skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm going to try and address each of the "negative" impacts this person states of the DOL ruling

1.In a survey we conducted internally, the cost for live-in/24-hour care doubled from $250 to $550 per day average in Los Angeles, pushing the price above a skilled nursing facility on a per day basis.

At the rate he mentions of $250 per day, hourly wages would be $10.4 for 24/7 live in care giver. So he was paying less than minimum wage in California. Let's revise that number to meet the minimum wage. It comes to $360. That number of $550 is inaccurate. The correct number is $480 (8 hours of regular pay at $15 per hour if you are in California and 16 hours of $22.5 per hour)
So in California the cost went up from 360 to 480. That's a 33% increase not the over 100% increase he states.

2.Families were forced to reduce caregiver hours or fire their agency completely (and go under the table).

This seems to suggest that families were ok with exploiting the care givers even if they had to go "under the table". What kind of care givers will take less than mandated by law? Ones that can be exploited because of their immigration status?

3. Hundreds of thousands of caregivers who were unable or unwilling to be employed as W-2 workers were either removed from their families or let go by their domestic referral agency.

????what?? unable to be employed as W-2? why? Is it because they are not legally allowed to work in the country without a permit? Not willing to work as W-2?? I don't understand why someone would not want to work as a full time W-2. Are they trying to avoid paying taxes? Either ways this is a choice that the caregiver has to make. They would rather make $10.41 and hour than go to $15 or $22.5? Something doesn't smell right.

4. Seniors struggled with “continuity of care” issues as agencies started rotating multiple caregivers in and out of houses throughout the day to avoid overtime costs. This had an especially negative impact on Alzheimer’s and dementia patients.

I get this. I do. My grandmother was bedridden for 12 years and we had a live in caregiver and I know my grandmother would sometimes get confused and scared if we got a replacement when the caregiver was on vacation.

5.The additional rotations in shifts increased gas, parking and transportation costs and added a layer of complexity to scheduling.

This is a problem for the agency. This is where you can have your USP. Don't cry about it. Figure out a kick ass algorithm to reduce scheduling complexity.

6.Caregivers saw their working hours and income reduced, seniors weren’t able to get the 24/7 care they needed, and home care agencies saw a significant a decline in revenue from live-ins.

Caregivers only saw a reduction in working hours and income because agencies didn't want to pay overtime and pass the cost down to the family.
When you solo regularly, you learn that fear is what keeps you alive.
They are usually leased by the property owner and you let the lease run out or buy them out. Then you give the owner incentive to build via tax abatement or something else. Lastly, parking can go underground or as is the new trend (Uber) less people actually want cars. In LA that can prove difficult but you'd probably start with areas that already have a higher walk score on average or are closer to some transit options (+uber). You could also come up with some innovative scheme. Also parking I think it less of a hurdle, all over Southern California you find areas with limited parking options with people living there.
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>> who enabled HR

please tell me this is a joke right? you can't possibly be asking that question seriously..
Thanks for the reply. That does sound interesting and would certainly save a lot of disposable cards/tickets. Here's hoping more interesting uses come about with this increase in user base!
I'm not sure if that is true. our application takes at least 100ms or more to parse. only parsing. on Safari 10.1.1 on a macbook pro 2013 late. well chrome and firefox is as slow as that. I don't think the same stuff in WebAssembly would take that long (i.e. angular 1 application, if we add angular 4 which we are planning it will prolly take even longer since we need more vendor stuff.)
This is a great read. Applies to various on demand businesses.
As an addendum, the most disgusting thing I witnessed was the mandatory racial segregation that was enforced by the guards, ostensibly to make their jobs easier by cutting down on conflicts and physical fights. As a native of Detroit, I know all too well what racial segregation does to your view of the other, the out group(s).

I know it's just a smidge harder and takes a little more effort, but it is beyond crazy that we institutionally indoctrinate inmates into a race-based ideology. This engenders further wedges and future conflicts when inmates are released and trained to view other people with suspicion and mistrust....

