skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I just bought $250 worth of about a dozen Christmas presents from Amazon. Assuming $20 per item, I'd like to know how much goes to wages (I'm guessing less than $1). If it may not significantly raise prices to double wages, I'd like to know why companies are so reluctant to do so. It seems illogical when customers would generally pay more to know they aren't ripping someone off.

Short of that, I recommend that we stop pointing the finger at these large multinational corporations. They are incentivized at every level to skirt the law as close as possible to maximize profits. Historically the only thing that ever changed that was pressure from the demand side (unions, consumer protection programs, lawsuits, legislation, etc etc).

Off the top of my head, a fairly straightforward way to effect change might be to get every worker signed up in a time-wage union. Pick a target wage for every employee and have them go home at the end of the day a few hours early by however much their wage is short. Women earning 75% of men would leave at 3:00 instead of 5:00. For every firing, send one or more employees who have a lot of savings or are thinking of changing jobs home with them as leverage.

The core of the issue is that currently labor is undervalued against capital which is self-evidently incorrect since time is priceless but we can always print more money. I would even argue that as we approach full automation, labor has been devalued to such a degree that it no longer makes sense to measure it against the inherent worth of a person's life. The inevitable conclusion is that at some point labor will not have enough value to support a minimum quality of life and we’ll move to a non-labor form of compensation. We already do it in various forms for the bottom half of earners and it’s only a matter of time before that fraction becomes the majority.
It is. (Or rather, 50 lbs is; I'm guessing someone rounded down here.)

You probably see this most often when traveling: Normal checked suitcases must be at most 50lbs. (Typically up to 70lbs is allowed if you pay an extra fee, but the bag then needs a "HEAVY" sticker, which alerts ground crew to handle it carefully to avoid injuries.)
The real regret here seems to be overpaying for technology in the home when it's evolving quickly and the price is coming down, and not knowing it was preventable.

There are fantastic ways to have a flexible, affordable, and manageable automated home. Fittingly, it's not guaranteed because of a brand name.

The evolution of the smart home is never going to end, and single platform smart home owners are only starting to realize they are screwed. Any investment is relatively outdated quickly and the strategy to manage the tech through the life of their home is a pain compared to say a furnace, hot water, etc.

I got Insteon 6 years ago when it was the most capable & economical, and now want to mix and match components. It's totally possible as long as you have a vision of how you want your life to improve from the tech, and not installing home automation for its' own sake. Often I'll add a few pieces at a time after thinking it over. Maybe not for everyone.

Where home automation is headed is who can mix and match old and new generation equipment together into one cohesive experience.

Apple Home, Google, etc can keep trying to add to the mess of adding more platforms instead of connecting them. There is no one platform that can, or will hit every need, type of living and price point, so this mess will keep getting worse.

On the other hand, tech will keep getting cheaper, more capable and simpler to use, and more importantly, configure.

The reality I'm arriving at is homes will need one (truly) universal hub/appliance that is platform and equipment agnostic, like a furnace, or water tank, except to run anything you may want in the home. Add to that one universal software that works on any platform that comes out, and can tie to any standard. There's some good in-roads being made on this front and it's exciting to finally see. Even things like Harmony Hub are very encouraging.

The kicker? It needs to get orders of magnitude easier than what's out there for the average person. Since I'm not about mass adoption of premature technology a gap (and opportunity) will remain for a few years yet. Some of the latest entry level home tech is getting better, but it simply does not do the type of integration that true home automation allows, and in my estimation, is the benefit.

Now that we've had a taste of how tech could make our homes easier and more enjoyable to live in, our needs and desires may be outgrowing what's available. Hope someone comes along and pushes the industry forward quickly instead of iterating through products slowly.
Why is it bad that they're sleeping in tents? I've heard homeless people say that it's extremely hard to find a job while homeless. If Amazon is willing to give homeless people a chance at a job, that's a good thing.

There are people working for Google living in their cars/campers/motorhomes. There are posts about how people intentionally choose to live in tents and enjoy it.

http://mashable.com/2013/06/11/homeless-entrepreneur-thomas-...

https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1a8sjz/hi_i_am_a_guy_...
Many are doing it - see the rest of this thread.

Anyways the difference here is HR/recruitment was too "ambitious".

The SDEs have found out and we have put a stop to it.
I grew up in a small rural town in the 80's. I was one of the first kids to have a computer in that area. I was 9 years old in 1980 and had begged for one. By the time I entered high school I was just starting to learn Assembly. Our school had never had a computer course before and the first one opened up my Freshman year. I was so excited. The teacher was also the Typing class teacher and had almost no experience with computers. She was picked solely because she could type.

