook that fetches the versions of redis-doc redis-io repositories when there is a push. This causes Redis to stop and restart but the script apparently fails to restar the server or something like that.

To fix the thing for now I just setup a manual Redis instance to make the site working. Redis.io uses Redis in order to handle the interactive session and the caching of stuff, so without a Redis working the site does not work.

We'll fix the thing permanently soon.
I'm curious to know if a bounty was paid for this and how much.
I am not satisfied with how different factors like work, value and scarcity influence prices, at least in some situations. See also my other comment [1]. If different products requires 8 hours of work, they should have similar prices, they should not vastly differ just because it is hard to find a good developer requiring a high salary while you can drive wages down for flipping burgers because there are many people that could and are willing to do it.

Unfortunately I can not provide a superior and convincing alternative allocation strategy for scarce resources than doing it via the price, but it still leaves me unsatisfied. Scarce resource should be allocated so that they can produce the most value, however we define that in the end and there will admittedly probably not be a single correct definition but varying points of view, but giving scarce resources to whomever is able and willing to pay the most, is certainly not optimal.

In general I am for a good minimum wage, what is the point of working full-time and still not being able to support once life? But I also understand that simply raising the minimum wages is likely to just shift prices around and in the end we are right where we started just with an additional zero on all prices.

If I knew the solution, I would run for president, but I don't and so I can only point at things in the current system that are in my opinion not working as well as I would like them to.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13043465
I wonder though, how much influence fake news had on people, not help people choose who to vote for, but to dissuade them to vote at all. A sort of unpropaganda, if you will. This election got so far into the Tyson Zone[0] that the headlines of fake news became hard for even well informed citizens to parse. Fake news could have provided a chilling effect that influenced the election.

Of course I have no data to support this, but I think it would be a fascinating case study / sociological experiment.

[0] http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Tyson%20Zone
Easy to solve, isn't it? Mandatory withholding with felony consequences. Felony to hire an illegal. Create an IRS verification program, the post office could do it, let them notarize documents if some one wants to claim more than two deductions for tax withholding purposes.
I'm playing devils advocate here. It doesn't mean this is my way of thinking.
I'm not doing anything major, but I am happy with OVH so far.

Their backend feels very unorganized and always somehow WIP, but I only use it for renewing every couple weeks, so I've been fine with that.
Even when separating them I'm not sure why you think university is for everybody.
The ex-pats are almost by definition opposed to the regime. No surprises here.

Meanwhile, the liberal arts students may have learned to compare Cuba to other and similar countries and draw their conclusions. I have referred to the HDI in a different post where Cuba ranks 40. I have also traveled extensively throughout Latin America and lived there for some time. So I can make some comparisons as well.
Yep I guessed. And that's a good thing. But they should make sure the call environment is optimal (good reception, no background noise, ...) and the interviewer sounds eager to receive questions.
Which rules did you follow in order to attain membership?
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First tell me more about how much rent you paid in the early 90s.
> I reject the notion that Apartheid South Africa

That's a blatant false dilemma.

The atrocities committed by Fidel Castro aren't whitewashed just because you can pick other nasty regimes.

Stalin isn't suddenly fabulous because he fought the Nazis.

Fidel Castro imposed a totalitarian regime on Cuba and extensively used violence and political assassinations to preserve his stranglehold on Cuba. Fidel Castro also projected his atrocities by intervening in decades-long civil wars.

You can't pretend nothing happened by playing the racist card.
Ya. I'll also add there's a lot to be learned from embracing and observing your own 'loserdom' for a while. Entitlement begets its own correction.
Yeah, that was particularly bad. Don't like chat heads? The options to deactivate it is just there on the first screen of the settings.
Yes, it's wrong for a candidate who is down in the polls to start screaming "rigged" before a single vote is cast.

Yes, it's alright for people after an election to make an informed assertion that things look irregular and should be double checked.

Yes, it's alright to have a recount even if we think and hope it will change or reveal nothing, especially since it's funded by private donations.

These things are in no way incompatible.