Unless that's the point, serving as a useful distraction while the prestige is being performed
I like the idea of reducing the barrier to entry in the multitude of markets, but I'm also a bit cynical in that any web-based wallet seems extremely risky to me in terms of the potential for attacks and stolen coins.
I guess, but I am one external event away from dying on my drive to work too.
I'd like to start a similar site, but where people start a project (MVP) and we add dev steps that they can fund one step at a time (i.e. in $250-500 chunks). initial consult fee is $200 to lay out the general budget and tasks to get to 100%.
What’s in a Prison Meal? (2015)
Mac has cron. It's pretty standard on *NIX systems.
I don't know about a "killer use case", but I use NFC on my Nexus 5X all the time with my Yubikey Neo or to check the balance on my transit pass.

I'm surprised iPhones were missing this, its not killer but its definitely useful.
Friendly amendment: it's about access to capital relative to local costs. Arguably OP's point is that he had access to enough capital relative to his local costs in Colorado to afford to bootstrap, whereas he'd have needed VC to hit the same ratio in the Valley. Turned out well for him, and has worked for others like him.

"I'm going to invest 10 billion in startups but you have to relocate" is basically what Tony Hsieh did in Las Vegas, and it... based on how rocky that got, I think it's about more than just access to capital.
But it's reasonable, isn't it?

I've washed dishes and cleaned toilets. I don't think it did anything to improve my knowledge of engineering, programming, economics, and so on. I don't think it helped me start businesses later on. I don't think there was anything learned that wasn't known already: it's physically and mentally tiring to wash dishes and clean toilets. Eventually my parents decided my time was better spent studying and let me off my duties.

If it had existed back then, I would have been better off spending my time studying programming. Or making a radio.

The admissions officer argument is an American thing, it's not a huge deal in Europe. But it's hard to see how a kid who is headed for college, and probably something technical, is better off doing menial work than just studying, anywhere. If you can do something to boost your earnings in a few years, do so. What's the big deal if you miss out on a few grand when you're in your mid teens?
Here's a non-boring video. It has some good product taglines.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2UPoHJAOSQ
I don't think that's really the same. Public media attention != to a private film crew.
A month or so ago I watched this 60 minutes of his Half Dome climb ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SR1jwwagtaQ

I seem to recall him saying in it one of the big risks is suddenly being overcome with fear or vertigo from the height.
I was following the parents fictional account that mentioned subsequent generations eating this shelles walnut stockpile.
If you're a skilled climber, the most common reasons for falling are likely: fatigue, improper execution of a move, improper foot or hand placement, improper sequence of moves, random shit.
I met Lisi back in the day. It also helped that he was actually not a crack pot. Certainly not in the classical sense. He understood the math at a level typical of a theoretical physicist in the field, and he engaged the scientific community about his ideas in a deep proper way. The rebuttals and criticism he drew also showed his work was at least taken somewhat seriously and considered.

At the end of the day his theory remained to incomplete. Chirality problems were hand-waved away unconvincingly. It's more a mathematical curiosity than a proper proposal for unification.
I'm talking about the company, a company which needs warehouse space. I'm not talking about housing for people.
Personally, I'd say Lua and its family of small, easy languages more easily fills those roles.

Not that I doubt some people do voluntarily enjoy JavaScript, but because of the sheer volume of StackOverflow questions, blog posts, micro-techologies, and other assorted attention bestowed upon the language it can be easy to make the logical jump that JavaScript the language is far more popular (in the satisfaction sense) than is actually so.
Link to repro?
For the lazy reader:

The issue is that rd() returns at most a 64-bit int, whilst mt19937 has 19937 bits of state. This means you are very restricted.

Note that, for example linux's /dev/random uses 4069 bits of entropy.
I never said that minimum wage = fewer jobs in all contexts. It will definitely destroy certain employment opportunities in certain circumstances. I suppose I would consider it an accelerant for automation.
Like you said, it's not uncommon for people's feet to slip out from under them. A big part of climbing is the friction your shoes have against the rock, but move around, reach for something, and angle of your foot against the rock changes, along with the friction, and zoosh: your foot slides off.

The rock can break off ("chossy" climbs, Pinnacles is notorious for this), but that's a less common occurrence than Hollywood would lead one to believe.
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He makes a case but two things: (1) Weiner obviously has an axe to grind in his polemic, and (2) we hear much more about the CIA's failures than its successes. But definitely during the cold war the russians smoked us in espionage.
Your question is more suitable for the owners of those sites not us. After all it isnt us who would be suing you in court. What we say has little to no impact.
I always though that was supposed to feed /dev/urandom.
Simply converting the scans to black and white (i.e. not greyscale) would've avoided the problem with the dots, as is pointed out in the Errata Security blog post.
Thank you. I really appreciate this, it's super helpful to see this kind of breakdown.
An alternative might just be to expose more of the underlying functionality via non-interactive interfaces, to encourage third-party/FOSS simplified interfaces for specific tasks.