On the first day I excitedly told the teacher how much I was looking forward to the class and how much I already knew. She gave me the course book to bring home and asked me to find the spot in the book where my knowledge could be tested. It was a huge disappointment, the courses mostly focused on spreadsheets and data entry with some Basic programming. I had already written many programs on my own to automate various tasks. I had written a few simple video games, worked with joystick inputs, even built a simple alarm system for my room using serial input and some basic wiring.

When I brought her the book the next day and explained I already knew everything in the book she got visibly upset with me. Her attitude towards me became terse and she decided I was too big for my own good and should start at the beginning. That course was pure misery. I'd finish my lessons within the first half of a single class and have nothing to do. I'd start tweaking my programs, but it felt like fiddling my thumbs. The teacher came to treat me like a bad element and in return I became antagonistic to her.

I once switched the cables between my and a friends computer so my typing would go to his screen and vice versa. I showed the teacher I had ahem programmed the computer to react to my voice. My friend would type in the responses to my voice, his results appearing on my screen. The teacher looked dumbfounded, she seriously could not process what was happening and sat down at her desk. It was hard to respect a computer class teacher who couldn't figure out how easily we had tricked her. From there it just got worse and worse.

I had many teachers like this, where they felt I was too big for my britches and needed to be put in my place. I was very much like the first kid described in this essay.
Clone the repo and fix bugs and/or add features.

I worked with Barrett and Ron for a while when I was at Google and spent a bit of time trying to modernize the Akaros plan9 based network stack (TSO, LRO, finer grained locking). It was very rewarding. You can't make a 2x or 10x improvement to Linux or FreeBSD, but you often can in Akaros.
PactSafe is disrupting the online agreements space, has already raised some serious capital and landed some big name clients with its SaaS platform: http://www.forbes.com/sites/matthunckler/2016/11/03/pactsafe...
And HIPAA privacy regulations for PHI/PII, if you're dealing with healthcare data.
Congrats on the regular running schedule, but be careful of running every day. Exercising every day without any rest days can cause injuries and without a proper rest periods the benefit of exercise can be diminished.
Looks like you missed this prominently placed note: "Online diagnosis is for informational and educational purposes only and should not be treated as a doctor's advice or medical consultation."

Having said that, this is not a commercial website. This is an open source[1] demo showing how can an online checkup tool work.

I don't think such kind of informational tools is a bad thing, even if they are commercial. In fact, these tools are helpful for personal research. Of course, actual diagnosis and treatment should be left to medical professionals. AI application in the medical domain is still in nascent stage and can presently only work as "assistive" at best. It is not going to become "prescriptive" or replace professionals in near future.

[1]https://github.com/mastercoder82/getwell-soon
Omg that app looks awesome! I dont use iMessage or even iOS otherwise you would just have scored a download. Take my upvote as well.
I assume one reason for that high standard is that particle physics experiments are repeatable and can be observed with very high precision.

None of that is true of LIGO observations of black hole collisions.
I want to see if I can clarify your last point, because it'd be huge if this is true.

You're saying that internal pressure has caused HR to drop ProctorU across the SDE/intern pipeline? What's the replacement, traditional phone screens + onsites?
Fantastic article. I am lucky enough to work with Don and he is amazing. Probably one of the most simultaneously brave and curious people I've ever met.
> "My freedom to swing my fist ends where your face begins."

Ever heard it? How could we ever escape it? I've been reading this smug, patronizing sentence on the Internet for 20 years. I've come to believe that this formulation is so important to the people who say it, because they know they're exceptionally punchable.
2 months sprint? Is that a thing? o_O

I always expect something like 2 or 3 weeks when someone talks about sprints.
Yik Yak lays off 60% of its workforce
https://developer.infermedica.com
Yes, it was odd. They are still rolling out in the cities they are in but have given up expanding to other cities. As usual I think they just don't have the will to power through the issues to keep deploying in city after city. Or they are not making as much money off google fiber subscribers data as they thought and it's not worth it anymore. Or they can't find people to actually do the infrastructure construction they need. Hence two years or more just to get service no matter how close it is. But again I expect this from google, I have never been impressed with anything they have done. Sadly.
One might think that the welfare system enables those low wages. Literally an offer they can't turn down makes negotiation difficult.
How to protect yourself from government spying
> but last time I was there, electronics were generally much more expensive than in the US.

> * Relatively low EUR. The EUR also isn't doing so well compared to the USD.

For a non-Euro holder visiting Europe, doesn't that mean things are cheaper in Euro [the currency] countries? Most companies do not adjust the price of their products often.
It may be because right politics usually include hate speech, mocking, personal attacks, lies etc.
yea, 1 in 270 seems fairly likely given the circumstances.
Moving sidewalks are like electric cars - the fact that they are used or not is not about basic infeasabilities of engineering (although there is development needed) but of politics.

A moving sidewalk seems much more plausible and practical than a hyperloop in improving transportation.
There's a built in decay factor (current half-life approx 4hrs/cell). That keeps the entire board from filling up and preventing new users from coming in.
The problem with the bus is you have to wait for it outside, when it's ten below and snowing. The sidewalk would run continuously.
This is an open source demo application. Not a commercial website, neither intend to be one.
Here is the code - https://github.com/mastercoder82/getwell-soon
Look for yourself and check if your name is collected, social-engineered or sold to insurance companies.

P.S - If you have even little knowledge about browser dev console, you will know that the name doesn't even leave your browser.
Same-ish, I have perfect hearing and my eyesight is 20/15. I can barely hear people in bars or clubs. The best solution I've found so far are musicians ear plugs which attenuate most of the bass and highs in such environments. I've tried a few brands from Etymotic to Surefire to Alpine and I generally like the Alpine ones the most. Flare Audio also makes some, and I've looked at DUBS before as well. A few years ago, Etymotic was one of the only good products in this space, but there are a few now.

I'd definitely pony up for a pair from Bose. Their headphones don't impress me in the outright SQ department, but they have the best noise cancellation tech I've heard.
The window of comprehension is a (probably) over-generalized concept. It was first mentioned in the 1985 paper "Intelligence and personal influence in groups: Four nonlinear models" by Dean Keith Simonton with respect to "leadership". The point in question from the abstract:

> Model 4, the intellectual stratification model, expands on the fact that the mean group IQ varies across different groups and, consequently, predicts a high correlation between the group mean IQ and the IQ of its most influential member, with a leader–follower gap of between 8 and 20 points, depending on the submodel.

The theory is that one's influence over others decreases as the intelligence gap between one and others increases. Simonton theorized that this is probably due to the increase in the complexity of ideas as IQ increases.

The reason I say it is probably over-generalized in this case is because I don't think influential communication necessarily counts as "meaningful communication".
https://citizenlab.org/2015/04/chinas-great-cannon/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Cannon
They could but they won't unless powerful entities such as government force them to do it. Then might as well government provide the cheap or free housing themselves.
Is this a multiboot kernel?

I use a non-GRUB bootloader than can boot multiboot kernels.

Would I be able to use it?
The fact that the disadvantage is faced by everyone doesn't really have anything to do with whether or not we should accept a standard. Saying "this is how the world is" is obviously also not valid...

Keep in mind that the disadvantage is faced by everyone, but those who are ACTUALLY impacted are often devastated.
It's a lot better when you realize you can chain commands through your own territory. Some quick fun!

It's nice that an early army advantage doesn't necessarily translate into victory. Capturing generals changes things, and fighting the wrong war can cripple you.
Yup. This is where, after almost a century, the Quantum Mechanics Rubber finally meets the General Relativity Road.

May the best theory win!
I don't know. It sounds an awful lot like your position is that we're only allowed to criticise whoever offers work, and not allowed to defend them. Because they're offering work to poor people?

Should companies only ever offer work to rich people? That sounds a lot like class-based genocide.

Maybe you should try harder to see if maybe there's an underlying assumption you're making that's incorrect? Have you heard of the Double Crux? Read up on it on Less Wrong.
Buses and trams and subways are fixed route. Also, they are dependable. Sometimes foolproof and simple is better than infinitely flexible.
Yes, using Infermedica API. The monthly free limit exhausted just within 10 minutes of posting on HN, and that's why 403 errors.
Honestly, you're never going to have good public transportation in rural areas. There simply isn't the density to support it. It's a given that efficient transportation in such areas happens via car, which is a huge problem if you're working a job at a place like an Amazon warehouse that doesn't pay enough money to be able to easily afford a car.

Some potential future network of public transportation provided via self-driving cars excepted.
The DC Metro talked about putting tunnels between some close downtown stations so people could walk rather than take trains for close transfers. For now, they have programmed the electronic fare system so that if you walk between the stations on the street you don't pay twice.
Yep, I have to be in a top-floor apartment with earplugs and double pane windows. I live near the mountains and it has done a lot for my quality of sleep and quality of life.
I don't understand what you mean by "your API endpoint that you are scraping wants to serve to all peoples in all locales in all situations".