Even trying to use a bash script to automate things is tricky because of gpg2's interactivity. I'm sure it was put there to improve usability, of course :) (which it does, in the interactive case).
The prison guards union in California is insanely powerful. The guards probably make 3x as much as guards in some other states.

This will explain a lot: http://transparentcalifornia.com/salaries/search/?q=correcti...
That's only a problem when society decides teachers aren't worth much more than minimum wage. What's plutocracy's solution for that?
Is there a live blog of this happening anywhere that I can read later?
> Why Aren’t American Teenagers Working Anymore?

The article mentions a lot of possible factors, bit I think the best of two are (both are mentioned):

* For teens from working class backgrounds that otherwise would work from need, adults (both seniors and underemployed younger adults) are doing the jobs they would have done, and

* For teens from more privileged backgrounds that would work not from need but for spending money and to help defray college expenses, the fact that the pay for the jobs they would do hasn't kept up with general (or, by an even larger margin, college cost) inflation means it's just not worth it.
There was a great talk at USENIX on how Whatsapp reduced spam while maintaining end to end encryption

https://youtu.be/LBTOKlrhKXk
I read this article hoping that it would provide some meaningful insight into my own situation, but unfortunately, it only raised more questions. What about those of us who don't have families to support? What about those of us who are, in essence, unneeded? What each person needs in his or her life, whether it is provided by work or by something else, is a sense of meaning. Without this, vigor suffers. How this is not commonly known is beyond my comprehension.

Viktor Frankl wrote a whole book about this innate need for meaning, aptly titled "Man's Search for Meaning." In the book, Frankl observes that those who best survived the horrors of concentration camps were precisely those who were able to give some sort of meaning to their suffering, which in many cases came in the form of a family or loved one that waited for them to emerge from captivity.

This article is not very useful, and its lack of insight leaves me feeling surprised that it was written by a psychologist (who ostensibly should know better).
Alternatively, the computer industry forgot about backward compatibility and now has to relearn it.

Color TV was designed to be compatible with black&white. Stereo FM radio compatible with mono, stereo vinyl records with mono. Electricity changes very, very slowly.

When computers become such an essential part of every day life, you cannot make radical changes any more every couple of years.

If your design becomes successful, you may be stuck with it for a couple of decades.

The failure of IPv6 is also the success of IPv4 engineering. When IPv6 was designed in the mid 90s, there were many issues that might hold back IPv4 down the road.

It is only in the last couple of years, that issues (related to the IPv4 address shortage) pop up that basically cannot be solved anymore and make IPv6 an attractive alternative.
The modification to Prop. 13 that I am proposing will already be an extremely hard sell to California voters. Outright repeal is just not realistic.
Do you have some ugly corners in your code base? Lots of legacy stuff that you want to rework anyway, regardless the language? Then it might make sense.
At first I was excited, but then I read the docs:

> Read only

> Only supports NDEF formatted tags

> Available only on iPhone 7 and newer

Basically, this is even more crippled than what WP 8.0 did five years ago (and back then I thought it was too crippled to be useful)
While I appreciate the effort of the billionaires, I largely think that this type of "redesign" is more of a bandage than a cure. I think that there are some much greater fundamental systemic problems the go far beyond not "thinking bigger".

My beliefs are somewhat extreme in this topic, but I will share anyway. In broad strokes:

1. One of the biggest problems is that education has come to be ruled by the administrators. They are not servant leaders, rather they are aristocrats. Their pawns are students, faculty, parents, and taxpayers. These stakeholders need more influence in the decision-making process.

2. Mandatory schooling (both explicit and implicit) could easily stop at 8th grade with the goal of basic numeracy and literacy as well as fundamental learning skills. These skills will provide enough education for the graduates to function in society as well as move forward in the education system if/when they choose to do so. Currently, most of high school (and middle school, frankly) is just very expensive and inefficient baby sitting.

3. That said, secondary, tertiary, and trade-based education should be widely available, of high quality, and low price -- probably subsidized heavily by the state -- throughout a person's life. Many people do not realize the value of education and learning until they are older, and our current system does a relatively poor job accommodating these people.

4. Overall curriculum design needs to focus on autonomous learning (touched on in the article). Note that this means that the learner takes responsibility for their learning, not someone else (e.g., teachers). Also note that this does not obviate teachers, rather it just makes them one of many sources of knowledge/learning. Anecdotally, I have seen this type of system pull off what many would consider to be miracles.

5. Learning in general should be much more contextualized and (when practicable) experiential. Many/most students do not see how the current curriculum content applies to them. The current content seems to be related to, and largely is a product of, the type of education upper middle class people want. Folks from other walks of life actually have a lot of curiosity and a high capacity to learn, but taking part in the current curriculum would turn them into an alien within their community (e.g., non-native English speaker being beaten/abused for speaking English well). Few people are willing to do this.

6. Assessment should lean much more heavily on portfolios than on standardized tests. Don't get me wrong, standardized tests have their place, but currently they are overused and are often times misused.

This is an issue I very passionate about. Please let me know via a response here if you would like to discuss this more.
>It's standard practice to retype documents before sharing

My first thought is that even blogs like AndroidPolice protect their sources better than The Intercept does here - they go as far as re-creating screenshots or renders of phone leaks.

The Intercept's lack of care is astounding. There wasn't any reason they needed to publish the fact that they received printed copies, let alone the actual scans.
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> Google statistics show that nearly 20% of their traffic is over v6, which is honestly not bad. The USA itself is 35%, with no latency hit.

This is totally bad. We need close to a 100% for v6 to make any sense. 20% IPv6 is pretty pointless.
How about applying machine learning towards vetting social media wrt people with TS and >TS clearance?
My apologies. Yes, that's the correct reference. I learned about Paul Graham via several HN posts years ago and his explanation isn't unnecessarily complicated so I figured his work was widely known/understood.

P.S. when I put "dh0 response" into Google, the first link is Paul Graham's How to Disagree
Ask HN: What was your worst technical mistake?
As an intern, I had a manager tell me that each developer will make at least one giant mistake during their career. The important thing is to have a plan of action, be transparent, and ensure that a similar mistake won't be made again.

Every now and then a story gains some traction that deals with an employee mistake, whether a small typo or a system design issue that wreaks havoc. Most recently, the story of a fresh-faced developer that dropped production while setting up his dev environment [0].

I'm sure there are many more stories that would could inform others what not to do or what warning signs to look for. What was your biggest mistake, how did you remedy the situation, and what were the repercussions?

[0]: http://uk.businessinsider.com/worst-first-day-ever-reddit-2017-6
> rand() is specified to always be seeded the same way.

> For reasons I can’t fathom, the C standard mandates that rand() must always start as if it were seeded with 1. I can’t imagine why anyone thought that was a good idea. What is the sense of making a random number facility that – by default – isn’t random?

This seems like a good decision to me. There are plenty of use cases for arbitrary values that are consistent across runs (for instance, repeatable unit tests). If the application calls for non-determinism, let the application author do it themselves from an appropriate seed value.

(I maybe somewhat biased from my experiences threading random number generator state in Haskell programs.)
Subway's "Sandwich Artist"? They're following a formula for assembling a pretty basic roll, and often taking instruction from the other side of the counter. Sounds about as far from artistry as you can get.
That's why I think Abq could be a budding tech hub with relatively few changes. There are some phds in the neighborhood and at least one good, affordable engineering college (Socorro/NMT). I'm guessing it's governmental policies (or lack of tax incentives) and a lack of at least one tech billionaire that likes the place keeping it down.

I mention that last part as I think Zappos being in LV has pulled some tech interest into LV.
Our opinion does very little. You would have to go ever each site scraped and read their terms of service / agreements.
For us mortals, it is far more likely that you simply lose your balance, strength, or concentration. A typical multi-pitch climb is hard work and the odds of missing a move are pretty high.

Granted, I'm a mediocre climber (can lead 10c/d), but falling every once and a while is pretty common for most of us.
They are rewriting it, and it's underlying api.

https://github.com/linode/manager

https://developers.linode.com/v4/introduction
And probably paranoia that it would interfere with Apple Pay