That would mean to me that the API endpoint could be sending me Unicode, in which case Python 3's Unicode-aware CSV is going to work great, and Python 2's csv is fucked. The limitations of Python 2's csv module was one of the key points that moved my company to Python 3.

On Python 3, if you want to be naive about text (not sure why you're celebrating only working in a subset of English, but you have this option), you could open the file as Latin-1 and get the same results as Python 2.

Many CSVs are made with Excel. Excel's only form of Unicode CSV is tab-separated UTF-16. Python 2's csv can't parse those at all, can it?
Trump didn't actually "mock a disabled person", at least not for their disability. Trump does do sort of a stammering spastic schtick in speeches to poke fun at people who have had to retrench after a misstatement. But:

(1) Trump does that same impression for anyone who has had to correct a misstatement about Trump.

(2) The time Trump was accused of doing it to mock a disabled person, his impression was the exact opposite of that disabled person's actual mannerisms. The person Trump is alleged to have "mocked" does not stammer and is not spastic and doesn't move his hands around at all, rather than waving them around wildly.

The meme claiming Trump "mocked a disabled person" was only plausible to people who had never met or seen video of that disabled person. (It was helped to spread via a single-frame screen capture; video would have given the game away.)
I know the Foxconn suicides and subsequently installed nets got a lot of play in the US press, and I don't have any incites into the overall conditions at Foxconn, but considering the number of people they employ, I've heard it said that they have a lower suicide rate than some American demographics like males attending college.
You're dodging the point. Does the victim have a right to remember and tell people about their experience, or do they not? What they "should" do is irrelevant to a question of law.
Yes, I'm serious! Amarok works for me. I use it on Linux and on Windows. I do agree with unstable (but not "highly" unstable in my case). Unresponsive UI is something I encounter seldom.
What's the business test? The point of municipal transportation is to facilitate the rest of economy, not be a profit unit in itself.
I've thought the same at times but concluded that it depends on one's patience and the time and effort one is willing to devote to communication. The phrase "putting oneself in the other person's shoes" seems to best describe what's necessary. Perhaps that skill is something that, while socially very useful, IQ tests fail to measure. Heck, we can even communicate with other animals to some degree.

Aside: it appears that, rather than describing only the article's subjects' problems with very high IQ, there may be a variety of problems being expressed here by posters, varying from a very high IQ to grandiosity, ADHD, autism, indeed the full spectrum of psychological disorders plus normal behavior. It's hard to separate the wheat from the chaff.
Same here. The fact the above poster got two replacement phones for free is proof they have good service. You think a dead pixel on a google pixel phone will get replaced? Let alone twice. I don't think so.

Apple has good service but they won't repair/replace everything. But i find them more than reasonable when something goes wrong.
Haha well I don't know how I'd say it differently, my background is outside programming, so it was quite a process. ⊙﹏⊙
Thank you, I've never heard of this game but the Amazon reviews look great. Do you have any other board games recommendations for 3-5 year olds?
Micromanagement critically comes from the next-person in the heirachy.

It is rare to have a workplace like Apple, where the CEO was rumoured to involve himself in every aspect of the company.

Most workplaces' simply suffer from bad team leads, bad middle managers, bad shift managers, bad scrummasters, and the like.

In fact, it may be that extreme team autonomy allows micromanagement to flourish since the top leaders don't know what's going within the teams, and do not try to stop poor team dynamics from occurring unless it affects performance in a visible way.
So 'lazy' and 'not caring about school' are different? Sounds like rationalization, which middle-schoolers are very good at.
No aspersions here. I'm keeping the faith, but can anyone recall what these allude to?

1) Utah has solved the energy crisis on a table top with deuterium

2) That bump in the collider data is looking pretty odd

3) Remind your child to chelate if the autism acts up

4) Wow those neutrinos are moving so fast

5) Bigotry can stop if we'd go door to door and talk about it

6) Arsenic can kill but it enables growth for at least one family

7) This theory will be perfect if we get rid of Λ

In all fairness, this topic is a little different because we know for sure something big has to happen eventually to reconcile QM/Gravity.
What ever happened to the blackest black? – The Outline
The worst thing about Python 3 are Python 3 fans. This very thread is a good indication. I'm pretty sure this guy is getting death threats right now.
no problem, thanks for the kind words though. Feedback has been awesome, getting Apple to feature it, much less so ;)